# YouTrack alternatives — Project Management & Collaboration

As of 21 Oct 2026, the panel rates [awork (4/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/awork), [Kantree (4/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/kantree) and [Teamwork.com (4/5)](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/teamwork) highest among the other 60 Project Management & Collaboration products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is [awork](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/awork) (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: [how scores are made](https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering).

- Canonical page: https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/youtrack/alternatives
- YouTrack: https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/youtrack.md
- Data as of: 2026-10-21

**AI-generated.** Ratings and verdicts are the opinion of a panel of AI judges, formed from public evidence against a published rubric — an analysis, not a hands-on test. Listed by panel rating (products the panel could not rate follow alphabetically); no placement is for sale. How lists are ordered: https://whats-best.ai/methodology#ordering

## European alternatives to YouTrack

- [awork](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/awork) · EU-Made · panel rating 4/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany and Europe
  awork, a project management and collaboration tool from awork GmbH of Hamburg, scores consistently high: persona-weighted totals run from 7.7 to 8.0, and five of seven criteria — integrations, onboarding effort, sovereignty, support and documentation, and pricing transparency — sit at a flat 8.
- [Kantree](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/kantree) · EU-Made · panel rating 4/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU
  Kantree, a project management and collaboration tool from Digicoop SARL — a French workers cooperative, 100% employee-owned — draws scores that cluster tightly: onboarding effort, sovereignty and pricing transparency hold at 8, while support documentation sits at 7 with no higher mark recorded.
- [Teamwork.com](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/teamwork) · EU-Made · panel rating 4/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  Teamwork.com is a project management and collaboration product from Teamwork Crew Ltd of Cork, Ireland, built for agencies, consultancies and IT services.
- [InLoox](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/inloox) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  InLoox, a project management platform from InLoox GmbH of Munich, is strongest at team planning and reporting, thinnest in integration breadth.
- [Easy Project](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/easy-project) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Easy Project, now Easy8, is a Prague-based project and work management suite.
- [Favro](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/favro) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU
  Favro, a project management and collaboration tool from Favro AB of Uppsala, Sweden, scores strongest on integrations — a native catalogue spanning Slack, Jira, GitHub and GitLab, plus SAML and SCIM, outgoing webhooks, a documented API and an MCP integration — and onboarding effort, with a 14-day no-credit-card trial, solution templates and a skippable teammate invite.
- [Productive](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/productive) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU
  Productive, a project management and collaboration platform from Productive International d.o.o., founded in Zagreb, Croatia, scores highest on reporting and integrations at 9, built on custom reports with third-level grouping, pivot tables, drilldown and a currency switcher, Pulse automation into Slack, and native integrations spanning accounting, HR, calendars and inboxes, Slack, Teams and Jira on a documented Open API with webhooks.
- [ActiveCollab](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/activecollab) · UK / wider Europe · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  ActiveCollab earns its steadiest marks on collaboration depth and reporting, both at 8 with no spread: judges cite a workload view with capacity, availability and days-off, auto-updating task dependencies, Client and Client+ roles, and ten report types with saved presets, role-scoped access and CSV export.
- [OpenProject](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/openproject) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  OpenProject is a GPLv3 open-source project management platform from OpenProject GmbH of Berlin.
- [Toggl Plan](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/toggl-plan) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-05
  Toggl Plan, a project planning and time-tracking product from Toggl OÜ of Tallinn, Estonia, scored strongest on support & documentation and collaboration depth, both in the 7-8 band.
- [Scoro](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/scoro) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Scoro, a professional services automation platform from Scoro Software OÜ of Tallinn, scores highest on integrations, a uniform 9, and on collaboration depth, clustering at 7-8: judges credit the REST API, webhooks, two-way Zapier, 40+ native integrations and native MCP, alongside capacity views showing who is overloaded, a RAID log with risk scoring, granular permissions and customer-portal accounts across a stated 10-to-500-person span.
