7 Best Project Management Tools for Teams in 2024

According to a PRC study, an estimated 22 million US employees work from home. At this time, project management tools (that can entirely manage your remote teams) are the need of the hour. 

This is why, in today’s blog, we’re discussing the top seven project management tools you should consider to help your teams tackle those complex projects. Let’s dig in!

1. ClickUp for comprehensive task management

ClickUp is just one of those project management apps with which you can do everything — from task management to time tracking, team collaboration, portfolio management, and more — it’s all possible in one app. In other words, it’s a project manager’s dream. 

However, even with this advanced feature list, here are a few standouts:

• Custom dashboards (i.e., you can switch to whiteboards, kanban boards, calendars with project timelines, task lists, and more).
• AI-enabled project management (i.e., with ClickUp Brain, you can get answers to all your project-related questions, summarize tasks, generate content, translate text, and more).
• Unlimited capabilities (i.e., you can create unlimited projects, documents, and dashboards, add unlimited users, and get unlimited storage).
• Comprehensive features for team collaboration (i.e., you can set custom permissions, view project goals and project views, manage team members’ calendars, and track time).

User Ratings: 4.7/5 on G2
Pricing: Paid plans start from $7.00/month (free plan available)

2. Trello for simplified project planning

If you want to simplify project management (e.g., if you want to view all your projects/tasks and their progress at a glance), Trello is the tool you need. 

The software uses Kanban boards, and you can create or move cards (that signify tasks) based on your progress. 

Like ClickUp, you can create unlimited cards, message boards, and task lists. You can also access unlimited storage on Trello for simple resource allocation. 

The intuitive interface allows you to switch between dashboard views, add team members to cards, set project managers, and integrate with your favorite tools. 

User Ratings: 4.4/5 on G2
Pricing: Paid plans start from $5.00/month (free plan available)

3. Asana for team collaboration 

Asana has a variety of key features that make it a go-to project management app for teams without borders:

• Support workspaces that have unlimited users and project management methodologies
• Create private projects and customizable workflows for separate teams
• Integrate with tools from your tech stack to avoid repetitive tasks
• Time-track projects and provide exhaustive reports
• Help with goal and workload management
• Host free guests (e.g., clients)
• Provide custom permissions
• Support approval workflows

It ultimately becomes the go-to project management tool for any company that puts team collaboration at the forefront. 

User Ratings: 4.3/5 on G2
Pricing: Paid plans start from $10.99/month (free plan available)

4. Miro for teams that love visuals

For teams that prefer visual collaboration on complex projects, you could do no wrong with Miro. This online project management tool supports whiteboards, which essentially act as canvases for all project ideas. 

With this unique project planning tool, you can:

• Create unlimited projects and folders (and even add unlimited guests)
• Keep a pulse on meetings (with in-app video calls and time tracking)
• Create video walkthroughs of your boards
• Integrate with more than 100 apps
• Classify public and private boards

While almost any team can use this app, Miro is especially an excellent option for marketing teams and agencies that need to design and keep track of multiple campaigns. 

User Ratings: 4.8/5 on G2
Pricing: Paid plans start from $8.00/month (free plan available)

5. Paymo for freelancers

Paymo is one such business idea that was an immediate success among its target customers. And to tell the truth, why wouldn’t it be? After all, it has all the features a freelancer ever needs. 

On that note, here are a few things you can do with Paymo: 

• You can track your time, create timesheets, and leverage time management techniques on the app (which is particularly useful if you use a per-hour pricing model, eh?)
• It allows you to create and export invoices, develop project estimates, and collect payments in over 22 currencies. 
• You can plan projects, highlight critical paths, create schedules, deadlines, project priorities, budgets, and more. 
• It also allows you to track profit and measure your (as well as your clients) profitability. 

Again, what’s not to love? 

User Ratings: 4.6/5 on G2
Pricing: Paid plans start from $5.9/user/month (free plan available)

6. Forecast for all-inclusive AI-enabled project control

In an AI-backed world, Forecast is an AI-enabled project management tool whose capabilities go beyond this USP (i.e., this platform allows you to manage your resources, financials, and business, not just your projects). 

In terms of project management, here’s all that you can do with Forecast:

• With Forecast, you can create and manage projects/task lists (and even manage multiple team members while you’re at it). 
• Get a complete idea about your project revenue, costs, and profits
• Track all project types (fixed price, recurring, or time and sheet)
• Keep track of your availability and deadlines

User Ratings: 4.2/5 on G2
Pricing: Need to get in touch with the sales team to get pricing information. 

7. Hive: For flexible project management at the best price

Hive is a leading project management solution that helps thousands of teams work faster. Hive brings all of your workplace tools to one single dashboard, so you can manage projects, chat with coworkers, send emails, and even start Zoom calls without ever leaving the window. 

With thousands of teams already using Hive across the world, Hive is also becoming a leading project management tool in India thanks to its affordable pricing models.

Here are some of Hive’s key features for project management: 

• Flexible project views including Kanban, Gantt, Calendar, Table & more 
• Proofing and approvals
• Time-tracking, timesheets, and resourcing
• Workflow automation tools

User ratings: 4.6/5.0 on G2
Pricing: Hive has several pricing plans. Hive Free is the platform’s free-forever option, while Hive Starter is great for light project management and Hive Teams offers unlimited project management capabilities.

8. Team-specific project management tools

In the previous sections, we covered a few project management software platforms that almost any industry could apply; however, here are a few industry or role-specific tools with robust features you can consider: 

• Marketing: For marketing teams, CoSchedule is a god-sent because it allows them to manage content calendars, projects, assets, posting schedules, and more from a singular platform.
• Information Technology: Jira is a standout tool for IT and software teams alike because it can track projects and requests, find issues, and get analytics all at once. [Jira also caters to marketing, design, and operations teams.] 
• Healthcare: With CareCloud, healthcare companies can manage their workforce, revenue, health records, customer experience, and more. In fact, more than 40k providers trust it. 
• Sales: Freshsales is intuitive software that allows sales teams to perform all basic tasks (e.g., create workflows/reports, add contract lifecycle stages, manage sequences, etc.) as well as advanced ones (e.g., score leads, create account hierarchy, make custom modules, etc.)
• Accounting: With Zoho Books, you can track and manage time, invoices, reports, bills, payroll, budgets, and more, which makes it the perfect project management tool for accounting teams. Don’t underestimate the power of Zoho Projects.    

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