Best Project Planning Software for Freelancers
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What is Project Planning Software for Freelancers?
Project planning software helps teams and organizations outline, schedule, and manage projects from start to finish. These tools enable users to define project scope, set deadlines, assign tasks, and allocate resources, ensuring that every aspect of a project is organized and aligned with objectives. Many project planning solutions feature Gantt charts, Kanban boards, and task lists to visually represent project timelines and progress. The software often includes collaboration features, such as file sharing, real-time updates, and team communication tools, making it easier for team members to stay on track. This software is essential for managing complex projects, ensuring that deadlines are met, and resources are used efficiently. Compare and read user reviews of the best Project Planning software for Freelancers currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.
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Visual Planning
Stilog Inc.
Visual Planning is more than just overseeing projects, scheduling field teams, managing production timelines, or streamlining manufacturing operations—it’s a flexible, all-in-one platform built to support a wide range of business needs. From simple task coordination to complex, multi-layered workflows, VP adapts to how you work and brings structure, visibility, and efficiency to every part of your operation. VP gives you complete visibility into your projects, teams, equipment, machines, work orders, and operations—helping you coordinate every aspect of your business with confidence. Whether you're managing job sites, dispatching field crews, or overseeing production lines, our platform keeps everything and everyone connected. Collaborate across departments, adjust schedules on the fly, and keep work moving forward—on any device, from anywhere. Thousands of companies trust VP to simplify how they manage people, projects, equipment, and operations. Get your free custom demo today.Starting Price: $15.00/month/user -
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Planfix
Planfix
Planfix combines project structure, scheduling, dependencies, workload, and execution data in one planning environment. Gantt charts help managers see how changes in one task affect the wider schedule, while milestones, dependencies, and baselines make it easier to detect deviations before they become delivery problems. Planners provide practical views for day-to-day coordination after the initial plan is built. Because planning and execution use the same Planfix tasks, employees work with the current plan rather than with a schedule that has already become outdated in a separate tool.Starting Price: $0 per user per month -
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Odoo
Odoo
Odoo is a fully integrated, customizable, open-source software packed with hundreds of expertly designed business applications. Odoo’s intuitive database is able to meet a majority of business needs, such as: CRM, Sales, Project, Manufacturing, Inventory, and Accounting, just to name a few. Odoo is an all-in-one software solution designed to meet the needs of companies, regardless of their size (or budget). The unbeatable, seamless nature of Odoo helps businesses become more efficient by reducing redundant manual processes, which helps companies save countless hours of labor. Every module is interconnected to provide a fully-integrated experience from app to app, and users can automate many processes that would’ve otherwise required manual inputs into multiple applications. Odoo keeps all business functions in one place, allowing teams to collaborate with other departments from one unified platform in the most efficient way possible.Starting Price: $25.00/month/user -
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SmartDraw
SmartDraw
SmartDraw lets you manage the needs of cross-functional teams and stakeholders while creating alignment and accountability. Use mind maps to structure your brainstorming and turn it into a project chart with action items in just a single click. Monitor and update project progress using Kanban boards. Add Jira tickets or Azure work items to any board. You can also push items and tickets generated during your meetings and brainstorming sessions back into Jira and Azure DevOps. Connect to your Atlassian instance and generate an epic dependency report, a blocking issue report, a product roadmap, or even a PI board. Visualize your team's wins and challenges from the last sprint by running retrospectives. Make roadmaps to plan out priorities and feature releases and make sure your product development goals align across teams and stakeholders.Starting Price: $9.95 per user per month -
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Continuum PSA
CrossConcept Continuum PSA
CrossConcept Continuum goes beyond traditional PSA solutions available today by incorporating cutting-edge UI technology making the solution more user-friendly, resulting in fewer clicks within the solution and time spent logging data. CrossConcept Continuum has been built from the ground up to integrate with all major accounting systems to seamlessly synchronize projects and accounting within one unified system. Our innovative PSA solution allows organizations to maximize profitability by integrating connecting projects and financial accounting, enabling you to manage all stages of your project from conception to completion and deliver on your promises. CrossConcept has decades of experience helping service organizations automate their processes. Clients have ranged in size from a handful of people to over thirty thousand. The founder's and team’s real-world experience is what drove and shaped the creation of CrossConcept Continuum. Our solution is a simple, yet powerful PSA!Starting Price: $15.00/month/user -