- [Zenkit](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/zenkit) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany
  Zenkit, a multi-project management solution from Axonic GmbH of Karlsruhe, scores in a tight middle band: criteria fall between 6 and 8, the judges' weighted totals between 6.5 and 7.1, and no criterion spreads more than a point.
- [Stackfield](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/stackfield) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany and the EU
  Stackfield, a project management and collaboration tool from Stackfield GmbH of Munich, is strongest at pricing transparency, scoring 7 to 9, with sovereignty and collaboration depth at 7 to 8; reporting is weakest at 4 to 6, and integrations, onboarding effort and support documentation sit at 5 to 7.
- [MeisterTask](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/meistertask) · EU-Made · panel rating 3.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-15
  MeisterTask, a project management tool from MeisterLabs GmbH, scores steadiest on support and documentation, clustered at 7, where a free on-demand academy with timed courses, a help center, tutorial videos and a real-time and historical status page earn consistent credit.
- [Nozbe](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/nozbe) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-15
  Nozbe, a project management and collaboration product from a Polish limited liability company, earns weighted totals from 5.9 to 6.7.
- [Freelo](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/freelo) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Czechia
- [Vikunja](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/vikunja) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU
  Vikunja is an AGPLv3-licensed, self-hostable task manager with a hosted cloud, from Konrad Langenberg Software of Lübeck, Germany; Vikunja Cloud runs at Hetzner in Germany and Finland.
- [Beesbusy](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/beesbusy) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  Beesbusy, a project-management and resource-planning tool from a French SAS registered in Nantes, scores best on planning and reporting: collaboration depth clusters at 7-8 and reporting at 7-8, crediting customizable multi-project views, daily, weekly and monthly occupancy rates with simulation, a Gantt with linked tasks and milestones, and reports built by choosing rows and columns, with budget management and real-time utilization per resource.
- [factro](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/factro) · EU-Made · panel rating 3/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  factro is a project management tool from Schuchert Managementberatung GmbH & Co.
- [Projectplace](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/projectplace) · EU origin, foreign-owned · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Projectplace, a Stockholm-founded product under US-based Planview since 2014, scores highest on support and documentation, at 6 to 8, where judges credit the University of Planview, instructor-led classes, and badging and certification; integrations sit at 6 with no spread, on a catalogue spanning Teams, Slack, document stores, Power BI, DocuSign, Zapier and Power Automate.
- [Wimi](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/wimi) · EU-Made · panel rating 2.5/5 · data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention France
  Wimi is a French project-management and collaboration suite that scores best at team-level planning and stated sovereignty, and worst where it must connect outward or document itself.
- [Teamleader Focus](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/teamleader-focus) · EU-Made · panel rating 2/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Teamleader Focus, a Belgian project-management and collaboration tool from Teamleader NV, scores highest on pricing transparency at 5-7: every booster carries a price, VAT exclusion is stated plainly, and the 17% annual discount is printed — though €24.75 per user/month is a first-year figure and we found no public information on a price for the FLOW tier recommended for larger, 10+ teams.
- [Taiga](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/taiga) · EU-Made · panel rating 2/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Taiga is a free and open-source project management tool from Kaleidos Open Source SL, offered as a cloud service with a self-hosting option.
- [Podio](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/podio) · EU origin, foreign-owned · panel rating 2/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Podio is a project management and collaboration tool from Progress Software Corporation, built around a no-code drag-and-drop builder.
- [Forecast](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/forecast) · EU-Made · panel rating 1.5/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Forecast — listed vendor Forecast ApS, founded in Copenhagen — earns its strongest scores on sovereignty, clustering at 4-5: the security page states that Accelo Forecast PSA is hosted on AWS in EU (Ireland) with backup in EU (Germany), that data 'stays within the European Union by default', and that a data processing addendum is published — though the same pages name Accelo, Inc.
- [Ganttic](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/ganttic) · EU-Made · panel rating 1/5 · data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
  Ganttic OÜ of Tartu, Estonia, is a Gantt-style resource planner.

