ToDoing vs Basecamp: a weekly planner for small teams

Basecamp has argued for calm software for longer than most of its competitors have existed, and plenty of small teams run happily on it. Each project gets one place for its messages, to-dos, files, schedule and chat, and clients can be invited in so the conversation stops living in email. Some of those teams still find that nothing in Basecamp tells them who is doing what on Thursday, which is the gap this comparison is about.

ToDoing is a work planner built around that question. A task lives on a person and a day, the team's week sits on one grid, and milestones share the calendar with the work.

The short version

Choose Basecamp if your problem is communication: scattered email threads, files in five places, clients who need somewhere to see progress and leave feedback. Its message boards, chat, docs and automatic check-ins are the heart of it, and it does them far better than ToDoing.

Choose ToDoing if your problem is planning: who is free, what lands this week, which deadline is about to slip. Each person's week is laid out day by day, the whole team's week is one grid, and leave and public holidays are on the same calendar. Eight people cost $16 a month.

Side by side

	ToDoing	Basecamp
Built around	Each person's week and the team's week	Each project, as a hub for its messages, to-dos, files and schedule
To-dos	Tasks placed on a person and a day, carried forward if not done	To-do lists with assignees and due dates
Team workload view	The whole team's week on one grid, by person or by project	Not a workload planner
Timeline and milestones	Milestones on a gantt and on the same calendar as the tasks	A schedule per project and an account-wide Lineup timeline
Communication	An updates feed per project with @mentions and reactions, and comment threads on milestones	Message boards, chat, pings, docs and files, automatic check-ins
Clients	Not built for client access	Clients can be invited into projects
Leave and holidays	Booking, approvals, balances, public holidays by country and region (Pro)	Not a leave system
Time tracking	Ticking a task done logs its planned time (Enterprise)	On Pro Plus and above
Mobile	Browser app that installs to your home screen	Native apps for iOS, Android, Mac and Windows
Free plan	3 people, 3 projects, 100 tasks in total	One project, up to 3 people
Paid plans	From $2 per person per month (Pro), $6 with time tracking (Enterprise)	Flat monthly packages from $29 (3 projects, up to 5 users) to $199 a month billed annually (unlimited)

Prices are correct at the time of writing, November 2026.

Where Basecamp is genuinely better

Basecamp is the better place to talk about work. A project's message board keeps decisions in one thread instead of across a dozen emails, docs and files sit next to the conversation about them, and automatic check-ins ask the team a question on a schedule ("what did you work on this week?") so nobody has to chase. Inviting clients into a project gives them a tidy view of the work and a place to reply, which some agencies value most of all. Basecamp ships native apps on every platform, its company has run the same product steadily for a long time, and its flat pricing becomes very good value for a large team: past about 120 people on yearly billing, its unlimited package costs less than ToDoing would.

Where ToDoing is better for a small team

Basecamp shows what needs doing on each project, but not what each person is doing this week, and for a team of eight juggling a dozen clients that is the thing they most need to see. In ToDoing a task belongs to a person and a day. Each person plans their own week in a personal planner, and the team grid is the same data seen from above, rows of people against days, so a producer can see who has room on Thursday and drag work there. Unfinished tasks roll forward to today rather than sitting overdue, with their original date recorded, so the plan stays honest about what slipped.

Milestones sit on a gantt and on the same calendar as the tasks, so a deadline with too little work scheduled in front of it shows up early. Leave and public holidays are on that calendar too, booked and approved inside ToDoing on the Pro plan, and the task form warns you when you give someone a task on a day they are on leave.

Basecamp's packages are flat but capped by projects. At the time of writing, Pro is $79 a month for up to 10 users and 8 projects, and Pro Plus is $99 for up to 15 users and 12 projects, so an agency of eight with more than 12 live clients moves to the $199 unlimited package, billed annually. The same eight people on ToDoing Pro cost $16 a month, with no limit on projects.

Switching

There is no import from Basecamp, and you may not want to leave it entirely. Some teams keep Basecamp for client conversations and plan the week in ToDoing, which works because the two do different jobs. If you move over completely, start with the projects that are live now: put this week's and next week's tasks on people and days, add the milestones you are committed to, and leave old threads and files in Basecamp, where they can still be found. Plan the week, not the backlog explains why the week is the unit we plan in.

Three questions people ask

Is ToDoing a good Basecamp alternative?

For planning, yes. If what you need is to see who is doing what each day and keep deadlines from slipping, ToDoing is built for exactly that and costs less for a small team. If what you need is a place to talk to clients and keep project conversations together, Basecamp is better at it, and some teams use both.

Does ToDoing have message boards or chat?

No. Each project has an updates feed where people post progress, @mention each other and react, and milestones have their own comment threads. There is no chat, and files are limited to a Documents tab that admins upload to.

Can clients log in to ToDoing?

Not as clients. Everyone in a workspace is a member who can see its shared projects, so ToDoing is a tool for the team doing the work. If client access matters, Basecamp handles it well.

Also weighing other tools? See ToDoing vs Teamwork.com, ToDoing vs Timetastic, ToDoing vs Float, ToDoing vs Resource Guru, ToDoing vs Asana, ToDoing vs ClickUp, ToDoing vs Monday.com, ToDoing vs Notion, ToDoing vs Trello.