The Excel alternative for real-time collaboration
Fed up of that sheet? Switch to MeisterTask for a purpose-built project management tool that makes teamwork simple.
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Your GDPR-friendly alternative to Excel
MeisterTask is made in the EU, and designed to meet European standards for privacy and security.
Thousands of European organizations across manufacturing, government, banking and more choose MeisterTask for secure, GDPR-compliant work management.
Why is MeisterTask the best Excel alternative?
Excel isn’t designed for teamwork and can be overly complex for many users. With MeisterTask, you get a visual overview of tasks, real-time collaboration features and time-saving automations. It’s teamwork how it should be.
Visual overviews
MeisterTask’s Kanban boards give you a clear view of every task in a project, including assignee, status and due date. The timeline lets you map tasks to the calendar for easy scheduling.
Efficient collaboration
No more struggling with outdated files and comments without context. In MeisterTask, you get real-time notifications and discussions are linked to specific tasks and notes.
Automations
No need for complicated macros here. With MeisterTask, it’s easy to create recurring tasks, change task statuses automatically and more — whatever works for your workflow.
MeisterTask vs Excel: feature comparison
Feature
Excel
Timeline
Kanban board
Task comments
Knowledge management
Teamwork
Easy to adopt
Built-in reporting
Easy automations
Secure. Reliable. German.
MeisterTask is GDPR compliant, ISO 27001 certified and hosted in Germany, in a BSI C5 and SOC 2 certified data center.
SAML 2.0 SSO and 2FA
Role-based access control
Regular penetration tests and bug bounty program
DDoS protection in the EU
99.5% uptime and daily backups
Our customers say it best
MeisterTask is essential
I've tried a lot of task and project management tools over the lifetime of my business. None compare to MeisterTask in terms of ease of use and value for money.
My favorite task manager
MeisterTask is really easy to just pick up and use. I love the colorful kanban style boards and the fact that I can have all of my most essential tasks placed on my main dashboard.
Beats the heck out of the old Excel method
We were missing deadlines and upsetting customers because too many projects on our multiple Excel spreadsheets were getting missed accidentally. Meistertask puts everything right in front of us.
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Excel alternative FAQs
MeisterTask is a digital work management platform that helps teams with task management, project management, knowledge sharing and team collaboration. It's secure, simple and easy to adopt.
MeisterTask is a great alternative to Excel because it's just as easy to use, while providing additional functionality to help manage more complex projects.
Excel doesn’t offer powerful features like built-in task dependencies, reports, time tracking or shared notes. MeisterTask also offers a free plan, unlike Trello.
Of course! MeisterTask lets you easily import your projects from Excel, so you can keep working without any interruption.
Yes, you can try MeisterTask for free for as long as you like. Compare plans