Freedcamp

Avantages

The value proposition for the price was outstanding. Core desired features are included without a mandatory subscription at the highest level. Licensing is also based on role and flexible use. This keeps operational costs low .

Inconvénients

There is a lack of task dependencies/linking unless leveraging the highest edition if the product. Also, areas of the UX make performing bulk operations difficult (e x: mass assignment of status/priority/assignee)

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Avantages

Gantt Chart functionality and issue tracker. The widget page is great to see an overview of all tasks.

Inconvénients

The Gantt Chart functionality could be improved for shifting tasks around in a group, by drag and drop instead of a shift by x days.

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Avantages

The product is very easy to set up and start using. It has a rich set of features for managing tasks and tracking the state of projects and tasks. It's ability to create custom fields and filter views on them, as well as any of the built in fields, is particularly useful.

Inconvénients

In a few ways the interface requires more steps than should be necessary. For example, to edit a task requires clicking on the task, clicking the Edit button, making your changes, then clicking Save. I'd prefer to simply click (or double click) on a task to open it directly in Edit mode. In email exchanges with them they have told me they are working on revamping and streamlining the interface.

The documentation does not always adequately explain how features work. Consequently the learning curve is steeper than it should be, though certainly not onerous. And, their quick response times to requests for help and knowledgeable support staff offset this well.

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Avantages

I have been using Freedcamp for years now. I have worked with large advertising companies and marketing firms all while maintaining my own contract side-hustle. The large companies use sophisticated software like Basecamp which can take awhile to fully learn and can be confusing with multiple people interacting across departments.

For myself, i love Freedcamp because of its simplicity (based on my settings) and ability to quickly view open tasks and where my daily priorities are.

Inconvénients

Not much option for customization. Like having a dark theme. I have sensitive eyes and my Mac is all dark themed. So viewing FC for extended time tends to cause me to squint.

Also, it would be nice to be able to have an avatar/logo for each client (task) for a more visual experience.

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Avantages

The visual kanban organization of "tasks" as well as the cloud base access drew me in to using this software. I use this to manage customer queries for engineering requests under a single "project". I create ~250 new requests each year while continuing to close/service ~ 90 old requests that require revisions. Freedcamp allows me to add notes internal to each task as well as externally add visual subtasks for immediate daily status updates of the active engineering request tasks. The task kanbans get moved between three existing columns: NoProgress, InProgress and Completed for immediate status feedback.

Inconvénients

My use case has been adapted to the software organization limits to limit the data input overhead of assigning each engineering request as a "task" to each engineer to work on. The software is better organized to handle long term "projects" than my numerous engineering tasks. However, I have made it work within Freedcamp but I realize that my use case is not the typical project management scenario.

Avantages

Freedcamp is, to put it simply, AWESOME. I've tried so many project management software and freedcamp is by far my favorite. It is free, easy to use, intuitive for my clients, and full of so many great features!

These features include task lists, the ability to assign tasks to clients, due dates, item priority levels, reminders for upcoming deadlines, communication with clients, file management, & so much more.

I have more than 40 projects on the free version and it has made my jobs go so much more smoothly. My clients are happy and so am I!

The paid options are also great if you need a more robust project management software.

Inconvénients

The one feature I would love to have is the ability to create a project that has all the items I use for every client and duplicate that project for each new client. Right now I have to set up a new project each time. I believe this may be a feature of the paid version that I have not tested out yet!

Avantages

The customer service is amazing. They respond quickly and truly want to work with you to help you with your needs.
The software is customizable for different industries and needs, and the tutorials are easy to listen to and follow. We really like that you can also save important discussions within each project and attach files to each project you may need. It is a one stop shop that allows us to see what needs to be done and keep everything in one easy to access place. It also holds each member of the project accountable as you can assign various tasks to different people within the project.

Inconvénients

I wish the filters on the task page had more capabilities but again they have been working with me trying to help me get the functionality I need. The calendar feature is also a little hard to use for my needs but I am sure they will add more features as time goes on.

Avantages

Freedcamp is an incredible tool for keeping projects on track and ensuring deadlines are met. It allows you as a producer to worry less about remembering those notes you wrote down in a notebook, knowing that your project is being tracked.

Inconvénients

Freedcamp does not update as often as I would like. Software should constantly be changing to stay relevant with trends and industry needs.

