Teamwork, founded in 2007 in Cork, Ireland, is a project management platform organized around clients, with built-in time tracking, billing and a client portal, serving 20,000+ agencies and professional services teams.
Podio is a no-code collaboration platform founded in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009 and acquired by Citrix, using a drag-and-drop app builder for CRM, project management, and approval flows with Kanban/calendar/table views and workflow automation.
Bitrix24 is an all-in-one business collaboration platform launched in 2012 and adopted by 15,000,000+ organizations. Its free plan is free forever with unlimited users, combining CRM, project management, social intranet, and communication in one workspace for budget-conscious SMB teams.
TrackingTime was founded in 2012, headquartered in the United States with an Argentine operations team, as an all-in-one time tracking and project management SaaS. Real-time timing, calendar views, and team performance analysis combine so the free plan already supports basic hour management for small teams.
Paymo is an integrated work management platform from Romania that combines project management, time tracking, resource scheduling and invoicing. The free plan offers unlimited time tracking and invoicing, Plus costs about $10.9 per user per month, and it suits small service teams managing from quote to payment.
Hours is a minimal iOS/Web time tracking app featuring color-coded visual time allocation, with project and tag management, suited to individuals and small teams logging hours by project.
Everhour is a team time tracking and project budget tool founded in the United States in 2014, offering inline timing inside Asana, Trello, and Jira, with a free plan for 5 members, suited to teams that control hours and costs by project.
Active Collab is a project management, time tracking, and invoicing platform for freelancers and small to mid-sized teams, with both cloud and self-hosted deployment starting around $6.5/user/month.
YouTrack is an issue tracking and project management tool launched by JetBrains in 2009, headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, known for keyboard-first operation, agile boards, a built-in knowledge base, and workflow automation, with cloud and self-hosted deployment.
Taiga is an open-source agile project management platform developed by the Spanish team Kaleidos, with native Scrum and Kanban support, self-hosted deployment, a free Community edition, and free basic cloud plans for individuals and small teams.
Redmine is an open-source project management and issue tracking tool created by Jean-Philippe Lang in 2006, built with Ruby on Rails under GPLv2, supporting multiple projects, Gantt charts, time tracking, and 1000+ plugins, and completely free to self-host.
OpenProject is the well-known open-source project management software from Berlin, Germany, released under GPLv3 in 2012 with 100,000+ installations, offering Gantt charts, Scrum/Kanban boards, time tracking and BIM, available self-hosted or in the cloud with a free community edition.
Smartsheet was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in Bellevue, USA, serving 90%+ of the Fortune 500 as a spreadsheet-style work management platform; it went public in 2018 and supports enterprise project management with automation and Gantt capabilities.
Wrike is an enterprise work management platform founded in 2006 serving 20,000+ enterprise customers, known for custom workflows, request forms, and approval automation, using 400+ integrations and Blueprints to drive business process automation.
Trello is a kanban project management tool founded in 2011 by Fog Creek and acquired by Atlassian for $425 million, with 90+ million users. The free plan is powerful, and Standard starts at $5/user/month.
Basecamp, whose predecessor 37signals was founded in 1999 in Chicago, USA, is known for minimalist design and flat pricing at $99/month with unlimited users, making it a benchmark for remote team collaboration and project management.