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GigSheets
GigSheets
Gigsheets is the only tool you need to manage your agile project successfully. With all the built-in features on Gigsheets, managing your agile project has never been easier. The built-in timer on Gigsheets automatically tracks changes on tickets, columns and sprints. Each entry will show the name of what you're working on (tickets, columns, etc.), so you will have a clear view of your progress. You can easily export your timesheet to give your clients full transparency on your project. When it comes to tickets, there are various options to customize: - “Watch” Tickets - Link a ticket to an “epic” - Choose the type of ticket (Story, Task, Bug, or Suggestion) - Add checklists - Prioritize, assign, label, and upload attachments Let Gigsheets help you to save time, stay focused and have full transparency into your team's workflow. Be the hero! Sign up for GigsheetsStarting Price: $2.50/per user, per month -
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Miro
Miro
Keep your team's minds in sync with Miro (formerly RealtimeBoard and AWW app). A virtual whiteboard and remote collaboration tool, Miro helps cross-functional teams work more efficiently together to build great things. The platform allows teams to ideate, visualize, and share ideas without any boundaries. It comes with over 200 pre-made templates for capturing and visualizing ideas, collaboration tools such as comments, chat, screen sharing, and video chat, and integrations with popular business tools. Miro AI. You and your team, supercharged. You're here to create the next big thing and we're here to help. Unlock the power of your ideas with Miro AI – your new launchpad for creativity, collaboration, and productivity.Starting Price: $8 per month -
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monday AI work platform
monday.com
monday AI work platform is an AI-powered work management and collaboration platform that enables organizations to manage projects, operations, workflows, and business processes through a centralized digital workspace where people and AI agents work together. The platform combines workflow automation, project management, team collaboration, and AI-driven execution tools to help businesses streamline operations, automate repetitive tasks, and improve productivity across departments such as marketing, sales, IT, HR, operations, and product management. monday AI work platform supports customizable workflows, dashboards, integrations, automations, and AI agents that can perform tasks such as research, reporting, meeting management, risk analysis, process optimization, and workflow orchestration within a secure enterprise-ready environment.Starting Price: $39/month for 5 users -
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Trello
Trello
Trello helps teams work more collaboratively and get more done. Trello’s boards, lists, and cards enable teams to organize and prioritize projects in a fun, flexible, and rewarding way. Whether it’s for work, a side project or even the next family vacation, Trello helps your team stay organized. Dive into the details by adding comments, attachments, due dates, and more directly to Trello cards. Collaborate on projects from beginning to end. Let the robots do the work! Boost productivity by unleashing the power of automation across your entire team with Butler, and remove tedious tasks from your to-do lists. Use Trello the way your team works best. We’ve got the flexibility & features to fit any team’s style. It’s easy to get your team up and running with Trello. We’ve collected all of the boards and tools your team needs to succeed in one handy resource. Integrate the apps your team already uses directly into your workflow.Starting Price: $12.50 per user per month -
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MeisterTask
MeisterLabs GmbH
MeisterTask is the most intuitive online project and team collaboration management tool on the web. Flexible, smart, and easy to use, MeisterTask enables users to create a project, add as many team members, assign tasks, and follow each member's progress. The solution offers integration with popular tools such as Zendesk, Slack, and GitHub, and more. Whether you're an event manager looking for a smart and simple task list or a marketing team using the Kanban system or a programmer working with sprints, MeisterTask's project boards seamlessly adapt to your team's workflow while its smart automation feature ensures your team can work consistently and efficiently.Starting Price: $8.25 per user per month -
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Jira
Atlassian
Jira is the only project management tool you need to plan and track work across every team. Jira by Atlassian is the #1 software development tool for teams planning and building great products. Trusted by thousands of teams, Jira offers access to a wide range of tools for planning, tracking, and releasing world-class software, capturing and organizing issues, assigning work, and following team activity. It also integrates with leading developer tools for end-to-end traceability. From short projects, to large cross-functional programs, Jira helps break big ideas down into achievable steps. Organize work, create milestones, map dependencies and more. Link work to goals so everyone can see how their work contributes to company objectives and stay aligned to what’s important. Your next move, suggested by AI. Atlassian Intelligence takes your big ideas and automatically suggests the tasks to help get it done.Starting Price: Free -