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Avantages

It's a solid platform without any glitches and errors. It has many features but I personally like their bulk task creation, you can import a list from an excel file and create tasks in bulk, don't know of many PM tools that have this feature. It also many other 3rd party integrations and works seamlessly.

Inconvénients

There is a learnig curve and I feel like Freedcamp UI/UX isn't updated as per the current trends. There are so many things you can do with this tool but it's overwhelming.

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Avantages

I love the visualization of this product. I am
a very visual learner and I love being able to see everything color coded and laid out so nicely on a calendar so I can help myself get organized.

Inconvénients

I wish the calendar boxes were a little bigger because some of them get cut off and it's hard to see what they arr saying.

Avantages

- Lots of functionality even in the free version
- Organization by project and by group
- Ease of adding new members

Inconvénients

- Not enough link between tasks, discussions and the calendar, which means that we are sometimes a bit lost to find some discussions around projects.
- Attachments are in a separate section and should also be better integrated into the discussion tasks.
- Notification options (email, etc...) are not clear
- Interface a bit complicated for a new user

Avantages

I love Freedcamp. I've been trying different systems for ten years now, at least 7 and over the time there were always annoying issues with most of them Not so with Freedcamp. It's easy to use and has absolutely everything you can dream of besides the chat feature. We use discussions and wiki a lot.
It's super stable and has tons of space for files upload. The password sharing comes very handy too.
Overall it's a dream tool for me and I'm not looking for an alternative anymore.

Inconvénients

It could be a bit more intuitive. Sometimes I'm missing a chat feature.

Avantages

It's perfectly balanced, it's not so complicated and "heavy" as Jira, but more powerfull than Trello. Gives ability to quickly go thru tasks, create new ones, collaborate. Password manager is also quite usefull.

Inconvénients

The calendar could be better. This product lack space for creating docs, like Conflunce.

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Avantages

The whole package, friendly interface, with all the essential functionality and easy to implement

Inconvénients

The android app is too crude, could be further improved

Avantages

Beyond being easy to use, it has a lot of practical and useful features. In particular, the time tracker, wiki, password vault, and issue tracker to name a few.

I was able to simplify many of my processes by just using Freedcamp to manage large projects.

Since I pay for the Enterprise plan, I'm able to brand the portal, which is fantastic!

Inconvénients

I wish there was an automated way to create a new project from a template via Zapier. I reached out to support who mentioned that I may have to pay to add such a feature because it is not on the roadmap. We'll see what happens. It isn't a deal breaker, just would help improve my process.

Avantages

I've only been using Freedcamp for a few weeks, but I like it better than any other PM program I've used. Most are built for teams - and this one can certainly be used that way - but unlike the others, it works very, very well for a "solopreneur." I love that I can organize my work by client, but still get a holistic view of the work due for the days ahead.

I also like that it's so easy to use that adding tasks doesn't feel like a task unto itself. Freedcamp is fitting very nicely into my workflow. Another benefit: like Basecamp, it emails out a daily snapshot, in case you're like me and view your email on your phone before you get to your desk. It's nice to see what's ahead for the day before I sit down for the daily grind.

Honestly, this is so good, I can't believe it's free. And I've only scratched the surface of available features!

Inconvénients

I wish there was a setting that said I was on my own so I didn't have to remember to assign things to myself.

Avantages

Even as a free user, the Freedcamp team does not hesitate to provide me with support when I need it and even helps me to improve my processes with workarounds for features that are available in the paid product.

Inconvénients

I would like to have more ability to customize the system for my use, but I'm not one who can speak well to this as I have yet to get authorization to upgrade beyond the free version, so I know my functionality is limited.

Avantages

I've been using Freedcamp for a few simpler projects and it has everything you need:

- Gantt charts to get a bird's eye view of your project
- easy storage of passwords, access codes etc.
- define tasks and subtasks
- Create tasks either as a list or arrange them in a sticky like note fashion
- You can extend the app with addons you can get from a built-in App Store

Also it's great for collaborating with other members as it's very simple to invite external users to your projects to work together

Inconvénients

The interface is a bit old school for my taste and the task options are quite basic out of the box.

Being able to create invoices is a nice feature, but it's a bit cumbersome and unfortunately too basic for European law. Day to day features like reverse charge invoices between members of the EU are not possible to do because there doesn't seem to be any way to add text fields to invoices to include e.g. the customer's VAT number.

