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The best Project Management software

Project management software enables teams to plan, execute, and monitor projects from inception to completion. These platforms provide tools for task assignment, timeline management, resource allocation, and progress tracking. Modern project management solutions support various methodologies including Agile, Scrum, Kanban, and traditional Waterfall approaches.

Tools listed
27

All 27 project management tools

Every listing shows its published starting price on the same footing, so a shortlist does not take ten tabs.

Statsig logo

Statsig

Unified platform for feature flags, A/B testing, and product analytics

From $150/mo
Huly logo

Huly

Open-source all-in-one project management and collaboration platform

From $19.99/mo
Tempo Timesheets logo

Tempo Timesheets

Time tracking for Jira

From $1/mo
Basecamp logo

Basecamp

Project management & team collaboration software

From $25/mo
C

Clockwise

Intelligent calendar management for teams

Free
Craft Docs logo

Craft Docs

Beautiful document and note-taking app for Apple devices

Free
Freedcamp logo

Freedcamp

Free project management for everyone

From $1.49/mo
GanttPRO logo

GanttPRO

Online Gantt chart software

From $7/mo
Hive logo

Hive

Project management built for speed

Free
Kanbanize logo

Kanbanize

Enterprise Kanban software for agile teams

Pricing on request
LiquidPlanner logo

LiquidPlanner

Predictive project management

Pricing on request
MeisterTask logo

MeisterTask

The most intuitive project and task management tool

From $12.5/mo
Nifty logo

Nifty

The operating system for your workflow

Free
Paymo logo

Paymo

Work & project management for teams

From $5.9/mo
Pipefy logo

Pipefy

Workflow and process management, simplified

Free
Podio logo

Podio

The flexible team collaboration platform

From $11.2/user/mo
ProofHub logo

ProofHub

All-in-one project management and team collaboration

From $45/mo
Reclaim.ai logo

Reclaim.ai

Smart scheduling for busy teams

Free
Roadmunk logo

Roadmunk

The collaborative roadmapping tool for strategic planning

From $19/mo
Sunsama logo

Sunsama

The daily planner for busy professionals

From $17/mo
Taskade logo

Taskade

AI-powered productivity for teams

From $6/mo
Teamgantt logo

Teamgantt

Collaborative Gantt chart software

From $24/mo
Teamhood logo

Teamhood

Visual project management for teams of all sizes

From €9/mo
Toggl Plan logo

Toggl Plan

Beautiful team planning and project timelines

From $10/mo
Trello logo

Trello

Organize anything, together

From $5/user/mo
Visor logo

Visor

The spreadsheet-native project management tool

Free
Zoho Projects logo

Zoho Projects

Project management software for smart teams

Pricing on request

What project management software costs

Counted from the published pricing of the 27 listings on this page. A tool counts as free only where it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence or a starting price of zero.

Cheapest paid plan
$0.30Tempo Timesheets
Median entry price
$11.20across 25 priced
Dearest entry price
$150Statsig
Publish a $0 plan
20of 27

Paid project management plans in this set start anywhere from $0.30 a month for Tempo Timesheets to $150 for Statsig. The median entry price across the 25 tools that publish one is $11.20, half of them start below that figure and half above it.

Entry price is not the ceiling. The dearest published tier anywhere in this category is Visor's at $750 a month, 5× the highest entry price on the page. Read the top of each ladder as well as the bottom, because that is where you land after two years of growth.

20 of 27 publish a $0 plan, and 1 of those charge nothing at all. 6 tools have no free tier of any kind.

6 of 27 keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote, which in practice means the number you end up paying at the top end is not on this page or on theirs.

Tempo Timesheets pricingStatsig pricingVisor plans

How these vendors bill

The billing model each of the 27 project management listings publishes, counted. Two tools at the same headline price are not the same purchase if one of them charges per seat.

freemium
11
subscription
10

Separately, 6 of 27 publish at least one tier with no price attached. Those are sold by quote, so the top of the ladder is negotiable, and unknowable, until you talk to sales.

What comes as standard, and what you pay extra for

Every capability named in a published pricing tier by any of the 26 project management tools here that break their plans down, counted once per vendor. This measures what vendors choose to advertise as a selling point, not everything the software does, an absence below is silence, not a missing feature.

Named most often

  • Custom fields , 4 of 26
  • Unlimited projects , 4 of 26
  • Unlimited users , 4 of 26
  • Custom pricing , 3 of 26
  • Priority support , 3 of 26

Named by fewer

  • SSO , 3 of 26
  • Advanced features , 2 of 26
  • All Business features , 2 of 26
  • API access , 2 of 26
  • Basic task management , 2 of 26

Named by exactly one vendor: Admin controls, Billed annually (€22/month if monthly), Gantt view, Premium support, Team analytics, Unlimited scheduling links. Those are differentiators rather than table stakes.

