Project Management: Buying Advice, Tips, and News

GanttPro's ease of use and reasonable pricing make it a worthwhile solution for small teams new to project management, though it's missing several common features.

Have a major deliverable coming up that involves lots of people and tasks? The top project management apps we've tested can help you keep your team on track.

Wrike is a deeply customizable project management app that competently handles everything from building forms to proofing, though its costs can be high.

Teamwork offers an extensive set of project management features in an intuitive interface and is especially adept at handling client work.

While it comes with a high price tag, Smartsheet's spreadsheet-based project management tools offer impressive depth for those willing to invest the time to customize and master them.

Zoho Projects' accessible pricing and helpful array of comprehensive features make it an attractive project management solution for small and growing businesses.

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Celoxis packs a lot of value into a project management app for medium or large organizations, especially for decision-makers and business owners.

Highly intuitive for beginners, TeamGantt is an excellent project management app for small businesses.

Project management app ProofHub aims for simplicity without skimping on core features. It's strong at enabling collaboration on visual materials and is competitively priced for small to midsize teams.

LiquidPlanner is an impressive online tool for managing projects, tasks, workloads, and more, because it automatically and dynamically schedules work for your whole team, even as conditions change. It's not intuitive to use, however.

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Redmine is the go-to project management app when you want a free and open-source option. It's focused on issue- and bug-tracking and is particularly targeted at development teams who can also install and maintain it.

Paymo is a midrange project management app that focuses more than others on accurate time tracking. It includes invoicing, expenses, and billing features, too.

ProjectManager.com is a collaborative project management app that anyone can set up quickly. It isn't the most powerful service you'll find, but it offers a lot of functionality for mid-sized organizations.

Hubstaff Tasks is a kanban app for managing workflows and tasks. It integrates with Hubstaff's namesake app, which may be the primary reason to choose it over other similar tools.

Teams using agile development should consider Zoho Sprints for managing their work, because it's feature rich and doesn't cost much money.

Volerro is an app for collaboratively managing work using the kanban method. It comes with a few neat features, but has room to grow.

Backlog is a project management app that's well suited for programmers, but for more general use, it lacks a few features and integrations.

More of a task-management app for software developers than anything else, Pivotal Tracker is average in what it accomplishes, but unique in its methodology.