Basecamp vs. monday.com

Basecamp

1,284 Reviews and Ratings

monday.com

4,830 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Basecamp	Score8.2 out of 10	N/A	Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool. Basecamp offers features standard to project management platforms, as well as mobile accessibility, unlimited users, and 3rd party integrations. Basecamp is priced by space requirements and concurrent projects.	$15 per month per user
monday.com	Score8.6 out of 10	Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)	monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.	$36 per month (3 seats)

Pricing

Basecamp

monday.com

Basecamp Plus: $15
per month per user
Basecamp Pro Unlimited: $299
per month (billed annually)
Basecamp Free: Free
Limited Capabilities

Basic: $12
per month per user
Standard: $14
per month per user
Pro: $24
per month per user
Enterprise: Contact Sales
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Pricing Offerings
Basecamp	monday.com
Free Trial
Yes	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	Yes

No setup fee

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Basecamp	monday.com
Considered Both Products	37 Signals Verified User Chose Basecamp We found that Basecamp worked better for our needs than these competitors. ML is a bit slow for our purposes, and it doesn't handle images/video in as nice of a way. InVision could potentially work alright for our needs but would require too many different screenshots being … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Basecamp We moved from Basecamp to monday.com. Monday is much better suited to an environment where most projects are similar to other projects you are currently working on or have already completed. Monday isn't as "social" or as "community building" as Basecamp, but we've always used S… Incentivized Helpful? Jared DeLong Onboarding & Services Manager in Customer Service at Kindful (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose Basecamp Basecamp is probably towards the bottom of the totem pole here based on what our needs were. Trello lacks reporting as well, but there's much more customization with Trello. Asana has more reporting and integration capabilities. monday.com is my favorite so far. The amount of … Incentivized Helpful? Nathan Sichilongo Regional Manager in Marketing at Dotcom Zambia (Consumer Services, 11-50 employees) Chose Basecamp JIRA is a project management tool for IT developers built on the Agile principle, while Trello is built on a board style methodology. monday is a grid style project management tool that works great for visual project management. Basecamp on the other hand is all about team … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Basecamp Basecamp is a feature-rich and user-friendly platform that outpaces other solutions we've explored. The vast number of integrations available, as well as the years of dedicated developers as well as the natively available mobile apps, really make Basecamp a leader in this … Incentivized Helpful? Andrea Hester Director Of Operations at Clearfire, Inc. (Internet, 1-10 employees) Chose Basecamp Basecamp is the best application we've found for our team to interface with external clients. It makes project management simple, and allows our clients visibility into their projects, which in turn builds trust, fosters open communication, and improves customer satisfaction. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Basecamp Trello is less expensive and the free version works pretty well. For the paid version, Trello is also a really great tool. Overall, I do like Basecamp better. It's a more simple layout and structure to the software. I like the communication threads better on Basecamp. Trello … Incentivized Helpful? Robert Ross Director of Corporate Infrastructure in Information Technology at Visual Lease (Real Estate, 501-1000 employees) Chose Basecamp [Basecamp is] simpler to use less ramp-up. It's cheaper per user and allows for a better mobile experience. Incentivized Helpful? Jason Vance Owner in Marketing at Red Mill Creative Inc. (Marketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose Basecamp There is a simplicity that basecamp offers where most other project management systems seem to miss. They've worked hard at keeping the right things in place and not adding so many of the extra features that just get in the way of getting work done. The thing I liked most … Incentivized Helpful? Tanya Sloan Director of Philanthropy in Sales at Children's Cancer Association (Non-profit Organization Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Basecamp We selected Basecamp for the low cost of entry for the org and the number of users who had previous experience on Basecamp. We ultimately will be transitioning to another project management tool that includes relational decision capability and Gantt chart capacity. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Basecamp Comparatively, Basecamp has been found to be the easiest to use and onboard new users. Additionally the cost model for our organisation is much lower on Basecamp compared to the competition. Other products are more aligned with Agile practices but for most of our operational … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Basecamp Basecamp seemed to be more user-friendly compared to the others I've previously used. It is really easy to use and doesn't require intensive training for its users. Incentivized Helpful? Kelly Reumann Lead Graphic Design Specialist/ Social Media Marketer in Marketing at CyberCartel International Inc. (Retail, 51-200 employees) Chose Basecamp Basecamp is a similar type of software but is on a totally different playing field than Monday. Basecamp is definitely a lot more bare bones, it is a task tracking software and that is all. Basecamp is more of a "To Do" list where as Monday is a full-on task scheduling, time … Incentivized Helpful? Horacio Carcamo Product Development Asst. in Marketing at Myron Manufacturing (Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees) Chose Basecamp Haven't tried any other software or platform other than Basecamp, but before the purchase process we reviewed other products and they seem very similar and the decision that got us to buy Basecamp was because of the price and the understanding of the web page related to the … Incentivized Helpful?	monday.com Verified User Chose monday.com Jira can be complicated to setup, but offers the most versatility. Basecamp is simple to use; however, doesn't provide everything a team or many teams may need. Monday fits in the middle and is easy to use and versatile. Incentivized Helpful? Adam Montgomery Energy Efficiency Consultant in Engineering at SEMCO (Renewables & Environment, 51-200 employees) Chose monday.com Basecamp has some very nice project management features but Monday.com really focuses on task management and keeping teams accountable/organized. We fell in love with the visual task boards that Monday.com offers and that's why we chose to go with it. We also really enjoyed … Incentivized Helpful? Michelle Braun Curriculum Manager in Human Resources at Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP (Accounting, 1001-5000 employees) Chose monday.com I've used Basecamp, Central Desktop & SharePoint in the past. And they're fine. But this had a nicer user-interface and a free trial period to let me use it and determine if it could be useable by the team. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose monday.com Basecamp was awful to use and clunky. I still use Insightly. Incentivized Helpful? Cassie Criminger Youth Ministries Art Director at Awana ® (Religious Institutions, 51-200 employees) Chose monday.com With both Asana and Basecamp, unless you are the organizer, it is very hard to control how much information you are receiving. That is one reason we chose dapulse because each specific user has more control over how involved they want to be. Asana and Basecamp are also both set … Incentivized Helpful? Joey Todd Family Pastor at Renovation Church (Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees) Chose monday.com Part of our organization is still using Basecamp. I am leading my team with Dapulse, because its visual platform and capacity to measure progress across the boards helps me lead our team better. Basecamp has great features, but Dapulse is helping me visualize. As a creative … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose monday.com monday.com is far superior to Microsoft Planner and Basecamp, and arguably superior to Trello and Slack Lists as well. Asana (for work management and Zendesk (for request management) put it to shame. My main monday-using client selected it primarily because of its slightly … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose monday.com The best aspect of monday.com in my opinion is the Visual Based Data Representation(s) Incentivized Helpful? Josh Edney Executive Pastor in Corporate at Bridge Church (Religious Institutions, 1-10 employees) Chose monday.com Although monday.com costs more than the other services, it can handle more as a platform. The functions, features, integrations, and automations allow you to do so much more than, than just keeping track of project & task deadlines. Incentivized Helpful? Brian Chung Co-Founder in Marketing at Alabaster Co (Retail, 1-10 employees) Chose monday.com Monday.com is definitely a good platform—it has the things you need if someone is looking for a project management software, but we found Airtable and Google Sheets as fine alternatives to what we wanted at a lower price. Teamwork was also good and they had a free version for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose monday.com We have tried many other project management programs. In the end, we were able to customize Monday more easily to fit our team's needs and handle more things in Monday than the others. It's nice to have everything in one place (campaign planning, team task lists, upcoming … Incentivized Helpful? Joshua VanMeter Digital Marketing Director in Marketing at Max Effect Marketing (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees) Chose monday.com Monday.com has been the first task management/project management tool we have assessed that met every need our digital agency requires. And to top it all off, we've had an amazing time with the customer support team, who have been helpful and timely in their assistance. We … Incentivized Helpful? Joseph Madere Learning Management System Analyst -- CornerstoneOnDemand in Human Resources at H&E Equipment Services, Inc. (Machinery, 1001-5000 employees) Chose monday.com We selected monday for the user interface. The idea we had in mind for how we wanted to set up updates and workflows just aligned perfectly well with that monday offered. we had to create accounts for everyone but once the setup/homework was complete the workflows fell into … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose monday.com Monday.com is overall a better program that is much more visually appealing. It's easy to use as well and couldn't see using another program at this point. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose monday.com Monday is much easier to use and learn. So far everyone has figured it out just by using it or after watching a brief training video. Most other tools have parts that we wouldn't use or be just too complicated for the average user. We feel with Mondayulse we are not struggling … Incentivized Helpful? Cait Grady Sales and Marketing Coordinator at Redrow Homes (Construction, 1001-5000 employees) Chose monday.com dapulse is much more organised in terms of the platform functionality and general layout. It's easier to use and easier to use as a group tool and central hub for our team. Incentivized Helpful? Andy Ryan Video Marketing Strategist \| Speaker \| Consultant in Marketing at S A Ryan LLC (Marketing and Advertising, 1-10 employees) Chose monday.com Dapulse is great for team checklists and assigning tasks. It is a great way to see everything in one spot. I like that I don't have to sign out and into another system to see other projects. It gives me a good look at what needs to be done and by whom. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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Features

