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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ActiveCollab

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AActive Collab is a project management solution built around features such as task management, collaboration, time tracking, and invoicing.

    $8

    per member/per month

    monday.com

    Score8.6 out of 10
    Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
    monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.

    $36

    per month (3 seats)

    Pricing
    ActiveCollabmonday.com
    Editions & Modules
    ActiveCollab Project Management
    $8
    per member/per month
    Self-Hosted Plan
    $999.00
    license
    Basic
    $12
    per month per user
    Standard
    $14
    per month per user
    Pro
    $24
    per month per user
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    ActiveCollabmonday.com
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesYes
    Entry-level Setup Fee$6.25 per member, per month, annual billingNo setup fee
    Additional Details—Yearly plan: Save 18% Monthly plan also available
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    Community Pulse
    ActiveCollabmonday.com
    Considered Both Products
    ActiveCollab
    Chose ActiveCollab
    Unfortunately, I find that every single one of these alternatives is a better tool. ActiveCollab is a legacy tool my organisation had in place when I joined because their team had been much smaller and had less need for collaborative views and workload management within a tool …
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    monday.com
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ActiveCollabmonday.com
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of ActiveCollab and monday.com
    Feature
    ActiveCollab
    3.6
    13 Ratings
    72% below category average
    monday.com
    9.0
    2230 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Task Management5.112 Ratings9.52216 Ratings
    Resource Management1.08 Ratings9.31893 Ratings
    Gantt Charts3.07 Ratings8.41294 Ratings
    Scheduling1.011 Ratings8.71852 Ratings
    Workflow Automation7.01 Ratings9.71923 Ratings
    Team Collaboration6.113 Ratings9.42173 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology7.07 Ratings8.81153 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology7.01 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Document Management3.08 Ratings8.51792 Ratings
    Email integration4.09 Ratings9.41596 Ratings
    Mobile Access1.110 Ratings8.61772 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking2.09 Ratings9.11037 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management1.08 Ratings9.71151 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management2.07 Ratings9.21024 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of ActiveCollab and monday.com
    Feature
    ActiveCollab
    5.7
    8 Ratings
    28% below category average
    monday.com
    9.8
    1001 Ratings
    26% above category average
    Quotes/estimates6.97 Ratings9.9670 Ratings
    Invoicing6.96 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting1.07 Ratings9.8884 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.94 Ratings9.8498 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ActiveCollabmonday.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    1.6
    (13 ratings)
    9.1
    (2235 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
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    9.0
    (31 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    8.7
    (2163 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.2
    (8 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.6
    (8 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    9.5
    (1883 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    9.1
    (4 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    9.1
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.2
    (6 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    9.0
    (6 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    6.9
    (8 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    User Testimonials
    ActiveCollabmonday.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ActiveCollab
    Scenarios where ActiveCollab works well 1) ActiveCollab works well for small teams specifically T&M teams.Its invoicing feature is unique & can make your life easy. 2) It is very easy to use & posses good range of filters like on the task list, we can drag/drop tasks, Filter by assignee's,
    tasks lists, due dates, or completed tasks. 3) It has some simple but awesome features like when you're in
    the middle of writing something i.e a comment on story and get interrupted,
    it retains what you wrote. 4) It allows you to tag team members in threads of comments to grab their attention, its really needed when teams are distributed. Thus helping team members to collaborate easily & stay on same page. 5) It integrates pretty well with other web apps like quickbooks , Slack, Trello, HubSpot, Zapier etc Scenarios where ActiveCollab did not work well 1) Tasks can not have multiple assignee's here so if two members are working on same task it did not allow you to reflect that. 2) Sorting capability is not their under invoicing 3) It did not work well for larger teams 4) Search option is not very detailed & you may end up wasting lot of time searching one particular bug or issue.












