Top 5 Project Management Apps for Small Businesses

Whether you’re a professional dog walker, hairdresser or personal trainer, project management apps can have a beneficial impact on the way you keep on top of your daily tasks, projects, and teamwork.

We have picked out five of the best project management apps for small businesses, to help keep things running smoothly.

 

Trello

Whether you need to monitor daily tasks or oversee the completion of a new marketing strategy, Trello lets you organize anything in a fun and flexible way. It is incredibly user-friendly and is based on Kanban boards, it works like a virtual whiteboard with post-it-notes.

Trello is great for organizing your to-do lists, ideas, and is very easy to use. You can create several boards to use for various projects, and best of all it’s FREE. Trello is available to iOS and Android users as well.

 

Asana

If you are looking for something that is not difficult to use, check out Asana. This is a great task management app that can be used for managing projects as well.

Asana helps you create and share task lists with your team, task prioritization helps teams to be more productive and efficient and all the changes are updated in real-time. The app is simple but smart enough.

Asana is free for up to 15 team members.

 

Chanty

Chanty is a team chat app that lets you communicate and collaborate with your team. As well as the chat feature, Chanty also allows audio, video calls and screen sharing. Some other cool features include project management, threaded communication, and integrations with other apps such as Dropbox, Trello, GitHub and many others.

 

Monday.com

If you’d like to plan, organize, track projects in one collaborative space, Monday.com could the right tool for you. Manage any workflow or process and be ready to address any challenge from the simple to the not-so-simple with total ease. Keep up to date with where everything stands and plan for the future with an easily digestible overview.

 

ProofHub

ProofHub is an all-in-one project management app. It comes packed with powerful features to eliminate the need of having too many different tools to run your business.

Keep all your projects, teams, and communications in one place. It makes it easy to create plans, collaborate with teams and clients and keep things organized.

 

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*Disclaimer – This blog has been created as general information and should not be taken as advice. Make sure you have the correct level of insurance for your requirements and always review policy documentation. Information is factually accurate at the time of publishing but may have become out of date. 

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