AppFlowy vs Teamwork.com

AppFlowy is an open-source collaborative workspace that covers notes, wikis, databases and project boards, positioned as a privacy-focused alternative to Notion. It is built with Flutter for the interface and Rust for the core, so it ships as native apps for macOS, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android rather than a web wrapper, and its source code is published on GitHub under the AGPL license.

The core product combines rich documents with databases that can be viewed as a grid, kanban board or calendar, plus templates, offline mode and an AI assistant for writing, summarising and asking questions about your content. You can use AppFlowy Cloud as a hosted service with a free tier and paid per-user plans, or self-host the backend with Docker so that every page and database stays on your own servers.

AppFlowy fits developers, privacy-conscious teams and organisations with data residency rules who want a Notion-style experience without handing their content to a third party. It is less mature than Notion in integrations, templates, permissions and the polish of real-time collaboration, and its plugin ecosystem is small. Anytype is the other well-known open-source, local-first option; AFFiNE combines docs with whiteboards; Notion remains the safer choice when a broad integration ecosystem matters more than data ownership.

Teamwork.com is a project management platform built for client work, made by Teamwork, a company founded in 2007 in Cork, Ireland, by Peter Coppinger and Dan Mackey. It began as Teamwork Projects and later took the Teamwork.com name after buying the domain. Its core job is helping agencies, consultancies and professional services teams deliver client projects on time and on budget, not just track tasks.

Beyond tasks in list, board, Gantt and table views, Teamwork.com includes native time tracking, billable rates, time budgets and retainers, workload and capacity planning, intake forms, invoicing from logged time, client users and profitability reporting. The free plan allows up to 5 users and 5 projects. Basics adds billable time and reporting, Accelerate adds workload, budgets and invoicing with HubSpot and QuickBooks sync, and the quoted Optimize and Enterprise plans add quotes, resource planning by role, profitability and SSO. Teamwork also sells a separate helpdesk, Teamwork Desk.

It fits agencies that bill by the hour or retainer and want time, budgets and resourcing in the same tool as tasks. Asana and monday.com are more flexible for internal teams but need add-ons for billing; Wrike and ClickUp cover more use cases with less agency focus. Minimum seat counts and the move of key features to Accelerate make it pricier for very small teams.

Recent change: in March 2026 Teamwork.com renamed its tiers, with Deliver becoming Basics and Grow becoming Accelerate, and raised the annual discount to about 29%, so older reviews quote different plan names and prices.