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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: 8 out of 10
May 1, 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
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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

8.5
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 9.8.

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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Basecamp Keeps Us on Track

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 13, 2021
VF
Vicki Floyd
Director of Administration
ADK Consulting & Executive Search (Human Resources, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basecamp
6 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently use Basecamp to keep track of all of the tasks on a particular project. There are tons of small details for each project and we want to make sure that nothing is overlooked. Several people in our company are involved with every project so we need to make sure that everyone has access to one "master list" of tasks for each project.
Pros
  • Very intuitive.
  • Changes and updates by team members are real time.
  • The ability to create templates saves an incredible amount of time.
Cons
  • Updates should be included in the purchase price.
  • Projects should be able to be copied - later versions of the product may include this ability; ours does not.
  • Assigning a team member and a date to a task should be able to be completed all in one click. Right now we have to assign the task then go back in and assign a date. This is more time consuming but it's still a quick process.
Likelihood to Recommend
It's very appropriate when projects are very similar and a template can be created that saves time. It's especially useful when a project has many different tasks that must be kept track of and these tasks are assigned to different members on the team. It would not necessarily be useful for projects that have only one or two tasks to complete.

Basecamp - Project Tracking & Collaboration

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 10, 2015
LU
Luke Underwood
Director of Content & Optimisation
Jumeirah Group / Jumeirah Hotels & Resorts (Hospitality, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basecamp
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We mainly use Basecamp during project delivery phases for collaboration between both internal and external teams. This aids clarity of communication and ensures that issues, risks and milestones are managed in a transparent manner.
Pros
  • Issue tracking - having a contact log for issues that ensures tracking to completion.
  • Document management - documents such as specification, designs and basic screenshots can be added and retrieved easily.
  • User interface - the solution is simple to use and intuitive enough that only the most basic of training is required, even for non-technical team members.
Cons
  • Multi-media support - it would be good to be able to preview multi-media files.
Likelihood to Recommend
Basecamp is more suited to specific project tracking tasks (both from a global and granular scale). The message board functionality is also useful and in some cases can form "wikis" to support business processes.

Basecamp - Keep on Track by Getting Back to Basics

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
August 08, 2018
KR
Kelly Reumann
Lead Graphic Design Specialist/ Social Media Marketer
CyberCartel International Inc. (Retail, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Basecamp
3 years of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We were using Basecamp for the marketing department only, while we utilized their service. It really helped in keeping everyone on our team on the same page. Making to do lists and assigning tasks was clear and easy to follow. Personally, I am a goal oriented person so it was great to be able to have a visual representation of tasks I had accomplished in a day. It was a pleasure to be able to check tasks off my list as I completed them each day. So for me, not only was it a useful tool, it made work a bit more gratifying as well.
Pros
  • It is a great way to keep a task list. Everyone has their own assigned tasks but there is also a larger calendar view where you are able to see your teammates tasks and where they're at with things in a given project.
  • Basecamp is simple and easy to use. I wouldn't say it's no frills because there are some great features but it's not a difficult program to dive into. You can pick up how to use it really quickly unlike some larger, more complex task tracking programs I've used.
  • Basecamp makes communication easy. You can add notes for your teammates and it helps to keep everyone on the same page and on track.
Cons
  • There were a lot of instances where I would come into work in the morning, I'd log in to Basecamp, and I'd have to find out from my colleagues if it was just me or if Basecamp was down again. It seemed like the program was crashing or under construction quite a bit, definitely more than I would like.
  • I love that Basecamp is simple and easy to use but perhaps Basecamp is too simple sometimes. There were a lot of times where one teammate would assign a task to another teammate and it's get lost somewhere in the program. I'm not sure how but things would get assigned the wrong way and it would leave us trying to figure out what had gone wrong.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Basecamp is well suited to small companies or departments. It is really easy to get the hang of so there is no training required. It just starts to get a little fussy when you have too many people on the platform. This is the reason we recently left Basecamp. We wanted to be able to utilize a program that we could extend past our marketing department and into other larger departments. It just isn't as practical on a larger scale.

Basecamp will keep your team organized and on track!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 17, 2018
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We've been using Basecamp for about 4-5 years now as a project management tool. The entire organization uses it to manage all of the various projects we have going at any given time. It's honestly made a huge difference in our ability to keep up with timelines, deadlines, notes, and documentation for each and every project. I 100% believe it has made our company more effective.
Pros
  • Allows for the creation of groups of To Do's under one project.
  • The Activity Feed allows for a great overview of what's happening to be able to quickly see where things are
  • Anyone can create a to do and assign it to anyone, so people are empowered to take ownership over projects.
  • Is pretty easy and straightforward to get started and creating To Do's and Projects
Cons
  • No dependencies! I wish so much that dependencies were an option. So often we have to remember to manually assign the next To Do to someone after something has been completed and it's easy to forget this. So that this human error can be avoided, dependencies would help with this greatly.
  • It took a long time for us to figure out how best to fit Basecamp into our work flow, who was responsible for what and how our processes would best work. It's great now but it probably took us a solid year before we got to the point where we had smoothed out the rough edges and felt like our processes worked perfectly within Basecamp.
  • You sometimes have to be careful about where you are placing information: in the comment v. the note v. commenting on the list v. commenting on the To Do. Depending on who has been checked to received a notification, not everyone will receive the information. This isn't necessarily an issue; it just means you have to be very careful about where you are placing information and double-checking that the people you want to be notified will receive it.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a lot of different projects that run concurrently and have a lot of moving parts, I think Basecamp is especially beneficial to help not only the project manager keep track of progress, but for everyone in the group to understand where they are in the process and to make sure goals and expectations and deadlines are clear. It has meant that we have less meetings, which has made us much more efficient.

I think if your projects really depend on dependencies, you'll need another program, however. And perhaps if you work at a very granular level, this may not have the level of detail you need.

Basecamp, communication management the easy way!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 05, 2015
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Basecamp has been the de facto project management tool for our company, internally and externally. We use it for all our internal project management but also as a communication and project management tool for our clients. For each client project we set up a different project and handle all related tasks and communication through Basecamp.
Pros
  • Communication between company and client. All messages are addressed to the right members of both teams and the communication is never lost.
  • Easy task management. A simple approach to task management always looks and works much better than complex tools. Each tasked is assigned to the right person and all communication for the task is right under the task.
  • File management, related to each task or message. Each message has it's own files attached to it and it's easy to find anything you want based on popular categories. A life-saver!
Cons
  • The lack of customizations on the tool itself. Only a few features to alter.
  • Time tracking is not that robust.
Likelihood to Recommend
Basecamp is a tool that has a very mild learning curve. It can be used by anyone with limited knowledge of a project management tool because in essence it is more of a communication tool that helps you gather all communication in one place. For those that are using such a tool is a bit difficult because it is possible to send answers to messages through a normal email client - another plus for the system.
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