Project Management Software That Fits How You Work
Plan the work, see who is doing what, and know whether you will hit the date. Run it in our cloud, on your own servers, or on the free open source edition.
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What is project management software?
Project management software is where a team plans work, assigns it, tracks progress, and reports on the result, instead of spreading that across spreadsheets, chat, and email. Orangescrum covers the whole cycle: projects and tasks, Kanban and Scrum boards, a Gantt timeline, time tracking, cost and invoicing, quality and documents, and reporting on top of all of it. Every plan includes unlimited users, so the price does not change as the team grows.
Why projects slip quietly
Everything a project needs, in one place
01Projects
Set one up properly
A project carries an owner, dates, a status, a type, a business unit, a budget, and its own members.
Reusable templates
Build a template with its own task groups, tasks, labels, task types, users, and workflow, then apply it to a new project.
Your own types and statuses
Define the project types and project statuses your organisation uses instead of accepting a fixed list.
Group them into programmes
Related projects sit under one programme with progress rolled up to that level. Available on Premium and in Self-Hosted.
An overview per project
Status, time worked, people, files, task types, to dos, groups, notes, and cost on one screen for every project.
Archive and restore
Send finished projects, milestones, tasks, and files to an archive and bring them back when somebody asks.
02Work
Tasks with everything on them
Owner, dates, priority, status, estimate, type, labels, approval, comments, files, and full history on one record.
Subtasks and dependencies
Nest work three levels deep and link it with four dependency types, with circular chains refused.
Checklists with a gate
Grouped checklists from reusable templates, which can block a task from closing until the required ones are ticked.
It repeats without you
Recurring tasks create themselves daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly, and rules fire when a task is created or changes status.
The conversation stays on it
Comments and mentions on the task itself, watchers for work you do not own, and in app chat alongside it.
03Views
A Kanban board
Columns are your own statuses, cards drag between them, and a board can span every project you can see.
List, tree, calendar, and mine
The same tasks as a list you can group and column, a subtask tree, a calendar of dates, and a view of just your work.
A Gantt timeline
Drag to reschedule, draw dependency links, indent and outdent, undo, and export the chart to PDF or an image.
The critical path
See which chain of work actually decides the end date, flagged on the task lists too. Available on Premium and in Self-Hosted.
Filter and save the view
Filter by status, priority, type, assignee, label, epic, group, and date, then save the set as a named view.
04Agile
Backlog and sprints
One backlog with six groupings and nine filters, sprints you plan, start, and close, and a decision about where leftovers go.
Epics, features, and stories
A work item hierarchy above the task, with story points, hour estimates, and rollups in the unit you choose.
Sprint, velocity, and burndown
The three reports a team actually reviews, with the sprint report exportable as a PDF.
Scaled Agile for many teams
Agile Release Trains, program increments, PI planning, WSJF prioritisation, ROAM risks, and flow metrics. Available on Premium and in Self-Hosted.
05Money
Time on the task
A timer that follows you between tasks, manual entry, a billable flag, and rules that stop time on closed work.
Timesheets and approval
A weekly grid, submission to a named approver, approve or reject with a reason, and a locked week once it is in.
Budget and cost
A budget and currency per project, cost and client rates per person, and cost built from the hours actually logged.
Invoices and profit
Turn unbilled time into an invoice with rate, discount, and tax, send it, mark it paid, and read profitability per project.
06People
Real capacity
Capacity built from working hours, the working week, company holidays, and approved leave, with overload recorded.
Workload and utilisation
Hours booked per person per day across every project, and estimated against actual hours over the period you pick.
Roles and permissions
Over one hundred and sixty separate permissions, granted on a role, with a different role per project if you need one.
Teams and business units
Model squads and departments, and in Self-Hosted give a whole team access to a project in one action.
07Quality and docs
Defect tracking
Defects with severity, phase, category, root cause, issue type, and affected and fix versions, plus their own reports.
Test case management
Test plans, suites, cases and steps, runs and results, environments, traceability, and CI build links. Available on Premium and in Self-Hosted.
Risk and release
A scored risk register with a heat map and approvals, and version and release management with generated release notes. Available in Self-Hosted.
Wiki and repository
A wiki linked to projects and tasks, with a full knowledge base, a document repository, and real time co-editing in Self-Hosted.
