Teamwork vs Zoho Projects

This is the whole ballgame for client-facing teams. Teamwork lets you track time, attach it to a project, and generate an invoice without ever leaving the app. Zoho Projects has no billing or invoicing tools whatsoever — you'd need to bolt on Zoho Books or a third-party tool, which adds cost and friction. If you bill by the hour or by project, Teamwork eliminates an entire category of software from your stack.

At $4/user/month versus $10.99, a 10-person team pays $480/year on Zoho versus $1,319 on Teamwork. That's an $839 annual difference for a team that doesn't need client billing. For a 25-person startup, you're looking at saving over $2,000 a year. Zoho's free tier also supports real work — 5 users and 3 projects — while Teamwork's free plan is more limited in scope.

Zoho Projects ships with native bug and issue tracking, which makes it a legitimate hybrid tool for software teams that don't want to pay for both Jira and a PM tool. Teamwork is optimized for deliverable-based project work — tasks, milestones, proofing — and doesn't offer this. If your team ships software and tracks bugs alongside features, Zoho's coverage is meaningfully broader.

Creative and marketing agencies live and die by approval cycles, and Teamwork's built-in proofing lets clients annotate directly on files without a separate tool like Frame.io or Ziflow. Zoho has no equivalent. For design studios, content agencies, or marketing teams routing assets through client approval, this alone can justify Teamwork's higher price — it's replacing a $30-50/month standalone proofing subscription.