Basecamp lists 25 features. How many does your team use?

Basecamp is a hosted, multi-product suite with a decades-old user base and 99.99% uptime; a custom app can replicate its to-dos and boards but not its network, track record, or integrations ecosystem.

Projects & Core Tools

• Project pages
  Each project gets its own page to add tools, invite people, and keep everything organized.
• Message boards
  Post announcements and discussions with threaded replies.
• To-do lists
  Lists with assignees, due dates, attachments, and subtasks.
• Card tables
  Kanban-style boards with columns and cards moved through stages.
• Hill charts
  Visual progress view showing where work stands on each item.

Communication

• Campfire chat
  Real-time group chat rooms per project for quick conversations and file sharing.
  Simplified version. Live updates via polling or websockets only; no voice/video calls included
• Automatic check-ins
  Scheduled recurring questions to team members with answers saved in one place.
  Needs an outside service: Resend. Reminders to answer would need transactional email
• Email reply to posts
  Reply to most Basecamp notifications directly from email.
  Needs an outside service: Gmail API and Microsoft Graph. Inbound email reply parsing is possible, but two-way mailbox sync is not included

Calendar & Scheduling

• Project calendar
  Built-in calendar for deadlines, milestones, events, and meetings per project.
• Global calendar
  Combined calendar across all projects.
• Calendar subscriptions
  Subscribe to Basecamp calendars from Outlook, Google Calendar, and others.
  Needs an outside service: Google Calendar and Microsoft Graph APIs. Standard iCal feed is buildable; live two-way Google/Outlook sync needs calendar OAuth

Files & Documents

• Docs & files
  Store images, documents, PDFs, and links organized inside projects.

Personal Workspace

• My Tasks, Events, Today, Bookmarks, Notes
  Personal bar with your tasks, events, bookmarks, and notes.
• Keyboard shortcuts
  Shift-triggered key hints to navigate without a mouse.

Overview & Reporting

• Reports
  High-level overview of where things stand.
• Everything views
  Pull all items of one type (files, to-dos) across projects onto one page.
• The Lineup
  Timeline of all projects by start and end dates.
• Activity feed
  Time-stamped, attributed activity organized by topic with history.

Client Access & Permissions

• Client mode
  Choose per project what clients can see, hiding unfinished work.
• Invite co-workers, clients, and AI agents
  Add people and AI agents to projects with access control.
  Needs an outside service: Resend. Invitation emails need transactional email

Developer & Automation

• API and webhooks
  Public API to connect other services and automate work.
• Command line interface
  Manage projects, to-dos, and messages from the command line.
• Integrations ecosystem
  Hundreds of third-party apps (Zapier, Slack, Harvest, etc.) connect to Basecamp.
  We can't build this. Third-party ecosystem is other companies' products, not something we can build or host

Apps & Access

• Mobile and desktop apps
  Native iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows apps.
  Needs an outside service: Firebase Cloud Messaging. Mobile apps buildable with Expo; desktop native apps are not included, only a browser/PWA
• Email newsletter signup
  Marketing newsletter subscription on the site.
  Needs an outside service: Amazon SES. Bulk newsletter sending; marketing, not core product

What you’d bring

We write all the code. These features only work on outside services, and those accounts are yours to open and pay for directly.

What we can’t build

• Integrations ecosystem. Third-party ecosystem is other companies' products, not something we can build or host

Build only the Basecamp features you use

Pick your features, choose what it connects to, and see the price before you start.