Alternatives to Basecamp Classic
The original Basecamp
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The original Basecamp. Basecamp Classic has been discontinued; the active alternatives listed here are maintained products you can switch to.
Small businesses, freelancers, and project teams who wanted a simple, web-based way to organize projects without adopting complex desktop project-management software like Microsoft Project.
Basecamp Classic offered per-project to-do lists with assignments and due dates, milestones for tracking deadlines, a message board for threaded project discussions, Writeboards for collaborative text documents, and file storage. It also included time tracking and separate client-facing access, so outside clients could view or contribute to a project without seeing a company's other internal projects.
Work was organized into separate projects, each with its own to-dos, messages, milestones, and files; team members and invited clients were added to specific projects and collaborated through the message board and to-do lists instead of email.
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FAQ
Yes. Asana, Basecamp and ClickUp have a free tier or are fully free. Free-tier limits in the comparison table are verified and dated.
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