ActiveCollab

Avantages

My team and I do really like the simplicity of the software. It helps us focus on doing the tasks rather than figuring out how to use the software correctly to assign tasks.

Inconvénients

- Unmaintained mobile apps, both iOS and Android versions.
- No function to duplicate tasks list.
- Zipping attachments from a task to be downloaded, takes forever.
- Bulk actions on tasks seem to need an improvement on UX so that it's more user friendly to use. Currently, we need to scroll up and down to choose the actions.
- On the Reports page for Tasks, every time we choose a Custom Report, the columns and "sort by" are always reset.
- As admin, I can't see the full list of other user's Activities. I can only see the last 5 or something.

I might be able to give some more feedback. Do let me know if it helps improve your product :)

Alternatives envisagées 

monday.com et Bitrix24

Pourquoi choisir ActiveCollab 

Lack of bulk actions feature

Logiciel antérieur 

Trello

Pourquoi passer à ActiveCollab

Pricing term and cost effectiveness

Avantages

For all intents and purposes, ActiveCollab is awesome at doing what it advertises it's doing - project and task management, with easy-to-use, uncomplicated and effective tools. And really, especially on the task level, it is great and will save you a lot of time and brain power.

Inconvénients

On the other hand, if you're the one to experiment with your software, look for ways to improve it in new and unexpected way, I hope you're not expecting a lot of success with ActiveCollab. It is a good piece of software, as long as you stay within its area of expertise. Otherwise, you're just stopped in tracks for the most of time, with little or no ways to go forward.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira

Avantages

I really appreciate the simplicity and the power behind the features it delivers. On the surface, it offers just a list of tasks me and my team manage throughout our design and development process, but under the hood it offers task dependencies, estimates, time tracking and many other cool things that make it deceptively powerful.

Inconvénients

Probably the speed of the app on some larger projects. It's lightning fast for everything small to medium, but on larger projects it can take a while to load everything.

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira, Teamwork.com et Asana

Pourquoi passer à ActiveCollab

Asana is a bit confusing to get into, and it can really get expensive really fast when you need more powerful features. Teamwork was probably our second pick, bit it can be all over the place, not as elegant as ActiveCollab. JIRA is just a beast and we don't need that much complexity (and power) for our everyday development.

Avantages

Web used Active Collab during several years in our servers. The database structure is very simple and allow us to create dashboards with user data.

Inconvénients

Lack of features like kanban and of user interface improvements during updates

Alternatives envisagées 

Redmine, Jira et Basecamp

Pourquoi choisir ActiveCollab 

Jira was so complicated and hard do mantain. I'm talking about 2009

Logiciel antérieur 

Redmine, Jira et Basecamp

Pourquoi passer à ActiveCollab

Price and simples maintenance

Avantages

My favorite tool in ActiveCollab is the task management feature. I can easily track users and comment on their task progress. I can also estimate the duration for each task and make various planning with the project goal in mind. Furthermore, I can also add attachments like images and documents from my desktop. The invoicing feature is also something I like as creating and tracking invoice is straightforward and simple.

Inconvénients

One of the drawback of ActiveCollab is the lack of integrations with other apps. In addition, there are a learning which new users need to overcome. However, after conquering the learning curve it should easy to use. Another dislike is the dashboard which is not so user friendly.

Avantages

Ease of use

Inconvénients

none, really

Avantages

Active Collab helps you to manage all your project very easily. Its a powerful, yet simple project management tool . It has user friendly interface which is the best part of this product.

Inconvénients

The reporting system is not that strong as compare to other tools.

Avantages

La facilità d'uso e l'intuitività delle principali funzionalità

Inconvénients

A volte servirebbe più complessità per gestire meglio i la visibilità delle informazioni condivise (o meno) col cliente

Alternatives envisagées 

Jira et Asana

Pourquoi passer à ActiveCollab

Prezzo e semplicità d'uso

Avantages

It was clean and easy to use. Onboarding to the tool was fairly straightforward.

Inconvénients

It left a lot to be desired. We had to use 5-7 different tools to manage website projects. Active Collab just didn't provide the functionality we needed to streamline project management.