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Teamwork.com
Teamwork.com
Teamwork.com is an AI-powered professional services automation platform that helps teams manage projects, resources, and financials in one place. The platform is built for client work, giving businesses visibility into profitability, utilization, budgets, billable hours, workloads, and project delivery. Teamwork.com supports resource management, project management, financial tracking, client communication, approvals, reporting, dashboards, templates, and integrations. TeamworkAI helps teams turn updates into tasks, find information with smart filtering, manage resources, and integrate with models such as Claude and ChatGPT. The platform includes security controls such as SOC 2 Type 2 certification and private data protections that prevent customer data from being used to train third-party models.Starting Price: $9.99/user/month -
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eResource Scheduler Cloud (eRS Cloud)
Enbraun Technologies
eResource Scheduler (eRS) is an enterprise resource management & scheduling software built to cut chaos clean. Whether managing 50 resources or 5000, eRS gives real-time visibility into capacity, availability, schedule, actuals (timesheets) & financials, no messy spreadsheets required. Plans stay fast and friction-free with drag-and-drop scheduling, resource requests & semi-auto scheduling. Actuals flow from schedules into timesheets, giving immediate planned vs. actuals insight. Heatmaps flag bottlenecks before they burn, capacity planning reports forecast demand & financials track costs, revenue, and profit. Management reports turn data into decisions, user access rights keep control tight, and integrations tie in seamlessly with your go-to platforms. The eRS mobile app enables teams to view schedules, enter and approve timesheets, and receive real-time updates anytime, anywhere. Trusted across industries, eRS gives visibility into the dollar impact of every allocation.Starting Price: $5/monthly/resource -
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GoodDay
GoodDay Work
GoodDay is a modern work management platform that brings together the best tools for high-level planning, project and product management, task organization and productivity growth based on transparency, agility, and motivation. At any time, see your overall workload, know what to work on next, understand current priorities, and be able to easily re-organize work when the business goals change. We have created a platform that will replace 15+ separate applications your team may have to use today. With rich functionality and with all data connected, you will finally be able to manage work effectively. Boost your team's collaboration and create true transparency with Action Required powering your communication. GoodDay comes with out-of-the-box support for all modern PM methodologies including Waterfall, Scrum, Kanban, and more.Starting Price: $5 per month -
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Quire
Potix Corporation
Breaking projects into smaller, bite-sized tasks is critical for successful project management. Quire is built for this key activity and arguably the best solution for businesses that struggle with taking big goals and both making them smaller and managing all these little tasks. Three main view mods in Quire include Task List view, Kanban view and Timeline view enable you to work smarter and inspire you to achieve higher milestones.Starting Price: $0 -
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Freelo
Freelo
Freelo is an online application to organize workflow and communicate with team members or clients. Thanks to Freelo everyone knows what to do, when is the deadline and where to look up the information. There is plenty of project management softwares already, that's for sure. What is special about Freelo? It can take care of the financial side of the projects, you can report time and money spent on every task via user-friendly time tracking. That is related to the pre-set budget of the project so you can quickly control whether you overdraw it. Add-ons such as labels, synchronized calendar, project templates Mind Map, mobile app or reliable customer support are a matter of course.Starting Price: €80/month -
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Birdview PSA
Logic Software
Birdview PSA provides professional services organizations with a single source of truth. The result is better visibility at all stages of the service delivery lifecycle, enabling data-driven decisions, collaboration and increased synchronization at crucial handoff points. Birdview PSA offers deep project management functionality along with resource optimization, project accounting and a powerful set of tools for monitoring and optimizing at both the project and portfolio level. With Birdview PSA, services organizations can enjoy rich functionality without the usual trade-off of a months-long onboarding process and without compromising their budget. This is made possible by a more intuitive user interface and seamless integration with CRMs, ERPs and thousands of other applications.Starting Price: $13.50/month/user -
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Paymo
Paymo