Basecamp

monday.com

Comparison of Project Management features of Basecamp and monday.com
Feature	Basecamp 7.9 121 Ratings	monday.com 9.0 2230 Ratings
Task Management	9.4120 Ratings	9.52216 Ratings
Resource Management	8.4101 Ratings	9.31893 Ratings
Gantt Charts	2.041 Ratings	8.41294 Ratings
Scheduling	6.996 Ratings	8.71852 Ratings
Workflow Automation	7.071 Ratings	9.71923 Ratings
Team Collaboration	10.0120 Ratings	9.42173 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology	6.950 Ratings	8.81153 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology	6.946 Ratings	7.01 Ratings
Document Management	9.7112 Ratings	8.51792 Ratings
Email integration	7.798 Ratings	9.41596 Ratings
Mobile Access	9.698 Ratings	8.61772 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking	10.046 Ratings	9.11037 Ratings
Change request and Case Management	8.956 Ratings	9.71151 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management	7.040 Ratings	9.21024 Ratings

Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Basecamp and monday.com
Feature	Basecamp 6.8 41 Ratings	monday.com 9.9 1001 Ratings
Quotes/estimates	8.329 Ratings	9.9670 Ratings
Invoicing	6.925 Ratings	00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting	8.034 Ratings	9.9884 Ratings
Integration with accounting software	4.028 Ratings	9.8498 Ratings

User Ratings
	Basecamp	monday.com
Likelihood to Recommend	9.3 (147 ratings)	9.1 (2235 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (26 ratings)	9.0 (31 ratings)
Usability	9.0 (17 ratings)	8.7 (2163 ratings)
Availability	10.0 (5 ratings)	8.2 (8 ratings)
Performance	7.3 (4 ratings)	8.6 (8 ratings)
Support Rating	8.8 (28 ratings)	9.5 (1883 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Online Training	5.0 (1 ratings)	9.1 (4 ratings)
Implementation Rating	7.7 (4 ratings)	9.1 (7 ratings)
Configurability	8.0 (1 ratings)	8.2 (6 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	6.9 (8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (6 ratings)