The Quire Insider’s Guide
Everything we know about Quire in one document: what it costs, its grades, getting a refund, getting help and what else to look at. Read it here, or keep a copy.
Quire
The Insider’s Guide
Nested task lists with Kanban boards and a Gantt timeline
Every plan, grade, refund rule and rival among project management tools, read from Quire’s own pages.
Made by Potix Corporation · checked Oct 6, 2026 · toolgpa.com
Contents
- 01WelcomeWhat it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
- 02What it costsEvery plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
- 03What it doesIts main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
- 04Where it standsIts grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
- 05The alternativesThe tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
- 06Quick answersThe questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
- 07About ToolGPAWho made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
ToolGPA put this guide together from Quire’s own pages, its app-store listings and our grades. Every fact in it is on Quire’s page too, where it is kept up to date. Checked Oct 6, 2026.
Part 01 · Overview
Welcome
What it is, who it suits, its grades and the ten things to know first
2.4
GPA, above 20 of the 79 other project management tools we grade
Quire is a project management tool built around a nested task list that can be broken down to any depth, with Kanban boards on every plan. Paid plans add timeline (Gantt), calendar, table and dashboard views, time tracking and task dependencies. The free plan covers up to 10 members and 4 projects, and Quire runs in the browser and in iOS and Android apps.
To get you started, here are 9 things to know about Quire, taken from its own pages and our grades.
One plain idea, a list you keep breaking down, does help.
- 1
Best for work that breaks down into subtasks of subtasks
Quire is a task list that nests as deep as you like, so a big job breaks into subtasks of subtasks that can be flipped onto a Kanban board.
- 2
Paid plans start at $7.65 a month for each person
As its pricing page puts it: $7.65 per member / month, billed yearly.
- 3
There is a free plan
Up to 10 members, 4 projects and 1,000 tasks per project, with nested lists, Kanban boards, chat, and 1 document and 1 custom field per project.
- 4
It runs on 3 platforms
Web, iOS and Android.
- 5
Nested task list
Tasks break down into subtasks with no limit on depth on every plan, and sublists give each person a focused slice of the main list.
- 6
Kanban board
The same tasks can be arranged on a board and moved through statuses. The free plan allows 5 task statuses per project and Professional 25.
- 7
Timeline and other views
Professional adds a Gantt-style timeline with task dependencies, plus table, calendar, dashboard and insight views. Premium adds a schedule view grouped by day.
- 8
A 2.4 GPA, above 20 of 79
That is against the other project management tools we grade, on value, the free plan, features, ease of use and platforms.
- 9
Keep it
The plain part of Quire you could make: tasks, kanban boards, Gantt & timelines, calendar, time tracking and documents. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
Quire at a glance
- Pricing
- Free plan, from $7.65 per member / month, billed yearly
- Free plan
- Yes
- Free trial
- 30-day free trial of the Professional, Premium or Enterprise plan
- Runs on
- Web, iOS, Android
- Made by
- Potix Corporation
- Category
- Project Management
- Our grade
- 2.4 GPA, fair
The report card
Best for work that breaks down into subtasks of subtasks
Quire is a task list that nests as deep as you like, so a big job breaks into subtasks of subtasks that can be flipped onto a Kanban board. The free plan takes 10 members but stops at 4 projects with a 5-day activity log. The timeline, calendar, time tracking and dependencies need Professional at $7.65 a member, there are no refunds, and there's no official desktop app.
| Subject | Grade | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Value for money | C | Professional is $7.65 a member a month billed yearly, which sits between the $5.10 cheaper quarter and the $10.00 dear end for project tools here. An ordinary price, in other words. Pay monthly and it's $10.95, and timesheets and approvals wait for Premium at $13.95. |
| Free plan and trial | C | The free plan has caps you'll hit: 4 projects of 1,000 tasks, 1 document and 1 custom field per project, and an activity log that only goes back 5 days. Up to 10 members are allowed. Paid plans get a 30-day trial. |
| Features | B | It covers the whole job. Tasks nest with no limit on depth, the same tasks sit on a Kanban board, and paid plans add a Gantt-style timeline with dependencies, table, calendar and dashboard views, time tracking with a Pomodoro timer, timesheets and external teams who see only their own tasks. |
| Ease of use | C | No store rating on record, and this is a web app where the work is building the project itself: statuses to set up, a list to structure, people to invite. One plain idea, a list you keep breaking down, does help. Clients can view a project through a link with no signup, on paid plans. |
| Platforms and integrations | B | Web, iPhone and Android, with Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Zapier, n8n, Google Drive and a public API. No official desktop app, though. The only one in its own app directory is marked non-official. |
An A is worth 4 points, a B 3, a C 2, a D 1 and an F nothing. The GPA is the average of the five.
Who Quire is for
- Fits if your work breaks down into deeply nested subtasks
- Works for small teams of up to 10 starting free, with no more than 4 projects
Who it is not for
- Tight if you're staying free, with 4 projects, 1 custom field per project and a 5-day activity log
- Skip it if you need a timeline, calendar, time tracking or dependencies without paying, as all start on Professional
- Pricey if you pay monthly, at $10.95 a member against $7.65 on yearly billing
- Watch out: external team members count as paid members, and Quire doesn't refund after cancellation
- Watch out: there's no official desktop app, and SSO/SAML is Enterprise only at $19.95 a member
Good to know
Good for
- Teams that break work into deeply nested subtasks
- Small teams starting on a free plan with up to 10 members
- Teams that hand selected tasks to outside contractors
- People who track time or use Pomodoro alongside their task list
Worth knowing
- The Free plan stops at 10 members, 4 projects and 1,000 tasks per project, and keeps the activity log for 5 days.
