Digging through the exhaustive number of team collaboration tools on the market can be overwhelming. How do you find the best collaboration software to improve your team’s productivity? And how do you know it’s effective before you adopt it?

Have no fear, Flock is here! We did the digging. We tested dozens of team collaboration tools and evaluated them based on features and pricing, to present to you the 10 best team collaboration software for your business.

Best Team Collaboration Tools

• Flock
• Slack
• Interntx
  
• Microsoft Teams
• Monday.com
• Asana
• JIRA
• Trello
• Google Drive
• Dropbox
• Quip
• Xtensio
• Teamwork
• Salesmate

Team Communication Tools

Flock

We’d be remiss not to include Flock in our list of collaboration tools for productive teams. We’ve touted our features and pricing here on this blog, but here’s the deal:

Features

• Direct and team messaging
• Video conferencing and screen sharing
• File-sharing
• Advanced search
• Guest management
• Announcements
• Directory
• Auto-generated mailing lists
• To-dos
• Polls
• Notes
• Reminders
• Share code snippets
• Process automation
• Integrations

Pricing

• PRO plan: $4.50 per licensed user, per month (best value!)
• Custom pricing for large enterprises & organizations

Slack

Slack's main interface

Slack is best known for its messaging platform, but also includes many integrations and tools that can be helpful for business.

Features

• Direct and team messaging
• Video conferencing and screen sharing
• File-sharing
• Advanced search
• Guest management
• Announcements
• Directory
• Private notes
• Reminders
• Share code snippets
• Integrations

Pricing

• Standard plan: $6.67 per person, per month
• Plus plan: $12.50 per person, per month
• Custom pricing for large enterprises & organizations

Internxt

Internxt is a cloud storage solution and an alternative to Google Drive because of its emphasis on user data privacy and security.

Features

• Internxt Drive for file storage
• Internxt Send for sharing large files
• Internxt Photos for photo gallery backup
• Secure file and folder-sharing capabilities
• Free security tools: Temporary Email, Password Generator, Byte Converter, Password Checker, File Virus Scanner

Pricing

• Free for up to 10GB
• You can upgrade to a monthly subscription for €1.49 for 200GB. If you want more storage, you can get 2TB for €9.99, 5TB for €19.99, and 10TB for €29.99. Annual and lifetime plans are also available on our website.

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams

Microsoft Teams is a newer tool, packaging together many Microsoft products like Skype, Office, and OneDrive.

Features

• Direct and team messaging
• Live Events - up to 10,000 viewers
• Video conferencing and screen sharing
• Built-in Office 365 apps: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint.
• File-sharing
• Advanced search
• Guest management
• Announcements
• Directory
• Integrations

Pricing

• Free for chat only
• $12.50 per user/month for Office 365 Business Premium
• $20.00 per user/month for Office 365 E3

See our best team conferencing tools for business here.

Team Project Management Tools

Monday.com

Monday.com

Monday offers team and project management features with an assortment of different project trackers and file-sharing abilities.

Features

• Customizable project tracking templates
• Gantt charts and Kanban
• Calendar view
• Files view
• File-sharing
• Desktop and mobile
• Integrations
• Process automation

Pricing

• Based on user size
• $39 - $1599+ per month

Asana

Asana's task tracker

Asana isn’t just for development teams. Asana is similar to Monday.com in its focus on tracking work and getting it done.

Features

• Customizable project tracking templates
• Lists and Kanban
• Calendar view
• Files view
• File-sharing
• Desktop and mobile
• Templates
• Integrations

Pricing

• Basic - Free for up to 15 users
• Premium - $10.99 per user, per month
• Business - $24.99 per user, per month
• Custom pricing for large enterprises & organizations

JIRA

JIRA project board

JIRA’s value lies in its ability to track projects and manage bug fixes in a product. This makes it effective for client-facing teams, especially SaaS companies.

