# 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.

Last reviewed 2026-09-07. Canonical page: https://launch500.com/best/project-management

## 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

## 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

## The shortlist

Ranked by Crash Test score. Untested products appear below tested ones regardless of community rating.

| Product    | Crash Test | Verified reviews | From (5 seats) | Best for |
| ---------- | ---------- | ---------------- | -------------- | -------- |
| Asana      | not tested | too few          | $0/mo          | -        |
| monday.com | not tested | too few          | $0/mo          | -        |
| ClickUp    | not tested | too few          | $0/mo          | -        |
| Trello     | not tested | too few          | sales-gated    | -        |
| Jira       | not tested | too few          | sales-gated    | -        |
| Linear     | not tested | too few          | $0/mo          | -        |
| Basecamp   | not tested | too few          | sales-gated    | -        |
| Wrike      | not tested | too few          | sales-gated    | -        |

## Verdicts

## Frequently asked questions

### 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.

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