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# ActiveCollab

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> ActiveCollab is a simple, yet powerful productivity and collaboration workspace helping service businesses thrive.
> 
> Verdict: Rated **4.5/5** by 410 users. Top-rated for **Likelihood to recommend**.

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## Overview

### Who Uses ActiveCollab?

Best for small and mid-size service businesses: from marketing agencies and creative teams, to consultancies and other client-facing organizations.

## Quick Stats & Ratings

| Metric | Rating | Detail |
| **Overall** | **4.5/5** | 410 Reviews |
| Ease of Use | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Customer Support Software | 4.4/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Value for Money | 4.5/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Features | 4.2/5 | Based on overall reviews |
| Recommendation percentage | 90% | (9/10 Likelihood to recommend) |

## About the vendor

- **Company**: Active Collab
- **Founded**: 2007

## Commercial Context

- **Starting Price**: US$11.00
- **Pricing model**: Per User (Free Trial)
- **Pricing Details**: ActiveCollab offers 4 pricing plans, depending on the size of your team and needs of your businesses. &#10;&#10;You can choose whether to pay on a monthly or a yearly basis. Users usually select to pay annually as it's a better deal.&#10;&#10;Nonprofit institutions get 50% off their plan. We also offer special rates to larger companies.
- **Target Audience**: Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000, 5,001–10,000, 10,000+
- **Deployment & Platforms**: Cloud, SaaS, Web-based, Mac (Desktop), Windows (Desktop), Windows (On-Premise), Linux (On-Premise), Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
- **Supported Languages**: Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Dutch, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish
- **Available Countries**: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Ecuador, Estonia, Falkland Islands, Finland and 47 more

## Features

- @mentions
- API
- Access Controls/Permissions
- Activity Dashboard
- Activity Tracking
- Billable & Non-Billable Hours
- Billing & Invoicing
- Calendar Management
- Capacity Management
- Chat/Messaging
- Collaboration Tools
- Contact Database
- Customizable Invoices
- Document Management Software
- Email Management Software
- Employee Database
- Employee Management
- Employee Scheduling Software
- Expense Tracking
- Goal Setting/Tracking
- Invoice Management
- Invoice Processing
- Marketing Calendar
- Mobile Access
- Mobile Payments
- Notes Management
- Overtime Calculation
- Payment Processing Software
- Payroll Management
- Prioritization
- Product Roadmapping
- Progress Tracking
- Project Management Software
- Project Planning Software
- Project Planning/Scheduling
- Project Time Tracking
- Project Tracking Software
- Quotes/Estimates
- Real-Time Updates
- Reporting/Analytics
- Reporting/Project Tracking
- Resource Scheduling
- Skills Tracking
- Sub-Task Management
- Task Editing
- Task Progress Tracking
- Tax Calculation
- Time & Expense Tracking
- Time Tracking Software
- Timesheet Management

... and 32 more features

## Integrations (9 total)

- Dropbox Business
- Google Drive
- PayPal
- PayPal Enterprise Payments
- QuickBooks Online Advanced
- Slack
- Stripe
- TestLodge
- Zapier

## Support Options

- Email/Help Desk
- FAQs/Forum
- Knowledge Base Software
- Phone Support
- Chat

## Category

- [Project Management Software](https://www.capterra.ca/directory/30002/project-management/software)

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## Reviews

### "ActiveCollab is the miracle tool" — 4.0/5

> **Tiffany** | *January 10, 2025* | Logistics & Supply Chain | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Ability of me to create a task list with effective durations and add dependencies of each is very easy to use and it's efficient
> 
> **Cons**: With ActiveCollab you will have limited user support help and delayed assistance

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### "Keeps getting better" — 5.0/5

> **Verified Reviewer** | *July 24, 2019* | Higher Education Software | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Active Collab is efficient, friendly, and structured just right for our team's work. The reporting, activity stream, project, task, and subtask organization are all well-calibrated for daily use to organize work and to report on projects.
> 
> **Cons**: I wish AC integrated with Jira. Our development unit uses Jira, but the complexity means it's a no-go for our unit's daily use. The lack of integration means that sometimes members of our team have to ping-pong between both products, or fail to understand what's happening there. A preview of a Jira ticket in AC would be totally sufficient.

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### "Great tool for a creative startup\!" — 5.0/5

> **Madalina** | *December 23, 2024* | Marketing & Advertising | Recommendation rating: 9.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: ActiveCollab was perfect for us in the early stages of our creative services company. It made project management, task management, time tracking and invoicing pretty simple.
> 
> **Cons**: As our team grew, we needed a more customizable system with further automations and integrations.
> 
> I've used this tool for many years, successfully so. It's a great tool for managing creative projects, offering both structure and flexibility.

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### "ActiveCollab is by faar the simplest PM tool you will use" — 5.0/5

> **Adam** | *October 2, 2025* | Design | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: I've tried them all but AC wins hand down for simplicity and good UI/UX. Its just really nice to use both the desktop and phone app.
> 
> **Cons**: None. I guess there are limitations around customisations but this is what makes it good and simple to use.
> 
> Just so intuitive. Everything from creating a project, creating a task list, etc is just a joy to use. The Time Tracking and profitability is well thought out too.

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### "Logistics Manager." — 5.0/5

> **Jelena** | *October 7, 2025* | Construction | Recommendation rating: 10.0/10
> 
> **Pros**: Definitely, ActiveCollab version 8 comes with many useful features. Truly a serious application-level improvement compared to ActiveCollab 7.&#10;The Support Team does an excellent job. Every time, they have helped me in a very efficient and concrete way, with video tutorials.
> 
> **Cons**: The ability to assign more than one person to a single task.&#10;Also, an option to download my entire project in text format along with all the files attached to it.
> 
> A very good experience. We are a construction company that organizes workers and their work files in ActiveCollab. For a basic form of job organization, it covers our needs very well.

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