08Platform
Your Git and CI tools
Two way sync with GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Azure DevOps, with branches and pull requests raised from the task in Self-Hosted.
The tools people live in
Slack, Microsoft Teams, Outlook, and Zoom connectors in Self-Hosted, plus Google Drive, OneDrive, and Dropbox in every edition.
A REST and GraphQL API
Scoped API keys, rate limits, OpenAPI docs, a developer portal, and outbound webhooks. Available in Self-Hosted.
AI that acts on your data
An AI assistant that reads your workspace and proposes changes you confirm, plus an MCP server for your own AI client. Available in Cloud.
BI on the live data
Apache Superset dashboards embedded in the product and scoped to the project you are in.
Bring your data with you
Import tasks, epics, and time logs from CSV or Excel, with the columns mapped for you and a preview before you confirm.
Run it where you want
Our cloud, your own servers, or the free and open source Community Edition, on the same product.
Reporting over all of it
More than twenty five prebuilt reports across delivery, time, resources, and agile, most exportable to CSV or PDF.
How a project runs here
Used by very different teams
Which edition includes what
| Capability | CloudManaged SaaS | Self-HostedOn-premise / private cloud | Open SourceCommunity Edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Projects, tasks, and subtasks | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Kanban board | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Project calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time logging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Roles and permissions | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| CSV and Excel import with column mapping | Pro | ✓ | ✗ |
| Gantt chart and dependencies | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Sprints, backlogs, and burndown | Pro | ✓ | ✗ |
| Timesheets, budget, cost, and invoicing | Pro | ✓ | ✗ |
| Resource and workload management | Premium | ✓ | ✗ |
| Test case management | Premium | ✓ | ✗ |
| Risk, release, and document management | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| REST and GraphQL API with webhooks | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| AI assistant and MCP server | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
Project management software FAQ
What is the best project management software for a growing team?
The one that does not charge more every time you add a person. Orangescrum includes unlimited users on every plan, covers planning, delivery, time, and cost in one tool, and can run in our cloud or on your own servers, so you are not forced to move as the team grows.
How much does Orangescrum cost?
Plans are flat monthly prices rather than per seat: Basic at 29 dollars, Pro at 69 dollars, and Premium at 349 dollars per month, each with unlimited users. There is a free forever plan for one project and one user, and a free and open source Community Edition with no user limit at all.
Does it really include unlimited users?
Yes, on every paid plan. You can add the whole team plus clients and stakeholders and the price does not change. Plans differ by features and storage, not by headcount.
Can I run it on my own servers?
Yes. The Self-Hosted edition installs on your own infrastructure, private cloud, or an air gapped network, and currently carries more modules than Cloud because features ship there first, including risk, release, and document management, the public API, and the Slack, Teams, and Outlook connectors.
Is there a free version?
Two. A free forever cloud plan for a single project and user, and the Community Edition, which is free and open source under AGPL with no limit on users, projects, or storage.
What is actually in the free open source edition?
Projects, tasks and subtasks, recurring tasks, checklists, comments and mentions, attachments, custom statuses, workflow automation rules, a Kanban board, a list, a calendar, a personal dashboard, roles and permissions, basic time logging, and milestones. Sprints, Gantt, defects, reports, cost, custom fields, the import wizard, and the integrations are not included.
Does it support both Agile and traditional planning?
Yes. The same tasks can be viewed as a Kanban board, a sprint board, or a Gantt timeline, so a delivery team can run Scrum while stakeholders see dates, with no duplicate admin. There is also a full Scaled Agile module for organisations running several teams to one train.
Can I move data from another tool?
Yes, two ways. You can import tasks, epics, and time logs yourself from CSV or Excel, with the columns detected for you and a preview before anything is created. For a move from Jira, Asana, monday.com, Trello, Basecamp, or MS Project, our team runs the migration and validates it with you first, because those are handled as a service rather than a built in connector.
Does it work for teams outside software?
Yes. Marketing, construction, education, healthcare, government, and professional services teams all run on it. The method is set per project, so a team that does not want sprints never sees them.
Is there an API?
The Self-Hosted edition includes a public REST and GraphQL API with scoped keys, rate limiting, OpenAPI documentation, a developer portal, and outbound webhooks. Cloud Premium includes API key management with an access log.
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