Freedcamp is a web-based project management tool and organization system for single or multiple users collaborating using cloud computing. The company was launched in 2010 in Santa Barbara, California by founder Angel Grablev.
Freedcamp is free for unlimited number of users and projects. Users are provided a number of basic applications on initial sign-up and can add additional applications later on. The core applications allow users to assign tasks to people, set milestones, schedule events on a calendar, use discussion boards, and track time spent on tasks.
Freedcamp is often noted as a free alternative to Basecamp (software) in terms of the similarity in name, but both the vision and business model differ.
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Features
Freedcamp's free apps include:
- Tasks - Shared task lists with subtasks
- 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
Freecamp's paid apps:
- 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
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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.
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." The pricing comes in three plans. Lite, 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.
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. American Red Cross and the Make A Wish Foundation have also been known to use Freedcamp for their projects.
Growth
In an interview with Founders Grid in August 2014, Freedcamp founder Angel Grablev stated that the tool had reached 330,000 users. An infographic produced in October 2014 shows Freedcamp's users have passed 396,000. Currently the system has reached over a million users and is seeing rapid growth due to recent investor rounds.
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