# 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.

## Choose Akollo if

- Timesheet approval and budgets should work without building them
- HR basics like employee records and leave approval are needed
- You have to run it on your own servers

## Choose monday.com if

- Teams want to design their own boards, columns and automations
- You want 850+ integrations and apps to choose from
- You also plan to use monday CRM next to your work boards

## Akollo and monday.com, area by area

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

| Area | Akollo | monday.com |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Projects, boards and timelines | Built in: Boards, backlogs, sprints, timeline and approvals. | Built in: Boards, Kanban and Gantt; critical path on Pro and Enterprise. |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Built in: Timesheets with approval, plus a desktop app that measures time. | Add-on: Time tracking column on Pro and Enterprise; approval through Marketplace apps. |
| Resource and capacity planning | Built in: Planned against available time, per team and period. | Built in: Workload view; resource planning and capacity on Enterprise. |
| Budgets and profitability | Built in: Budgets, cost rates, budget vs actual and profitability. | No: Built with number and formula columns; no budget module found. |
| HR basics: people and time off | Built in: Employee records, org chart, leave requests and approvals. | No: HR templates; no employee records system found. |
| CRM: accounts and pipeline | Built in: Accounts, contacts, pipeline and activities. | Add-on: monday CRM is a separate product. |
| AI assistant | Built in: Admins decide who uses it; it answers within each person's permissions. | Built in: monday AI: agents, Sidekick and an agent builder. |
| Self-hosting on your own servers | Built in: Our cloud, or your own data centre or cloud account. | No: monday.com describes itself as cloud-based SaaS. |
| Product in Turkish | Built in: Turkish, English and German, written natively. | Built in: Turkish is among the 15 interface languages. |
| Choice of where data is stored | Built in: Self-hosted, the data stays where you install it. | Built in: US, EU or APAC, set by the first user's location; limits by plan. |

## 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.

- **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.
- **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.
- **Employee records and leave** — Akollo keeps people, the org chart, leave balances and approvals, so capacity planning starts from who is actually available.
- **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.

## 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

## 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.

- **Export from monday.com** — Export your projects and tasks from monday.com 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 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.

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

## Sources

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

- [monday.com Support: Gantt view and widget](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015643840-The-Gantt-Chart-View-and-Widget)
- [monday.com Support: Time tracking column](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001143809-The-Time-Tracking-Column)
- [monday.com Support: Resource management for Enterprise](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/24114492777618-Resource-management-for-Enterprise)
- [monday.com: HR templates](https://monday.com/templates/category/hr)
- [monday.com: CRM](https://monday.com/crm)
- [monday.com Support: AI FAQs](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/23227256685842-AI-FAQs)
- [monday.com Support: Security and privacy FAQs](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/31119344104082-Security-and-privacy-on-monday-com-FAQs)
- [monday.com Support: Available languages](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/360003503760-Available-languages-for-monday-com)
- [monday.com Support: Data residency](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/4404392703250-Data-residency)
- [monday.com Support: Export to Excel](https://support.monday.com/hc/en-us/articles/26989749858578-Export-from-monday-to-Excel)


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