Paymo is a work management software that helps small/medium businesses and teams manage their projects, track time, and create invoices. With all these features in one app, there's no need to use and pay for other software. This way you can manage all your work in one place, from start to finish.Starting Price: $8.95/month/user -
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Fibery
Fibery
Build your own workspace. Create connected tools that adapt and grow with your company. No coding. Your company changes. Existing tools are always behind, and you have to migrate to new tools. This is a painful and time consuming process. Fibery adapts and grows with your company. A work management platform that replaces many tools inside your company and embraces changes. Create a custom app in minutes. Fibery provides freedom for curious lego-lovers. Create apps with types, formulas, action buttons and views. Connect apps to build a single workspace for all roles in your company. Visualize processes with Tables, Boards, Timelines, Charts & Canvases. Track everything in a single space. Write, plan, track, connect and collaborate to get things done in one workspace. Organize work as you wish, without constraints. Mix Documents, Boards and Charts. Collaborate in docs in real time. Comment, mention, create new entities from text.Starting Price: $15 per user per month -
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Planyway
Planyway
Planyway is an all-in-one team planner, calendar, and timeline for Trello and Jira to visualize workload and simplify resource planning process and weekly scheduling, in particular. Planyway's core features: ☞ Integration with Google Calendar, Outlook, Apple Calendar, etc. ☞ Multi-project management ☞ Recurring cards ☞ Checklists/Subtasks ☞ Dependencies ☞ Milestones ☞ Time tracking ☞ Reports ☞ Excel, CSV export ☞ Reminders and notificationsStarting Price: $5 per month -
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Jira Work Management
Atlassian
Business project management software. See all project information at a glance with Jira Work Management (formerly Jira Core). Manage your projects and keep your team organized. Managing projects and tasks in Jira Work Management starts with a workflow. Workflows define your process and enable your team to track tasks. Jira Work Management Cloud instances also have boards that allow you to visualize your workflows and drag and drop tasks from to-do to done. Currently available in cloud offering only. Task management is easier with statuses, comments, and attachments in one place. Everyone knows a project's details at a glance without having to email or set up a meeting. Plus, with notifications you'll know when your attention is needed. How many tasks are still in progress? Which team member has too much on their plate? Using Jira Work Management, you can follow the status of your team's projects in different ways: with a quick overview, customized dashboards, and more.Starting Price: $5 per user per month -
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ITM Platform
ITM Platform
ITM Platform is the Project Portfolio Management software that bridges the gap between strategy and project management. With a mere two-week integration and an easy learning curve, you and your team members will be fully operational fast, giving you the project and work management tools you need to align your portfolio with the overall business strategy. ITM Platform offers robust control over the economics (costs and revenue) at portfolio, program, project, and task levels. Manage agile and waterfall projects, prioritize what’s best for your business, and use real-time information to report progress companywide.Starting Price: $24/month/user -
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ConceptDraw PROJECT
Computer Systems Odessa
This tool offers a set of features as following: task and resource management, time and cost tracking, reporting, change control along with data visualization. Multiproject Dashboard makes it possible to manage multiple projects from a single file. So, feel free to successfully plan and execute your projects.Starting Price: $299.00/one-time/user -
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Sinnaps
Sinnaps
Sinnaps is the first intelligent project manager; easy to use, it can simplify complex projects and plan your team work automatically based on your needs. Its exclusive technology employs a powerful rendering engine based on PERT (Project Evaluation and Review Techniques) and CPM (Critical Path Method) algorithms which help optimise project management and provide guidance for the decision-making process. Featured Sinnaps services: interactive planning; risk prediction and management; resource optimisation; and expectation management.Starting Price: $9 -
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Rodeo
Rodeo Software
Rodeo is an all-in-one project management tool that includes smart planning, clean budgets, and simple invoicing features to give small to mid-size businesses a framework for success. The platform is designed to eliminate scattered workflows for a complete 360 view of your projects and timelines. With just a few clicks, project managers can transform budgets into planning and turn tasks into time activities. Budgets can be split into phases or time activities based on each project requirement, allowing you to create and send estimates and invoices directly from the platform — and can also integrate with Quickbooks. When assigning tasks, you have the ability to select team members by skill and especially too and Rodeo's built-in time tracking feature allows users to log the hours they've spent on each task to help projects stay on track. When it comes to reporting, Rodeo offers real-time, interactive insights that allow project managers and administrators the power to visualizeStarting Price: $29.99/month/user -
