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Task & project management

The Asana & Monday alternative that also sends the invoice

Kanban, list, timeline, and calendar views — plus native time tracking, invoicing, and CRM the pure work-management tools make you buy separately. All on every tier, from $7.99/user/mo.

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Every view and custom field free on every tier • No seat minimums

A real project tool — that closes the loop to getting paid

Asana, Monday, ClickUp, Jira, and Trello are excellent at organizing work. But they stop at the task. Log My Business tracks the work and the money — in one place.

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Every view, no upsell

Kanban with custom columns, List, Timeline, Calendar — plus Activity Pulse & Radar, an animated 'what changed this week' replay no rival ships.

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Inline time-logging

Log billable hours right on a Kanban card. That time flows straight into reports and client invoices.

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Rich task data

Subtasks, 13 custom field types, @-mentions and #-task links, tags, attachments, and a full activity audit log.

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Saved & shared views

Per-project saved filters, public share links, and reusable task templates.

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Contractor-friendly roles

Owner / Admin / Member / Contractor, with contractors on a dedicated low-cost seat scoped to their projects.

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Connected to the money

Tasks link to customers, time, mileage, expenses, and invoices — one data model from first task to paid invoice.

How we stack up, tool by tool

The fair version — what each is great at, and where an all-in-one wins.

Asana

Free tier

Work management for growing teams

From $10.99/user/mo (Starter, annual); time tracking only on Advanced at $24.99

Free: Personal plan for 1–2 people; thin on views

Genuinely great at

  • Mature no-code Rules automation and AI Studio
  • Strong portfolio, goals, and reporting dashboards
  • 100+ integrations and a huge template library

Where Log My Business wins

  • $7.99/user/mo for unlimited — vs $10.99 rising to $24.99 to unlock time tracking
  • Timeline, custom fields, and time tracking are free on every tier
  • Log time on a card and bill it — Asana tracks time, then hands off to another app
  • No 2-seat minimum

Monday.com

Free tier

Colorful work-OS boards

Basic $9, Standard $12 (Timeline), Pro $19/seat/mo (time tracking); 3-seat minimum

Free: Capped at 2 seats and 3 boards

Genuinely great at

  • Highly visual, customizable boards and dashboards
  • Deep automation and integration recipes at higher tiers
  • Polished onboarding and a large template gallery

Where Log My Business wins

  • No 3-seat minimum — pay for exactly what you use
  • Timeline/Gantt and time tracking are free, not gated to the $12 and $19 tiers
  • CRM, invoicing, and expenses are built in — Monday sells those as separate products
  • $7.99 flat for unlimited seats

ClickUp

Free tier

The 'everything app' for work

Unlimited $7, Business $12/user/mo; Free Forever with 60MB storage

Free: Unlimited tasks & members, but only 60MB storage

Genuinely great at

  • Extremely feature-dense: docs, whiteboards, goals, dashboards
  • Generous free tier with unlimited members
  • Highly configurable views, fields, and statuses

Where Log My Business wins

  • Built around getting paid — native invoicing, expenses, and client CRM ClickUp doesn't have
  • Every expense and hour flows onto an invoice; ClickUp stops at the task
  • A dedicated low-cost contractor seat — ClickUp charges full price per member
  • Lighter to learn for a small team

Jira

Free tier

The agile tool for software teams

Standard ~$7.91, Premium ~$14.54/user/mo; free up to 10 users

Free: Free for up to 10 users (Scrum/Kanban, backlog)

Genuinely great at

  • Best-in-class sprints, backlogs, and agile reporting
  • Unmatched dev-tool integration (GitHub, CI/CD) + 3,000-app Marketplace
  • Deep automation and granular permissions at scale

Where Log My Business wins

  • Built for client work, not engineering tickets — no steep agile learning curve
  • Time, mileage, invoicing, and CRM are native, not separate Atlassian products
  • No ballooning add-on bill (Confluence, Guard, Marketplace apps)
  • Purpose-built for freelancers and small teams

Trello

Free tier

Simple, visual Kanban

Standard $5, Premium $10/user/mo; free tier with 10 boards

Free: Unlimited cards, up to 10 boards & 10 collaborators

Genuinely great at

  • Dead-simple Kanban anyone adopts in minutes
  • Large Power-Up ecosystem
  • Cheap entry tier, backed by Atlassian

Where Log My Business wins

  • List, Timeline, Calendar, and Pulse views are free — Trello gates them to Premium
  • Native time tracking, invoicing, and CRM instead of paid Power-Ups
  • Real reporting, dependencies, and custom fields out of the box
  • Still $7.99 for the whole business, not just boards

Also worth knowing

A few more, briefly

Wrike gates time tracking and approvals to its $25 Business tier (5-seat minimum). Smartsheet retired its free plan — it's a 30-day trial now. Basecamp is refreshingly simple but has no Kanban with custom statuses, no timeline, and time tracking is a paid add-on. Every one of them still leaves invoicing, mileage, and CRM to other tools.

Feature-by-feature

Comparing entry paid tiers, billed annually (USD, July 2026).

Capability Log My Business Asana Monday.com ClickUp Trello
Entry price /user/mo $7.99 $10.99 $9 $7 $5
Kanban with custom statuses ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ◑
Timeline / Gantt view ✓ ◑ ◑ ✓ ◑
Custom fields ✓ ◑ ◑ ✓ ◑
Built-in time tracking ✓ ◑ ◑ ✓ –
Timesheet approvals ✓ – – ◑ –
Invoicing & estimates ✓ – – – –
Mileage & expenses ✓ – – – –
CRM / customers ✓ – ◑ – –
Dedicated contractor seat ✓ – – – –
Team-usable free tier ✓ ◑ ◑ ✓ ✓

✓ = included · ◑ = gated to a higher tier or add-on · – = not offered.

Where they genuinely beat us

If these are your top priority, the specialist may be the better call — and that's fine.

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Automation depth

Asana Rules & AI Studio, and Monday's and ClickUp's automation recipes, handle complex multi-step, conditional workflows beyond our lighter templates.

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Developer & agile tooling

Jira is unrivaled for software teams — story points, Git/CI-CD integration, and a 3,000-app Marketplace. We're not aimed at engineering-led ticket workflows.

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Resource & capacity planning

Monday Pro, Wrike Business, and Smartsheet offer mature workload charts and portfolio rollups for larger managed teams.

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Integration ecosystem

Asana, Monday, ClickUp, and Trello each have hundreds of native integrations and large template/Power-Up marketplaces. Our API is newer and smaller.

Frequently asked questions

Is there a free alternative to Asana or Monday.com?

Yes. Log My Business has a free plan with Kanban boards (custom columns), list, timeline, and calendar views, subtasks, custom fields, and comments — with no feature paywall. You're only limited on capacity (one seat and three projects on Free).

Can I track billable time directly on tasks?

Yes. You can log hours right on a Kanban card, and that time flows into reports and client invoices automatically — something pure work-management tools like Asana, Monday, and Trello don't do natively.

Is it a good fit for software or agile teams like Jira?

It's built for client and small-team project work rather than engineering-led ticket workflows. If you need sprints, story points, and deep Git/CI-CD integration, Jira is the specialist; for running client projects end to end (including billing), Log My Business is the better all-rounder.

Does it have a Gantt or timeline view?

Yes — timeline and calendar views are included on every tier, including Free. Many competitors gate the timeline or Gantt view behind a paid plan.

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