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Overview

What is Basecamp?

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool. Basecamp offers features standard to project management platforms, as well as mobile accessibility, unlimited users, and 3rd party integrations. Basecamp is priced by space requirements and concurrent projects.

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Keep your projects organized and all in one place with Basecamp.

Rating: 9 out of 10
March 27, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
For internal and client-facing project management, Basecamp does the trick! You can set and assign tasks with deadlines to specific people and keep all documents and correspo...
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James Roy
Administrator - Professional Services
Office Manager
CRASH+SUES
Basecamp4 years of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Great platform for keeping our teams organized and productive

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 26, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Basecamp helps our teams stay organized and on track with our ever-growing list of assignments, work streams, and deliverables! Especially no that we're mostly remote employee...
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Verified user
Employee
Basecamp5 years of experience

We Love Basecamp

Rating: 10 out of 10
July 12, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We use Basecamp for all of our daily communication. We also use it for file sharing and organization. It keeps all of our projects easy to find and we can set deadlines and es...
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Verified user
Director
Basecamp12 years of experience

Back to Basics with Basecamp

Rating: 8 out of 10
July 12, 2024
Vetted ReviewVerified User
As a graphic design agency, we use Basecamp to keep track of the work we do for clients and share progress with each other. This allows us to communicate with each other so we...
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Verified user
Employee

Basecamp = collaboration!!

Rating: 10 out of 10
June 24, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are working on a international conference - where the planners and the attendees are from around the world. Basecamp lets us all have access to the necessary documents.
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Alexandra Mooney
Administrator - Corporate
Executive Assistant
YMCA Canada
Basecamp8 years of experience
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Pricing

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Basecamp Business

$99

Cloud
Per Month [Unlimited Users]

Basecamp Personal

Free

Cloud
Limited Capabilities

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://basecamp.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $15 per month per user
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Product Demos

Basecamp Demo

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Garmin Basecamp demo - Part III

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Garmin Basecamp demo - Part II

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Basecamp - 2-minute Demo

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Garmin Basecamp demo - Part I

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Basecamp Project Management Review

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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

8.4
Avg 7.6

Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

6.8
Avg 7.5
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Product Details

What is Basecamp?

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool developed by 37signals in Chicago and launched in 2004. The Ruby on Rails framework was extracted from the Basecamp project.

Basecamp offers features standard to project management platforms, including to-do lists, wiki-style web-based text documents, milestone management, file sharing, time tracking and a calendar, and a messaging system. Mobile accessibility is supported. Notably, it supports unlimited users. It also offers integration with 37signals' own Campfire product, which expands the group messaging functionality of the core platform. Customization, accessibility, and functionality are extended further by the broad range of apps available for free from 3rd parties. A 2-month free trial is available. Pricing is dependent upon space requirements and the number of concurrent projects, not the number of users.

Basecamp Integrations

Basecamp Competitors

Basecamp Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Basecamp is a web-based project-management tool. Basecamp offers features standard to project management platforms, as well as mobile accessibility, unlimited users, and 3rd party integrations. Basecamp is priced by space requirements and concurrent projects.

Basecamp starts at $15.

Asana, Brightpod, and Birdview are common alternatives for Basecamp.

Reviewers rate Team Collaboration highest, with a score of 9.7.

The most common users of Basecamp are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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I Use Basecamp to keep track of team feedback when designing products, and I like it.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 18, 2015
PB
Patrick Barrett
Director of Consumer Experiences (Product Design)
Spredfast (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basecamp
6 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
On our team we use Basecamp when designing new products or features. Designers will post comps and the team will provide feedback. Not a very taxing process, but Basecamp handles it well. All interested parties are internal so everyone sees the whole conversation. I'm only every really in the Projects view.
Pros
  • Provide a central location to provide feedback
  • Notify team members of updates to a project
  • Add new team members
  • Add new comps
Cons
  • I have none. For my simple use case it is more than enough
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are managing simple projects where you need to share assets and gather feedback you should give Basecamp serious consideration. The team behind it have a maniacal focus on simplicity and not bloating their product with features, the result is software that is very easy to use.

It won't replace MS Project, but it will replace your share drive.

