Basecamp is a project management tool with built-in team chat and longform discussions to keep everything about projects together in one place. It’s built by a team that works remotely, so is designed to make collaboration simpler no matter where your team is located.
Basecamp projects are built around to-do lists and calendar events. Assign tasks to team members, check off work as it’s done, and keep a discussion going about the work with comments on tasks. Basecamp lets you manually visualize project progress with hill charts to estimate how much you’ve accomplished and how much more there’s left to do.
The rest of Basecamp is built around collaboration to brainstorm, plan, check in, and save decisions about the project. Each project has a dedicated Campfire team chat room to discuss the work, with direct chat to team members as well. You can then start longform discussions or share announcements on the message board, or schedule routine check-ins to ask your team to update progress, discuss what you’ve learned, and more.
Basecamp is popular for its simplified project management tools, and its pricing that charges one flat fee for unlimited projects and team members. It’s great for teams that have clearly defined individual tasks—but doesn't include features like kanban boards and Gantt charts that are popular in other project management apps.
Basecamp is a true all-in-one tool that brings together -
The platform utilizes in-app notifications as well as email to engage team members and client collaborators (email notifications can be customized).
The separation of Campfire chat (more casual team chat) and Message Board is a nice/clean way to organize topics and conversations. Something our experience with Slack (use of Threads) or Teams (no option) lacked.
Docs/Files - in theory makes sense and is a nice piece to add to the toolkit. However, in this world of "edit-collaboration", you'll still need something like Google Suite to create a streamlined workflow for your teams.
To-Do's is a solid and intuitive project management tool. Nothing too complicated, but also seems to hit all of the task needs.
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The way projects and tasks are organized. It's really oriented at feedback and team management.
There're numerous things I enjoy about Basecamp, but one thing that stands out for me is their un...
It doesn't constantly ping me like Slack does, but does the same 'job'.
Real solid attempt to make everything a coherent tool
The Mac app is really just a web-app. It's quite slow and not really usable when you are offline....
It's a bit slow and I hate the fact that you cant switch easily between different BC accounts. It...
The search isn't great.
Basecamp's invitation system is pretty frustrating, to be honest. In fact, it seems to be optimiz...
less intuitive than asana
Basecamp offers a flat fee $99 per month for businesses to use the system.
Basecamp 2 users and early adopters were given the opportunity to create a Basecamp 3 account and pay $79 per month for all features. This pricing has been grandfathered for those subscribers.
Basecamp Personal is available for free with a reduced feature set.
Initially, a 'Basecamp for Us' plan was available. This offered a reduced fee of $29 for businesses that wanted to use the software without client features. This has now been withdrawn.
It costs $99/mo for their base plan, but I'm paying $999/year for me and my contractors. You get the 20% discount by…
Our team stayed on our older Basecamp 2 plan instead of upgrading to the latest Basecamp, and saved $70/month from their…
Basecamp costs $99/month for their base plan—though you can save 20% with an annual contract.
Basecamp shows an overview of your project when you login, for a quick at-a-glance update.
Organize your projects with to-do lists that can be organized into sections, and map your team's progress on a Hill Chart.
Chat with your team about projects in Campfire chat, with one chat room per project, along with Pings to chat one-on-one with colleagues.
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