Project management built around time
The PM tool you wanted
before yours got 47 features.
mawobe is the focused alternative to all-in-one platforms. Track time, ship work, and keep clients, SOWs, projects, and tasks in one place — without the AI sidebar you didn't ask for.
Native desktop app · Windows & macOS · Free during early access
Most PM tools were built around tasks.
Services teams need them built around time.
If you bill by the hour, run a SOW, or estimate a project before kickoff, time isn't a side feature — it's the whole game. Tools that bolt time tracking onto a kanban board ten years late tend to feel like it.
Built for the work, not the demo.
Six things that decide whether a PM tool earns its seat on Monday morning.
Time is the unit of work
Every project, milestone, and task carries an estimate. Tracked time is built in — not bolted on — so the numbers your finance team needs are the same numbers your delivery team sees.
A hierarchy that fits services work
Clients → SOWs → Projects → Milestones → Tasks → Subtasks. Optional layers stay optional; nothing is mandatory just because the schema thought it should be.
Configurable, not configurable-to-death
Per-workspace status sets, areas of focus, roles, and numbering. Different teams can carry different labels without forking the tool — but the defaults already make sense.
Reports a delivery lead actually opens
Time vs. estimate, billable vs. unbillable, by project, client, or person. Profit reporting that ties tracked hours to billable rates without a spreadsheet detour.
Quiet AI in the background
No chatbot in your sidebar. No "agent" pretending to be a coworker. AI shows up where it earns its keep — smarter estimates, anomaly hints on time logs, faster onboarding — and stays out of the way.
A native desktop app
Windows and macOS, with a system-tray timer that survives whatever the browser is doing. Tracking time should be the easiest action in your workflow, not the one that gets skipped.
Built for any team that bills time.
From a two-person studio to a hundred-person consultancy. The shape of the work looks the same; the labels are yours to set.
On the AI question
AI that earns its keep without taking the floor.
Every PM tool has spent the last two years cramming chatbots into sidebars, renaming products with the word "Brain", and asking you to talk to a "teammate" that's actually a model. We're going the other way.
Mawobe uses AI quietly: better estimates from the patterns in your past projects, early warning when a time log looks off, faster onboarding for new clients, smarter search across your work. You won't see an "agent" tab. You'll just notice the tool got better.
No Brain. No Super Agents. No AI Notetaker tier at $28/seat.
Coming from another tool?
We've written honest side-by-sides with ClickUp, ActiveCollab, Monday.com, and Mavenlink (Kantata). Where the tools agree, where they don\'t, and which kind of team each one is actually built for.
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