ActiveCollab vs TaskTale
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ActiveCollab
This tool helps organize and manage projects by breaking them into tasks, setting deadlines, and assigning responsibilities. It facilitates team communication and collaboration, allowing users to track progress and receive real-time updates.
- Project organization into tasks
- Task assignment and deadlines
- File uploading and sharing
- Team communication and collaboration
- Real-time notifications
- Multiple project views (Kanban, List, Gantt)
- Time tracking and reporting
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ActiveCollab is THE project management tool that helps you complete your projects within budget and deadline. ORGANIZE & MANAGE • Split your projects into tasks • Set up start and due dates for each task • Assign tasks to the right people • Upload files COMMUNICATE & COLLABORATE • Track a task's progress through comments • Mention team members • Put endless email chains behind you! PLAN & STAY UPDATED • Get a personal to-do list of upcoming assignments • Get real-time notifications • Stay updated on the go But that's not all. Our desktop app offers many more features: • Three project views: Kanban, List, Gantt • Task dependencies and auto rescheduling • Upload files or attach them from G-Drive or Dropbox • Time tracking on tasks and projects • Personal and team timesheet • Workload management • Availability records • Advanced reporting • Invoicing and integration with Quickbooks and Xero Collaborate with your team and clients or use ActiveCollab for personal organisation. Keep the essentials in your pocket, and stay in the loop wherever you are!
TaskTale
Organize your life and manage projects with this task manager. Create workspaces and projects, add tasks, and track your progress with time and cost calculations. Visualize your work with charts.
- Multiple workspaces
- Project management
- Task and to-do item creation
- Time and cost tracking
- Work charts and visualization
- Freelance work planning
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TaskTale is your personal task manager built with rich features to help you organize anything in your life, and manage your projects easily. it allows you to create multiple workspaces and every workspace has its own projects then you start adding your tasks or to-do items and work on them. You can use TaskTale to plan anything you want like your daily tasks, your freelance work, your general plans or projects, or anything you need to work on it or achieve. TaskTale will help you to do it, also it will help you to track anything you made in your tasks, and give you some charts for your work and it can calculate the time you spent on every task and the cost for it.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: TaskTale at 100% against ActiveCollab's 38%. TaskTale also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). ActiveCollab's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ratings volume (42 vs 5). On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. TaskTale sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per year. ActiveCollab asks for nothing beyond the download.
TaskTale holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ActiveCollab has 42 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 38% of ActiveCollab's written reviews are positive against 100% of TaskTale's.
ActiveCollab ships an update every 3 weeks, TaskTale every 5 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | ActiveCollab | TaskTale |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (42 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 38.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 42 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | A51 DOO | Adel Bassiony |
Customer experience
ActiveCollab
TaskTale
In-app purchases
ActiveCollab
No in-app purchases
TaskTale
- TaskTale Premium3 Days trial$3.991 Year
