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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
235
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 most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that we can make the tool as we want, in the way it is the most useful for us."
"I love being able to "check off" a task by changing its status to "done." It also disappears off the list when you complete it."
"Using the deadline feature to manage priorities has been the most valuable."
"In short - it keeps a remote asynchronous team in sync."
"I love the time-tracking feature."
"I like being able to customize your views."
"It is easy to use and our processes are much better organized and reviewed."
"The templates were always the best part as not starting from scratch made the process so much easier."
 

Cons

"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."
"The solution could be more user-friendly."
"One thing that would be cool is if Monday had a chat feature."
"There are a lot of ways that monday.com does not work, for example, when it comes to HRMS. A particular employee can't apply for leave or check the status of a leave request or check his 401(k) status. Those are things that are missing in monday.com."
"It would be beneficial to have the ability to toggle between the traditional Monday.com pulse view and a monthly calendar view."
"The new Apple Mac Book Pro lineup was launched more than two years ago and still, this platform is not compatible with the Mac App."
"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)."
"The marketing notification emails from Monday.com are really poor and of little value to the user."
"I work with many internet tabs open and would prefer having Monday.com as a separate program - not opened via the website."
"The solution could use a more streamlined Google Calendar integration."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"We tell others it's about $2200 for a ten-person plan and it can be adjusted; it's easy to scale."
"The price is reasonable for the number of users we have."
"There are features that they're putting in the Enterprise plan that you have to pay for the Enterprise plan to use those features. The Enterprise plan is probably double or triple the Pro plan price, or it may be two and a half times. From a business standpoint, I don't like the fact that I have to pay two and a half times more to use a particular feature."
"The licensing cost is not that high for monday.com. However, if you need an implementer, the cost is high because there aren't so many monday.com professionals."
"The pricing of monday.com was a little bit high for us, especially here in South Africa, compared to Basecamp."
"It's definitely affordable. I don't think it is necessarily the cheapest, but it's definitely not the most expensive. The price is well worth the value that we get out of it."
"I am using its free version."
"The product is not expensive."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
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Manufacturing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
7%
Government
7%
Comms Service Provider
7%
 

Company Size

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Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
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By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business180
Midsize Enterprise27
Large Enterprise30
 

Questions from the Community

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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?
One way monday.com can be improved is by enhancing the notification system, which is not trustworthy for me, as some notifications are very overwhelming. I also see a need for more tools to input d...
What is your primary use case for monday.com?
The main use case for monday.com is to track project progress from start to finish, beginning with the sales team and continuing through the onboarding process. It helps keep our teams aligned and ...
 

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