- Timeline, table and calendar views, time tracking and task dependencies need Professional or higher; SSO/SAML is Enterprise only.
- External team members count toward the paid member total, and Quire does not offer refunds after cancellation.
- Quire lists a web app and iOS and Android apps; the only desktop app in its app directory is marked non-official.
Part 02 · Pricing
What it costs
Every plan, the free plan, ways to pay less and how prices have moved
$7.65
A month to start, for each person. There is a free plan too
Quire has a free plan. Paid plans start at $7.65 per member / month, billed yearly.
Free
$0
Up to 10 members and 4 projects of 1,000 tasks each, with nested lists, Kanban boards, chat, integrations and the mobile apps.
Professional
$7.65
per member / month, billed yearly ($10.95 billed monthly)
Timeline, table, calendar and dashboard views, time tracking, task dependencies, external teams, up to 100 projects and 20 GB of storage.
Premium
$13.95
per member / month, billed yearly ($18.95 billed monthly)
Adds timesheets, approvals, schedule view, custom permission roles, Google Calendar two-way sync, up to 250 projects and 100 GB of storage.
Enterprise
$19.95
per member / month, billed yearly ($24.95 billed monthly)
Adds SSO/SAML, an IP allowlist, unlimited projects and tasks, a customer success manager and onboarding. Customized plans are quoted on request.
The free plan
Up to 10 members, 4 projects and 1,000 tasks per project, with nested lists, Kanban boards, chat, and 1 document and 1 custom field per project.
Trying it first
30-day free trial of the Professional, Premium or Enterprise plan
Read from quire.io on Oct 6, 2026.
Ways to pay less
Annual discount
Up to 30% off with yearly billing
Yearly billing brings Professional from $10.95 to $7.65, Premium from $18.95 to $13.95 and Enterprise from $24.95 to $19.95 per member. The toggle says Save 30%; the FAQ says about 20% across plans.
Stated on quire.ioNonprofit
Nonprofit discount program
Quire's pricing page invites nonprofit organizations to apply for a discount through a form. The size of the discount is not stated on the page.
Stated on quire.ioEducation
Student discount program
The pricing page also links a form for students to apply for a discount. The size of the discount is not stated on the page.
Stated on quire.io
Part 03 · Features
What it does
Its main features, where it runs, what it works with and who makes it
3
Places it runs: Web, iOS and Android
Nested task lists with Kanban boards and a Gantt timeline. Here is what it does, as its own site describes it, and what it covers: public API, tasks, calendar, kanban boards, Gantt & timelines, time tracking, documents.
The only one in its own app directory is marked non-official.
- Nested task list
- Tasks break down into subtasks with no limit on depth on every plan, and sublists give each person a focused slice of the main list.
- Kanban board
- The same tasks can be arranged on a board and moved through statuses. The free plan allows 5 task statuses per project and Professional 25.
- Timeline and other views
- Professional adds a Gantt-style timeline with task dependencies, plus table, calendar, dashboard and insight views. Premium adds a schedule view grouped by day.
- Time tracking and Pomodoro
- From Professional, time can be logged against tasks and summarized in time reports, with a built-in Pomodoro timer. Timesheets need Premium.
- External teams and shared links
- On paid plans, outside collaborators can be limited to the tasks assigned to them, and a project can be shared with clients through a public link that needs no signup.
- Documents, chat and integrations
- Projects hold documents and chat channels, and every plan lists Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Zapier, n8n and Google Drive integrations plus the Quire MCP and CLI.
Where it runs
- Web
- iOS
- Android
What it works with
- Slack
- Microsoft Teams
- GitHub
- Zapier
- n8n
- Google Calendar
- Google Drive
- Dropbox
Quire is made by Potix Corporation.
Part 04 · Standing
Where it stands
Its grades against its category, and whether to keep it or make your own
20/79
Other project management tools it is graded above
Quire's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 20 of the 79 other project management tools we grade, and level with 21.
It stands best on features (B, above 27 of 79) and worst on ease of use (C, above 2).
Its paid plans start at $7.65 a month for each person, against a middle price of $8 for the category: 33 of the 74 others that charge start lower.
On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.7 out of 4. 13 tools score higher and cost less.
Each grade against the category
Every bar is all 80 project management tools we grade, cut by the letter each got. Quire’s own letter is outlined.
- CValue for moneyAbove 16 of 79
- CFree plan and trialAbove 4 of 79
- BFeaturesAbove 27 of 79
- CEase of useAbove 2 of 79
- BPlatforms and integrationsAbove 6 of 79
Price against what you get
Each dot is one of 78 project management tools. Further left costs less; higher up scores better on features, ease of use and platforms. Quire is the marked dot.
What paid plans start at, a month (each step along is roughly double) →
Keep it, or make your own?
Whether this is something you could build for yourself with an AI app builder, and what you would give up.
Keep it
The plain part of Quire you could make: tasks, kanban boards, Gantt & timelines, calendar, time tracking and documents. What surrounds it you could not. The 4 things listed below take a company, not a weekend.
That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 38 of the 79 other project management tools grade higher. It costs $91.80 a year.
What you could make
- Tasks, kanban boards, Gantt & timelines, calendar, time tracking and documents: an app builder makes these well.
What you could not
- A real app for iOS and Android. Something home-made would be a web page.
- It is priced for each person, which means accounts and billing for a team.
- It plugs into other products, Slack, Microsoft Teams and GitHub among them, and has an API.
- The depth: we grade its features B, which means it covers the whole job.
What this rests on. Quire’s listing: what it does, where it runs, what it plugs into and what it costs. It is a judgement about the kind of software this is. We have not built a replacement for it, and making your own means looking after it too. How we decide, and every tool’s verdict.
Part 05 · