Plaky is a free project management tool by Pumble with unlimited users, projects, and boards on its free plan, supporting Kanban, List, Table, and Gantt views for budget-conscious small teams.
GitHub Projects is GitHub's built-in project planning and kanban tool, natively integrated with Issues and Pull Requests, built on an ecosystem of 100M+ developers and 450M repositories for end-to-end task management beside the code.
Things is a premium Apple-ecosystem task manager from Cultured Code in Germany; Things 3 won the Apple Design Award in 2017, sells for about $49.99 one-time on macOS and is known for GTD hierarchy and minimal design.
ClickUp is an all-in-one productivity platform founded in San Diego, USA, in 2017, combining tasks, docs, goals, time tracking, and AI; it serves over 800,000 teams with unlimited tasks and 100 automations on the free plan.
ClickUp is an all-in-one project management platform from San Diego, USA, combining tasks, docs, goals, chat, and whiteboards; it serves over 800,000 teams with unlimited tasks and 100 automations on the free plan.
Asana is a team work management platform founded in San Francisco in 2008, offering five views including List, Board, Timeline and Workload, built-in OKR goal management and Asana Intelligence AI, serving 100,000+ paying enterprise customers.
Todoist is a leading task management app developed by Doist, founded in 2007 with 30M+ users, featuring cross-platform natural language input, with Pro from about $4-5/month and Business from about $6-8/user/month.
Taskade, founded in 2018 by John Li and Max Mansour and headquartered in the United States, is an AI-powered, remote-first productivity workspace combining task management, mind maps, and real-time collaboration.
Founded in 2018 and headquartered in San Francisco, USA, Nifty is an all-in-one project management platform integrating milestones, tasks, documents, discussions, and AI features, helping 20,000+ teams collaborate efficiently.
Deputy is an employee scheduling and time & attendance platform founded in 2008 in Sydney, Australia, serving 100+ countries and 300,000+ workplaces with smart scheduling, multi-method clock-in and award compliance for shift-based industries.
Connecteam is an all-in-one employee management app founded in 2017 in Tel Aviv, Israel. The free plan supports 10 users and combines scheduling, time clock, tasks and internal communication, with a G2 rating of 4.6+ for deskless and frontline teams.
Teamwork (Teamwork Projects), founded in 2007 in Cork, Ireland, is a project management platform organized around clients with built-in time tracking, billing and a client portal, expanding into a product matrix including Teamwork Desk and CRM for 20,000+ service-driven teams.
Ryver is a U.S.-based team collaboration platform that combines chat, topics, and task management in one app, replacing a Slack and Trello combination. Starter starts at $69/month with unlimited messaging, task boards, and voice/video calls.
Restya is an open-source kanban project management tool released in 2015, MIT-licensed on a PHP stack, supporting Docker self-hosted deployment and Trello-style card-based task management, with free data control and customization.
Redbooth is a US-origin project collaboration platform tracing back to 2008 (formerly Teambox, renamed in 2013), offering 4 task views including kanban and Gantt chart plus built-in video conferencing for remote team collaboration.
Paymo is a project management and time tracking platform built by a Romanian team, serving global users since 2014. Task management, Gantt charts, time tracking, and invoicing in one workspace suit freelancers and small service teams.
MeisterTask, developed by MeisterLabs as the sister product of MindMeister, is an intuitive Kanban task management tool with a genuinely useful free plan, built-in time tracking, and automation for individuals and small teams.
Hive is an all-in-one productivity and project management platform founded in San Francisco in 2014, supporting 5 views including Kanban and Gantt with 1000+ integrations. Built-in email and instant messaging, plus Action Cards and AI assistance, boost team collaboration.
HiTask is a veteran task and project management tool developed by a US team, combining projects, tasks, a shared calendar, and time tracking on a single-screen dashboard. The free plan gets you started, with email task creation and mobile sync included.
Fleep is a team chat and project collaboration tool founded in Tallinn, Estonia in 2014, merging conversations, tasks, files and issue tracking into one thread. The free plan lets small teams start immediately.
Taskwarrior is an open-source command-line task management tool born around 2009, free under GPL, supporting priorities, projects, tags, and custom reports. Data is stored locally and pairs with Timewarrior for time tracking, ideal for terminal power users.
Super Productivity is an open-source (GPL) local-first task management and time tracking app with a built-in Pomodoro timer, time tracking, and Jira integration, storing data locally by default. It is free with no subscription.
Sunsama is a daily planning tool from San Francisco, launched in 2017, that consolidates calendar, tasks, email, and Slack into one daily plan. It offers a 14-day free trial with subscriptions around $16-20/month for professionals and teams.
Dropbox Paper is the real-time collaborative document tool from Dropbox, launched in 2015, offering rich media embedding, task assignment, and version history, usable from the free Basic tier ($0) for lightweight document collaboration and knowledge capture.