ActiveCollab vs Redmine
ActiveCollab
activecollab.comRedmine
redmine.orgSide by side
| Figure | ActiveCollab | Redmine |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.29/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 2 |
| Spec score · Project Planning Software | 8.9 (#2) | 8.4 (#13) |
| Spec score · Project Management Software | 8.9 (#23) | 8.4 (#80) |
| Spec score · Project management tools | 8.8 (#37) | 8.8 (#43) |
| Product | ActiveCollab describes itself as a productivity and collaboration workspace for service businesses, including agencies and consultancies. | Redmine is a flexible, cross-platform and cross-database project management web application that can be self-hosted. |
| Project management | The product supports unlimited projects, tasks, and subtasks, with List, Board, and Gantt views and task dependencies. | One Redmine instance can manage multiple projects, with project-specific roles, visibility settings and enabled modules. |
| Security | The cloud service uses separate databases and filesystem locations for each customer instance, SSL-only connections, AES256 transmission encryption, replicated infrastructure, and regular on-site and off-site backups. | The security advisories page lists vulnerabilities fixed in Redmine releases and asks vulnerability reporters to email security(at)redmine.org. |
| Support | The maker offers help guides, live chat, and email support, with customer care available every workday from 8 AM to 10 PM CET. | The project directs users to its forums and IRC chatroom for help and discussion. |
| Time tracking | Users can track time on tasks and projects, use a stopwatch, and review individual or team timesheets. | Users can record time against projects or tickets and report time by user, issue type, category, or activity. |
Plans
ActiveCollab
- Plus$15 a month
- Pro$11 a month
- Pro+ (Get Paid)$17 a month
- 100+ seats$3.50 a year
- 100+ seats$3.50 a month
- Self-HostedPrice not published
In their own words
ActiveCollab
ActiveCollab has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
Redmine
Redmine is an open-source web application for managing projects, available for self-hosting. A single instance can manage multiple projects, each with its own roles, visibility settings, and enabled modules. Teams can define issue statuses and types, then set workflow transitions by issue type and role. Gantt charts and calendars use issue dates for planning, and time entries can be reported by user, issue type, category, or activity. Collaboration tools include project wikis and forums, news, document and file management, feeds, and email notifications. The repository browser supports Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, Bazaar, and Git. Its REST API provides basic create, update, and delete operations for documented resources in XML and JSON. Redmine is released under GNU GPL v2 and costs nothing for self-hosting. It should run on most Unix, Linux, macOS, and Windows systems where Ruby is available, but it does not support JRuby. The project directs users to forums and IRC for help and discussion. The download page identifies the 7.0.x branch as the latest stable version, with new features, bug fixes, and security updates.