Basecamp vs Wrike comparison

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Executive Summary

We performed a comparison between Basecamp and Wrike based on real PeerSpot user reviews.

Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.

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Basecamp vs. Wrike

October 2024

Helped 814,763 peers since 2012

Categories and Ranking

Basecamp

Ranking in Project Management Software

20th

Average Rating

7.6

Number of Reviews

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Wrike

Ranking in Project Management Software

7th

Average Rating

8.6

Number of Reviews

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Mindshare comparison

As of November 2024, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Basecamp is 0.9%, up from 0.9% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Wrike is 5.5%, down from 8.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Project Management Software

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Abenazzer Tadesse

Chief Operations Officer at BeOnline ICT

Jan 11, 2023

An easy-to-use project management solution with good stability and scalability

Our primary use case for the solution is project management The ease of use is valuable. The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with only one…

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Awadhesh Singh

Project Manager at NebuFlow

Jul 2, 2024

Easy to tag people and has a form system to collect information but cannot work in multiple channels simultaneously

I use the tool as a project management tool to track project timelines and communicate with the team. I find Wrike's form system very valuable. I can share forms with my collaborators, and they can fill them out, providing me with the necessary information. Another useful feature is the…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"The ease of use is valuable."

"The ability to network informally is great for communicating with colleagues."

"This is a good tool for project progress tracking and sharing tasks with internal and external parties."

"In our company, we heavily rely on Wrike. Wrike has helped in communication, managing all sorts of projects and tasks, and having a history of all our correspondence items."

"The product is intuitive. It is easy to learn and update. You can follow the project from the beginning till the end with the help of the solution. The tool helps to update the project in seconds."

"It's a very easy-to-use and flexible tool. We can easily write and create queues for different themes. It's very user-friendly."

"We utilize time tracking and reports most often."

"The most valuable feature of Wrike is the tag functionality."

"I find Wrike's form system very valuable. I can share forms with my collaborators, and they can fill them out, providing me with the necessary information. Another useful feature is the communication platform, which makes it easy to tag someone and communicate efficiently. Additionally, the integration with Microsoft Office is great. I can create a card on Wrike directly from my MS Teams chat, which is convenient."

"We can easily write down the tasks and reorganize them as well as have a progression index. Wrike offers several views including a kanban view and Gantt chart view."

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Cons

"The product isn't easy to use. It's not very intuitive."

"The solution could be more user-friendly."

"It would be great if they could develop more reporting."

"We faced an issue with the Wrike outlook add-on; it is only available for Microsoft Office 365, and not the on-premise version."

"On one side, it's very easy to create a task with text, but on the other side, it's not very well-formatted. Therefore, it's difficult to track specific data written in a task. We are making templates, but it's not enough to use a template to know the exact status of different tasks. One thing that we are looking for in Wrike is a better workflow. Because we can only move the status of tasks, we can't really manage workflow and send a task to a specific person. This is what is really missing in Wrike as compared to other tools. We are looking to replace Wrike because we need support for workflow. Another issue with Wrike is that they bring a lot of versions of the tool, which it's not so easy. They bring new versions very frequently, and these versions look similar. For example, we are using robots to read the tasks in the tools, which is problematic with Wrike because it is changing very frequently."

"The response from the website is a little bit slow, and the tool is too expensive for a small team."

"Wrike needs to be more responsive to community requests for new features."

"We feel that the actual project reports and roll-ups could be a lot different. We are seeking something more for the dashboard. We would like a high-level dashboard that can be broken down into individual product roll-ups and tasks that are assigned. If you assign someone to a task, it assigns them all of the tasks under that. We want to be able to break those down so that a person doesn't have an 800 task list, for example. We want more separation with that and a higher-level dashboard experience."

"This solution could be improved if we were able to better analyze how the application consumes cloud resources as this can cause a delay in performance."

"What annoys me with Wrike and things that I would like to improve is that you need to have a very organized workflow that everyone in the company follows, and only then will Wrike work."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Wrike is very expensive, and its price is almost $1,400."

"Wrike is not so expensive, but I don't know exactly how it compares with other tools. Wrike might not be so cheap when we are using it for a lot of users."

"Wrike is expensive."

"From a pricing perspective, I would rate Wrike a four out of five."

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Managing Director with 51-200 employees

Feb 25, 2015

Podio vs. Wrike vs. LiquidPlanner

Having outgrown the features of our trusted project management software, we began to explore options to allow for the sustained growth of SIX AD. Taking Stock Having identified that Basecamp no longer met our needs as a practice, we began a process of defining what we needed from our project…

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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Basecamp?

The ease of use is valuable.

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Basecamp?

The licensing costs are approximately $900 annually. I rate the price a four out of ten, with one being cheap and ten being expensive.

What needs improvement with Basecamp?

The recent update on the solution has made it a little bit complex. For example, to create a team and a project, there is a separate button that you need to click. Recently they updated it with onl...

What do you like most about Wrike?

The most valuable feature of Wrike is the tag functionality.

What needs improvement with Wrike?

There are several areas where Wrike could improve. First, it doesn't allow accessing multiple channels simultaneously, which would be useful. Transferring data from one project to another is also d...

What is your primary use case for Wrike?

I use the tool as a project management tool to track project timelines and communicate with the team.

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Basecamp

Overview

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by Basecamp and launched in 2004, with a new version being launched in 2012. Basecamp offers to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking, and a messaging system. Basecamp Classic also offers integration with Basecamp's own Campfire product, and features APIs that are used by a host of web and mobile apps. Basecamp Classic's interface is available in different languages (e.g. Spanish, French, Italian, German, Finnish and Japanese). The newer version of Basecamp currently only supports English as the interface language.

Wrike is an online collaboration and project management software bringing together centralized task management and social collaboration features into one real-time workspace. It connects tasks, discussions, and emails to your actual project plan. You get an up-to-date picture of the project and can keep your team aligned with your strategy without boring status meetings. Challenges Wrike helps solve:

Data silos: Tasks, discussions and documents scattered across email, Skype, personal computers and spreadsheets
Poor visibility into work status
Missed deadlines and project failures

Main benefits:

Accelerating project delivery by using a platform your team will actually use and love
Keeping all team members on the same page even across borders without lengthy status meetings, long email threads and spreadsheet updates
Big picture of project progress with real-time updates and cross-project reports and newsfeed
Real-time team collaboration with discussions, files attached to tasks, and a built-in document editor

Why Wrike?

Wrike is a system your team will use. It helps them do their work, not just track it.
Wrike can be easily customized to your needs as each team can set up their own workflow.
Wrike scales as you grow, providing visibility and ease of use for teams of any size.

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