What “Project Management” covers in practice

The subject tags that recur across these 27 listings, with the number of tools carrying each. A category label is a filing decision; this is the closer read of what is actually filed under it.

  • project-management15
  • collaboration7
  • productivity5
  • kanban4
  • visual4
  • affordable3
  • ai3
  • gantt3
  • scheduling3
  • simple3
  • all-in-one2
  • calendar2

Carried by a single tool: ab-testing, daily-planner, feature-flags, freelancer, note-taking, product-management, roadmapping, time-tracking. If one of those is the reason you are here, the category page is the wrong lens, go straight to that product.

How to choose between them

Four things the numbers above should change about your shortlist.

Start with the free tiers if there are enough of them

20 of 27 project management tools here publish a $0 plan, which is enough to run a real trial without a purchase order. A free tier is worth more than a free trial when you are evaluating: a trial expires on the vendor's schedule, a free plan expires when you outgrow it. The thing to check before you commit is which of the capabilities below sit above the free line, starting with custom fields, the single most frequently named capability in this category's published tiers.

Read the spread before you read the features

$0.30 to $150 is a $149.70 spread on entry price alone, and a spread that wide is never about polish, it is about who the vendor built for. Tools at the bottom of this ladder are priced for one person or a small team; tools near $150 are priced for a department with a procurement process. Decide which of those you are before you compare capability, or you will shortlist four tools that were never competing for the same buyer.

Check which tier you actually land on

20 of 27 tools here publish three or more tiers, and the median vendor in this category ships 4 of them. The advertised price is the first rung, and the things teams tend to need, custom fields, unlimited projects, unlimited users, are named in higher plans far more often than in entry ones. Price your shortlist at the tier that contains what you need, not at the tier on the pricing page's left edge.

The billing model matters more than the headline number

This category splits across 2 billing models: freemium on 11 listings, subscription on 10, and nothing else. A per-user price and a flat subscription at the same headline figure are not the same purchase, the first one grows with headcount and the second does not. Multiply by your real team size before you compare two numbers side by side.

Compare project management tools directly

Every pairing below is a full comparison: the same checklist applied to both, so a gap in one is a gap in the other.

Go straight to the numbers

Questions people ask about project management software

Answered from the listings on this page, and nowhere else.

How much does project management software cost?
Across the 27 project management tools listed here, paid plans start between $0.30 and $150 a month, with a median entry price of $11.20. The most expensive single tier published in the category is $750 a month (Visor). 20 of 27 also publish a $0 plan.
What is the cheapest project management software?
1 of the 27 tools listed here cost nothing at all. Among the ones that charge, Tempo Timesheets has the lowest published entry price at $0.30 a month. Cheapest and best value are different questions: check which tier the capability you need actually appears in before you compare starting prices.
Is there free project management software?
Yes, 20 of 27 tools in this category publish a plan priced at $0. 1 of them are free outright, with no paid tier above. A tool is only counted as free here when it publishes a $0 plan, an open-source licence, or a starting price of zero, a free trial does not count.
What features should project management software have?
Judging by what vendors put in their own published pricing tiers, the most frequently named capabilities in this category are custom fields (4 of 26 tools that publish plan detail), unlimited projects (4) and unlimited users (4). Treat those as the category baseline. Anything named by only one vendor, such as admin controls or billed annually (€22/month if monthly), is a differentiator rather than a standard, so it is worth deciding whether you need it before it narrows your shortlist to one.
How is project management software usually billed?
freemium (11), subscription (10), counted across the 27 listings on this page. The distinction that costs money is per-seat versus flat: a per-user plan at the same headline price scales with your headcount and a flat subscription does not. 6 of 27 tools also keep at least one tier unpriced and sold by quote.
What does project management software actually cover?
The 27 tools on this page do not describe themselves the same way. The subject tags they carry most often are project-management (15), collaboration (7), productivity (5), kanban (4), visual (4). That spread is the honest answer to what the category means in practice: it is not one product shape, and two tools filed under project management may overlap on very little.
How many pricing tiers do project management tools offer?
26 of 27 tools here publish a plan breakdown, and the median one has 4 tiers. 20 of 27 publish three or more. More tiers is not generosity, it usually means the capability you are buying for sits two rungs above the advertised price, so price your shortlist at the tier that contains it.
How many project management tools are listed on Softwr?
27 approved project management listings appear on this page, including Statsig, Huly, Tempo Timesheets, Basecamp. Each links to a full breakdown with its pricing tiers and plan detail, and the category can be filtered by price and sorted by rating above. You can also read the shortlist view at /best/project-management, which ranks the same set by published rating.

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