Freedcamp

Freedcamp is a web, mobile and desktop project management and collaboration system for teams. The company was launched in 2010 in Santa Barbara, California by founder Angel Grablev.[1]

Freedcamp, Inc

Type	Private
Industry	Project management, task management, productivity software, team collaboration
Founded	2010
Founder	Angel Grablev
Headquarters	Santa Barbara, California , United States
Website	www.freedcamp.com

Freedcamp is free for an unlimited number of users, files, and projects. All users have access to a number of essential applications to manage projects and a wide variety of additional production tools that can be purchased as a part of their paid plans. The free offering allows users to assign tasks to people, set milestones, schedule events on a calendar, use discussion boards, and track time spent on tasks.[2]

Freedcamp is often noted as a free alternative to Basecamp (software)[3] in terms of the similarity in name, but both the vision and business model differ.

Features

Free applications:

• Tasks - Shared task lists with subtasks
• Team Collaboration - Invite team members, chat/communicate and share the workload
• Discussions - Forum boards
• File Storage - Advanced file management
• Milestones - Deadline setting
• Calendar - Event scheduling
• Time - Time tracking
• Password Manager - Securely storing passwords
• Tasky - Private task list

Paid applications:

• CRM - Customer relationship management
• Issue Tracker - Advanced workflow issue management
• Invoices - Bill clients with invoices
• Wiki - Create internal or public documentation
• Gantt Charts - Visual way to see when tasks start and end as related to other tasks
• Google Drive - Sync Freedcamp with your Google Drive
• Dropbox - Integrate your Dropbox files inside of Freedcamp
• OneDrive - Access your OneDrive files
• Custom Fields - Ability to set unique fields to be stored within your tasks

Access modes and notifications

Freedcamp's advanced permission features allow for a project to contain different types of user roles with different access modes. The administrator can set up general users and then assign certain tasks to relevant people with different levels of restriction if needed. There is also a client/guest mode which works like a read-only mode. Users can tag participants in a post so they receive project updates via email.[4]

Payment

Freedcamp offers unlimited storage for free, the only limit is how large each file you upload is. The current limit for the free plan is 10MB per file. The developers have stated that they intend to keep the system free forever - their basic package is "strictly free, and will remain this way forever."[5] The pricing comes in four plans. Minimalist, Freelancer, Business, and Enterprise. Each plan is bundled with more of the paid features and additional storage upgrades per file. All paid features are aimed at business use cases and do not prohibit the usage of the system for everyday projects in any way. Since November 2017, Freedcamp uses an adaptive pricing model, pioneered by Slack (software)."[6]

API & Integrations

In July 2018, Freedcamp released its API to third-party developers and Zapier integration. Freedcamp’s open API provides a means to programmatically read information in Freedcamp, input information into Freedcamp, and create automations within Freedcamp. This allows customers or third-party developers to build on the Freedcamp platform and customize Freedcamp to the unique way their teams work. Common use cases include automating repetitive tasks, chaining processes, automating reporting on tasks and projects, and syncing with databases or other tools.

The Freedcamp API is a RESTful interface, allowing you to update and access much of your data on the platform. It provides predictable URLs for accessing resources, and uses built-in HTTP features to receive commands and return responses. This makes it easy to communicate with a wide variety of environments, from command-line utilities to browser plugins to native applications.

Freedcamp has integrations with other SaaS tools, including Google Calendar, Dropbox, OneDrive, Google Drive and Zapier.

Uses

Founder Angel Grablev claims that the "uses for Freedcamp are virtually unlimited". Grablev has found that it is not only businesses that use the project, but Freecamp has been used in classrooms, at major universities by both students and teachers, for friends and family organizing trips, and for personal projects at home.[1] American Red Cross and the Make A Wish Foundation have also been known to use Freedcamp for their projects.[7]

Growth

In an interview with Founders Grid in August 2014, Freedcamp founder Angel Grablev stated that the tool had reached 330,000 users.[8] An infographic produced in October 2014 shows Freedcamp's users have passed 396,000.[9] The system has gained strong momentum, reaching 2 million users after releasing notable industry first innovations[10].

References

1. ""The Angel of Digital Project Management" – interview with Sara Caputo". Freedcamp Blog. Retrieved 14 January 2015.
2. "Freedcamp: Manage Projects Like a Pro for Free". Appstorm. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
3. "10 superb free tools for all of your basic business needs". PCWorld. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
4. "Collaborative Project Management Face-off: Basecamp vs Freedcamp". Make Tech Easier. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
5. "Freedcamp: Hello, Awesome, Free Project Management System!". Pixsym. Retrieved 15 January 2015.
6. "Slack is rewriting the rulebook on SAAS pricing: here's how!". OpenView Labs. Retrieved 6 May 2015.
7. "New Productivity Tool: Freecamp". Radiant. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
8. "Run every aspect of your business in one place, with Angel Grablev, founder of U.S based Freedcamp". Founders Grid. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
9. "Top Project Management Software Products". Capterra. Retrieved 19 January 2015.
10. "Version 3.2 - New Chapter in Project Management".

10. Freedcamp features: Team Collaboration - Invite team members, chat/communicate and share the workload Infinity Blog. Retrieved 27 December 2018.