20 Best Design Project Management Software Reviewed For 2025

monday.com is a feature-rich tool that will allow you to handle almost any project that comes your way. Their creative request workflow template allows you to centralize all the design work in one place, standardize request intakes, organize and manage assets.

Want to start simple? Build a ‘creatives board’. It will give you some structure on the main table view, like a status and file column. Add a kanban view to your board, start changing the status to the stages of your design project cycle and voila! You have your first attempt at a design project board.

Once you upload files, anyone added to the board can click on it, add comments, and download files. Great to keep your client and team feedback in one place.

Designers rejoice! monday.com has developed a plugin for you to use with your Adobe Creative Cloud software. You can review the tasks assigned to you, read briefs, and upload designs directly to your monday.com account once you are done.

monday.com is free for up to 2 users and paid plans start at $8/user/month and offers a 14-day free trial.

Scoro is an all-in-one business management software designed to help professional and creative services streamline their operations. It combines project management, time tracking, sales, billing, and reporting into a single platform, enabling teams to work more efficiently. 

One reason I chose Scoro is its real-time Gantt chart feature. This tool lets you track progress, tasks, dependencies, and events in an always up-to-date view, helping you adapt quickly to changes and understand how delays or logged hours impact your plans. By minimizing manual updates and avoiding double bookings, your team can focus more on the creative aspects of design projects.​

I also like Scoro's resource planning capabilities. With a drag-and-drop planner or Kanban task board, you can distribute tasks effectively, ensuring balanced workloads and preventing overlaps. Shared calendars, timesheets, and a built-in time tracker help manage your team's time efficiently while monitoring billable and non-billable hours ensures accountability for time spent on client work.​

Integrations include Google Calendar, Microsoft Exchange, QuickBooks, Xero, Stripe, PayPal, Jira, Asana, HubSpot, Salesforce, Dropbox, and Zapier.

Productive is an all-in-one project management tool that helps you manage your entire workflow, from sending proposals and planning resources to delivering projects and billing clients. 

Productive provides a focus on profitability. It allows you to run each project like a separate profit and loss statement, giving you clear insights into your financial performance. This feature helps you understand which projects are most profitable and where you might need to adjust your strategies.

Another useful aspect is Productive's resource planning capabilities. You can allocate your team's time effectively, ensuring that everyone is working on the right tasks at the right time. This helps prevent overbooking or underutilizing your team members, leading to more efficient project completion.

Integrations include Google Calendar, Jira, Slack, QuickBooks, Xero, Zapier, Sage, BambooHR, and HubSpot.

Ravetree is a work management app that can help teams in various industries and domains track their projects from conception through to completion. In addition to its project management capabilities, the software offers resource planning, budgeting, file management, and a built-in CRM. Its robust feature set makes it a good option for design teams working in agency settings, but it can just as well be used by in-house design teams.

Teams can build request forms using the software to handle incoming projects from clients or other internal departments. The details from these forms can then be used to create new projects, which can be broken down into tasks and checklists for various team members to accomplish. Multiple deadlines can be set for different project pieces, helping teams break their work down into milestones.

The software also has budgeting, billing, and invoicing capabilities. Teams can track their project budgets as they progress in their work. Client portals can also be configured to manage communications, updates, invoicing, and other customer relations directly through the platform.

Users can connect the software to their other tools including Dropbox, HubSpot, Instagram, Google Drive, OneDrive, QuickBooks, and Stripe. Paid plans start from $29/user/month, and a 7-day free trial is available.

Kantata is a digital work management platform designed to streamline and optimize the management of digital projects. It provides not just basic project management features but also workflow, resource, and financial management tools, as well as team collaboration and business intelligence features. It's a good option for professional services businesses and teams, such as design agencies or creative services providers.

The software aims to enhance performance throughout the professional services project lifecycle. You can ensure projects stay on track with real-time financial oversight and status updates. Its ability to centralize project management alongside assigning tasks and tracking budgets makes it an ideal choice for managing complex digital projects. Plus, your team can stay in the loop through its built in collaboration tools.

