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monday.com alternatives

Explore 8 options alongside monday.com (monday.com Ltd.), a product in Productivity.

Candidates share an existing guide group, a comparison, or specific tags within the same category. This shortlist is not a ranking or a test result.

Mem

Listed together in guide “AI productivity tools”

AI note-taking app that organizes notes and surfaces related information automatically.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Building a searchable personal knowledge base
  • Recalling facts buried in old notes via chat
  • Capturing ideas without manual filing

Pricing: Mem is subscription-based; new users get a trial period before paying for the individual plan.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Microsoft 365 Copilot

Listed together in guide “AI productivity tools”

AI assistant embedded across Microsoft 365 apps such as Word, Excel, Outlook, and Teams.

Paid

Use cases

  • Summarizing long email threads and meetings
  • Generating first drafts of documents and decks
  • Querying business data in natural language

Pricing: Microsoft 365 Copilot costs $30 per user per month as an add-on to qualifying Microsoft 365 business and enterprise plans.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Raycast

Listed together in guide “AI productivity tools”

Productivity launcher with built-in AI commands for search, writing, and automation.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Replacing Spotlight with a smarter launcher
  • Quick AI rewriting and summarizing in any app
  • Automating workflows via extensions and scripts

Pricing: The launcher is free; Raycast Pro is a paid subscription that adds AI with premium models, cloud sync, and more.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-09.

Shortwave

Listed together in guide “AI productivity tools”

AI-powered email app for Gmail with an assistant that searches, summarizes, and drafts messages.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Searching years of email with natural-language questions
  • Summarizing long threads before replying
  • Organizing a busy Gmail inbox with AI triage

Pricing: Shortwave has a free tier with limited AI usage; paid plans add more AI queries, longer history search, and team features.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-09.

Superhuman

Listed together in guide “AI productivity tools”

Fast email client with AI features for drafting, summarizing, and triaging messages.

Paid

Use cases

  • Getting through high-volume inboxes quickly
  • Drafting consistent replies with AI assistance
  • Tracking follow-ups in sales and executive workflows

Pricing: Superhuman is a paid subscription per user; there is no free tier, though trials are offered.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Taskade

Listed together in guide “AI productivity tools”

Collaborative workspace for tasks, notes, and mind maps with built-in AI agents and workflow generation.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Managing team projects with AI-generated structure
  • Automating recurring checklists and workflows
  • Brainstorming in mind maps with AI assistance

Pricing: Taskade has a free tier; paid plans increase AI requests, storage, and member counts for teams.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-10.

Fellow

Related: shares the task Everyday productivity

AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarises meetings without a bot joining the call, and turns them into notes and action items.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Capturing AI notes and action items for team meetings
  • Transcribing and summarising meetings across languages
  • Feeding meeting outcomes into CRM records and task tools

Pricing: Fellow publishes a free plan alongside Team, Business, and Enterprise plans; Enterprise is listed at $25 per user per month billed annually, and AI notes and recordings are limited on the free plan.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-12.

Nuclino

Related: shares the task Everyday productivity

Team knowledge base and workspace that unifies notes, docs, and projects, with an AI assistant on its paid business plan.

Freemium

Use cases

  • Team knowledge base and internal documentation
  • Project notes and lightweight project workspaces
  • AI-assisted drafting and summarising over team content with Sidekick

Pricing: Nuclino's free plan caps content at 50 items and 3 canvases; the paid Starter and Business plans lift those limits, and Sidekick (AI), the audit log, group management, and SAML SSO are Business-plan features.

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This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-12.

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