What's also lacking is a thorough right's management. E.g. you work together with a freelancer who can set the price he is charging you, but cannot see which price you put into a custom field he doesn't have access to.

Apart from that I'm quite happy about the software actually.

Avantages

- clear layout,
- ease of assigning dates, teammembers and priorities to taks,
- helpful reminders
- mobile app
- layered task help to organize the project
- intuitive to set up and use.

Inconvénients

- no second sorting parameter (sort by X then by Y). Unhiding completed tasks can lead to unsorted mess of a list.
- sorting by progress only sorts first task list in the project, the others don't sort.
- every task list features a large bar below to enter new taks. This takes to much screen real estate and prolongs the view of the project.

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Avantages

After a stroke at 56, I needed a solution to make sure I didn't miss important deadlines and tasks in my job and freelance work. Freedcamp is easy to use and fits my needs. I could easily expand it to include other people. The learning curve isn't steep, and I keep adding projects as needed so I know at any point what I need to accomplish. I love using Freedcamp and recommend it often.

Inconvénients

I know the paid version has additional functionality, but I'd like to add start and due dates for tasks and subtasks without the fee.

Avantages

It gives us a good way to structure some of our projects and store files which function as a reference point for a geographically diverse team, which is great. There are a lot of good features that have the potential to help us run our organisation better, too, which we are only just starting to explore - I am confident that there is a lot more Freedcamp can do for us if we let it!

Inconvénients

I have found it to not always be very intuitive to use. As a bit of a novice with this sort of software, setting up the right relationships for teams and team members is a bit fiddly. Some of the project structuring can also be a bit clunky. I have experienced issues with the Online Edit tool, too, which does not always seem to work.

Avantages

I only use the time tracking and export function of this software and it works like a charm.

Inconvénients

Since I only use time-tracking function it's very frustrating that every time I create a new project I have to manually disable all the ofter functions which I won't use.

Avantages

Could based, tasks, issues, discussions, wiki, ease of use, intuitive. Ease of use also for new users to start.

Inconvénients

Crm should be more mature, chat tool should be implemented soon, reporting in pdf. Some overview selection options in tasks would be nice.

Avantages

Lots of features to completely develop a projects from sun projects to milestones to tasks and time recording

Inconvénients

The dashboard could be a bit easier to navigate. I love the new feature of pinning most recent projects to top of dashboard

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Avantages

I've tested a lot of pm's in the last decade or so, lately from new kids on the block to stablished one's, and I can say, Freedcamp is THE best investment I made in my business.

When you open the tool, things just work, the flow just makes sense, and everything you need to manage a project is there. If you need more power, you can activate the add-ons, or if you have a simple project, you can deactivate them.

The bug-tracker is awesome, and it was a game changer for us, when you use it with the email in feature. It's possible to set an email per project, task, subtask or the bug tracker, and have everything within one dashboard.

Really awesome PM tool. My search is over!

Inconvénients

Nothing I can point, this tool really have everything we need.

Avantages

I'm a huge loyal fan of Freedcamp. When my business partner brought it up to me, I was all on board for something that was a mixture of Trello + Asana. I struggled with those platforms, but Freedcamp brought it all together and gave me the good stuff. I'm so thankful for how Freedcamp has helped our business grow. Upgrade...it is worth it!

Inconvénients

None as when I upgraded it gave me everything I needed and more! The support has been amazing as well with figuring out the little things!

Avantages

The interface of Freedcamp to convenient and easy to manage.

Inconvénients

Need to improve graphical color combination

Avantages

The kan an board feature of Freedcamp is great. What makes freedcamp unique is the way you can create a dashboard and get an overview of all your tickets in a single page.

Inconvénients

The fact that you can only have 3 columns on the kanban board, and the lack of we sockets, you need to refresh quite often when collaborating.

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Avantages

We manage complicated product on boarding projects with sometimes 50 tasks, hundreds of comments and documents that we need to keep organized. This is our preferred communication tool. You receive and email every time the project is updated and can assign tasks. You get daily recaps on each board. Currently managing 23 betas using this program.

Inconvénients

Learning how to work it was challenging for me (we had so many projects just finding them was hard even using the search tool) but I got the hang of it

Avantages

I originally started using Freedcamp because it was free and was equivalent to paid project management systems. I have not used any of the upgrades yet but open to exploring. I like that it allows me to add many projects and invite people to collaborate. I usually balance 10 projects at a time and it makes quick reviews easy.

