In addition to the to-do list, HappyToDos lets you create daily reminders for routine tasks to help you better manage your day. It also claims to save you a couple of hours that you’d spend on assigning tasks to your team, thanks to the virtual project manager. And while this is all going on, you can generate real-time report so you will know who is doing what, how much is the project costing the team, and when the task will be done.

HappyToDos not only focuses on things that needs to be done, but also in managing your work-time resources for better collaboration. Other welcome features include file sharing, time reporting, and personal task tray.

HappyToDos offers full-featured accounts for free, including unlimited users and projects. The only limitation is the 100MB storage for free accounts. But even then, this tool is a great free alternative to Basecamp.

Features:

• Free; quick sign up
• Create scheduled daily tasks
• Generate real time reports
• Virtual project manager helps allocate resources
• File sharing and project collaboration
• Similar Tools: Scrumy, Collabtive, and Workflowy

Check out HappyToDos @ http://www.happytodos.com/

Ace Project is an excellent project management web application. After you sign up for an account on the site you can begin creating projects and entering details such as costs and expenses. Since most users will be project managers, the site supports task management by assigning them to team members. Support for timesheets and uploading documents makes task assignment an easy process to execute and monitor.

All of these features are packed into an intuitive interface to make project management a fast process.

For increased accessibility the site offers a mobile version which is also a web app thus independent of your smartphone’s OS. Hence if you decide to use the service on your phone you will not need to install any additional project planning software.

The site offers a free account with up to 5 active projects and 50 tasks per account along with an overall storage space of 250 MB. For users who want support for more projects, tasks, and storage, the site offers premium packages that start from $24 per month.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you manage projects online.
• Offers 250 MB storage for free account and more for premium accounts.
• Supports task management, timesheets, and details such as costs and expenses.
• Offers a mobile version for smartphone users.

Check out Ace Project @ www.aceproject.com (by MOin from Thumb Press)

Projectial is a relatively new web service that is currently offering its packages for free. The site lets you create an account and then begin work by creating new projects. In each new project you can add sub-tasks that need to be completed by particular dates. To organize your tasks you can add various categories to filter them out later. Each task can have a detailed description added to it with special formatting. You can invite others to your projects and assign your tasks appropriately to group members.

Based on your completion times and paid tasks, the site gathers project statistics such as daily and monthly work. All of this information proves helpful while analyzing your performance.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you manage tasks online.
• Targeted at project leaders.
• Lets you neatly organize tasks.
• Lets you add project members and assign tasks to them.
• Records statistics for your progress.

Check out Projectial @ www.projectial.com (By Umar from AllthatIsApple)

One of the unique features of Scrumrf as a project management tool is its “Product backlog” section where you can assign user stories for your projects. By using user stories, you can create logs that show derived tasks as well as their importance (indicated with priority points and sprint points). Once you have created your user stories, you may now proceed organizing your project sprints.

You may also add multiple items to the user stories and delegate the tasks to your team members. You may also indicate the participation level of your team in this section.

Scrumrf offers a simple but powerful project management tool that actually lets you micromanage the tasks that needed to be done by your team. With it, you can manage any multi-phase project in a speedy and efficient manner.

Features:

• Manage multiple projects.
• Manage user roles or team members for each project.
• Delegate and micromanage tasks using the product backlog.
• Plan on the different phases of your projects efficiently with sprints.
• Communicate and collaborate with your team regarding user stories, sprints, as well as tasks.
• Check the status of the projects visually with charts.
• Easy to use interface.

Check out Scrumf @ www.scrumrf.com

You can start by creating an account and then naming the project you are working on. Next you upload images to your projects – supported formats include JPG, PNG, and GIF files sized less than 4MB. Your project gets a unique URL that you can share with your group members and clients. You can then choose to secure the project by having URL visitors enter a key before they can view project details.

Project details include simply the image you upload. URL visitors can view these images and annotate them. These notes are displayed in threaded view to help you better process the feedback.

Features:

• A user-friendly web service.
• Lets you share project images with people.
• Supports JPG, PNG, and GIF files sized less than 4MB.
• Lets other leave notes on your images.
• Similar tools: RecurseApp, ReviewBasics, Noteboxapp and NotableApp.

Check out CageApp @ www.cageapp.com (by MOin from ThumbPress)

You sign up with them, then add projects and tasks under each project. Once you begin working on a task, just click the “Start Session” link on the left sidebar of your dashboard and the clock starts ticking. It keeps running until you click “End Session.” It then pauses the task and you can restart the timer anytime. The timer works even when you are signed out of the account.

