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
Team Communication Tools
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'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
- Slack 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 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 offers team and project management features with an assortment of different project trackers and file-sharing abilities.
Features
- Customizable project tracking templates
- Calendar view
- Files view
- File-sharing
- Desktop and mobile
- Integrations
- Process automation
Pricing
- Based on user size
- $39 - $1599+ per month
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
- 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 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 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
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 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'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's customizable documents
Xtensio is a collaboration tool that allows team members to create and share beautiful living documents easily.
Features
Pricing
- Basic: $8/mo/user
- Full Access: $15/mo/user
- Custom pricing for enterprise
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
Softr
Softr is the easiest way to build secure portals and internal tools powered by your business data — no coding required
Functionality:
- Onboarding
- Performance management
- Knowledge sharing
- Time off management
- Feedback collection
- IT support ticketing
- Custom code functionality
- Advanced permissions
- Integrations
- Guest management
- Enterprise-grade security
Pricing
- Free:
- Basic: USD $49 per month
- Professional: USD $139 per month
- Business: USD $269 per month
- Eneprise: Custom