Airtable
Productivity
A relational database wearing a spreadsheet's interface.
Checked Aug 2026
Category
Productivity software
Docs, notes, project tracking and internal knowledge.
We currently cover 28 products classified primarily as productivity software, plus 37 more that cover it as a secondary capability. Prices below are the vendors' own published figures, checked in August 2026.
Compare productivity tools
| Product | Best for | Starting price | Free plan | Trial | API |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Airtable | Teams whose spreadsheet has outgrown itself | Free plan available; Team from $20 per seat/month billed annually | Yes | 14 days on Business | Yes |
| Asana | Cross-functional teams coordinating work across departments | Free for 2 users; Starter from $10.99 per user/month billed annually | Yes | 30 days on Starter and Advanced | Yes |
| Basecamp | Teams above about 20 people who want the bill to stop growing | Free for 1 project and 20 users; Pro $15 per user/month; Pro Unlimited $299/month flat | Yes | 30 days on Pro, 60 days on Pro Unlimited, no credit card required | Yes |
| Box | Regulated industries needing retention and classification | Free for individuals; Personal Pro $10/month for one user, or Business Starter $5 per user/month with a three-user minimum | Yes | 14 days | Yes |
| Cal.com | Organisations needing scheduling on their own infrastructure | Free forever for individuals; Teams $12 per user/month | Yes | 14 days | Yes |
| Calendly | Anyone booking meetings with people outside their organisation | Free plan available; Standard from $10 per seat/month | Yes | 14 days on Teams | Yes |
| ClickUp | Teams wanting to consolidate several tools into one subscription | Free Forever plan; Unlimited from $7 per user/month billed yearly | Yes | 14 days on Business | Yes |
| Coda | Internal tools that would otherwise be a spreadsheet and a form | Free; Pro $12 per Doc Maker/month billed annually | Yes | - | Yes |
| Confluence | Organisations already running Jira | Free for 10 users; Standard $5.42 per user/month at 300 users | Yes | 7 days | Yes |
| Discord | Communities, user groups and open-source projects | Free; Nitro Basic $2.99/month, Nitro $9.99/month | Yes | - | Yes |
| DocuSign | Sales teams closing contracts remotely | Personal from $132/year; Standard $360 per user/year | No | 30 days | Yes |
| Dropbox | Teams moving large files, video and design assets | Plus from $9.99/month for one user; team plans from $15 per user/month with a three-user minimum | Yes | 30 days on team plans | Yes |
| Google Workspace | Teams that live in a browser and collaborate in real time | From $7 per user/month (Business Starter) | No | 14 days on Business plans | Yes |
| Make | Branching workflows with conditions and multiple paths | Free with 1,000 credits/month; Core $9/month at 10,000 credits, billed annually | Yes | - | Yes |
| Microsoft 365 | Organisations standardised on Word, Excel and Outlook | From $7.00 per user/month (Business Basic, paid yearly) | No | 1 month on Business plans | Yes |
| Microsoft Teams | Organisations already paying for Microsoft 365 | Free tier available; Teams Essentials from $4.00 per user/month | Yes | 1 month on Microsoft 365 Business plans | Yes |
| Miro | Distributed teams running workshops and retrospectives | Free plan available; Starter from $8/month per member billed yearly | Yes | 14 days on Business | Yes |
| monday.com | Teams replacing shared spreadsheets with something structured | Free for 2 seats; Basic $9 per seat/month billed annually, with a three-seat minimum, so $27 a month at the smallest | Yes | 14 days | Yes |
| Notion | Internal wikis and company knowledge bases | Free; Plus from $10 per member/month | Yes | - | Yes |
| Obsidian | Personal knowledge management and research | Free for personal and commercial use; Sync $4 per user/month billed annually | Yes | - | No |
| Plane | Teams who want to own the tracker rather than rent it | Free to 12 users; Pro $6 per seat/month and Business $13, both billed annually | Yes | Two-week free trial on paid plans | Yes |
| Slack | Teams that want fast, well-organised internal communication | Free tier available; Pro from $7.25 per user/month billed annually | Yes | - | Yes |
| Smartsheet | Enterprises migrating critical processes off spreadsheets | Pro from $9 per member/month billed yearly | No | 30 days | Yes |
| Teamwork.com | Agencies and consultancies billing time against client budgets | Free for 5 users and 5 projects; Basics $9.99 per user/month and Accelerate $24.99, billed yearly | Yes | 14 days | Yes |
| Trello | Small teams tracking work without process overhead | Free for up to 10 collaborators; Standard from $5 per user/month | Yes | 14 days on Premium | Yes |
| Wrike | Marketing and professional-services teams that need proofing and request intake | Free tier; Team $10 per user/month and Business $25, both billed annually | Yes | 14 days, no credit card required | Yes |
| Zapier | Connecting SaaS tools that lack native integrations | Free plan with 100 tasks/month; Professional from $19.99/month | Yes | 14 days on paid features | Yes |
| Zoom | Meetings with clients, candidates and other external guests | Free tier available; Pro from $14.16 per user/month, billed annually | Yes | - | Yes |
Profiles
Asana
Productivity
Work management for teams that have outgrown a board but not hired a PM.
