Worksection Review (2026): Pricing, Features & Honest Verdict

TLDR

Worksection is a project and time management tool for client service teams, built in Kyiv and running since 2008. It is cheap, calm and strong on billable hours, but the feature set moves slowly and the integration list is short. Best for: small agencies and studios that bill by the hour. Price: Free for 5 users, Basic from $3.75 per seat per month. Rating: 7.2/10

What is Worksection?

Worksection is a web-based project management platform that combines task lists, Kanban boards, Gantt charts, real-time chat and built-in time tracking in one workspace. The structure is deliberately simple: projects contain task groups, task groups contain tasks, tasks contain subtasks, comments and logged hours. There are no databases to model or formulas to write. You create a project, invite the client as a guest, and start logging work against it. Communication sits inside the same hierarchy through comments and a real-time chat, so there is no separate channel to keep in sync with the task list.

The company launched in 2008 in Kyiv and has been iterating on the same product ever since, most recently shipping a version 2.0 refresh. It is operated by Worksection OU and says it serves roughly 1,600 to 1,800 companies, concentrated in marketing agencies, design studios, software teams, law firms and architecture practices. Infrastructure is hybrid with EU servers in Poland, and the company holds ISO 27001 certification and operates under GDPR. We dug into it and the character is clear: this is a tool built by an agency mindset for agencies, and it has not chased every trend since.

What Are Worksection’s Key Features?

Time Tracking Built Into Every Task

Time tracking is the reason most Worksection customers stay. Every task carries an estimate, a timer and a cost field, so logged hours roll straight up into project-level and client-level totals. You can set hourly rates per person and see the financial value of work in progress rather than just the hours. This lives on the Business plan at $7.50 per seat per month annually. It is the cleanest implementation at this price, and it removes the usual agency stack of a project tool plus Harvest or Toggl. Reports then let you slice logged time by person, project or client, which is the view you need at the end of a month when you are working out whether a fixed-fee project actually made money.

Gantt Charts With Real Dependencies

The Gantt view supports task dependencies, milestones and drag-to-reschedule, with changes cascading down the chain. It also arrives on Business rather than Basic, which is worth noting if you were planning to run the $3.75 tier. The charts are readable and fast, though they are not the multi-project master schedule some construction or manufacturing teams expect. For a 12-week client campaign with 40 tasks and five dependencies, it is exactly right. Premium adds a project-level Kanban on top, which gives you a board of projects rather than a board of tasks, useful once you are juggling more than a handful of clients at once.

Client Guest Access

Guest accounts let you invite a client into a specific project without giving them visibility across your whole account, and without consuming a full paid seat in the way some competitors charge. Combined with private tasks and private comments on the Business plan, you can run internal discussion and client-facing discussion in the same project without a separate channel. This is a small feature that saves agencies a genuine amount of administrative work. Custom roles on Basic and above let you tune exactly what each person can see, so a contractor brought in for one deliverable does not get a tour of your entire client list.

Automations, Reports and Storage That Scales With Seats

Business adds automations for status routing and recurring work, plus document editing and two-factor authentication. Reports cover time spent, task completion, workload and project cost. Storage is allocated per seat rather than per account: 2 GB per seat on Basic, 5 GB on Business and 10 GB on Premium. For a ten-person team that means 50 GB on Business, which suits document-heavy work but will feel tight for teams pushing video files through the platform.

How Much Does Worksection Cost?

Worksection starts free for 5 users, but that tier caps you at 2 projects and 1 GB of storage, so it functions as an extended evaluation rather than a working plan. Basic is $5 per seat per month billed monthly or $3.75 billed annually, and unlocks unlimited users and unlimited projects with 2 GB per seat, custom roles, advanced filters, dashboards, reports and guest access. Business is $10 monthly or $7.50 annually and is the tier most agencies actually need, since it adds Gantt charts, time tracking, automations, private tasks and 2FA. Premium is $15 monthly or $11.25 annually, adding project Kanban, API access, IP restrictions, external file storage and enforced 2FA. Annual billing saves 25 percent and there is a 14-day trial with no card required.

