The best Project management tools
About Project management
Project management is the discipline of delivering work on time with the team and budget you have. It is not about the tools. It is about clarity on what you are building, who is doing it and when it is done. Learn how to scope work, plan it, track it and talk about it so the team stays aligned and problems surface early.
Top picks
Asana
Organise team projects, tasks and workflows using focused task-centric lists, boards and timelines.
Best for: Marketing, operations and agency teams that need clear task ownership, deadlines and approval steps across many projects in one shared workspace.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $10.99/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
ClickUp
Brings tasks, documents, goals and time tracking together in one workspace with flexible views for your team.
Best for: Lean teams and growing companies that want tasks, docs, goals and time tracking in one configurable workspace, and have someone willing to own the setup and train everyone.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $7/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Monday.com
Manage projects and workflows on flexible visual boards with automations, dashboards and team coordination.
Best for: Cross-functional B2B and marketing teams that want a flexible, visual workspace of boards to plan, track and automate projects across departments.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $9/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
Clockify
Tracks work hours across projects with timesheets, invoicing, and reporting for freelancers and agencies.
Best for: Freelancers, agencies and consultants who bill by the hour and need tracked time turned into timesheets, invoices and project cost reports, ideally starting on a free plan.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From $3.99/mo
- MCP server
- No
- API
- Yes
Notion AI
Automatically transcribes and summarises your meetings directly into your Notion workspace for teams.
Best for: Teams already working in Notion who want AI agents, meeting notes and search that run inside their own pages and databases instead of in a separate tool.
- Free plan
- Yes
- Price
- From €19.50/mo
- MCP server
- Yes
- API
- Yes
The top 4 side by side
| 7 points compared | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $10.99/mo | $7/mo | $9/mo | $3.99/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MCP server | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Built-in automations | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Gantt / Timeline view | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Native time tracking | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
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All Project management tools
- Organise team projects, tasks and workflows using focused task-centric lists, boards and timelines.
- Brings tasks, documents, goals and time tracking together in one workspace with flexible views for your team.
- Manage projects and workflows on flexible visual boards with automations, dashboards and team coordination.
- Tracks work hours across projects with timesheets, invoicing, and reporting for freelancers and agencies.
- Automatically transcribes and summarises your meetings directly into your Notion workspace for teams.
- Capture and organise tasks across devices with projects, labels and multiple views for individuals and teams.
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How we rank
Every tool in a category is ranked by the same rule, worked out from the data we hold, not by who pays us. In order:
- How many of the category's shared features it has.
- Whether there is a free plan to start on.
- How open it is to AI: an API and an MCP server.
- Whether its pricing is public.
- Name, A to Z, when all else is equal.
When we add a tool or learn more about one, the ranking updates by itself.