Checked Aug 2026
Basecamp
Productivity
Flat-fee project management - $299 a month for unlimited users, or $15 a user.
Checked Aug 2026
Box
Productivity
Content management for organisations where governance matters more than sync.
Checked Aug 2026
Cal.com
Productivity
Open-source scheduling you can host yourself.
Checked Aug 2026
Calendly
Productivity
The end of "does Tuesday at three work for you?"
Checked Aug 2026
ClickUp
Productivity
One app to replace them all, which is both the pitch and the risk.
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Coda
Productivity
Documents that behave like applications, now sold as Superhuman Docs.
Checked Aug 2026
Confluence
Productivity
The corporate wiki, and the place Jira tickets point to for context.
Checked Aug 2026
Discord
Productivity
Free voice and text communities, with a subscription that sells cosmetics.
Checked Aug 2026
DocuSign
Productivity
Electronic signatures, and the agreement workflow around them.
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Dropbox
Productivity
File sync that still works better than the suites that tried to replace it.
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Google Workspace
Productivity
Browser-first productivity suite built around Gmail, Drive and real-time documents.
Checked Aug 2026
Make
Productivity
Visual automation for workflows too branching to describe in a list.
Checked Aug 2026
Microsoft 365
Productivity
Cloud productivity suite bundling Office apps, email, storage and security.
Checked Aug 2026
Microsoft Teams
Productivity
Chat, meetings and calling built into the Microsoft 365 stack.
Checked Aug 2026
Miro
Productivity
The whiteboard that survived the end of the meeting room.
Checked Aug 2026
monday.com
Productivity
A colourful work OS you configure rather than adopt.
Checked Aug 2026
Notion
Productivity
Connected workspace combining docs, databases, wikis and project tracking.
Checked Aug 2026
Obsidian
Productivity
Markdown files on your own disk, with a graph on top.
Checked Aug 2026
Plane
Productivity
Open-source project management, free to 12 users and $6 a seat, or self-hosted under AGPL-3.0.
Checked Aug 2026
Slack
Productivity
Channel-based messaging that replaced internal email at a lot of companies.
Checked Aug 2026
Smartsheet
Productivity
Enterprise work management for organisations that think in spreadsheets.
Checked Aug 2026
Teamwork.com
Productivity
Client-work project management from $9.99 a user, with billable time and profitability built in.
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Trello
Productivity
Kanban boards simple enough that nobody needs training.
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Wrike
Productivity
Work management from $10 a user, sold in blocks of five seats and annual-only above Team.
Checked Aug 2026
Zapier
Productivity
The integration layer for software that was never designed to talk.
Checked Aug 2026
Zoom
Productivity
Video meetings that still work when the network does not.
Checked Aug 2026
Also covers productivity
These products are classified elsewhere but include meaningful productivity capability.
AirOps
SEO
Content operations automation for AI search, with no price on the pricing page.