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    monday.com
    The platform is very well suited for our nonprofit programs that serve low-income clients who need diapers, wipes, and period products. It has helped us run our programs, capturing information and allowing us to view the data for reporting purposes. The ability to filter data is very helpful by allowing us to categorize information to get a better picture of the progress of our programs.
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    Pros
    ActiveCollab
    • Great for project and task assignments, project workflow and communications.
    • Solid web-based platform that doesn't require software downloads, also includes great mobile platform.
    • Great reporting tools for managing billing, estimating, project workflow and other essential project details.
    • Allows for both the agency and its clients to interact on a single platform using role-specific permissions.
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    monday.com
    • I like summary of subitems, especially with subitasks as subitems and add item tracking for each subtask it can show total tracked in parent item. Similar with other columns, like numbers, status, date.
    • Dashboard features, Many kinds of dashboard view available, we can utilize on the basis of requirements.
    • monday.com workform is very powerful, easily share form link when submitted it will create line item in board with provided data.
    • monday.com automation is very helpful in order to automate steps with specific rules and easy setup.
    • monday.com also provides integrations in order to automate processes if need to integrate multiple app together. or need to transfer data between multiple apps.
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    Cons
    ActiveCollab
    • It isn't possible to set members of staff as part time, so if someone is unavailable on certain days you must manually enter them as OOO every single day that they are not in, that other teammates work. Hours also can't be edited individually - everyone is treated as working the same hours in a day, rendering capacity planner useless for flexi working teams
    • Subtasks cannot be assigned their own hours and deadlines, meaning the To Do list view can't be seen in actual date order and capacity planner does not reflect all time allocated to an individual's schedule unless every task is set up as a separate task rather than subtask
    • There is no way to see all tasks of a certain type across multiple campaigns (e.g all copywriting tasks vs all technical tasks) - support team suggested exporting data and making spreadsheets
    • Kanban view isn't available for people's own task lists ('board' view here shows a list)
    • Not possible to have one task be assigned to more than one person
    • Notifications are not sent when tasks are updated, so you have to leave comments and tag people each time
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    monday.com
    • The desktop app for Mac seems to have a few issues with visual glitches appearing on screen, it only seems to go away when I close the tool and reopen it
    • Subtasks don't show on the individual users to-do list, only main level tasks
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ActiveCollab
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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    Usability
    ActiveCollab
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    monday.com
    I give monday.com a 10/10 because I almost never encounter any lag or connectivity issues despite all of the many templates, boards, and automations we have. As a matter of fact, I feel like the last issue I encountered was over a year ago... and I'm in monday.com every single work day. Not only is monday trustworthy, it is easy to find what I'm looking for... making the overall usability extremely hard to beat.
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    Reliability and Availability
    ActiveCollab
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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    Performance
    ActiveCollab
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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    Support Rating
    ActiveCollab
    We have not required support for ActiveCollab as it works pretty seamlessly. We didn't have any issues with using the platform or with any billing issues. The self-service aspect of the platform is robust and easy to navigate so we have not encountered any errors that required assistance from the support team.
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    monday.com
    monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread.
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    Online Training
    ActiveCollab
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    monday.com
    To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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    Implementation Rating
    ActiveCollab
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    monday.com
    We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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    Alternatives Considered
    ActiveCollab
    ActiveCollab is easier to use and simpler in its setup. It has the right mix of features and simplicity. It's also project-oriented which is important for our workflow. Other tools are often too task-oriented, making it hard to track projects. Overall, ActiveCollab has a great mix of simplicity with good features.
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    monday.com
    monday.com is simpler and easier to grasp, apply and navigate than ClickUp, but the ClickUp free version has so much more functionality available than the monday.com free / low-cost options (sorry, but it's true!). Google Tasks is really simple and I shouldn't really compare them - it's just really nice to be able to see my tasks right next to my Google Calendar or Gmail (widget) - the "all on one" view on the screen is really nice ease of access, but the power of monday.com outweighs the nice-to-have of an all-in-one screen layout - it feels clumsy to bring in all my Calendar items from Google to monday.com, so an integration app to the Google screen where you can see monday.com tasks would be amazing.
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    Scalability
    ActiveCollab
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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    Return on Investment
    ActiveCollab
    • Allows our team to stay organized and keep conversations on tasks.
    • The To-Do List email every morning helps me mentally prepare and know exactly what I should be doing as soon as I start work.
    • Powerful and useful integrations save lots of time (Google Drive, Slack, Dropbox, Zapier and more!).
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    monday.com
    • >25% of our org is using monday.com to build Boards & projects. Only 5% used our prior Work Management System.
    • 100% of project communication is kept within monday.com. Which means we don't have to search Slack, Email, or other places to find a message.
    • 100% of our project files are kept or linked with monday.com. So, we don't have to find missing files in other locations.
    • monday.com integrates with Salesforce, so we don't have to manually duplicate data
    • 3rd-Party solutions are linking to our monday.com data and producing reports as humans read reports.
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    ScreenShots

    ActiveCollab Screenshots

    Screenshot of the dashboard with an overview of projects.Screenshot of multiple task views currently showing a Kanban view of the tasklists and tasks.Screenshot of Overview of all recent activity.Screenshot of Calendar view with task dependencies.Screenshot of Permission settings (owner, member, client, client+).Screenshot of List of available Add-ons.

    monday.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Work OSScreenshot of Ready-Made TemplatesScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Visual BoardsScreenshot of Real-time NotificationsScreenshot of Automations