Project management software is the easiest category to buy and the hardest to keep. Adoption is the whole game. A tool that half the team ignores is worse than a shared spreadsheet, because now the truth is in two places.
Our reviews weight ease of use heavily here, and we are specific about the shape of team each product suits. Some are built for agencies billing time to clients. Some are built for software teams working in sprints. Some are general enough to run a marketing calendar and a construction schedule in the same account, which sounds like a strength and often is not.
Pricing gets close attention because per user per month adds up fast, free tiers vary wildly in how usable they are, and a few vendors charge in bands that punish a team of eleven. We show the rand cost for teams of five, ten and twenty-five so the comparison is real.