Hive
Project management and collaboration for hybrid teams
What it does
Hive is project management aimed at hybrid/remote marketing and creative teams, multiple views (Gantt, Kanban, calendar), automations, built-in email, and notes in one workspace. It positions itself between Asana's simplicity and ClickUp's depth. Its real differentiator over the last few years has been aggressive weekly feature releases, which is also its biggest documented weakness.
Free tier
Yes
Starts at
$12/mo
Setup
easy
Key features
Integrates with
Slack, Zoom, Google Drive, Dropbox, Zapier
Who this fits
- Marketing and creative teams wanting Gantt + Kanban + calendar views without ClickUp's configuration overhead
- Hybrid/remote teams wanting built-in email inside the project tool rather than switching apps
- Growing companies (10-100 people) still deciding between a lightweight and a heavyweight PM tool
Who it does NOT fit
- Teams that can't tolerate instability, Hive's rapid weekly release cycle has a documented pattern of introducing new bugs faster than old ones get fixed, users report a multi-year backlog of unresolved issues on Hive's own forum and describe feeling like they're testing unfinished software as paying customers (Source: user reviews via WebSearch summary, 2026)
- Teams that need reliable task dependencies, this specific feature has been reported as broken or unavailable by users trying to link dependent tasks (Source: user reviews via WebSearch summary, 2026)
- Mobile-heavy teams, the mobile app is reported to lack functionality compared to desktop
- Teams wanting a "boring, stable" tool over a "fast-shipping, occasionally broken" one
Pricing
Real gotchas
- Weekly release cycles have produced a documented pattern of new bugs replacing old ones rather than net-fixing issues, some users report losing 2-5 hours a week working around bugs and documenting them for support, worth factoring in if the client's workflow can't absorb that friction (Source: user reviews via WebSearch summary, 2026)
- Task dependency functionality has been reported as unreliable or missing by users trying to use it, verify this works for the client's specific use case before relying on it for a dependency-heavy project
- Mobile app functionality lags meaningfully behind desktop, a problem for field or on-the-go team members
- The pattern reviewers describe: instead of fixing root issues, new features get shipped weekly that repackage old broken functionality under a new name
Integrations that matter
Otto’s take on this tool
Recommend Hive cautiously for marketing/creative teams wanting flexible views without heavy configuration, but disclose the reliability concerns upfront, especially if the client's workflow depends on task dependencies or mobile access. If stability is a stated priority, or the team is dependency-heavy (construction, coordinated multi-step delivery), recommend Asana or monday.com instead, both have more consistent reliability track records.
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