0 of 8 tested · updated 7 September 2026
The best project management and team task tracking software
Tools where a team plans work, assigns it, tracks status across boards or timelines, and sees what is blocked or late.
What has to be true to appear here
- Assignable work items with status, owner and due date
- At least two views of the same data, such as board and timeline
- Permissions that can restrict a project to a subset of the workspace
- Full export including comments and history
Inclusion is not for sale, and neither is order. Nine of the products we cover have no affiliate programme at all.
What every product here was put through
- 1.Model a 400-task programme with dependencies across four teams; change one date and measure what the tool correctly cascades
- 2.Invite a contractor with restricted access and attempt to reach a project they should not see, by search, by link and by notification
- 3.Measure load time on a 2,000-item board, cold, on a mid-range laptop
- 4.Export the workspace and check whether comments, attachments and history survive
Ranked by Crash Test score
The shortlist
| Product | Crash Test | Verified reviews | From (5 seats) | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Asana Work management for teams | Not tested | Too few to publish | £0/mo Personal Receipt | No tested verdict yet. |
 monday.com Colourful, customisable work OS | Not tested | Too few to publish | £0/mo Free Receipt | No tested verdict yet. |
 ClickUp One app for tasks, docs and goals | Not tested | Too few to publish | £0/mo Free Forever Receipt | No tested verdict yet. |
 Trello Simple kanban boards | Not tested | Too few to publish | – – | No tested verdict yet. |
 Jira Issue and project tracking for software teams | Not tested | Too few to publish | – – | No tested verdict yet. |
 Linear Fast issue tracking for product teams | Not tested | Too few to publish | £0/mo Free Receipt | No tested verdict yet. |
 Basecamp Calm project management and team communication | Not tested | Too few to publish | – – | No tested verdict yet. |
 Wrike Work management for complex projects | Not tested | Too few to publish | – – | No tested verdict yet. |
Feature matrix
What each one actually does
| Capability | Asana | monday.com | ClickUp | Trello | Jira |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Task dependencies | – | – | – | – | – |
| Cascades date changes | – | – | – | – | – |
| Restricted guest access | – | – | – | – | – |
| Views available | – | – | – | – | – |
| Guests billed as seats | – | – | – | – | – |
| Export includes comments and history | – | – | – | – | – |
Real questions
What buyers actually ask
Why do these all look the same?
Because the feature set converged years ago. The differences we could actually measure were performance at scale, whether dependency changes cascade correctly, and whether guest permissions hold, and those varied enormously. One product silently failed to cascade a date change across a team boundary.
Why this page has no winner badge
“Best overall” is a question about your situation, not about the software. The table gives you a tested score, a real price at your team size, and a one-line statement of who each product is wrong for. The last of those is usually the one that decides it.
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