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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Redmine

    Score7.3 out of 10
    N/ARedmine is a project management web application written using the Ruby on Rails framework. It is cross-platform and cross-database, and free to download and use as an open source project available on the GNU 2.0 license.

    $0

    per month

    Trello

    Score8.2 out of 10
    N/ATrello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.

    $6

    per month per user

    Zoho Desk

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AZoho Support is a Saas help desk / ticketing system aimed at SMBs. I competes most often with Zendesk, and Desk.com.

    $9

    per month per user

    Pricing
    RedmineTrelloZoho Desk
    Editions & Modules
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    Standard
    $6
    per month per user
    Premium
    $12.50
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $17.50
    per month per user
    Free
    Forever Free
    Free
    $0
    Express
    $9
    per month per user
    Standard
    $20
    per month per user
    Professional
    $35
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    $50
    per month per user
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    RedmineTrelloZoho Desk
    Free Trial
    NoNoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional Details—A discount is offered for annual billing and for larger numbers of users.A discount is offered for yearly billing.
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    Community Pulse
    RedmineTrelloZoho Desk
    Considered Multiple Products
    Open Source
    Chose Redmine
    Redmine is much for granular than Trello. The detail and record tracking in Redmine can't really be compared to that in Trello. While they can both track things and there is a record of changes... Redmine is more detailed and more geared toward long term projects where Trello …
    Incentivized
    Chose Redmine
    It can beat other services only as free, open source solution. Right now we've moved to JIRA, and Redmine only stays on as an archive and is used by our editor's department.
    Incentivized
    Chose Redmine
    I think that although they are tools for managing equipment and tools for bugs tracking, Redmine has a great advantage since it can be integrated with many third-party tools and that is the only tool of this type with which I have been able to integrate and integrate systems. …
    Incentivized
    Atlassian
    Chose Trello
    I found Wrike difficult to use at first. Also, the entry barrier was higher since I needed to put an email to receive a trial. I didn't like pricing etc. I just wanted to register and start using the application as fast as I could.

