Free project management software

Project management without the per-user meter

Boards, stages, templates, approvals, time tracking and job costing — free for unlimited users, forever. And unlike every task tracker, the work here knows what it earns.

Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.

Organized by default

Every job, who's on it, what's stuck

Projects nest to any depth — a project, its phases, their tasks, their subtasks — and every level works the same way.

  • Real dependencies, without the arrow spaghettistages gate downstream work — nothing starts before what it depends on finishes — and because an activity can sit under multiple parents, cross-team dependencies are just structure. That's a dependency graph, not a tree: more expressive than most tools on this page, with nothing to diagram.
  • Unlimited depth, your shapeprojects nest as deep as the work goes, with completion rules and stages at any level — no fixed Space → Folder → List hierarchy deciding your structure for you.
  • Status that thinks in your termsNow, Waiting, Future, Done — computed per viewer. Work waiting on a teammate stays out of your way and lands in theirs.
  • Approvals before 'done'require a manager's or the client's sign-off — and real deliverables — before work can close.
  • Board, list, pipeline & timeline viewsfour views over one tree — including bars on a date axis by person or stage, so the month is visible at a glance.
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New client intake
Answers land as a structured record — not an email.
Company name
Harbor & Finch Ltd
What do you need?
Full website redesign + brand refresh
Budget range
$10k – $25k
→ creates a Record + a Contact, and can kick off a projectSubmit
Set up once, run forever

The next job sets itself up

Repeatable work should be repeatable. Templates capture your whole delivery playbook and re-run it on demand — or without you.

  • Whole-tree templatesstages, tasks, owners, deadlines and sign-off requirements, spun up in one click.
  • A form becomes a projectan intake form creates the client and their templated project — no copy-paste.
  • A sale becomes a projectwhen a customer pays for a package, its delivery checklist creates itself.
  • Batch createrepeat one job across every person, client or date in a set — a whole class, a whole portfolio, in one action.
Reports · Profit & loss
Net income · this quarter
$23,780
↑ 14% vs last quarter
Design services$41,200
Retainers$18,400
Product sales$6,150
Invoices, bills, bank feeds and budgets roll up into statements automatically.
The part trackers can't do

Every project reports its own profit

Time, bills and payroll land on the job as costs; invoice lines land as revenue. Margin per project, per client and per service line — no spreadsheet reconciliation night.

  • One running timer per person, rates frozen at entry
  • Unbilled hours sweep onto invoices — or monthly retainers
  • The waiting analysis: '40 days on this job — 22 waiting on the client'
No other PM tool has this

Your client runs their side of the project

Share a project over the network and it appears in your client's own workspace — live stages, a shared thread, one-click approvals — while your internals stay yours. No guest seats, no exported status decks.

Your workspace — Meridian Design Studio
Website redesign — Harbor & Finch
Shared · you write
Wireframes & sitemapDone
Homepage designIn review
Template buildIn progress
Private to your side
Internal cost · 46h logged · margin 38%$5,340
Subtasks, assignees and estimates stay on your side of the boundary.
Their workspace — Harbor & Finch Ltd
Website redesign — Meridian
Shared · mirrored
Wireframes & sitemapDone
Homepage designIn review
Template buildIn progress
Shared thread
EV
Homepage concepts are up — approve when ready and we'll start the build.
✓ Approved by Harbor & Finch
Versus the per-seat meters

The going rate for project software is $1,000+ a year

Here's the market, side by side. Every row links to a full, fair comparison.

ToolPriceUsers
Coordinator$0 — every featureUnlimited, freeStart free →
AsanaFree (2 users); ~$11–$25/user/moPer-user pricing; free tier capped at 2 usersFull comparison →
TrelloFree (10 boards); ~$5–$10/user/moPer-user pricing beyond the free tierFull comparison →
ClickUpFree (60MB storage, key views trial-only); ~$7–$12/user/moPer-user pricing beyond the free tierFull comparison →
monday.comFree (2 seats); ~$9–$24/seat/mo, 3-seat minimumPer-seat pricing in bundles; free tier capped at 2 seatsFull comparison →
BasecampFlat tiers ~$25–$299/moFlat tiers with project caps; unlimited users from the ~$59 tierFull comparison →
NotionFree (personal); ~$10–$20/user/mo for teamsPer-user pricing for teams; free tier is personal-scaleFull comparison →
JiraFree ≤10 users; ~$8–$15/user/moFree to 10 users; per-user beyond, plus add-on costsFull comparison →
WrikeFree (limited); ~$10–$25/user/mo, quote-only abovePer-user in fixed seat bands (5/10/25)Full comparison →
SmartsheetFree (limited); ~$9–$19/Member/moPaid Members create; viewers free; 3-seat minimum on BusinessFull comparison →
AirtableFree (1K records); ~$20–$45/seat/moEvery editor needs a paid seat; read-only freeFull comparison →
Teamwork.comFree ≤5 users; ~$11–$20/user/mo (minimums apply)Per-user with 3–5 user minimums; free to 5 users / 5 projectsFull comparison →
Microsoft Project & PlannerPlanner plans ~$10–$55/user/mo; desktop $680–$1,130Per-user M365 licensing; plan names recently reshuffledFull comparison →
LinearFree (250 issues); ~$10–$16/user/moFree tier generous; per-user beyondFull comparison →
Celoxis~$25–$45/user/mo, 5-user minimumPer-user, annual prepaid, 5-user minimumFull comparison →
TodoistFree (5 projects); ~$5–$8/user/moPersonal app; per-user Business tier for teamsFull comparison →
TickTickFree (limited); ~$36/yr PremiumPersonal app; no real team offeringFull comparison →
Google TasksFreePersonal; no collaboration at allFull comparison →
Things 3One-time ~$80 across Apple devicesPersonal, single-user, Apple-onlyFull comparison →
Zoho ProjectsFree (3 projects); ~$4–$10/user/moPer-user; small free tier (3 projects)Full comparison →

Competitor pricing and limits are approximate, from published plans as of August 2026.

Fair questions

Free project management, without the asterisk

Free for how many users?

All of them. There is no per-seat price, no free-tier user cap, and no 'premium features' ladder. Your whole team — plus your bookkeeper, your contractors and your clients — joins free with role-based permissions.

What makes it different from a task tracker?

The work is connected to everything around it: time tracked on a task becomes invoice lines, bills and payroll land as job costs, the schedule knows who's actually available, and the chat about the work lives on the work. A task tracker tells you what's done; Coordinator also tells you what it earned.

Can clients see our projects?

Only what you share, and exactly how you choose. Share a project over the network and your client follows it live from their own workspace — stages, a shared thread, one-click sign-off — while your subtasks, hours, costs and internal notes stay invisible to them.

Can I import from Asana or ClickUp?

Yes — there's a dedicated importer for Asana CSV exports (sections become stages, nesting is preserved), and ClickUp and monday.com CSV exports fit the same path.

Does it do recurring and templated work?

Save any project tree as a template — stages, tasks, owners, deadlines, required sign-offs — and re-run it on demand, on a schedule, or automatically when a customer pays for a package. You can even batch-create work across every client in a category.

What's the catch?

No catch, no tiers. Coordinator is free because it works best when the businesses you work with join too — and nobody invites their clients into something with a paywall.

100% free — every feature, every seat

Move one project tonight

Import from Asana, ClickUp or monday — or start clean with a template. Free for the whole team, forever.

Free. No card. About two minutes to set up.