Avantages

Time tracking was really usefull feature
Callendar, Invoice Manegement, File storage and many great features, necessary for business usage
Good integration with other tools

Inconvénients

Can be little bit difficult tu use for novice
Not so easy to use

Avantages

I have tried multiple task management software for our company, But anyhow I was not satisfied with other product because of no option to manage workload or time and invoice calculation or somehow workflow is difficult for non technical user to use.
Activ Collab has the most simple UI and Design. Only 1 or 2 days training will be sufficient for any users to understand it.
Workload segment is really simple and most important functionality it have.
And the support team is really great.

Most importantly - it have self hosted options which is utmost priority for us for data security and privacy and also we can reduce cost for our users.

Inconvénients

Android app needs improvement. It doesn't comes anywhere near to desktop web version.

Avantages

I like design, i think its clear and intuitive. They offer and focus on all basic stuff that you need for better project mngt.

Inconvénients

Personally I dont like that they are to not-determined, its more focus on wide range of business.

Avantages

I like the UI and the simplicity of use. Overall it is a great and intuitive tool. I think that also the invoicing system is not bad but I'm not using it.

Inconvénients

I manage several companies, each company manage more than one project. Would be nice add a gerarchy for Companies > Projects > Tasks. At the moment Active collab doesn't manage this feature.

And another feature that I'd like to see that is missing, and for me would be nice, add a logo for each project card.

Avantages

Easy of use, all in one place, we like invoices a lot!

Inconvénients

Missing sprint planing option, a lot!! :) we now use scrumdo.com for sprintplaning :( would be coll to have such functionality inside activecollab. this will make activecollab bes projectmanagement tool out there!

Avantages

This is a super user friendly tool that we selected based on how easy it would be for our less technical clients to use. (We didn't want a huge learning curve after switching from Basecamp).

Inconvénients

Sub-tasks can't have any details attached to them at all, and you can't close out dupes easily (you can only mark them as duplicate, and I don't see how that's helpful). If you have tasks that are dependent or related, you can't batch them up.

Avantages

Simple user interface and great customer support.

Inconvénients

I love ActiveCollab app. It's fast and easy to use - not much to dislike here.

Avantages

ActiveCollab is pretty straight forward for our needs of project management. The price is reasonable and updates are released on a frequent basis.

Inconvénients

The iOS app needs some update. They feel limited compared to the desktop app and the push notification didn't work.

Avantages

it is pretty simple for usage enabling you to easily organize your team and have a clear insight into status of all projects.

Inconvénients

user interface - design has been a little bit grayish. it would be nice if you could just highlight some parts with the other more vivid colour.

Avantages

Variety of functions. To-do and project management. Time tracking and invoicing and reports. For agenies, consultants and other service providers it is all very convenient. Plus it works seemed on Mac - even with an own desktop app and Mobile app.

Inconvénients

Export functions of graphs and reports can be improved. Role system is sometimes not flexible enough, but they always keep you updated on what is going to be improved next so I'm sure it's going to come soon.

Avantages

Very intuitive UI, boards are awesome and very complexed reports system.

Inconvénients

Sometimes it has technical issues at login screen (in Google Chrome)

Avantages

Easy view of tasks and milestones
Ganntt chart and its view
Email collaboration
Privacy and visibility settings

Inconvénients

For any new fresh email, it should create a task automatically and assign to that project's manager.

Avantages

ActiveCollab is not bloated with features. It works fast and looks nice.

After working with bloated all-in-one systems ActiveCollab is like a breath of fresh air.

New employees don't have any problems with onboarding.

Inconvénients

Sometimes Android app don't show task comments. That's it.

Avantages

Th e customizing possibilities and the 3 different views we can choose depending the team with whom we communicate

Inconvénients

The lack of link between tickets and the need to move ticket by ticket to have an updated time view.

Inconvénients

Need to imporove scroll options if thae task list is more than 20, it will be better to improve this section and moreover good

Avantages

Easy to use. Simple and efficient. It was easy to learn as quite straightforward layout.

Inconvénients

I don't care much for all the emails popping up everyday in my inbox. However, that might just be me not having change the settings. I will look into that.