Inconvénients

Over the years I find myself back and forth from Freedcamp to notebooks and paper calendars. I often find I would like the system to be a little more user friendly and get lost in "how do I get back to that page?" Maybe that will come with repetitive use. I am recently using it more, but still get hung up. BUT, I am grateful it is free and offers most of the same as a paid online system.
I wish the app offered more, sometimes I don't use the system because I am not at a computer and avoid using the app.
Maybe it is different, the analytical creators of software: everything linear. Creatives sometimes enjoy easy!

Avantages

Freedcamp offers a huge amount of features and functionality within it's software including time tracking, password lockers along with the hugely effective and simply project management platform. Given alot of the main features are available on the free version it's an invaluable tool for any business, whether just starting out or a small team on a tight budget!

Inconvénients

We had to stop using it as when enquiring about whether they were GDPR friendly they'd said at the time they were not going to be - might be a different story now.

Avantages

The only thing I liked it that the person who implemented it seemed to enjoy all the intricacies of the tool . I can imagine that computer science background was of help to this person. Otherwise, as a user I found this the worst software package I had to use in my entire professional life.

Inconvénients

3 years of struggle with each functionality of the tool - discussion threads, status, notifications etc. make it impossible to name one thing. I wonder whether there was any form of usability testing with new users ? I doubt it.
I conquered the tool each time I needed some response from colleagues badly however it was never easy and I gave up doing an additional e-mail round to be sure the message reached the addressee.

Avantages

The project management features and notifications. Best of all, it's free

Inconvénients

Can take a while for new features to be added. However it's free so can't complain

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Avantages

It has a lot of pros: adding links, uploading files, tagging workmates, alerts with e-mails, notifying, reminders, subdividing tasks.

Inconvénients

There is no way to subdivide the sub-tasks at the calendar and tagging those sub-tasks for different people. Sometimes the sub-tasks have different schedules and the post-production has dates out of the due date (such as a follow-up date for customers or contacts). It was not so users friendly at first to get used to, not so intuitive, but now we're getting more into it.

Avantages

I love the ease of assigning projects and recycling them for later uses. I also love the ease of communicating with my team via each task.

Inconvénients

I don't like how I can't share many files with my team due to the size.

Avantages

Very easy to get organized by projects, with their associated tasks lists, timers, and activity records. The timers are specially useful for billing. The collaborative aspects are also good, comparable to those of Basecamp.

Inconvénients

I have very rarely found a feature hard to find, but in such case support was very fast to answer.

Avantages

Freedcamp can do a lot! I use it for:

- managing tasks and projects
- housing my internal knowledge base (wiki)
- storing important files
- communicating with teammates

The sub-folders are great.

I'm looking forward to their tagging feature that they are planning on releasing this quarter.

Inconvénients

I would like it to let me convert a task into a wiki and keep all of the attached files with it. Right now, I would have to manually create a wiki page and re-upload everything, which is time consuming and so I haven't actually taking on this task.

I've yet to take advantage of their other features:

CRM - If this were integrated with 3rd parties, it would be immediately useful

Time tracking - I use a 3rd party so that I can keep track on a macro level, not down to the project or task level.

Passwords - Not sure how robust and secure this is.

Avantages

I love that the free option is extremely usable. We haven't had to pay for it because we mainly use it for time management on video projects we work on as a team. It's super easy to keep active projects upfront and archive older projects. I love that I can go back to projects from years ago to compare it to new projects. This makes my estimate process extremely easy.

Inconvénients

I would love to see the ability to record hours against a budgeted amount so that we can easily see which areas we still have hours left compared to the contract. For now, we have just implemented a prefix for each hourly input so that it is easy to export a document broken down and organized to send to the client if needed.

Avantages

It is very complete, because besides the normal tools of a free project tool like Gantt Chart and calendar, you can also manage milestones, discussions, a wiki tool, a wall and my favorite the issue tracker, that allows you to search and speficic task to modify or add information, I think that Freedcamp is one the best free option to work in projects.

Inconvénients

You need people very engage to work with you in this kind of app, because it demands a lot of time and responsability, and if you do not work with the right people you have to know that the app will not do the work for you, because it is only a help.

