10 Great Project Planning Apps to Add to Your Toolkit
A project management application will help you keep track of all of the details within your project. You can create service tickets, you can gather reminders of things to do, you can also have more than one manager assigned to a project. Here is a list of ten project management applications that you can add to your toolkit.
1. Lighthouse
You can do your work directly through your inbox, manage your beta testing, prioritize your tickets and meet your goals. You can categorize and organize your tasks easily and effectively. Lightbox allows you to attach your documents and images directly to the tickets.
Free: 1 Project, 2 users
Personal: $15 monthly, 3 Projects, 10 users
Gold: $100 monthly, Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Members, 30GB Storage
2. Remember the Milk
Remember the Milk is a personal project management application. You can organize items and events to match your style. You can collaborate with others on projects that you wish to complete. You can create as many tagged to-do lists as you wish, making it easier to complete your tasks.
Free Signup
Pro Upgrade: $25 per year, gives you RTM applications for your mobile devices.
3. Creative Pro Office
Creative Pro Office has tabbed navigation for clients, time sheets, projects, team members and more. The dashboard includes your calender, outstanding invoices, and upcoming projects. You can easily start a new project by inputting only a project name and client name.
Free: 3 Projects, 1 Team Member, No Storage
Solo: $5 monthly, 10 Projects, 3 Team Members, 1GB Storage
Team: $30 monthly, Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Team Members, 10GB Storage
4. Basecamp
You can create to-do lists, perform file sharing and make message boards. The program also offers milestones, time tracking and project overviews.
Basic: $24 monthly, 15 Projects, Unlimited Users, 5GB Storage
Premium: $99 monthly, 100 Projects, Unlimited Users, 30GB Storage
Max: $149 monthly, Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Users, 75GB Storage
5. Deskaway
Deskaway has dynamic project management features such as project history, milestones, task lists and recurring tasks. You can schedule events, post to a shared blog and share your information efficiently with your team.
Personal: $10 monthly, 10 Projects, Unlimited Users, 250MB Storage
Plus: $49 monthly, 100 Projects, Unlimited Users, 10GB Storage
Power: $99 monthly, Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Users, 25 GB Storage
6. Goalkeeper
With Goalkeeper, you can create and manage projects, task lists and tickets. With a click of a few buttons, you can change your deadlines and create ticket checklists. You can manage multiple projects quickly and easily.
Free: 10 projects, 20 Users, 30MB storage
Freelancer: $29 monthly, Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Users, 1 GB Storage
Professional: $69 monthly, Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Users, 35GB Storage
7. Copper Project
You can create to do lists, client lists, calendars and projects with Copper. You can examine budgets and put your estimated hours into the timeline. Copper will soon be integrated with MYOB, Xero and Freshbooks.
Standard: $29 monthly, Unlimited Projects, 5 Users, 10GB Storage
Studio: $49 monthly, Unlimited Projects, 25 users, 20GB Storage
Enterprise: $199 monthly, Unlimited Projects, 200 Users, Unlimited Storage
8. Project Spaces
You can organize your files easily with simple to use tools. ProjectSpaces allows you to customize your project’s tabs, colors and homepage layout. Keep users informed with RSS and email.
Personal: $29 monthly, 1 Project, 25 Users, 1GB Storage
Premium: $129 monthly, 10 Projects, Unlimited Users, 10GB Storage
Corporate: $749 monthly, 500 Projects, Unlimited Users, 100GB Storage
9. Huddle
Huddle allows you to perform task management, online editing and document sharing. Huddle allows video conferencing and discussion with your team members.
Personal: $8 monthly, 1 Project, Unlimited users, 1 GB Storage
Small Team: $40 monthly, 5 Projects, Unlimited users, 2GB Storage
Professional: $200 monthly, 25 Projects, Unlimited Users, 25GB Storage
10. Teambox
Teambox is consistently adding new features. You can share tasks, messages and files. You can create projects and access your data from anywhere on the web.
Personal: $12 monthly, 6 projects, Unlimited Users, 200MB Storage
Basic: $29 monthly, 20 Projects, Unlimited Users, 10GB Storage
Corporate: $299 monthly, Unlimited Projects, Unlimited Users, 250 GB Storage
Most of these project management applications offer free trials. Project management doesn’t have to be a headache anymore.
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I’ve tried to find the best project manager for both work and personal and still haven’t come across one that truly has the interface and functionality (and price) I’m looking for. I am a fan of remember the milk and use this on a daily basis for personal tasks; the integration with Google calendar and the android app are definitely a huge plus.
However, In terms of collaboration and project management tools for my company, most of the tools I’ve tried have been open source ones. The one we currently use is Project Open (http://www.project-open.org/) but I’ve played around with a plethora of others before I found one that worked for us.
I can’t comment on most of the ones described here Amber but I’ve read good things about BASECAMP. If you’re going to be paying for the software and have the budget, I’d seriously also suggest checking out Teamwork (http://www.twproject.com/) I tested this one out back in the day and the only thing I couldn’t deal with was the pricing.
Jeff
For those of you interested in a Windows project management software tool that can operate over an office network, you may like to try TaskMerlin at http://www.taskmerlin.com/. It’s full-featured, and you’ll find the pricing is more attractive than most subscription-based products.
I don’t really use a project management tool. I find it’s overkill for a one-person business. Does anyone who freelances by themselves use it?
I’m a freelancer and use a project management tool for myself.
It let’s me keep all my work for clients separate and show them updates on progress.
Also, I like to keep everything as a project form (a la The Action Method), so I use it to break down all my personal projects too.
It’s not for everyone, but it works really, really well for me. I could never go back to not using one.
Well I use Billings which is kind of a project management app, although it’s really more for time tracking/billing/quoting. Personally I think adding another app would be just more time wasted, although I could def see the benefits of one for a multi-team.
I can see that. Everyone has a different method.
I use DeskAway, which allows me to track my time right in it, then export it to Freshbooks and call it a day.
@Amber I mostly use them for my office job but for freelancing, I use remember the milk quite frequently to add and manage client tasks…more as reminders than as project management though. For my freelance work, I started using Paymo.biz early on and have stuck with it ever since. It’s seemed to have everything I’ve needed so far; client, task and project management as well as time tracking and invoicing and best of all it’s free. They offer a taskbar widget too which is an added convenience.
Some of these products are not really project management software but rather personal organizing tools (Remember The Milk for example).
I would like to also mention RationalPlan. It is a project management software working on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Another project planning app worth checking out is Intervals. It is especially useful if you also need time tracking, task management and the ability to run reports and invoice your clients. Although it will work for freelancers it is a much better fit for small teams.
Nice article here, you may also want to look at precurio at http://www.precurio.com/index.php
Though an Intranet application, it has got a very effective task manager and for all i care its free.
Thanks for including DeskAway to the list! Appreciate it.
Hi all, I’m trying Toggl (www.toggl.com) seems to be very good internet based application witg Adroid and Iphone support.
2-plan is a project management tool that is based on the Rich Client Platform (RCP) and consists of a basic framework along with many extensions like additional functionality, reports, perspectives and views.
2-plan is not only a Rich Client. There is also webbased variant called 2-plan Team available. @see http://2-plan.com/
Recently, our team leader has decided to switch from Huddle to WorkForceTrack . Because it is cheaper than Huddle and has almost the same functions. As far as I know, they also offer some kind of discounts. So, I am recommending you to try this
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