Rating: 10 out of 10
December 09, 2014
Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Hospital & Health Care Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basecamp
5 years of experience
Pros
  • Though we don't necessarily use this how it's designed, we do use it to coordinate projects across multiple departments. It allows us to have not only a shared calendar for all of our different marketing efforts, it also is a place to keep all of the collateral we need for each project in one place.
  • We are able to use this to share documents, images, and various checklists to keep everyone on the same page. It serves as a shared repository of different pieces of information, helping to avoid silos and getting us over having to rely on share drives and email communications.
  • We can manage a schedule with Basecamp that holds all of our different teams accountable to the projects that are being managed - which is great when we have so many things going on with departments who don't often communicate with each other.
Cons
  • There's no way to share just the calendar without also including someone on a project. So, people may receive information that doesn't pertain to them, and then it can create some question of separating the signal from the noise on important projects.
  • There is no versioning available for items added to Basecamp - so your options are either to replace historical documents with the new ones, or to append the new documents and try to be clear about the order of importance.
  • They removed the milestone functionality from calendar events, which was a nice way to manage things on the calendar and to mark them as complete. We've worked around it by creating a "Done" calendar and migrating completed calendar events to that project.
Likelihood to Recommend
We use this more as a repository of all feedback around different projects. This has become a key way that we communicate across different teams in different locations. This also helps us to ensure that, year over year, we have a historical context of why particular decisions were made. It's become an invaluable way to keep the clutter out of email and still keep everyone calling from the same playbook, so to speak. As teams continue to adopt this as a communication tool, we're seeing great results in how we're able to collaborate across different roles.

Super-solid project management platform

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 25, 2015
MR
Michael Rolph
Founder & CEO
Wheel Media (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basecamp
4 years of experience
Pros
  • Doesn't over-complicate things, easy to add team members to projects, UI is clean on the small (mobile) screen, and the large pics of everyone on the project adds a nice personal touch.
Cons
  • Integration with the Google API would be great, as well as some CRM functionality. I know, I know, I want it all...
Likelihood to Recommend

Basecamp - Online Project Management Colloboration

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 05, 2015
JG
Jonathan Graham
Senior Director, Delivery Operations
Element Solutions (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basecamp
1 year of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We've setup the sandbox environment and have experimented with the use of it for our Project Management teams internally; and, then with the ability to share it with external clients. During our sandbox testing, it allowed us to replace the use of Microsoft Project locally and allowed us to review and communicate on projects remotely as we do not have Microsoft Project Server in place.
Pros
  • Resource Management/Planning
  • Mobile Device Support
  • Team Communication & Task Assignments
  • Ongoing Support & Training
Cons
  • While there is an impressive list of third party integrations, some of the tools we use were not represented.
  • Would like to see electronic document signing capabilities.
Likelihood to Recommend
This product is well suited for remote project team members working collaboratively on a client engagement. One of the key decisions when evaluating this product is to validate how your team communicates and likes to be informed of tasks, decisions, etc to make sure it's compatible with your team structure and culture for adoption.

Intuitive and Fun to Use!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
January 17, 2018
AW
Amy Wellner
Director of Global Mission Trip Operations
Cru (Religious Institutions, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basecamp
2 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Basecamp is used to encourage collaboration across multiple teams and multiple geographic areas. It is a new tool for our organization and offers a platform for us to generate ideas, make plans, and hold team members accountable, as well as idea share and give feedback/input. It is an excellent tool for project management, for those who know project management and those who don't.
Pros
  • Managing reports for various users so I can quickly see what is on my plate and the plates of others.
  • Easy to use, intuitive interface. People with all technological skill levels will be able to use the program.
  • Monitor activity several ways - by person, by date, or by project segment.
Cons
  • Better integration with Google Docs and e-mail (could show a display of the doc instead of the icon, auto-assign an e-mail to a project, etc).
  • A feature that would allow you to resurrect a project and tasks, that would automatically clear out the history so you could start fresh without having to re-enter all the tasks.
  • It would be great to be able to toggle between seeing completed tasks and uncompleted tasks, both all at once, or just one at a time. Being able to see only the uncompleted tasks on a project would be helpful to give a better overview of what still needs to be done.
Likelihood to Recommend
Basecamp is best utilized for teams of people assigned to work on multi-layered projects. It is especially useful for my team who has members who work remotely or part-time. The best part of using Basecamp is that it allows me to spend focus time working on this specific project, and there is less clutter in my inbox because all the questions are contained to Basecamp. I've tried to use it just for my own use as a task manager, but it's not set up well for that.
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