9 ClickUp alternatives for teams

ClickUp can be a task list, a project plan, and a home for working documents. The right replacement depends on which of those jobs your team uses every day.

Open a recent project before making a shortlist. Which views did people update? Where did they discuss the work? What did the project lead need at the weekly check-in? Keep those answers in mind as you compare the nine tools below.

We make Chaser, which is included alongside tools for boards, project schedules, documents, creative review, and software delivery.

ClickUp alternatives at a glance

9 alternatives and how they work

1. Chaser: tasks in Slack

Chaser turns a Slack message into an assigned task with a due date. The owner can acknowledge the request and complete the work in Slack. Automatic reminders handle the follow-up, while dashboards and channel reports show the team's progress.

For example, a client asks for a proposal review in a project channel. Assign it to the reviewer, set a Friday deadline, and keep questions in the thread. At the next check-in, the team can see the assignment and its status alongside the conversation.

Chaser also supports recurring tasks, reusable checklists, group assignments with individual completion records, and tasks in Slack Connect channels. The task management guide explains the workflow, and the feature guide covers the available tools. If you are also evaluating Slack's built-in Lists, Slack's documentation explains its fields and views.

2. Trello: a board everyone can follow

Trello represents tasks as cards and stages as lists. A content team might use Planned, Drafting, In review, and Published; each card holds the owner, deadline, checklist, and supporting material.

The useful setup work is agreeing what each stage means. Does “In review” mean a draft is ready, or that a reviewer has accepted it? Clear definitions make the board easier to trust.

Trello also has additional views, including a Timeline view on Premium and Enterprise. For a closer comparison of board-based options, see our Trello alternatives guide.

3. Asana: a shared project plan

Asana connects tasks to project schedules, dependencies, and progress reporting. It suits work where the sequence matters: a launch cannot move to QA until the design and implementation are ready.

Use a real launch to evaluate it. Add the deliverables, connect dependent tasks, and review the timeline with the people doing the work. Include the reporting your project lead needs, such as a view of upcoming deadlines or work across projects.

The Asana plan comparison shows which planning and reporting features are included. Our Asana and monday comparison looks more closely at those two approaches.

4. monday work management: boards shaped around a process

monday work management uses configurable boards with columns for details such as owner, status, deadline, and priority. That makes it useful for an ongoing process such as handling service requests, where each request passes through the same stages.

Build one board around the information people need for daily decisions. Then check whether the team and its manager can each get a useful view of the same work. Its Gantt documentation and plan comparison cover scheduling and other features. The monday alternatives guide offers further comparisons.

5. Notion: tasks beside the brief

Notion brings documents, notes, and databases together. A project page can hold the brief, meeting decisions, reference material, and a linked task database, so the reason for a task stays close to the task itself.

This is particularly useful when a lot of the work involves writing or research. Agree on a few consistent fields—owner, status, due date—and link each task to the document it supports. Notion also supports subtasks and dependencies and repeating database templates.

6. ProofHub: tasks and creative review

ProofHub combines task views with discussions, file markup, and approvals. A designer can receive an assignment, share a draft, and collect feedback on the file within the same project.

When evaluating it, follow one asset from first draft to approval. Check how reviewers identify a change and how the person doing the work knows which version to deliver. ProofHub uses a flat subscription with unlimited users; its plan details explain the included features and limits.

7. Linear: product plans connected to engineering work

Linear organizes product development through issues, projects, cycles, and initiatives. A product improvement becomes a set of issues, and the team schedules the next issues into a cycle.

Follow one improvement from planning through delivery. Look at how the team sees active work and how a project lead checks what remains. Linear's documentation covers Insights and Dashboards; its plans show the reporting options.

8. Jira: a defined delivery process

Jira supports work items, boards, backlogs, timelines, and configurable workflows for software and business teams. Its strength is representing the stages and rules that work follows between a request and delivery.

Start with the stages your team actually uses, then test assignment, review, and completion on a small project. The Slack integration supports creating and updating work items and syncing threads. Check Jira's plans for the planning and administration features you need.

9. GitHub Projects: planning alongside code

GitHub Projects connects tables, boards, and roadmaps to issues and pull requests. Custom fields and iterations let a team organize a release around the implementation work already in its repository.

Create a release view using real issues and pull requests. Check whether the people planning the release and the people reviewing the code can follow the same set of work. The official GitHub Projects guide explains its views, charts, and workflow automation.

Test the switch with one project

Choose an active project with a near-term milestone. Bring its current tasks, relevant links, and due dates into the shortlisted tool, using supported import options or creating the tasks directly.

Ask the team to use it for the normal working week:

1. Assign a request with an owner and deadline.
2. Ask a question and find the answer later.
3. Change a date or status and check who can see the update.
4. Complete the work and review progress together.

Include a repeated process, too. Client onboarding is a useful example because several people usually contribute. In the Chaser example below, each step has its own owner, deadline, and completion state.

After the trial, ask whether people could find and update their work and whether the project lead could see what needed attention. Compare costs using the plan that includes those features and the full number of people who will use it. Keep historical records available until you have checked any exports or imports.

Our guide to choosing a project management tool covers the broader decision. For a team coordinating in Slack, you can try Chaser with one project and review the pricing as you evaluate the result.