Akollo vs monday.com
Akollo vs monday.com: when to choose which
monday.com gives teams flexible boards they shape themselves, with columns, formulas and apps. Akollo ships the hard parts ready: approved timesheets, cost and budgets, leave and capacity, on your own servers if you need it.
At a glance
Akollo and monday.com, area by area
- Built in
- Paid add-on, price in the cell
- Not offered
| Area | Akollo | monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| Projects, boards and timelines | Built inBoards, backlogs, sprints, timeline and approvals. | Built inBoards, Kanban and Gantt; critical path on Pro and Enterprise. |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Built inTimesheets with approval, plus a desktop app that measures time. | Paid add-on, price in the cellTime tracking column on Pro and Enterprise; approval through Marketplace apps. |
| Resource and capacity planning | Built inPlanned against available time, per team and period. | Built inWorkload view; resource planning and capacity on Enterprise. |
| Budgets and profitability | Built inBudgets, cost rates, budget vs actual and profitability. | Not offeredBuilt with number and formula columns; no budget module found. |
| HR basics: people and time off | Built inEmployee records, org chart, leave requests and approvals. | Not offeredHR templates; no employee records system found. |
| CRM: accounts and pipeline | Built inAccounts, contacts, pipeline and activities. | Paid add-on, price in the cellmonday CRM is a separate product. |
| AI assistant | Built inAdmins decide who uses it; it answers within each person's permissions. | Built inmonday AI: agents, Sidekick and an agent builder. |
| Self-hosting on your own servers | Built inOur cloud, or your own data centre or cloud account. | Not offeredmonday.com describes itself as cloud-based SaaS. |
| Product in Turkish | Built inTurkish, English and German, written natively. | Built inTurkish is among the 15 interface languages. |
| Choice of where data is stored | Built inSelf-hosted, the data stays where you install it. | Built inUS, EU or APAC, set by the first user's location; limits by plan. |
Where Akollo is different
Ready-made where it matters, not assembled
monday.com lets you build almost anything with boards and columns. Akollo is opinionated where mistakes cost money: approvals, cost and leave.
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Approval built into every timesheet
People log hours or let the desktop app measure them, managers approve or send back, and approved weeks are locked. No Marketplace app or automation to maintain.
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Cost rates and budgets, not formulas
Approved hours are priced with each person's cost rate and counted against the project budget. Profitability is a report, not a formula column someone has to keep right.
- 03
Employee records and leave
Akollo keeps people, the org chart, leave balances and approvals, so capacity planning starts from who is actually available.
- 04
Self-hosting and AI on your terms
Run Akollo in our cloud or your own data centre. Admins decide who uses the AI assistant, and it answers only within each person's permissions.
To be fair
When monday.com is the better fit
monday.com is flexible and quick to start with. If your teams enjoy building their own workflows, that flexibility is worth a lot.
- Teams that want to design boards, columns and automations themselves
- You need a wide marketplace, with more than 850 integrations and apps
- You want monday CRM and work management from one vendor
Moving over
Move from monday.com in four steps
monday.com exports boards to Excel. Save the file as CSV and Akollo imports up to 5,000 rows per file, with a dry run first.
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Export from monday.com
Export your projects and tasks from monday.com as a CSV file.
- 02
Map the columns
In Akollo, match each column to a work item field. A key column updates items you imported before.
- 03
Dry run first
See how many items would be created, updated or skipped before anything is written.
- 04
Move team by team
Start with one team, add timesheets and capacity, then bring the rest across.
Questions about monday.com and Akollo
Is Akollo a monday.com alternative?
For teams that need projects with approved timesheets, budgets, capacity and HR basics, yes. For teams that want to build their own workflows on flexible boards, monday.com is strong.
Both are in Turkish. What is the difference?
monday.com offers Turkish among 15 interface languages. Akollo is written natively in Turkish, English and German, and can also be installed on your own servers.
How do we bring our boards across?
Export the board to Excel, save it as CSV, map the columns to Akollo fields and check the dry run before importing.
See your monday.com boards in Akollo
Bring an export to the demo and we will show it with timesheets, leave and budgets around it.