Kantata integrates with several other workplace tools including Slack, Sage, Quickbooks, Expensify, BambooHR, NetSuite, Jira, Salesforce, Xero, and Google Workspace.

Pricing information is available upon request, as is a free demo.

Bonsai is a comprehensive business management platform tailored for creative and digital agencies, consultancies, and professional service providers. It offers a suite of tools essential for design project management, including client management, project management, and financial management. 

Its client management features, including CRM capabilities, enable designers to maintain detailed records of client interactions, preferences, and project history, facilitating personalized service and efficient communication. Additionally, Bonsai’s project management tools allow for the seamless organization of tasks, deadlines, and milestones, ensuring that every aspect of the design process is tracked and managed effectively for both budgeting and billing purposes.

Bonsai also offers built-in invoicing, time tracking, and expense tracking, so designers can easily manage their finances without needing separate software. Automated invoicing and integrated payment processing further improve the billing process, while detailed financial reports provide insights into project profitability and overall business health. 

Integrations include Trello, Google Sheets, Google Drive, Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, ClickUp, Calendly, Zapier, Xero, Mailchimp, HubSpot CRM, QuickBooks Online, and more.

Miro is a visual collaboration platform tailored for design project management, offering an extensive virtual whiteboard space. It supports various forms of idea expression, including shapes, flowcharts, sticky notes, and multimedia elements. Additional key features include an infinite canvas for unrestricted ideation, TalkTrack for asynchronous video explanations of process maps, and asynchronous collaboration tools, like comments and reactions, to facilitate continuous feedback.

Miro also comes with a large bank of templates for agile workflows, roadmaps and strategy planning, brainstorm sessions, and various other use cases. Overall, it's a highly flexible solution that's well suited to the needs of design teams who may need a customizable workspace that accommodates diverse working styles and schedules.

The software integrates with other workplace tools like Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Slack, Google Workspace, Asana, monday.com, Jira, Dropbox, OneDrive, Notion, Airtable, ClickUp, and Unito, among others. A free plan is available and paid plans start from $10 per user per month.

FigJam is a virtual whiteboard solution that offers real-time collaboration tools. It's created by Figma, and designed to integrate with Figma's design platform. The flexible and versatile platform can facilitate project planning, task tracking, and more, and you can then sync up the assets you create with your Figma account.

Because of how freeform of a solution it is, the whiteboarding tool is helpful for more than just project management. You can use it for ideation, rough prototyping, and other use cases. Its automations can do things like auto-sort your sticky notes or consolidate notes into clear action items. There's also lots of support documentation available, both from Figma and from the Figma community.

What makes FigJam especially useful for design teams is its integration with Figma's design platform. For product and design teams, this is super useful because you can plan, manage, and execute your work all within the same environment.

Native integrations are available for Figma, Microsoft Teams, Asana, Jira, Mixpanel, and Github.

A freemium plan is available for up to 3 boards, and paid plans start from $3 per user, per month.

MeisterTask is a task management tool with user-friendly visuals and intuitive navigation. Although it has no proofing integrated just yet, it has other features that can help you and your team stay on top of projects.

One of my personal favorites is their agenda. This is a section where your team will be able to see all the tasks assigned to them and arrange them in custom status columns. Perfect so they can prioritize their work across different projects.

MeisterTask has integrations with Google Workspace, Office 365, and thousands of other apps through Zapier.

MeisterTask is free for single use. Paid plans start at $8.25/user/month and offer a 30-day free trial.

Trello is a kanban-specialized software that has robust features and lovely visuals. Although I would not recommend it if you need a view like Timeline (since it’s relatively new), it’s a software that has been around since 2011 and has millions of dollars invested in its development.

The thing I enjoy the most and think is useful for design projects is the checklists. Inside each card we can create checklists with items that could be considered subtasks. Since the client is always trying to change the scope of projects, this helps it be flexible enough to support it.

Trello has over 150 power-ups that can help you connect to tools like Zeplin, InVision, Miro, and Figma.

Trello has a free version of the software and paid plans start at $5/user/month with a 14-day free trial.