## Other alternatives

- [ClickUp](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/clickup) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  ClickUp's strongest scores are integrations at 8-9 and onboarding effort at 8-9, built on a Free Forever plan with no credit card and importers from eight competitors promising migration in minutes.
- [monday.com](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/monday) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  monday.com is a work management platform that scored strongest on integrations, 8 to 9, and onboarding effort, 7 to 9: the captured pages show 850+ integrations and apps, a documented GraphQL API, webhooks, an app marketplace with SDKs, and a free-forever plan for up to 2 seats with no credit card needed and 200+ templates.
- [Jira](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/jira) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-15
  Jira, a project management and collaboration tool from Atlassian Pty Ltd, is strongest on collaboration depth and onboarding effort (a uniform 8), where a free tier at $0 for up to 10 users with no credit card required and pre-configured templates such as the Kanban template put a first working project within reach.
- [Linear](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/linear) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  Linear, a project management and collaboration product from Linear Orbit, Inc., a Delaware corporation, scored strongest on integrations, where the bench clustered at 9-10: a public GraphQL API described as the same one the vendor uses internally, webhooks pushing the entire changed object, native importers for Jira, GitHub Issues, Asana, Shortcut and Trello, an MCP server and a third-party directory.
- [Nifty](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/nifty) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  Nifty is a project management and collaboration product from Nifty Technologies, Inc., a US company at a New York address hosting on Amazon Web Services.
- [Wrike](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/wrike) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  Wrike is a project management and collaboration platform from Wrike, Inc., a US-headquartered company.
- [Asana](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/asana) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-15
  Asana is a project management and collaboration tool from Asana, Inc., a Delaware-incorporated, publicly listed company headquartered in San Francisco.
- [Notion](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/notion) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-15
  Notion is a project management and collaboration workspace from Notion Labs, Inc.
- [Airtable](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/airtable) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-05
  Airtable, from Formagrid, Inc.
- [Hive](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/hive) · Rest of world · panel rating 3.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  Hive, a project management platform from Hive Technology, Inc., peaks where scores cluster at 8: collaboration depth (shared timelines with milestones and dependencies, resourcing views flagging over- and under-allocated users, role-based access for external stakeholders) and onboarding effort (free signup with no credit card, a 27-article getting-started collection, importers from Trello, Asana, Basecamp, Smartsheet, Monday.com and Microsoft Project).
- [Businessmap](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/businessmap) · provenance unknown · panel rating 3/5
  Businessmap Ltd.
- [Fibery](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/fibery) · provenance unknown · panel rating 3/5
  Fibery is a modular project management and collaboration platform whose strongest scoring area is integrations, which sit at 8-9: 20+ built-in connectors including Jira, Slack and GitHub, Make and Zapier support, an API that manipulates the data schema and handles webhooks, and an MCP server for custom apps.
- [Shortcut](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/shortcut) · provenance unknown · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
- [Basecamp](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/basecamp) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-05
  Basecamp is a project management and team coordination product from 37signals LLC.
- [Smartsheet](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/smartsheet) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5
  Smartsheet, a project management and collaboration platform, scores highest on collaboration depth (7 to 8) and support documentation (a flat 7), lowest on sovereignty (3 to 4).
- [Zoho Projects](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/zoho-projects) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5
  Zoho Projects, a project management tool from Zoho Corporation of Chennai, scored highest on onboarding effort — 8 — on a fifteen-day trial that requires no credit card, a free tier with three projects and 5 GB of storage, and twenty-plus industry templates.
- [Planio](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/planio) · provenance unknown · panel rating 3/5
- [Quire](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/quire) · provenance unknown · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-13
