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ZenHub alternatives

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates awork (4/5), InLoox (4/5) and Kantree (4/5) highest among the other 64 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 (EU-Made). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.

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European alternatives to ZenHub

European by provenance (EU-made, EU origin with foreign ownership, or UK and wider Europe). Data hosting is stated only where the vendor’s own pages prove it.

  1. awork

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    awork is a project management and collaboration platform from a Hamburg-registered GmbH, and this bench scores it 7 to 9, clustered at 7-8.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany and Europe

    awork in detail →

  2. InLoox

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    InLoox, a project management and collaboration platform from InLoox GmbH of Munich, earns its best marks for reporting and collaboration depth.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    InLoox in detail →

  3. Kantree

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Kantree is a project management tool run by Digicoop SARL, a French workers' cooperative that is 100% employee-owned.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU

    Kantree in detail →

  4. Teamwork.com

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Teamwork.com, an AI-powered professional-services automation tool from Teamwork Crew Ltd of Cork, Ireland, earns its best marks on reporting and integrations, where scores run 8–9: dozens of budget, utilization and margin reports, direct SQL access to raw data through Teamwork Connect, 150+ integrations with native HubSpot, Salesforce, Xero and QuickBooks syncs, and one-click importers from six competing tools.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
    • Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 2 Nov 2026

    Teamwork.com in detail →

  5. Toggl Plan

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Toggl Plan, from Toggl OÜ of Estonia, is judged strongest on reporting and onboarding effort, where scores cluster at 8, with collaboration depth at 7-8.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
    • Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 5 Oct 2026

    Toggl Plan in detail →

  6. OpenProject

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    OpenProject, an open source project management tool from Berlin-based OpenProject GmbH, scores best on collaboration depth at 8-9, with team-level planning documented as first-class: multi-project timelines, a resource planner balancing workload against team capacity, and external sharing at view, comment or edit permission.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU
    • Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 2 Nov 2026

    OpenProject in detail →

  7. Productive

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Productive (Productive International d.o.o., Zagreb-founded) is strongest at reporting and integrations and weakest at sovereignty and pricing transparency.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU

    Productive in detail →

  8. ActiveCollab

    UK / wider Europe

    Panel rating

    ActiveCollab, from A51 d.o.o.

    • Data hosting: Outside the EU by default

    ActiveCollab in detail →

  9. Favro

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Favro, a Swedish collaborative planning tool (data controller Uppsala collaborative technologies AB, Uppsala, Sweden), earns bench scores from 5 to 8.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU

    Favro in detail →

  10. Stackfield

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Stackfield is a project management and collaboration tool from Munich-based Stackfield GmbH.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany and the EU

    Stackfield in detail →

  11. Easy Project

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Easy Project — from Easy Software in Prague, rebranded Easy8 and formerly Easy Redmine — is a project management and collaboration suite that scores strongest on support and documentation (7-8, with five of six judges at 8) and on collaboration depth and reporting: documented group capacity planning, skills management, a Gantt with task relations and delays, timesheets with manager approval, earned value management, and customizable charts over any list.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    Easy Project in detail →

  12. Scoro

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Scoro is a professional services automation platform of 8 core apps, sold in four combinations — Time-billing at €15 user / month, Projects & Resources and Quote to Cash at €25 user / month, End-to-end at €52 user / month — with a 14-day trial and no credit card required.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    Scoro in detail →

  13. Freelo

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Freelo, a Czech project management and collaboration tool, drew tightly clustered scores across the bench — no criterion produced a meaningful split.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Czechia

    Freelo in detail →

  14. Nozbe

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Nozbe, a task-and-project tool for small teams from NOZBE sp.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
    • Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 15 Sep 2026

    Nozbe in detail →

  15. Vikunja

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Vikunja is an open-source (AGPLv3) task manager with a hosted cloud and a self-host path, from German maintainer Konrad Langenberg Software of Lübeck, with all of Vikunja Cloud documented as hosted at Hetzner in Germany and Finland; sovereignty scores sit at 7 across the bench.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention the EU

    Vikunja in detail →

  16. Beesbusy

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Beesbusy is a project management, resource planning and time tracking tool from a French SAS registered in Nantes.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages
    • Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 19 Oct 2026

    Beesbusy in detail →

  17. Zenkit

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Zenkit is a multi-project management product from Axonic GmbH of Karlsruhe with Kanban, Gantt, table and dashboard views.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany

    Zenkit in detail →

  18. factro

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    factro is a German-language project management and collaboration tool from Schuchert Managementberatung GmbH & Co.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany
    • Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 19 Oct 2026

    factro in detail →

  19. Projectplace

    EU origin, foreign-owned

    Panel rating

    Projectplace is a project management and collaboration product, founded in Stockholm and acquired by the US vendor Planview in 2014.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    Projectplace in detail →

  20. MeisterTask

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    MeisterTask, the project management and collaboration tool from MeisterLabs GmbH, scores well across this bench: five of six judges score between 5 and 8 on every criterion, while the sixth is recorded at 0 on all seven — a divergence we report as computed.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention Germany
    • Free plan: yes, per the vendor’s page captured 26 Oct 2026

    MeisterTask in detail →

  21. Panel rating

    Teamleader Focus (Belgian, in the Visma Group since June 2022) is strongest on data protection and getting started.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    Teamleader Focus in detail →

  22. Wimi

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Wimi is a project management and collaboration suite from Wimi SAS in Paris, and its scores are strongest on sovereignty and collaboration depth.

