Coordinator vs Teamwork.com
Teamwork is the closest thing to Coordinator's project side — client work, time, billing — sold per user with the good reporting upstairs. Coordinator does that job free, and adds the books, the scheduling and the client network Teamwork stops short of.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
Teamwork, side by side
Agency-focused project management with time and billing — priced per user with plan minimums.
| What you're paying for | Coordinator | Teamwork |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0 — everything | ~$11–$20/user/mo, tier minimums |
| Users | Unlimited, free | Per-user, with minimums |
| Time & billing | Included — through to real invoices and books | Included — its strong suit |
| Reporting | Included — workload, throughput, margin | Gated to higher tiers |
| Full accounting underneath | Included — statements, bank feeds, journals | |
| Booking pages & staff shifts | Included | |
| Clients collaborate from their own workspace | Included (the network) | Client users can view/collaborate in yours |
| Public storefront & marketplace | Included |
Teamwork pricing and plan limits are approximate, from their published plans as of August 2026 — check their site for current figures. Coordinator's column doesn't change: $0.
The Teamwork line on your P&L
Teamwork runs ~$10.99 (Deliver, 3-user minimum) to ~$19.99 (Grow, 5-user minimum) per user per month, with reporting largely gated to the upper tiers — a ten-person agency on Grow clears $2,400 a year, before its separate Desk/CRM products.
Users: Per-user with 3–5 user minimums; free to 5 users / 5 projects.
What you get that Teamwork doesn't give you
Teamwork bills time into an invoice you then re-enter into your accounting. Here the invoice is the accounting — aged, reconciled, reported.
Desk, CRM, Chat and Spaces are separate Teamwork products. Contacts, threads and records are just… here.
Workload, throughput and profitability reports come with the product, not with the $20 plan.
What Teamwork users complain about — answered
Recurring themes from public reviews and forums (G2, Capterra, Reddit), paired with what changes here. We only list complaints Coordinator actually solves.
“The advertised price isn't the price an agency actually needs”
There's no tier ladder to climb toward the real product. Everything is on the only plan.
“Mid tiers include time tracking but almost no reporting”
Time, and the reports about it — workload, utilization, margin — ship together, free.
“Messages must be manually marked read; tagged items get missed”
One consolidated needs-attention inbox, an unread divider, and a 'waiting for reply' flag that nags until resolved.
“Multiple separate apps to learn (Desk, Chat, CRM, Spaces)”
One application. The chat, the contacts and the docs are rooms of the same house.
What they love about Teamwork — kept
Kept and completed: billable time flows to real invoices, and clients get their own workspace, not a guest login.
Everyone is free here — collaborators, editors, admins, the lot.
Where Teamwork may still fit
No tool wins everything, and we'd rather you pick with open eyes.
Retainer burn-down views, billable utilization targets and agency onboarding content are deep — Teamwork has served agencies for 15+ years.
If you run a ticketed support inbox, Teamwork Desk is a real product Coordinator doesn't replicate.
Export projects and tasks to CSV and import them; recreate your rate cards and templates, then run one retainer cycle in parallel — the time→invoice flow will feel familiar, minus the re-keying into your books.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.
The free Teamwork.com alternative, summarized
If you're searching for a Teamwork.com alternative, the short version: Coordinator is free for unlimited users — no tiers, no usage meters, no renewal-day surprises — and it covers what Teamwork does for project management alongside the rest of a small business's operations: real accounting, projects with job costing, booking pages and staff scheduling, client records and forms, team chat, and a cross-company network where your invoice lands in your client's books. Teamwork still fits some buyers — see the fair print above — but if the complaints on this page sound familiar, switching is usually an afternoon.
Explore the project management side of Coordinator on free-project-management-software, see everything it does, or read why it's free.
Keep the Teamwork money
Set up free in minutes, import what you have, and put the subscription line to better use.
Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.