    Incentivized
    Chose Trello
    We compared a few other project management programs and Trello was by far the easiest and most affordable to use. The fact that is is straight forward and simply made it even more compelling as we knew there wouldn't be a huge learning curve with our staff, while other …
    Incentivized
    Chose Trello
    Because it is a very simple and intuitive software to manage, it makes it very easy to explain to a new user and for them to quickly grasp the trick to the tool. For that reason, it is an easy choice for managing projects. Besides being a free tool, you don't have to complete a …
    Incentivized
    Zoho
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    Key User Insights
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    98%
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    Features
    RedmineTrelloZoho Desk
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Redmine and Trello and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Redmine
    8.2
    13 Ratings
    7% above category average
    Trello
    8.5
    224 Ratings
    10% above category average
    Zoho Desk
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    Ratings
    Task Management10.013 Ratings9.5224 Ratings00 Ratings
    Resource Management7.012 Ratings9.3187 Ratings00 Ratings
    Gantt Charts9.012 Ratings7.975 Ratings00 Ratings
    Scheduling7.011 Ratings9.0170 Ratings00 Ratings
    Workflow Automation10.09 Ratings8.0143 Ratings00 Ratings
    Team Collaboration10.012 Ratings8.9220 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology6.910 Ratings8.9148 Ratings00 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology8.010 Ratings7.8116 Ratings00 Ratings
    Document Management10.011 Ratings8.2160 Ratings00 Ratings
    Email integration8.010 Ratings7.4147 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Access5.59 Ratings9.2193 Ratings00 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking9.011 Ratings8.889 Ratings00 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management7.012 Ratings8.6103 Ratings00 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management7.011 Ratings7.374 Ratings00 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Redmine and Trello and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Redmine
    8.0
    8 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Trello
    6.6
    73 Ratings
    15% below category average
    Zoho Desk
    -
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    Quotes/estimates7.33 Ratings7.250 Ratings00 Ratings
    Invoicing7.82 Ratings6.743 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting9.06 Ratings6.859 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software7.92 Ratings5.845 Ratings00 Ratings
    Incident and problem management
    Comparison of Incident and problem management features of Redmine and Trello and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Redmine
    -
    Ratings
    Trello
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    8.5
    5 Ratings
    4% above category average
    Organize and prioritize service tickets00 Ratings00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Expert directory00 Ratings00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    Subscription-based notifications00 Ratings00 Ratings7.14 Ratings
    ITSM collaboration and documentation00 Ratings00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Ticket creation and submission00 Ratings00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Ticket response00 Ratings00 Ratings8.95 Ratings
    Self Help Community
    Comparison of Self Help Community features of Redmine and Trello and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Redmine
    -
    Ratings
    Trello
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    9.8
    5 Ratings
    20% above category average
    External knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Internal knowledge base00 Ratings00 Ratings9.85 Ratings
    Multi-Channel Help
    Comparison of Multi-Channel Help features of Redmine and Trello and Zoho Desk
    Feature
    Redmine
    -
    Ratings
    Trello
    -
    Ratings
    Zoho Desk
    6.6
    5 Ratings
    19% below category average
    Customer portal00 Ratings00 Ratings8.04 Ratings
    Social integration00 Ratings00 Ratings6.83 Ratings
    Email support00 Ratings00 Ratings6.15 Ratings
    Help Desk CRM integration00 Ratings00 Ratings5.44 Ratings
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    Small Businesses
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Help Scout
    Score9.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    LiveAgent
    Score8.8 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score7.9 out of 10
    Front
    Score9.2 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    RedmineTrelloZoho Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (13 ratings)
    9.4
    (224 ratings)
    8.8
    (23 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
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    9.9
    (6 ratings)
    -
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    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.4
    (62 ratings)
    8.0
    (12 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
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    Performance
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    10.0
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    Support Rating
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    9.9
    (81 ratings)
    8.8
    (11 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
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    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
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    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
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    Configurability
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    5.0
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    Product Scalability
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    User Testimonials
    RedmineTrelloZoho Desk
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Open Source
    Redmine is a perfect solution for businesses that are looking for a FREE and open source solution for project management. It is great for teams that are managing numerous tasks or projects at one time. Redmine is easy to set up and is fairly self-explanatory for anyone who is semi tech-savvy.
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    Atlassian
    For teams or individuals with lots of individual tasks/details to track, Trello is perfect! It basically removes the need for a paper checklist. For those that need an overall project management tool that requires less tasks and more overarching goals, collaboration amongst various teams, and gantt charts I would suggest monday.com
    Incentivized
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    Zoho
    Zoho Desk is a great customer service tool. It is very easy to track the ability to receive tickets and send responses in Zoho Desk. There are lots of options for customization. The knowledge base feature is very extensive and powerful. It makes creating internal and external FAQs easy.
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    Pros
    Open Source
    • Issue Tracker - Redmine allows in-depth issue tracking complete with workflows and customization.
    • Release Tracker - Redmine allows releases to be tracked by milestones, collecting relevant issues in each milestone.
    • Agile Management - With a few free or low-cost add-ons, Redmine becomes a great tool for Agile project management
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    Atlassian
    • Helps track employees "to do before hire", "to do after hired," and "to do when employee leaves"
    • Provides important information on each employee like personal information along with data collected during the time of hire and during employment time
    • Allows more than one person to be assigned to a task per employee and will remain open until everyone involved has completed their task
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    Zoho
    • It provides a simple widget code with a few clicks once you decide to integrate it with your website or application.
    • There is a very user friendly dedicated mobile application for Zoho Desk for Android and IOS devices.
    • You can easily track all of your tickets and agents from the dashboard interface.
    • You can insert tags with each ticket to group them into specific categories for analysis and troubleshooting.
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    Cons
    Open Source
    • The design and user-interface are a little outdated. It looks like a product that was designed ten years ago and doesn't have a polished look and feel like newer apps have.
    • It's not particularly designed to support agile-based project management methodologies such as Scrum.
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    Atlassian
    • I use colour coding a lot so I would like a wider range of colour options.
    • Also as a visual thinker I would like to be able to easily add images to cards.
