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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jan 11, 2026

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Basecamp
Ranking in Project Management Software
26th
Average Rating
7.6
Reviews Sentiment
6.6
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
monday.com
Ranking in Project Management Software
2nd
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.3
Number of Reviews
232
Ranking in other categories
CRM (5th), Project Portfolio Management (3rd), Marketing Management (4th), Opportunity Management (4th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of March 2026, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Basecamp is 1.3%, up from 0.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of monday.com is 4.2%, down from 6.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Project Management Software Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
monday.com4.2%
Basecamp1.3%
Other94.5%
Project Management Software
 

Featured Reviews

Abenazzer Tadesse - PeerSpot reviewer
Chief Operations Officer at BeOnline ICT
An easy-to-use project management solution with good stability and scalability
The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with only one button making it difficult for us to create teams or supply teams other than a project. Hence the solution could be more user-friendly. Additionally, some additional features need to be integrated so it'll be easy for other companies or project managers to manage software projects.
Shreyans Parekh - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist
Centralized workflows have boosted cross-team collaboration and made complex projects manageable
monday.com can continue to improve their AI capabilities. When comparing monday.com to several alternatives when I was evaluating a project and project management, product road mapping, and workflow management platform for us, I looked at competitors such as Asana, ClickUp, SmartSheet, Airtable, and Notion. In my opinion, competitors such as Airtable and SmartSheet, especially followed by Asana and ClickUp, have worked on their AI and generative AI roadmap to combine database functionality with a very user-friendly interface for knowledge management and project tracking, essentially combining both worlds. Their AI is more sophisticated than what monday.com has released thus far. They provide a cleaner task-focused workflow management platform and I think that monday.com can still improve on this core piece of their technology. I think monday.com could also seek to be more process-oriented and intuitive. Other alternatives such as Asana and SmartSheet offer that approach. There is a steeper learning curve to learn monday.com in my opinion compared to Airtable, Asana, and others because I have also used those tools and platforms at other organizations. There is a bit of a learning curve with new users on monday.com because it is not as streamlined as I have experienced with competitors such as SmartSheet or Airtable. The capability sets are great, however, you may need to be hand-held via a monday.com rep when you get started within your organization or view the library of tutorials that monday.com has available. You can also view them on YouTube and that will help you get started on monday.com.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The ease of use is valuable."
"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."
"The feature that I have found most valuable is the boards on Monday which allow for allocation, time tracking, and storing of important information."
"The ability to attach files to boards and truly make it collaborative is the most important aspect of the solution."
"Automation is by far the most valuable tool ever."
"The style and format are user-friendly, making it practical for our needs despite some network issues."
"I like the update feature. It's almost like you can replace email with it. You can communicate on a particular item within monday.com, and then you can see the history of who commented, when they commented, what they said, and the reply to what they said. It's much easier to follow up on a particular item than have a thousand emails going back and forth. In a big project, you can usually have a ton of emails. If you use monday.com as a communication tool, you can almost eliminate email and have better tracking on what was done, when it was done, and what was said about the items. That's probably my favorite feature."
"I especially like the dashboards where you can combine info from different boards into one."
"My favorite feature is time tracking."
"The sub-items have been incredibly helpful."
 

Cons

"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"In recent months, Monday.com has been down about once a week."
"The marketing notification emails from Monday.com are really poor and of little value to the user."
"Opening up a task and adding content/updates could be a little more organized visually."
"Load time and glitches do occur on the site."
"We'd like integration with SharePoint so that it becomes easier to find and share files stored in SharePoint."
"It would be great to have more options on the form for external use, and an easier exporting option for client answers (rather than copying and pasting from each section)."
"There are no missing features that I can think of."
"It would be ideal if, when you are assigned a task, to somehow link it with your calendar on Outlook or Gmail."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"I am using the tool's free version."
"It's quite expensive when it goes to the enterprise license. Other tools like Jira cost 5 a month, and then their enterprise license is 38 a month, which is quite expensive for what we can do. It's £500 for a tool on a large enterprise. I'd have hoped that enterprise costs go down, not up. The pro license is £14, and then everything else is much more expensive, which is another barrier for us to adopt because other comparable tools are much more affordable when you have such a high multiplier as well."
"I rate the tool's pricing a six out of ten."
"The price is reasonable for the number of users we have."
"I am using its free version."
"We tell others it's about $2200 for a ten-person plan and it can be adjusted; it's easy to scale."
"Fees are paid monthly per user."
"monday.com is pretty affordable. It's cheaper than Asana. There are four tiers, including a free version. The free version is fine if you don't have any complex projects. One of the most advanced plans is around $16 per month per user."
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
8%
Government
7%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Computer Software Company
7%
 

Company Size

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Company SizeCount
Small Business180
Midsize Enterprise26
Large Enterprise30
 

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Do you recommend Monday.com?
Monday.com is one of the best project management softwares available on the market. It lets you create and customize the tools you need to run every aspect of your work. I particularly favor it bec...
What needs improvement with monday.com?
The user experience of monday.com can be better, but this is true for any platform. It could be more user-friendly. From my perspective, it's how you handle the fields, but I'm not the one that's u...
What is your primary use case for monday.com?
Since January 2025, I have been working as a CEO, so I'm not doing a lot of hands-on tasks anymore, but I'm using lots of Google tools and monday.com, mainly. The Google tools I'm using include Goo...
 

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