10 Best Project Dashboards In Software And Apps For 2022

ClickUp is a project management and project dashboard software that offers customizable dashboards with real-time project data.

ClickUp’s dashboards are made up of widgets, which users can customize with data on any team activities or project information. Users can gather, display, or understand data through widgets for custom charts, sprints, progress tracking, time tracking, workload, and more. Dashboards are shareable among team members as well.

The tool also includes features for planning projects, scheduling tasks, and managing resources in a centralized workspace, as well as communicating and collaborating with team members and other collaborators.

ClickUp offers native integrations with Slack, G Suite, Dropbox, and many more tools, as well as over 1,000+ integrations through Zapier.

ClickUp’s free plan is robust and includes all primary features. The unlimited plan starts at $5 a month per user and offers additional functionality.

monday.com allows you to allocate & prioritize tasks, use various views in order to see where everything stands, and track multiple projects using project dashboards that provide high-level insights in a visual and intuitive way. The platform is completely customizable so you will be able to adjust it to your workflow. The platform also provides powerful and customizable notifications and automation so you and your team can focus on what’s important.

With monday.com you can plan, manage and track your budgets in an intuitive interface. You can track expenses, income, their dates, and attach needed files to each item. And thanks to the various columns, you can filter items by many different variables such as status, people, text, time, location and others. Formula columns are also available.

While monday.com doesn’t offer traditional automated reporting, it is built to show the big picture at a glance to help you analyze various aspects of your projects and processes. To learn about the different capabilities that help analyze performance, scope out their detailed explanation here.

monday’s integrations include project management apps like Slack, Google Drive, Gmail, Google Calendar, Jira, GitHub, Trello, Dropbox, Typeform and many more, accessible via Zapier.

monday.com costs from $6/user/month and comes with a free 14-day trial. They offer a free plan for up to 2 users.

Smartsheet is a spreadsheet-like project management software. It has won a few awards for quickly becoming a favorite business app. It’s a nice tool if you’re comfortable working in Excel but wants a break from complicated formulas—Smartsheet performs all the calculations for you across multiple sheets.

You can build customized dashboards where you can stay on top of projects. You can easily edit and restructure as needed for different projects. Smartsheet has useful features such as workflow automation and visualization of tasks in Gantt, calendar, and card views. Team members get notified of critical changes in real-time, and the tool provides shared views, detail history, activity logs, automated alerts, reminders, and status reports to keep everyone aligned and informed.

The Critical Path feature highlights all the tasks which directly impact your project completion date to keep an eye on important milestones. Reporting is a strong feature of this tool, with editable summary reports that you can easily export to Excel.

Smartsheet integrations include Microsoft and Google apps, as well as development essentials like Jira, and useful business apps like Salesforce, ServiceNow, Slack, Box, and Tableau. The platform is extensible through a REST API and webhooks.

Smartsheet costs from $7/user/month, with a minimum of 3 users and a maximum of 25 users. They also offer a 30-day free trial.

Celoxis is web-based software for managing projects, resources, project reporting, project health and issues, risks, timesheets, workflows, and collaboration. The project dashboard layout is fully customizable, as are financial and portfolio KPIs, so you can track project health.

The project dashboards also offer real-time data and insights on projects, resources, and financials. Celoxis offers some solid pre-built dashboards that you can work from or customize, as well as the option to create dashboards from scratch for executives, managers, or other team members.

In terms of usability, Celoxis has a simple and easy-to-use interface, and it is available as a cloud service or on-premise, so it will fit to your needs for project dashboard software.

Celoxis costs $25/5 users/month.

GoodDay is a work management platform for product and project management. GoodDay offers users more than 20 ways to view their schedule, workload, goals, and progress. It also comes with templates and support for Waterfall, Scrum, and Kanban methodologies.

GoodDay’s productivity suite includes a personal work scheduling view called My Work, group and private chats, meetings management, project & personal events, built-in documents & wiki, unlimited file storage and more.

You can create custom views, adjust the user interface, customize fields, create your own task types, project templates, priorities, and workflows.

