22 Best Wrike Alternatives For Project Management in 2020 (Free & Paid)

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Wrike

Cons: An accounting firm designed Nutcache as invoicing software. Like many other Wrike alternatives and Wrike itself, it has grown into project management and is missing traditional project management functionality like Gantt Charts and customizable templates. Nutcache also only supports Agile projects, not projects using more common methodologies such as Waterfall.

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2

Workzone

Pros: Workzone has the same visualization tools as Wrike, like Gantt charts for timelines, budget, and resources. But, there are no superusers required with Workzone: it’s simple enough for your whole team to use. The customer success team at Workzone is what sets it apart, ensuring that your entire team can get on board and know how to manage your projects before you even start.

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3

Basecamp

Based in Chicago, IL, USA, Basecamp is one of the most familiar project management tools for project managers and business professionals. Basecamp simplifies project management so that it’s easily understood by most people. Basecamp makes the list of Wrike alternatives because sometimes users need to check out a more simple way to manage projects.

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4

Workfront

Workfront was founded in 2001 and serves Enterprise level customers primarily combining complex project management with issue tracking, document collaboration, and portfolio management. It also added proofing capabilities through its acquisition of Proofhub in 2015.

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ProofHub

Pros: With ProofHub, you’ll get quick access to all of your workflows, set different access for team members, and of course, proof all of your documents in one place. A big selling point for ProofHub is its multi-lingual interface — excellent for distributed or international teams.

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ProjectManager.com

Pros: ProjectManager.com offers a full suite of project management functionality. It supports both Agile and Waterfall project methodologies. The software helps you manage projects and team progress, track time, collaborate, and report on how projects are going.

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7

dapulse

In recent years daPulse went through a transformation, broadening its target market and changing its name to Monday. Monday made this list of Wrike alternatives because of its recent pivot into the market.

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monday.com

Pros: An original approach is beneficial because not every team functions the same. Many project management tools, such as Wrike, simply offer lists of tasks. Monday realizes the benefit of everyone seeing the end result. This is why Monday helps teams visualize the whole project via boards and phases of approval.

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9

ClickUp

Cons: ClickUp is designed to be an all-in-one solution and that does come at the expense of having features you would see in a dedicated project management solution. The varying levels of functionality outside its project management capabilities can be overwhelming to new users. Some people find the number of functions and integration options make it too difficult to adopt successfully.

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10

Nutcache

Cons: An accounting firm designed Nutcache as invoicing software. Like many other Wrike alternatives and Wrike itself, it has grown into project management and is missing traditional project management functionality like Gantt Charts and customizable templates. Nutcache also only supports Agile projects, not projects using more common methodologies such as Waterfall.

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11

Smartsheet

Smartsheet helps you keep track of projects through an application similar to spreadsheets and makes the list of Wrike alternatives because of their vastly different ways of managing projects. Wrike is by a tiered folder structure, Smartsheet is by spreadsheets,

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12

Trello

Pros: Not all project management solutions are ideal for a smaller set-up. Freelancers and small businesses find Trello the perfect match due to its user-friendly approach, which works so well with smaller teams. Unlike Wrike, where training is needed to make use of features, Trello easily provides you with the basic requirements to increase productivity.

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13

Function Point

Function Point is an agency management software designed to meet the unique needs of creative and design companies.

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14

Insightly

Pros: Here’s another excellent option for a specific niche because Insightly gets terrific reviews from sales teams. The Insightly features include tracking activities, updating information on prospective clients, and generating reports. It also has a mobile app.

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15

LiquidPlanner

Pros: Do you have difficulty scheduling your projects? Whenever you change a task priority or assign more work to your team, the timelines in LiquidPlanner automatically adjust and update everyone.

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16

Asana

Asana is a popular project management solution that has a lot of name recognition behind it. Check out this post that covers a complete list of Asana alternatives.

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17

Lean

Pros: Emphasizing optimization and eliminating waste for engineers, Leankit embraces Lean project management. It incorporates visualization boards (the Kanban approach) to help you quickly see the status of all your project tasks.

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18

Jira

Pros: Jira is highly customizable, with more than a thousand add-ons and the ability to integrate with hundreds of other tools. Jira can create great reports for both road-mapping and agile project management. It also has issue-tracking and prioritization capability.

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19

Microsoft To-Do

Microsoft recently bought out Wunderlist, and as of May 6, 2020, the software is disappearing. It has been officially replaced by Microsoft To Do, which essentially provides the same functions. Wunderlist originally made the list of Wrike alternatives because teams found its simple shared to do lists as good enough for their simple project management.

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20

Clarizen

Pros: Clarizen has features that aren’t found in typical project software solutions, including accounting and sales functions. It allows you to scope, size, and schedule a project quickly. Clarizen provides cross-department insights to help teams determine scope, scale, risk, and work estimates.

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21

Scoro

Pros: One of Scoro’s advantages is that it allows you to have your CRM and project management tasks all in one place. It’s also suitable for client work, as the software combines time tracking, billing, quoting, and invoicing.

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22

Podio

Based in Raleigh, NC, Podio was purchased by Citrix in 2012. Podio is designed around the idea of transparency and its “open-plan online office.”

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LeanKit

Acquired by Planview in 2017, Leankit was added to Planview’s productivity suite to attract engineers and maximize Leankit’s lean project management approach.

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