Project Management
Plan, track and ship work. Browse the 12 parent tools below — each has a dedicated page with up to 10 indie or bootstrapped alternatives, plus pricing, founders, and where applicable, open-source flags.
Project management software is where productivity goes to die. Jira is the enterprise default that nobody likes; Asana and Monday have grown into per-seat machines. Linear changed the conversation by treating speed as a feature — and a generation of indie PMs (Height, Tability, Plane) have built on that thesis. The right tool for a five-person team is almost never the right tool at fifty.
What to look for
- Keyboard-first navigation — if you can't drive it without a mouse, your team won't
- GitHub/GitLab two-way sync without webhooks you maintain
- Sprint cycles that auto-roll, not a manual event each Friday
- API + webhook coverage for everything in the UI
Common gotchas
- Per-seat pricing that bills external contractors at the same rate as engineers
- Custom fields locked behind a higher tier
- Read-only access counted as a paid seat
Editor's pick
Linear is the obvious one and worth the price for most product teams. Plane is the open-source pick. Height is the AI-native dark horse.
Top tools in Project Management
← All categoriesLinear
Issue tracking the world has finally been waiting for.
Asana
Work management for teams and projects.
Trello
Visual kanban boards.
Monday.com
Work OS with colourful boards.
ClickUp
One app to replace them all.
Atlassian (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket)
Enterprise suite for issue tracking, docs and code.
Basecamp
Project management + team collaboration.
Plaky
Free project management.
Teamwork
PM for client services + agencies.
Jira
Atlassian's issue tracker for software teams.
Wrike
Enterprise work management.
Airfocus
Product roadmaps + prioritisation.