Checked Aug 2026
Attio
Sales
A CRM built on your own data model, free for three seats and $35 a seat after that.
Checked Aug 2026
BambooHR
HR
A straightforward HRIS for small and mid-sized companies, with published prices.
Checked Aug 2026
beehiiv
Marketing
Newsletter infrastructure that takes nothing from your subscription revenue.
Checked Aug 2026
Bitbucket
Development
Git hosting for teams whose planning already lives in Jira.
Checked Aug 2026
Buffer
Marketing
Social scheduling priced per channel, so small accounts stay cheap.
Checked Aug 2026
Canva
Design
Template-driven design tool for people who are not designers.
Checked Aug 2026
ChatGPT
AI
General-purpose AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding and research.
Checked Aug 2026
Claude
AI
AI assistant built by Anthropic, strongest on long documents, careful writing and code.
Checked Aug 2026
DaVinci Resolve
Design
Professional editing, colour, VFX and audio in one application, free or $295 once.
Checked Aug 2026
Expensify
Finance
Receipt scanning and expense reports, with a card that pays for the software.
Checked Aug 2026
Figma
Design
Collaborative interface design, prototyping and design systems in the browser.
Checked Aug 2026
folk
Sales
A lightweight relationship CRM, priced per member with credits for enrichment and messaging.
Checked Aug 2026
FreshBooks
Finance
Invoicing-first accounting for people who bill for their time.
Checked Aug 2026
Front
Support
A shared inbox for customer operations, from $25 a seat, with omnichannel starting at $65.
Checked Aug 2026
GitHub
Development
Where most of the world's code, and most of its collaboration, actually lives.
Checked Aug 2026
GitLab
Development
The whole DevOps pipeline in one product, self-hostable at every tier.
Checked Aug 2026
Google Gemini
AI
The AI assistant that arrives already inside your email and documents.
Checked Aug 2026
Grammarly
AI
A writing assistant that works everywhere you already type.
Checked Aug 2026
Grok
AI
xAI's assistant, with real-time X and web search and the steepest paid ladder here.
Checked Aug 2026
Help Scout
Support
A shared inbox that never makes your customer feel like a ticket.
Checked Aug 2026
Jira
Development
Issue tracking that scales to organisations nobody enjoys working in.
Checked Aug 2026
Linear
Development
An issue tracker fast enough that people actually keep it updated.
Checked Aug 2026
Microsoft Copilot
AI
The assistant that arrives inside the apps your staff already open.
Checked Aug 2026
Microsoft Power BI
Analytics
Business intelligence priced low enough that finance stopped arguing.
Checked Aug 2026
Mistral
AI
A European assistant with open-weight models, publishing limits as actual numbers.
Checked Aug 2026
Netlify
Development
Git-driven hosting for the front end, now billed in credits.
Checked Aug 2026
Okta
Security
The identity layer that decides who gets into everything else.
Checked Aug 2026
QuickBooks Online
Finance
The small-business accounting default in the United States.
Checked Aug 2026
SAP Concur
Finance
Expense, travel and invoice management for organisations with a spend policy.
Checked Aug 2026
ServiceNow
Support
The enterprise workflow platform that IT service management grew into.
Checked Aug 2026
Substack
Marketing
Free to publish, 10% if you get paid, and the network is the product.
Checked Aug 2026
Twenty
Sales
An open-source CRM you can self-host, priced from $9 a user on its managed cloud.
Checked Aug 2026
Typeform
Marketing
Forms that ask one question at a time, and get answered because of it.
Checked Aug 2026
Vercel
Development
Deployment platform for frontend frameworks, built by the team behind Next.js.
Checked Aug 2026
Wave
Finance
Free double-entry accounting, funded by payment processing.
Checked Aug 2026
Xero
Finance
Cloud accounting built for the person doing the books, not just the accountant.
Checked Aug 2026
Productivity comparison guides
9 tools compared
Best project management software in 2026
Independent comparison of nine project management tools on the annual cost of five and twenty seats, seat minimums and blocks, free-tier limits, what AI costs on top of the plan, and which can be self-hosted.
Updated 24 August 2026