How WorkQueue compares with what you are probably using.
Every page below has a section on who should not switch, because a comparison that finds no reason to stay is an advertisement. WorkQueue is a narrow tool — it hands out jobs on one office network and times them. Here is where that beats a subscription, and where it plainly does not.
The four comparisons.
The short version.
The shape of the difference, before any particular product. Three of these rows go the other way.
| WorkQueue | A typical cloud task tool | |
|---|---|---|
| How you pay | Once, for the whole company | Per person, per month, forever |
| Where the work is stored | A file on a PC in your office | The vendor's servers |
| What the employee opens | Nothing — the strip is already there | A web app or a phone app |
| Timing | Automatic, two timestamps a task | A manual timer, or nothing |
| With the internet down | Keeps working on the office network | Stops |
| Project planning features | None at all | Usually plenty |
| Mac and Linux employees | Not yet | Yes |
| Fully remote teams | Possible, over a private network | What they are built for |
The other products are described in general terms on purpose. Their plans and prices change, and a page of ours going stale on somebody else's behalf would help nobody — check their current ones before you decide anything.
What we are not going to claim.
That the other tools are bad. They are not, and most of them are better resourced than this one by several orders of magnitude.
The case for WorkQueue is narrow and it is about shape: if your work is jobs handed to people at PCs in one building, a product built for planning projects across the internet is going to ask you for a lot of structure you do not have, and charge you every month for holding it.
If that is not your situation, one of the tools above is the right answer and we would rather you used it.
The things people ask about this
Can I import my tasks from another tool?
Not automatically — there is no importer today, for any of them. Most teams switching are moving the day-to-day work rather than a history, and start clean. If you have a backlog you genuinely need to carry over, ask before you buy rather than after.
Can I run WorkQueue alongside what we already have?
Yes, and during a thirty-day trial that is usually the sensible way to do it. Put one team or one kind of job through it and leave everything else where it is.
Why is there no page comparing it with the tool I use?
Because we have only written the four we get asked about. If you are weighing it against something else, ask — the answer will be the same shape and it will be honest about where the other one wins.
Try it on your own team for thirty days.
Every feature, unlimited PCs, no card and nothing to cancel. We will help you install it, and if it does not fit, nothing of yours has left the office.