    • Data hosting: Default not stated; pages mention France

    Wimi in detail →

  23. Taiga

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Taiga is "The free and open-source project management tool", 100 per cent open source, with an on-premise option for larger teams or multiple small teams.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    Taiga in detail →

  24. Podio

    EU origin, foreign-owned

    Panel rating

    Podio, a no-code project management and collaboration tool from Progress Software Corporation, scores highest on pricing transparency, 6 to 8: the pricing page states both billing cycles, prices the free tier at $0 per user per month for up to 5 users, and lists add-ons from $23/month and $39/month, though we found no public information on per-user prices for the Plus and Premium tiers.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    Podio in detail →

  25. Ganttic

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Ganttic OÜ of Tartu, Estonia, is a Gantt-style project and resource planner whose captured pages show scale — 700,000+ projects planned, 300,000+ resources, 50+ industries, 15+ years — but little purchase-ready detail.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    Ganttic in detail →

  26. Forecast

    EU-Made

    Panel rating

    Forecast is professional services automation software whose predictive AI is claimed to cover resourcing, capacity planning and financial forecasting; founded in Copenhagen and now branded Accelo, it contracts through Accelo, Inc.

    • Data hosting: not stated on the vendor’s pages

    Forecast in detail →

Other alternatives

  1. Quire

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Quire, a project management and collaboration tool from PixelPlow Co., Ltd., scores strongest on collaboration depth and onboarding effort, both at 8 across the bench: external collaborators stay outside the organization under document, sublist and chat permissions, signup is free with 'No credit card needed', and JSON importers pull work from Asana, Trello, Wunderlist and Todoist.

    Quire in detail →

  2. ClickUp

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    ClickUp, a project management and collaboration platform from Mango Technologies, Inc.

    ClickUp in detail →

  3. YouTrack

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    YouTrack, JetBrains s.r.o.'s project tracker, earned its strongest score on integrations at 9, for an open REST API, custom webhooks, an MCP server, a marketplace, and importers from Jira, GitHub, GitLab and others with continuous Jira sync.

    YouTrack in detail →

  4. monday.com

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    monday.com is a project management and collaboration platform from monday.com Ltd., a Tel Aviv company publicly listed on NASDAQ.

    monday.com in detail →

  5. Asana

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Asana, Inc.

    Asana in detail →

  6. Wrike

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Wrike, Inc.

    Wrike in detail →

  7. Jira

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    The verdict is strong on breadth, weak on control.

    Jira in detail →

  8. Linear

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Linear, from Linear Orbit, Inc., is a project management and collaboration product whose strongest category is integrations, scoring 9-10 on a public GraphQL API the vendor says it uses internally, webhooks carrying full payloads, scoped and revocable API keys, native importers for Jira, Asana, Shortcut, Trello and GitHub Issues, and an MCP server.

    Linear in detail →

  9. Hive

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Hive, from Hive Technology, Inc.

    Hive in detail →

  10. Motion

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Motion is an AI-assisted project management and collaboration product whose public pages document genuine team software.

    Motion in detail →

  11. Nifty

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Nifty is a project management and collaboration tool from Nifty Technologies, Inc., a New York company.

    Nifty in detail →

  12. Fibery

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Fibery is a modular work platform for project management and collaboration, and the bench scores it strongest on integrations and onboarding effort.

    Fibery in detail →

  13. Shortcut

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Shortcut is a project management and collaboration tool that unites issue tracking, sprints, roadmaps and goals for product development teams.

    Shortcut in detail →

  14. Airtable

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Airtable's strongest mark is integrations at 7–9: a documented Web API with full record CRUD, real-time webhooks in open beta, and a native catalogue spanning Slack, Jira, Salesforce, Snowflake and the AI surfaces ChatGPT and Claude.

    Airtable in detail →

  15. Planisware

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Planisware, from Planisware SAS, is an AI-powered project portfolio management platform judged on captured public pages.

    Planisware in detail →

  16. Businessmap

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Businessmap, formerly Kanbanize, is a Kanban project-management tool whose best scores are integrations at 8 to 9: a documented REST API, Jira, GitLab, Bitbucket and Subversion connectors, SSO via Azure AD, Okta and OneLogin, three automation platforms including Zapier with over 750 apps, and an MCP connection letting Claude run the boards.

    Businessmap in detail →

  17. Basecamp

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Basecamp, from 37signals LLC, is a project management and team coordination product.

