monday work management vs Smartsheet
monday work management and Smartsheet are both workflow management software. monday work management is a commercial product from monday.com. Smartsheet is a commercial product from Smartsheet Inc.
Which to pick
- Pick monday work management when
- A business team wants colourful, configurable boards that can model many kinds of work.
- Pick Smartsheet when
- A project office or operations team that thinks in spreadsheets needs structured tracking and reporting across many projects.
Side by side
Board-based work management for projects, workflows and requests, with automations, dashboards and integrations.
Spreadsheet-style work management with Gantt charts, forms, automations, dashboards and resource management.
Seat minimums and tier limits on automations raise the real cost.
Licensing changes after its take-private have raised costs for some customers.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Cloud service and mobile app
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by monday.com
Closed source, sold by Smartsheet Inc.
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
No Wikipedia article of its own
860 Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
More workflow management tools
Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.