Basecamp - Project Management

Basecamp

About this app

The refreshingly simple, and remarkably effective, project management platform.

Managing people and projects under pressure is tough enough. Unfortunately, lots of software makes it worse by over-complicating things. Basecamp’s different.

What makes Basecamp special?

It’s dialed in. For nearly two decades, we’ve continually refined a unique set of tools and methods to fundamentally reduce complexity, and make project management more of a joy and less of a chore. Perfected and pressure-tested by hundreds of thousands of teams on millions of projects, Basecamp’s the gold standard for a simpler, superior version of project management.

Basecamp works because it’s the easiest place for everyone in every role to put the stuff, work on the stuff, discuss the stuff, decide on the stuff, and deliver the stuff that makes up every project. Not on separate platforms scattered in various places, but all intuitively organized in one centralized place where everyone can work together.

Basecamp’s intentionally simple by design. It’s why teams that sometimes leave in search of “more power” end up slamming into the consequences of over-powered software: Complexity. Complexity doesn’t work. Basecamp does. It’s why those that leave end up coming back and sticking with us the second time around. You never know what you had until it’s gone.

Ratings and reviews

We test drove other project management apps. None were right for our small real estate development business. We needed a project management app that was lightweight and intuitive so we could get everyone using it with minimal training or friction. Basecamp ticked all the boxes. Creating task lists, communicating, tracking, all the things. And it's a great UX. And the desktop, mobile, and browser versions are all outstanding.

Nice collaboration and teaching tool with rich functionality, but too complex. And the kichy wording for categories makes it even more challenging to navigate. I'm taking a course using basecamp and am finding the tool getting in the way. It's causing information and navigation overload. I suggest you run focus groups of users of multiple types. Also, impossible to put newlines in posts. If it's possible, it's certainly not obvious.

I rate it 4 stars only because I have constant problems loading images to each project. If the images could be saved and slowly downloading over time instead of deleting itself. I could then continue the download after I resume cell phone service. All in all it is a fantastic app. I just wish the uploading of photos becomes easier. I am an android user if that helps.

What's new

🎛️ NEW: See your projects in Mission Control
✨ RECENT: See your organized Stacks on the Home screen.
✅ RECENT: See the number of steps on cards in the Card Table.
🗄️ RECENT: A menu option to view archived cards and columns.
🤖 Improved Android 14 compatibility.
🐛 Squashed some bugs.