Manage the launch of your product, from thought to release, with one of these apps
We list the best product management software, to make it simple and easy to manage product development from beginning to end.
Note that the software in this list focuses largely on product management, and not project management. Both can often be confused because their boundaries are blurry, and some teams may be able to get away with either type of software. Some obvious project-focused choices have been missed out with the intention of finding the best apps for products, but you can read about the best project management software if that’s more your style.
Compared with other software categories, product management has clearly been an area to adapt quickly to the AI era following the huge success witnessed by tools like ChatGPT, so it shouldn’t be hard to find an option with a generative AI boost if you fancy some time-saving tech, and the list of apps available with artificial intelligence like GPT is only likely to get longer with time.
Nevertheless, here are the best product management apps available right now, each with their own distinct feature list and targeted audience.The best product management app of 2024 in full:Best product management tool overall
The popular project management software company monday.com released its all-encompassing Dev software which is intended to help teams track their release process from start to finish. If you’re already familiar with monday.com design philosophy, getting started with Dev will then be a piece of cake. The UI is very intuitive, with templates to help you and your team get started on the important work immediately. The initial view clearly separates epics, stories, and roadmaps, but you can get granular with your settings if you’re not satisfied with the view out of the box. While tinkering with the view and settings, you will come across its powerful automation, the thing that sets monday.com apart from its competitors, which will take away the dreariness of repetitive tasks.
When it comes to reporting options, dashboards can be customized in such a way as to show the most important data at the outset, with extensive filtering options if you have to show individual or team effort and work breakdown. With the collaboration tools inside the platform, you can ditch tools like Teams or Slack, as you can chat, call, and share documents across the platform easily. Searching for older messages has some room for improvement, but knowing how monday.com improves its software, we can expect these options to catch up to competitors in no time.
With Dev you get access to 24/7 support, amazing onboarding documents, forums, chats, and an entire library of self-help articles to get you started and troubleshoot any issues. Be ready to pay for the premium offering though, as the starter plan costs €9 per seat, per month on the Basic Dev plan. The next tier Standard Dev costs €12 per seat, per month, and Pro Dev €20 per seat, per month. The second and third tiers offer much more automation, integrations, and dashboard combinations.
Read our full Monday Work Management review.
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Craft.io looks to be a promising app for those wanting to take charge of their product development from start to finish, with tools extending beyond roadmapping and feedback, to strategy building, prioritization, and even capacity planning. You can also visualize multiple products in one view in order to ensure standardization.
As a single end-to-end piece of software, it offers features for CPOs, product managers, and product ops, which is important to ensure effective communication. Simplifying the solution also results in some cost saving compared with using different apps for different stages of the product management.
The company is big on flexibility, which in clear in the software’s simplicity and ease-of-use, but it’s lacking some of the built-in communication tools that similar project management tools have, making it a hard battle to fight for companies that can get away with using less specialized product-specific software. That said, it’s not short on integrations, with connectivity options for GitHub and GitLab, Miro, Jira, and more.