GoodDay integrates with hundreds of apps such as Google Drive, Google Calendar, Gmail, Slack, GitHub, Gitlab, Excel, Jira, Trello, and many others, accessible via native integration. More integrations are available through Zapier and GoodDay API.

GoodDay costs from $4/user/month and offers a free-forever version for up to 15-user teams.

Hive is a robust tool for project management, collaboration, and flexible task coordination. It lets users organize projects in a Gantt chart, Kanban board, table, or calendar, and also easily switch between each layout, depending on the communication style they prefer. Updates are reflected across all project views so the whole team is informed no matter what option they use.

The Hive dashboard proves an overview of progress across all projects and lets users create project custom fields and export to CSV. Project dashboards can be sorted by current status, team member, or assigned labels for a birds-eye-view of progress and milestones.

It’s worth noting that if you’re switching to Hive from another tool, you can import tasks from tools including Asana, Trello, Basecamp, Smartsheet, and a few others.

Hive integrates with Google Drive, Salesforce, Jira, Dropbox, Slack, Zoom, One Drive, Box, and more than one thousand other tools through Zapier.

Hive costs from $12/user/month.

Created in 2002, ProWorkflow was designed as a project management solution that supports internal workflow and communication needs. When you log in to this tool, you immediately see a user-friendly dashboard showing a graphical summary of your current stats for active, completed, and upcoming work.

The homepage contains a friendly Dashboard showing a graphical summary of your current stats for active, completed, and upcoming work. The ProWorkflow dashboard is a readable, aesthetically-pleasing spot to get the lowdown on data like tracked time, quotes and invoices, recent actions, and recent logins.

Overdue projects and tasks will show in red at the top of the dashboard page so time-sensitive material remains front and center.

ProWorkflow integrates with tools like Xero, Quickbooks, KashFlow, FreshBooks, MYOB AccountRight, Box Storage, DropBox, Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, and hundreds more through Zapier.

ProWorkflow costs from $10/user/month, which includes a maximum of 10 active projects.

Deltek does project dashboards with the goal to streamline business development. To do so, they offer the ability to measure strong financial results through project-based ERP and tools to plan and optimize your resources and assess or mitigate risks.

Deltek’s major advantage is how robust it is as a major open-source platform, which opens avenues for accounting, deliverable tracking, change management, resource allocation, time and scheduling, and CRM.

Deltek did not list any integrations on their site.

Unlike others on this list, Deltek was not transparent about the potential for third-party app integration with their system. This lost them marks in the Integrations option within the evaluation criteria.

Deltek Project & Portfolio Management offers pricing upon request and has a free trial.

Project Insights is work management software with a complete project dashboard solution designed to center as a business and collaboration hub. From the Home Screen, users can see all tasks, projects, and issues relating to them and their team.

Some highlights of the software include high customizability, the flexibility of forms and fields for reporting, robust online user guides, and AI-assisted reminders. These “above and beyond” features scored this tool particularly well in the features and functions category of the evaluation criteria.

PI aggregates data from key applications like Jira, Zendesk, DevOps, and QuickBooks. Additional integrations include Trello, Office 365, Microsoft Project, Gmail, Google Drive, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

One critique is that some naming conventions are non-intuitive, particularly when dealing with reporting features. It is also a bit light on the accounting-support functionality.

Project Insight starts at $65/user/month and has a freemium version of the software.

Started by a Portfolio Management consultant with years of experience working with Fortune 500 companies, Acuity PPM is about “software with services” (as they call it) with a lightweight project dashboard that even non-tech folks can get behind. The tool offers project and portfolio tracking, analytics and reporting, and project status report.

Acuity PPM is intuitive to use and offers robust training and support documentation and material. Additionally, information is placed smartly between screens, making it easy to navigate the ecosystem while remaining in control and oriented. This scored them well in Usability per the evaluation criteria.

Additional features include: project prioritization, risk-value bubble charts, status reports, roadmaps, work intake for new proposals, and resource management. Better project planning and plan-versus-actual comparison tools for budget and deadlines would be welcomed.

Planned integrations include: Jira, Smartsheet, Tableau, PowerBI, Slack, and Microsoft Teams.

Acuity PPM starts at $299/month and offers a free trial.