The comparison that matters is against other agency tools. Teamwork.com, the closest positioned competitor, starts around $10 per user per month. Asana’s entry paid plan is $10.99 per user per month annually and does not include native time tracking at that level. Wrike’s Team plan is $10 per member per month. Worksection Business gives you Gantt charts, time tracking, budgets and automations at $7.50 per seat annually, undercutting all three while covering the billable-hours workflow they charge extra for or leave to integrations.

The cost trap is API access. It sits on Premium at $11.25 per seat annually, which is a real jump if you only wanted to push data into a reporting warehouse or sync with an invoicing system. At that price Worksection is no longer obviously cheaper than better-connected alternatives, and the value case rests on time tracking quality rather than headline price. Storage is the other thing to model before committing. Because allocation is per seat, a five-person team on Basic gets 10 GB total, which video and design teams will exhaust in weeks.

Who is Worksection Best For?

Use Worksection if you run a 5 to 50 person agency, studio or professional services firm that bills clients by the hour and wants the timer, the estimate and the task in one place. It is a good fit for teams that value a calm interface over endless configuration, and for anyone who needs EU data residency and ISO 27001 certification without an enterprise contract. The guest access model makes it particularly comfortable for client-facing work, and the pricing scales predictably because seats, not features, are the main variable once you are on Business.

Skip Worksection if you need a large integration ecosystem. The connector list covers Slack, Google, Microsoft and Zoom plus API access on Premium, and that is roughly where it stops. Skip it if your team expects heavy dashboard customisation, since personalisation options are limited compared with ClickUp or Notion. Reviewers also report that the interface, while clean once learned, takes longer to pick up than its simplicity suggests, and that the mobile app trails the web version. Product development is steady rather than fast, so do not buy it expecting a rapid AI roadmap.

• Good fit: marketing agencies, design studios, law and architecture practices billing hourly
• Poor fit: teams needing deep integrations, custom dashboards or a mobile-first workflow
• Watch out for: Gantt and time tracking requiring Business, API access requiring Premium

Best Worksection Alternatives

Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com is the closest direct rival and is built around the same idea: project management for teams that bill clients. It starts at roughly $10 per user per month and includes time tracking, budgets, invoicing-ready reports and a client user model similar to Worksection’s guests. Teamwork has the deeper product, with better resource scheduling, retainer tracking and a much larger integration catalogue. It also costs meaningfully more per seat. Choose Teamwork if you are past 30 people or need retainer management. Choose Worksection if you want most of that capability for roughly two thirds the price and a simpler product to roll out.

Basecamp

Basecamp is the calm alternative taken further. It is $15 per user per month, or a flat $299 per month on annual billing for unlimited users on Pro Unlimited, which becomes very cheap above 40 seats. Basecamp gives you message boards, to-dos, docs, schedules and client access with almost no configuration. It also has no Gantt charts, no native time tracking and no dependencies. Pick Basecamp if your work is conversational and deadlines are soft. Pick Worksection if you need to know how many hours a project consumed and whether it made money.

Asana

Asana is the mainstream choice at $10.99 per user per month annually on its entry paid plan, rising to $24.99 on Advanced. It is stronger on cross-project reporting, goals, workflow rules and the sheer number of integrations, and it is far easier to hire people who already know it. What it does not do well at the lower tiers is billable time, which pushes agencies toward Harvest or Everhour as a paid add-on. If billing hours is central to your business, Asana plus a time tracker costs more than Worksection and gives you two systems to maintain.

Final Verdict: Is Worksection Worth It?

Worksection earns a 7.2 because it does one job unusually well and is honest about the rest. If you bill by the hour, the combination of estimates, timers, rates and project cost reporting at $7.50 per seat per month annually is one of the better deals in project management. Eighteen years of continuous development shows in the stability, and the ISO 27001 certification and EU hosting are real advantages for European clients asking security questions.

The limits are just as clear. The integration list is short, dashboards are not very customisable, the mobile app is secondary, and the product evolves at a measured pace rather than shipping something new every quarter. API access being locked to the $11.25 tier is the single most annoying pricing decision. Our recommendation: if you are a small agency that wants billable hours handled properly and does not need a hundred connectors, run the 14-day trial on Business. If you need an ecosystem or a fast-moving roadmap, spend the extra on Teamwork.com or Asana instead.