OpenProject vs ClickUp: Which is a better fit?

Jacob: Hi, my name is Jacob, and I am the chapter administrator for LANFest Colorado. We are a roughly 500 person strong company and we use OpenProject a lot, so I'm going to give it a five. So, before OpenProject, we were actually utilizing a variety of things, the most mundane of which was email, sending emails back and forth, trying to collaborate on projects. We then switched to Google Drive, but that just didn't quite do what we needed to. Myself as the chapter administrator, I needed to see the overall view of the entire project and what was going on, and Google Drive just did not allow me to do that. Some of the reasons that we chose OpenProject were fairly simple. One, because of the fact that it's open-source and can be deployed on your own host, it's free if you have the infrastructure. So we were able to deploy it that way, compared to other services which charge a significant amount. Us being a 501(c)(3) charity, we try to cut costs wherever we can. So it certainly was a easy decision. Additionally, it had features that we did not have using Google Drive. Again, that overarching view of the entire project, the ability for me to assign tasks to people rather than it just being on a spreadsheet. Getting started with OpenProject wasn't, admittedly, the easiest at first. I am not a Linux person. I am a Windows Systems Administrator in my normal life. So getting some of the HTTPS set up, and things like that, did take a little bit of technical knowhow. However, because of the nature of my team and what it is that we do, I have people that can do that. So I did outsource it to other employees and we managed to get it up and running very quickly. If you're considering getting OpenProject, there's a few things I would recommend you do first. First and foremost, do you need it? And I'm not saying that OpenProject is not necessary, but it is definitely a learning curve. It is definitely a very large time investment to learn how to use the software. If you only have a small team, five people, maybe this isn't the software for you. But as you start to scale, as you start to get bigger and bigger with your projects, this is definitely something you need. And of course, if it's cost related, if you're worried about costs or anything like that, if you can self-deploy this, it is relatively easy and, of course, free.

Cassandra: My name is Cassandra. I am a market content specialist at Bloom Growth, and our company is around 75 people big, and I would give ClickUp a five out of five. I've used a lot of different project management tools such as Asana, Trello, Monday, JIRA, and all of them pale in comparison. ClickUp really is superior and it's my project management tool of choice. The reasons that I choose ClickUp are kind of far and in between. I was one of the first adopters of ClickUp years ago and used it as a free user for a very long time and got so much value out of it. And as I changed jobs, I changed project management tools and nothing was as good as ClickUp. I would always tell my managers, "Hey, I know we're using this project management tool, but couldn't we maybe try ClickUp? You can try it for free, and then you'll fall in love and understand that you don't want to use the other tools." And the company that I'm with now, they did that and we're seeing great results because of it. The reason that I personally choose ClickUp not only for work, I use it in my personal life too. You can label things, you can categorize things. There's just so many different options to customize your project management. Gantt charts, lists, boards, different views, different colors. Just if you're a visual person and want to see your boards and lists and things to do in a different way, in a way that resonates with you, maybe your project is pink and all you're looking for is pink. You can do that with ClickUp and I really appreciate that. And the new tools, like the ClickUp Brain. Game changer, it helps my work so much, saves me time. And yeah, I think that's it. When I first started using ClickUp, it was essential that we managed all of our projects and I found it very simple to manage them through ClickUp. It was intuitive and easy to use. It was easy to customize things to what I needed to do. At the time, I was using spreadsheets to use data entry points, and all I would have to do is update the CSV and upload that to ClickUp. And all of my tasks magically got there and it just made my workflow so much easier. And as a manager at the time, it was really easy to teach to my incoming employees and just show them how simple it was to use. So from day one, it was just, "We use ClickUp, this is how you use it."There were hardly ever any questions. And if there were the support was there. I would hop into the chat and somebody would be with me really quickly, which kind of blew my mind because you don't usually get that. But ClickUp has been at the top of the game, in my opinion, since the beginning and since I started using it. If you're considering using ClickUp for your company, I'd say go ahead and do it. Don't wait. You'll be happy that you did. There are so many project management tools out there that will promise you productivity because of their project management platform. I've used a lot of them, and ClickUp is the one I always come back to. It's like it's home.