    Basecamp in detail →

  18. Zoho Projects

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Zoho Projects, a project-management tool, scores highest on onboarding effort at 8: a 15-day trial without a credit card, a free tier with three projects, roughly two dozen industry templates, a quick start guide and beginner webinars.

    Zoho Projects in detail →

  19. Paymo

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Paymo is a project management and time-tracking platform pitched at independent professionals and small teams.

    Paymo in detail →

  20. ProjectManager

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    ProjectManager is a cloud project management platform from ProjectManager.com, Inc.

    ProjectManager in detail →

  21. Smartsheet

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Smartsheet scores highest on collaboration depth and support documentation, lowest on sovereignty, with onboarding effort flat at 5 and pricing transparency at 5-6.

    Smartsheet in detail →

  22. Merlin Project

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Merlin Project is a native Apple project-management app from ProjectWizards GmbH, a German family business registered at the Osnabrück court since 2004, with Gantt, Kanban, Mind Map and workload views on one data source.

    Merlin Project in detail →

  23. Planio

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Planio, from Planio GmbH, headquartered in Berlin, is a project management and collaboration service.

    Planio in detail →

  24. Todoist

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Todoist scored strongest on onboarding effort and integrations: judges point to a Beginner tier at 0€ behind a Get Started button, a copyable onboarding template, natural-language quick add, and 90+ integrations across twelve categories plus a documented developer API with an MCP server and CLI.

    Todoist in detail →

  25. Plaky

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Plaky, a project management tool from CAKE.com (CAKE Labs d.o.o.), scores highest on getting teams started and on documentation: onboarding effort scores span 7 to 8, on a free-forever tier with unlimited users, projects, tasks and files, no credit card, signup via Google, Apple, Microsoft or passwordless email, and boards from a template center or CSV import; support and documentation scores span 7 to 8, on a help center with tutorials, changelog and status page plus 24/7 email, phone and chat support.

    Plaky in detail →

  26. Notion

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Notion is a project management and collaboration product from Notion Labs, Inc.

    Notion in detail →

  27. Taskworld

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Taskworld, a project management and collaboration tool from Taskworld Inc., earns mid-band marks on the evidence of its help-center pages: scores cluster at 5-6 on collaboration depth, reporting, integrations and onboarding effort, with support documentation trailing at 4-5.

    Taskworld in detail →

  28. TeamGantt

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    TeamGantt is schedule-first Gantt planning software from Groundbreaking Designs, LLC, and its strongest area is collaboration depth, scored a flat 8: assignments to individuals, teams or assets, dependencies that reschedule the plan automatically, a workload view, cross-project boards, and client or subcontractor access with no account.

    TeamGantt in detail →

  29. GanttPRO

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    GanttPRO is an online project management tool from DPM Solutions Sp.

    GanttPRO in detail →

  30. Twproject

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Twproject, a project-management tool from Open Lab S.r.l., is at its strongest in planning: collaboration depth scores cluster at 7, built on a Gantt with phases and dependencies, assignment by person, skill or department, and a real-time workload view flagging overbooked and underbooked teams.

    Twproject in detail →

  31. Trello

    Rest of world

    Panel rating

    Trello, Atlassian's shared kanban product, is strongest on pricing transparency, where scores cluster at 7, and onboarding effort, at 7 to 8: a permanent free tier covers up to 10 collaborators per Workspace, every tier carries a public number including Enterprise at $17.50 per user/month billed annually, and templates plus free video tutorials make a same-day start plausible.

    Trello in detail →

  32. Coda

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    The captured pages carry a 'Coda is now Superhuman Docs' banner.

    Coda in detail →

  33. RationalPlan

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    RationalPlan is a project management suite from Stand By Soft, a Romanian company founded in 1997, sold in Single Project, Multi Project, Project Viewer and Project Server editions.

    RationalPlan in detail →

  34. Backlog

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Backlog, Nulab's project management and collaboration product, is strongest on integrations, where scores cluster at 6–7: fifteen named integrations spanning chat, storage and CI, webhooks, a public developer API, and real Jira, Redmine and Google Sheets importers, with judges finding no public information on automation-platform connectors such as Zapier or Make.

    Backlog in detail →

  35. LiquidPlanner

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    LiquidPlanner's Portfolio Manager is judged strongest on collaboration depth, where scores cluster at 7: task assignments, file sharing and real-time comments, plus automatic workload leveling across multiple projects and dependencies and workload distribution views at 30, 60, 90 and 180 day increments.

    LiquidPlanner in detail →

  36. Teamhood

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Teamhood, a project management tool from Eylean Board, is strongest where its help pages run deepest: collaboration depth and support documentation.

    Teamhood in detail →

  37. Sciforma

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating

    Sciforma was a Project and Portfolio Management provider acquired by Planview in 2025, with Sciforma Vantage renamed Planview ProjectAdvantage; the captured page is an acquisition announcement, and the scores follow that thinness.

    Sciforma in detail →

  38. Freedcamp

    Provenance unknown

    Panel rating Not rated — too little public evidence

    Freedcamp, Inc.

    Freedcamp in detail →