Productive alternative
Productive is an agency-management platform with budgeting, profitability, resource planning, invoicing, sales pipelines and time off. It is one of the closest products to Workly24. Workly24 differs by adding sequential client approval chains, attendance and payroll workflows, documents, sheets, forms and internal chat in one workspace.
Pricing and features checked 2 October 2026 from the sources listed below.
| Criteria | Workly24 | Productive |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Software houses, digital agencies and IT service companies | Agencies and professional services |
| Project delivery | Projects, tasks, boards, sprints, Gantt, milestones, deliverables, dependencies | Projects, tasks, boards, Gantt |
| Time tracking | Timesheets linked to projects and tasks | Time tracking on all plans |
| Workload & capacity | Per-person capacity, overload flags, estimated vs. actual hours | Resource planning on all plans |
| Client approvals | Sequential internal + client approval chains, change requests | Client access limited on Essential; full from Professional |
| Billing & profitability | Billing, invoices, expenses, budgets, payroll workflows | Budgeting, profitability and invoicing on all plans |
| Clients / CRM | Clients, partners, client portal, portfolio library | Sales pipelines: 1 on Essential, 3 on Professional, 5 on Ultimate |
| Attendance & leave | Employees, attendance, leave, departments, teams | Time off on all plans |
| Docs, sheets & chat | Documents, sheets (XLSX import/export), forms, internal chat | Docs |
| AI | Nucleus AI with human approval of changes | AI assistant and AI time tracking |
| Pricing | Planned around your workspace — see pricing | Essential $10, Professional $25 per user/month billed annually ($12 / $29 monthly); Ultimate custom; 14-day trial |
Teams moving from Productive usually move clients, projects and people first, then switch time logging and approvals over at the start of a period. We plan the move with you during setup; some import formats are still being developed.
Plan your move with us →Competitor details come from the vendor’s public pages listed here, read on 2 October 2026. “Not listed on pricing page” means the feature is not mentioned there, not that it is impossible. Vendors change plans often; check their site before you buy, and tell us if anything here is out of date.