Features

• Customizable project tracking templates
• Gantt charts, scrum boards and Kanban
• Reporting
• Integrations

Pricing

• Standard: starting at $7 per user, per month
• Premium: starting at $14 per user, per month
• Max 5,000 users

Trello

Trello

Trello offers a free plan that allows project and task tracking on a business-ready level. For more features, businesses can opt into their business or enterprise plan.

Features

• Customizable project tracking cards
• Create and comment via email
• Automation
• Calendar view
• Map view
• Voting
• Integrations (“Power-Ups”)

Pricing

• Free plan with limited features
• Business class: $9.99 per user, per month
• Enterprise: $20.83 per user, per month

Team Collaboration Tools

Google Drive

Google Drive

At this point, Google Drive is eponymous with file sharing. Its impressive storage, collaborative abilities, and cross-device sync makes it a leader for collaborative teams.

Features

• Storage
• Shared Drives
• Docs, Sheets, Slides
• Assign tasks
• Request approvals
• Track versions
• Device sync
• Sharing, viewing, collaborating
• AI-powered search
• Integration

Pricing

• Personal: Free for up to 15GB
• Enterprise: $8 per user, per month + $1 per 25GB

Dropbox

Dropbox

Dropbox is another leader in cloud-based file-sharing, in part due to its ease of use. Dropbox has also recently launched a Timelines feature, which makes for great project planning and tracking alongside file-sharing.

Features

• Storage
• Shared folders
• Assign tasks
• Track versions
• Device sync
• Sharing, viewing, collaborating
• To-dos
• Gantt-style timelines
• Personalized suggestions
• Remote wipe
• Integration

Pricing

• Standard: $12.50 per user, per month
• Advanced: $20 per user, per month

Quip

Quip's Slides feature

Quip is among the newer players in collaborative software. Quip allows for easy file sharing with group chat and direct messaging features. Its pricing is competitive, and Quip touts building “a culture of action” among teams.

Features

• Sharing, viewing, collaborating
• Documents, spreadsheets, and slides
• Group chat and 1:1 messaging
• Integration

Pricing

• Starter: $10 per user, per month
• Enterprise: $25 per user, per month

Xtensio

Xtensio's customizable documents

Xtensio is a collaboration tool that allows team members to create and share beautiful living documents easily. 

Features

• Intuitive page builder

• Branded documents 

• Customizable templates

• Dedicated workspace

• Access anytime, anywhere

• Responsive presentations

• Password-protected links

• Downloadable documents in PDF/PNGs

Pricing

• Basic: $8/mo/user
• Full Access: $15/mo/user
• Custom pricing for enterprise

Teamwork

Teamwork sets up project management over multiple styles

Teamwork is a powerful, feature-rich yet easy to use Project Management Tool used by over 20,000 companies.

Features

• View tasks as lists, gantt charts or board views
• Time tracking allows you to track the amount of time being spent on tasks and increases accountability.
• Resource and workload management allows you to assess team member workloads for more efficient task planning and distribution.
• Task and project creation and management, upload files, add comments all in one centralized location.
• Tailor client free access and permissions to areas such a time tracking and invoicing, perfect for agencies.
• Track project progress with dashboards, board view and project health status updates.
• Excellent customer support centre.

Pricing

• Free Forever: Max 5 users, 2 projects
• Pro: $10 per month per user (billed annually), $12.50 billed monthly
• Premium: $18 per month per user (billed annually), $22.50 billed monthly
• Contact for Enterprise rates

Salesmate

Salesmate is the ultimate solution for productive teams seeking seamless collaboration. With its innovative features, including a collaborative email inbox, it empowers teams to work together efficiently, streamline communication, and boost productivity like never before.

Features:

• Team inbox
• Sales automation
• Sales pipeline management
• Contact management
• Google workspace native integration (2-way sync)
• Marketing automation
• Lead scoring
• Text messaging
• Built-in calling
• Email sequence and campaigns

Pricing:

Salesmate provides a free trial for 15 days.

• Starter plan - $12/user/month
• Growth plan - $24/user/month
• Boost plan - $40/user/month
• Enterprise plan - Custom pricing