    • I would like to be able to attach a wider range of file formats to cards.
    Incentivized
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    Zoho
    • The biggest drawback that I am facing while using the platform is that their ticketing system is not that great [in my opinion]. It does not give us the option to add sales tax and other charges in the invoices which leads to a big problem for us.
    • [I feel] its customer support needs improvement.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    I am very likely to renew Trello, because it doesn't cost anything to do so. I am also very likely to use Trello's upgraded features in the future because a lot of my team's data is stored on there and they have already gotten used to the platform. Trello is very easy for new team members to pick up, making the onboarding and usability very streamlined.
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    Open Source
    Redmine is a great product to have in an organization. It's extremely flexible, costs much less to maintain than other alternatives, and as a tool, it is relatively fast to get experienced with. The primary advantages of working with Redmine are: flexible platform, API, open-source and highly configurable, stability.
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    Atlassian
    Trello is incredibly intuitive, both on desktop and mobile right away. It is also full of helpful features that make it even easier to use, and is flexible enough to suit almost any organizational need. Onboarding for the software is thorough, but concise, and the service is frequently updated with even more QOL improvements.
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    Zoho
    I give [Zoho Desk] [an] overall usability score of 9. This is partly due to the search functionality needs improvement. There are several times where I am left unable to find a ticket and have to generate a new one. I am hoping in the future that they will make some changes!
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    Reliability and Availability
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    yes always support available when I need it!
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Performance
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Never experienced issues with the above!
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    Open Source
    Redmine is free, easy to use and it's everything you could want in a free project management program. The fact that it has wiki integration and that it can track on such a granular level is amazing. Assigning tasks to other users, such as our development team, is fantastic and ensures we are always up-to-date on where we are what - on what projects.
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    Atlassian
    I haven't reached out to their support very often and their support is very limited anyway for the free users. They do have tons of great articles and videos in their Help Center and constantly send emails with updates and add-ons to the product. The fact that I've barely ever had to contact their support team means that they've developed a great product.
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    Zoho
    As Zoho Support is based in a different timezone to ours it can be an issue that we cannot get an immediate response to an issue. But I will say that once their Support is in the office they are fairly good to respond. they have resolved almost all issues I have told them about, but Zoho have also made system changes and not communicated these beforehand which means we are faced with something new and cannot get support on this until their support team is in the office
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    In-Person Training
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    It was helpful and informative! It was back before the pandemic in 2019 so I'm not sure if they still do it but I really enjoyed the experience
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    Zoho
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    Implementation Rating
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.
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    Zoho
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    Alternatives Considered
    Open Source
    Jira is a great project management tool for software product life cycle management for an agile environment based on agile methodologies. Jira is an intuitive and modernized user interface design compared with Redmine but Redmine is a lightweight and affordable project management and task tracking solution with its essential features and functionalities.
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    Atlassian
    Trello is more simple and not as "robust" as the other tools, but it's easier to use and manage and understand and ACTUALLY get stuff done with. It's simplicity is part of the beauty of using it. You don't need a million options that nobody uses, you just need to get stuff done.
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    Zoho
    We selected Zoho Desk as we needed a platform that was going to allow the business to grow through both usage and staffing numbers. We wanted something cost-effective but still offered standard features in an effective cloud-delivered solution but would still allow customization by our internal dev team, to derive better value from the service where it natively didn't do what we needed it to. FreeAgent was okay for a while, but Zoho Desk has allowed a vast improvement in our service offering to end customers.
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    Scalability
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Feels like anyone across the org (no matter their location) can use the tool easily!
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Professional Services
    Open Source
    No answers on this topic
    Atlassian
    Not sure if we use those
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    Zoho
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    Open Source
    • Customers receive updates on all progress made for their issues -- this results in an informed customer who is being given transparency on all steps of our process.
    • Customers have responded well from being able to not have to track down emails and instead come to a central place for requests.
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    Atlassian
    • Trello keeps me organized, focused, and on track. I could filter the Trello board to only see my issues and understand what I needed to work on and when.
    • Trello helped our team implement an agile structure. It's a very simple kanban method of viewing all of your team's tasks and statuses. You can completely customize the columns to your team's specific workflow and create tags relevant to your work.
    • Trello helps reduce unnecessary communications between teams. When I want to request translations, I simply create a card on the localization Trello board -- no need to directly message anyone on the team, and I can watch the status of the card change from "in progress" to "in review" to "translated," all without having to directly ask for updates.
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    Zoho
    • Zoho Desk has created an organised sytem of support which alows me to help my customers more efficiently.
    • By saving resolutions as articles, Zoho Desk has provided a training resource for current customers and support staff as part of solving problems.
    • All new customers become part of a database of customers who continue to receive support and education from forums created by the articles and customer questions.
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    ScreenShots

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    Screenshot of Log and monitor phone conversations, convert them into new tickets, or attach them to existing ones. Convert social media interactions and live chat into tickets at the click of a button.Screenshot of Bring a Help Center directly into a website to strengthen self-service. Chat with Zia, an AI-powered conversation assistant. Customers can chat with Zia right from a mobile app or website. Zia processes their questions and suggests appropriate solutions from the Knowledge Base.Screenshot of With advanced process automation, internal processes can be setup within the help desk, implement them automatically, and make sure that all processes are followed precisely.Screenshot of Instant responses for instant happiness. Respond to customers the minute they reach out with Zoho Desk's embeddable chat widget. Customers can get in touch with agents instantly, right from the Help Center, so agents can respond and help them find answers faster.Screenshot of Monitor a team's performance, customize and schedule reports. Custom dashboards can be created.Screenshot of Zia brings together predictions across anomalies, sentiment, trending ticket tags, and more into a common dashboard for decision-makers to consume. They can drill down further into the details from the same dashboard to investigate further.