Avantages

what we really like on this kind of software is that we can have all the information related with the project in a single place... also the communication between us and the client becomes more fluid and this is really important for us.

Inconvénients

it could be great if we have a desktop app to work and to avoid having all the time to open the browser. We found that in some browsers (specially safari) some features don't work all the time... sometimes work, other no...

Avantages

You can just jump in and use it without any advanced computer skills and your data is regularly backed up. It's just so easy to get up and going immediately. You can run multiple projects at a time.

The other things I really like about Freedcamp is the speedy, knowledgeable and friendly help desk service, as well as the ability to post suggested improvements in a public forum that other users can comment and vote on. It's like being part of a development team all working to create the best programme possible.

Also, Freedcamp kindly sponsored our non-profit community event by giving us access to all the add-ons at no cost. Apart from producing a wonderful product, it demonstrates a social conscience that is a rarity today. We are extremely grateful to them for supporting us.

Inconvénients

I honestly can't think of a thing. It did everything we needed it to. I would recommend it to others in a heartbeat - particularly to small community groups that don't use project management software on a regular basis or have a large organisation behind them with lots of computer skills. This isn't to say it's not a complex and well-engineered product suitable for a wide range of organisations and businesses - simply that it's designed so that people with ALL levels of experience can use it.

If I had to make a comment on what I'd like to see with Freedcamp, it would be that it is more widely advertised online so that when people search for project management software, it's right there in your face and you don't have to go looking through lists of other, more complex and expensive options. :-)

Avantages

It allows me to instruct several staff members and track what they are doing, and the thread of our convos.

Inconvénients

It takes a bit of getting your head around using it. There are a few usability issues, but I use the free version and it suits my purposes brilliantly.

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Avantages

Incredible base set of features
So many integrations
Flexible and affordable plan options
Amazing Support

Inconvénients

there were a few problems I had early on, but they were fixed within a few updates.

Avantages

Easy to use! I used Freedcamp to create project templates, each with their own range of task lists, tasks, and subtasks. Love that I can put individual due dates on each task and subtask of the template, and then be able to create a new project and shift all due dates relative to a chosen date. Can have all tasks show up on Google Calendar with a handy integration, and can choose what filters apply to calendars. Simply awesome to use, would absolutely recommend!

Inconvénients

Nothing to complain about, love Freedcamp!

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Avantages

I love the "bulletin board" interface option. Love the drag-n-drop status updates. Love the way it manages teams, files, projects. Love the ability to categorize & group. Actually, I love almost everything about this project.

Inconvénients

There is NOTHING I don't like about this. It's like they crawled inside my head and designed the EXACT light project management tool I imagined.

Avantages

The ability to run multiple projects across diverse geographic locations and with different team members across multiple suppliers is critical to running any program of work. Freedcamp handles this very well and gives me back control over my very varied projects. With its excellent task visibility I can monitor the progress of my team members, enabling me to identify any road blocks and blast through them. It helps me know where I should be putting my focus, and improves my efficiency. It's why I run several different instances across my multiple businesses.

Inconvénients

Some of the interfaces and navigation can be a bit clunky (i.e. not intuitive), but then I am stretching the program to its limits.

Avantages

I like the ability to break up tasks per project with due dates.
The ability to and files and pictures is handy.
The task high priority and low priority helps me filter daily task overload.
I have tried a bunch of task management programs and this is my favorite.

Please try to keep it simple on the surface but have the details if you really need them.

Inconvénients

I was dreaming some may we could add a highlight on priority tasks a couple different colors.
Adding tasks on the phone app is a little bit of a stretch with the finger and hard to get to.

if i want to print out tasks for a project and give to some one that don't have a computer the print out is hard to understand and small font.

Avantages

I like the ease of use of this product, from creating tasks to tracking time it's all very easy. Another thing I like that others don't seem to adopt is the task views, I personally like the Kanban view which allows you to mark tasks as: No Progress, In Progress, and Completed. Lastly, adding new users is a breeze as well as assigning them new tasks once they are added.

Inconvénients

For my needs which is discussing tasks with team members and tracking time it suits me well. The only thing I might suggest is adding the ability to have another status for the Kanban view. Meaning the ability to add one such as "Needs Reviewed". I currently have great communication with team members but I'm sure this would help for bigger teams.