Projects can also be shared via email or made public. It’s a useful tool to have if you are looking for a no-frills online time tracking service that works with multiple projects and tasks.

Features

• Online time tracking.
• Add multiple projects and tasks.
• Simple and clutter-free interface.
• Similar tools: Jerela, Abuky Time Tracker, Yast.com, eClocking, TrackMyPeople .
• Also read 6 Useful Desktop Time Tracking Software.

Check out Clockitin @ www.clockit.in (By Abhijeet from GT Mobiles)

PlanningForce Free Planner is a free desktop application with versions for Windows and Mac computers. The application provides a very comprehensive tools to manage projects, add individual tasks, add their descriptions, set milestones, etc. Additionally the application combines your task lists with Gantt charts and lets you enter resources that help automatically generate task assignments.

Creating reports is also very easy; you can print the task allocations, the project progress, and the goal analysis. For people new to professional project management applications, getting familiar with PlanningForce Free Planner will take some time; but people with experience in such apps will find PlanningForce’s tools and interface to be user-friendly.

Features:

• A highly useful project management desktop application.
• Offers different versions for Windows and Mac computers.
• Lets you enter a variety of tasks, resources, etc. to help manage your projects.
• Merges task lists with Gantt charts.
• Generates reports of various aspects of the project.
• Similar tools: Cohuman, BrixHQ, FreedCamp, Manymoon and Project2Manage.

• Check out PlanningForce Free Planner @ www.planningforce-express.com/free-planning-software.php (By Umar from TechCityInc)

Webplanner offers several ways to view project statuses quickly, including e-mail notifications, print reports, project status pie reports, lists of approaching tasks per project and per member, team statuses, and project activity lists. Although many may feel iffy about the app being run on Microsof Silverlight, the interface is surprisingly swift. Adding projects, tasks, goals, and phases is a breeze thanks to the Wizard feature that helps set everything up for you.

Webplanner is a great tool for teams who work on time critical projects where careful prioritization is required. It is currently available for free in its beta stage, but it seems like it is ready for prime time.

Features:

• Project management tool with focus on project urgency.
• Gives graphic sense of time and project status.
• Track projects at a glance with the project pie chart.
• Print project reports.
• Easy wizard to organize projects.
• Similar Tools: Cohuman, Gantter, Freedcamp, and Collabtive.

Check out Web Planner @ www.webplanner.com/pages/index.php

Once you have set up a project and invited people in Cohuman, you are presented with a panel similar to an instant messenger where you can add tasks, set up your calendar, check status updates and edit your profile. But beyond that, you can follow other peoples tasks that you delegated, and check out tasks due today.

Tasks also have a simple prioritization system based on freshness and number of people following the task which is very helpful in automating priorities. The cool thing about this system is that you know exactly what your teammate is doing and be notified when there are changes in priorities.

Cohuman provides free and paid accounts, with the basic access giving you unlimited projects and 1GB storage. Cohuman will also introduce Corobot, which is a companion tool that checks tasks within your team and even completes any task assigned.

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Features:

• Dynamic project management software online.
• New approach to remote collaboration.
• Assign tasks and defign responsibilities to teammates.
• Transparent communication.
• Prioritizes tasks intelligently.
• Dynamic status updates.
• Integrates with your e-mail and Google calendar.
• Similar tools: BrixHQ, FreedCamp, Manymoon and Project2Manage.

Check out Cohuman @ www.cohuman.com

You can add tons of attributes to your project including project type, start date, end date, estimated hours, client name and at any given time compare the project estimates to actual. Tasks can be added and assigned to different users as well as group into categories. You can view the progress of each project in your project portfolio view and even view Gantt charts for different intervals like Daily, weekly or monthly.

The free account allows you to create up to 5 projects and allows 5 users to access those projects. For a small monthly fees, you can add as many users as you want along with unlimited number of projects. You can also create task reports by user, date and description. You can also upload documents, associate them with specific projects and search them. Time reports and expense reports can be generated along with customized reports about user workload by each project. AceProject may not be have the best user-interface you have seen but it definitely has a ton of features when it comes to managing projects online and generate all sorts of reports.

Features:

• Web-based project management tool.
• Manage up to 5 projects for free online.
• Track progress via reports, Gantt charts and a budget-actual comparison.
• Add users and grant them customized access .
• Generate time, expense and workload reports.
• Add clients, tasks and group tasks into categories.
• Get specific URL for your account abc.aceproject.com.
• Premium accounts also supported.

Visit AceProject @ www.aceproject.com