# Akollo vs ClickUp: when to choose which

> Both put a lot of work into one app. ClickUp leans on docs, chat and whiteboards; Akollo leans on what the work costs: hours, people, budgets and approvals, on your own servers if you need it.

## Choose Akollo if

- You need approved hours to flow into budgets, cost and profitability
- Leave, capacity and the org chart should sit next to the plan
- You have to run it in your own data centre, or in Turkish

## Choose ClickUp if

- You want docs, wiki, chat and whiteboards in the same app as tasks
- Your teams like to build their own views and automations
- Cloud hosting on AWS suits your security review

## Akollo and ClickUp, area by area

Akollo compared with ClickUp on ten areas. ClickUp information is from its public website, as of October 2026; features vary by plan.

| Area | Akollo | ClickUp |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Projects, boards and timelines | Built in: Boards, backlogs, sprints, timeline and approvals. | Built in: List, board, Gantt and timeline views. |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Built in: Timesheets with approval, plus a desktop app that measures time. | Built in: Built in; timesheet approvals are limited by plan. |
| Resource and capacity planning | Built in: Planned against available time, per team and period. | Built in: Workload view with capacity per person. |
| Budgets and profitability | Built in: Budgets, cost rates, budget vs actual and profitability. | No: Billable time and dashboard cards; no budget or cost-rate module found. |
| HR basics: people and time off | Built in: Employee records, org chart, leave requests and approvals. | No: Personal time off shows in plans; no leave approvals or employee records found. |
| CRM: accounts and pipeline | Built in: Accounts, contacts, pipeline and activities. | Built in: ClickUp CRM: contacts, companies and deals. |
| AI assistant | Built in: Admins decide who uses it; it answers within each person's permissions. | Add-on: ClickUp Brain and agents are paid add-ons. |
| Self-hosting on your own servers | Built in: Our cloud, or your own data centre or cloud account. | No: Hosted entirely on AWS. |
| Product in Turkish | Built in: Turkish, English and German, written natively. | No: Not among the interface languages. |
| Choice of where data is stored | Built in: Self-hosted, the data stays where you install it. | Built in: US, EU, Singapore or Australia, on Enterprise. |

## One record from the hour to the invoice

ClickUp can track time and show workload. Akollo goes further down the same road, into the questions finance and HR ask at month end.

- **Approved hours turn into cost on their own** — A logged hour is approved by the manager, priced with the person's cost rate and lands in the project budget. Budget against actual and profitability come from the same record, so there is no spreadsheet in between.
- **Leave and capacity live next to the plan** — People, the org chart, leave requests and approvals are part of Akollo. When someone books two weeks off, the team's capacity drops in the same product you plan in.
- **AI that respects who may see what** — Admins choose who can use the assistant and set monthly limits. It answers within each person's own permissions, so a question never reaches data the person could not open.
- **Your servers, your language** — Run Akollo in our cloud or in your own data centre or cloud account. Every screen is written in Turkish, English and German, not machine-translated.

## When ClickUp is the better fit

ClickUp covers a very wide range of everyday collaboration. If that breadth matters more to you than timesheets, cost and HR, it is a good choice.

- Your team writes docs, chats and draws on whiteboards next to tasks every day
- You want a CRM and project boards in one app without HR or finance in the picture
- You prefer to pick between AI models from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google inside the tool

## Move from ClickUp without losing the thread

ClickUp exports List and Table views to CSV. Akollo imports a CSV of up to 5,000 rows per file and shows a dry run before anything is written.

- **Export from ClickUp** — Export your projects and tasks from ClickUp as a CSV file.
- **Map the columns** — In Akollo, match each column to a work item field. A key column updates items you imported before.
- **Dry run first** — See how many items would be created, updated or skipped before anything is written.
- **Move team by team** — Start with one team, add timesheets and capacity, then bring the rest across.

## Questions about ClickUp and Akollo

### Is Akollo a ClickUp alternative?

For teams that need projects together with timesheets, capacity, budgets and HR basics, yes. If you mainly need docs, chat and whiteboards around tasks, ClickUp covers that well.

### Can we import our ClickUp tasks?

Yes. Export a List or Table view from ClickUp as CSV, map the columns to Akollo fields and check the dry run before you import.

### Does Akollo track time like ClickUp?

Yes, and more: people log time on tasks, managers approve timesheets, and an optional desktop app measures time on the computer. Approved hours feed cost and budgets.

### Can Akollo run on our own servers?

Yes. Akollo runs in our cloud or in your own data centre or cloud account. ClickUp says it is hosted entirely on AWS.

## See your ClickUp work in Akollo

Bring a CSV export to the demo and we will show it with timesheets, capacity and budgets around it.

- [Book a demo](https://akollo.com/en/demo)
- [Read the docs](https://docs.akollo.com)

## Sources

Information about ClickUp is taken from its public website and help centre, as of October 2026. Plans and features change, so check with ClickUp before you decide. Product names are trademarks of their owners.

- [ClickUp: Gantt chart view](https://clickup.com/features/gantt-chart-view)
- [ClickUp Help: Time tracking availability and limits](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/29754533547415-Time-Tracking-feature-availability-and-limits)
- [ClickUp Help: Timesheet approvals](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/27090646766231-Timesheet-approvals)
- [ClickUp Help: Use Workload view](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/6310449699735-Use-Workload-view)
- [ClickUp Help: Deliver client services in ClickUp](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/36816939416983-Deliver-client-services-in-ClickUp)
- [ClickUp Help: What is Personal Time Off](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/37329576217111-What-is-Personal-Time-Off)
- [ClickUp: CRM](https://clickup.com/teams/crm)
- [ClickUp Help: Brain AI add-ons](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/40085008147863-Which-features-are-included-with-the-Brain-AI-add-ons)
- [ClickUp Help: Data hosting](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/15999383444247-Data-hosting)
- [ClickUp Help: My Settings (languages)](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/6311968998167-My-Settings)
- [ClickUp Help: Export List and Table views](https://help.clickup.com/hc/en-us/articles/6310174308631-Export-List-and-Table-views)


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