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Stafiz
Stafiz
Stafiz is a cloud software that allows you to manage service activities, manage staffing and team planning, and invoice projects. Enter your needs: skills, experience, functions, dates: Stafiz automatically indicates the profiles and ranks them according to their suitability. Taking into account all activities in the schedules: customer projects, internal projects, absences in the schedules. Look for the right profiles among your employees, your subcontractors and your candidate pool. A single software to simplify business management and forecasting. Data is more reliable and available in real time, visibility is increased tenfold. Anticipate the capacity of your teams and follow the utilization rate forecasts. Monitor financial forecasts and project progress in real time. Improve profitability by tracking your margins. Identify opportunities and profile needs. Integrate opportunities into the forecast. Search profiles by role, skills and experience. Load and assignment management.Starting Price: $11 per month -
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SQUAVA
Squava
SQUAVA is a simple, all-in-one, time tracking, project management, invoicing, accounting, and forecasting software for your professional service firm. It brings all your critical business day-to-day operations into one online, out-of-the-box software. SQUAVA's smart workflows and features expedite the daily tasks so you can focus on critical efforts which build your business and make you money. Real-time backlog reporting and project profitability intelligence will help you answer tough questions like – do I need to hire, when should I hire, do I have enough work, and which jobs make money. Our single, simple pricing plan scales with your business and easily pays for itself with the time and money you’ll save. We also onboard and train our customers for free to eliminate any up-front costs and you pay month-to-month, just like your cash flows. SQUAVA is the software you've been looking for to run your firm... It's amazing!Starting Price: $40/user/month -
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Project.co
Project.co
When communication, files, and project assets are spread across multiple tools things go missing, nobody has all the information, and projects can be difficult. When work happens in one place you have a single source of truth with all communication, tasks & files available to everyone. Projects run smoothly! Create a project for anything; internal meetings, marketing campaigns, client projects, office parties, etc. Then add the right people and tools for the job. Your project team has visibility of everything so nothing gets lost and the project runs smoothly! In many project management tools inviting and working with clients is an afterthought. Not in Project.co. We believe that inviting your clients to collaborate with you is where the real magic happens. Add the right tools to every project. Choose from our core tools such as discussion, tasks, files, payments, time, and notes. Or embed the other tools you use so you have everything in one place for everybody to see.Starting Price: $10 per month -
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Allex
allex PROJECTS
Allex.ai, a platform for projects, tasks, and resources, bridges the gap between projects and people. This multi-project platform enhances collaboration for teams of any size by integrating task management with robust project and resource planning features. With an open API, Allex.ai integrates seamlessly into existing IT systems, becoming operational in less than an hour and accessible to all employees. Intelligent algorithms identify bottlenecks and optimize capacity distribution, ensuring timely project completion. The platform improves communication through efficient handling of projects, resources, and tasks. It offers real-time insights and automated planning, achieving goals faster and more accurately. By displaying all projects in one place with detailed schedules and dependencies, it maximizes productivity by avoiding bottlenecks. Its intuitive interface suits all employees, while advanced planning functions automate task distribution and adjust plans dynamically. -
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RoboHead
Aquent
RoboHead is a project management solution for in-house marketing and creative groups to manage their people, projects, deadlines, and creative deliverable. Manage your projects from start to finish with customizable job request forms, visual resource management charts, online creative feedback and approvals (with familiar creative annotation tools), digital asset management, and robust reporting. Benefits of RoboHead: 1. Quickly know the health of your department with high-level views into the overall status of your team's work for each project. 2. Speed up the creative process and reduce delays by ensuring you have all the information required to kick-off a project. 3. Optimize schedules and workload by aligning the right team members with the right tasks. 4. Manage and prioritize everything from your team's priorities to your own personal to-do list and project hours. 5.Don't let any detail fall through the cracks by collaborating with your team and clients in one spot.