  Quire, a project management tool from PixelPlow Co., Ltd., is strongest on collaboration depth at 7-8 and integrations at 7-8, with onboarding at 6-8.
- [ProjectManager](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/projectmanager) · provenance unknown · panel rating 3/5
  ProjectManager's scored core is strong: collaboration depth and reporting both hold at 8, built on dependencies with a critical-path filter, portfolio dashboards, workload and availability reports, and eight named report types exported to PDF, Excel or CSV.
- [Paymo](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/paymo) · provenance unknown · panel rating 3/5
  Paymo is a project management and collaboration platform pitched at independent professionals and small teams, and the scores put its strength there: collaboration depth clusters at 8 — a cross-project Portfolio Gantt and Meta Kanban Board, task dependencies with lead and lag plus critical path, workload and leave scheduling, and a guest/client portal.
- [Todoist](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/todoist) · Rest of world · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-16
  Todoist, from Doist Inc., is a project management and collaboration tool strongest where work starts and weakest where data lives.
- [TeamGantt](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/teamgantt) · provenance unknown · panel rating 3/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-01
  TeamGantt is schedule-first Gantt planning software from Groundbreaking Designs, LLC, a Maryland company doing business as TeamGantt.
- [Motion](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/motion) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2.5/5
  Motion, a project management and collaboration tool at usemotion.com, is strongest on onboarding effort and collaboration depth, where scores cluster at 6-7: team accounts are the default, roles run Full Access/Editor/Viewer with direct invites overriding workspace permissions, a real-time activity feed logs every change including API-made ones, and one-click draft project plans with AI-generated templates make the start fast.
- [Plaky](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/plaky) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-09-29
  Plaky, free task and project management software from CAKE.com, scores highest on onboarding effort and support documentation, both clustering at 7-8, and lowest on sovereignty at 1-2, with integrations at 3-4.
- [Trello](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/trello) · Rest of world · panel rating 2.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-19
  Trello is Atlassian's project management and collaboration product.
- [Taskworld](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/taskworld) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2.5/5
  Taskworld's captured documentation shows a workable project-management core.
- [Merlin Project](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/merlin-project) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2.5/5
  Merlin Project, from ProjectWizards GmbH, is a native Apple planner combining Gantt, Kanban, mind-map and workload views on one data source.
- [GanttPRO](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/ganttpro) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2/5
  GanttPRO is a project management and collaboration tool whose scores are strongest on getting started and weakest on sovereignty.
- [LiquidPlanner](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/liquidplanner) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2/5
  Portfolio Manager (formerly LiquidPlanner), from LiquidPlanner, Inc., is project management and collaboration software positioned for large organizations managing multiple projects and large teams.
- [Twproject](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/twproject) · provenance unknown · panel rating 2/5
  Twproject, from Open Lab S.r.l.
- [Backlog](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/backlog) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5 · free plan per the vendor’s page captured 2026-10-13
  Backlog, a project management and collaboration tool from Nulab, Inc., earns its strongest marks on integrations: scores cluster at 6-7, a band no other criterion reaches, built on fifteen named integrations, webhooks, a public API, import paths from Jira, Redmine and Google Sheets, and built-in Git and SVN with commits linked to tasks.
- [Teamhood](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/teamhood) · provenance unknown · panel rating 1.5/5
  Teamhood, a project management tool from Eylean Board, scored highest on collaboration depth at 4-6: people-field boards with drag-and-drop, Gantt arrows that are "a real dependency between the two items, not a drawing", parent roll-ups and shared view definitions.
- [Sciforma](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/sciforma) · provenance unknown · panel rating 0.5/5
  Sciforma — renamed Planview ProjectAdvantage after a 2025 acquisition — was judged almost entirely on a single vendor page announcing that acquisition, and the scores reflect it.
- [Freedcamp](https://whats-best.ai/software/project-management/freedcamp) · provenance unknown · panel rating not rated (too little public evidence)
  Freedcamp, Inc., filed under Project Management & Collaboration, was judged from two captured pages: its homepage and a supporters acknowledgment.

Ratings are out of 5 (the panel's mean, half steps).

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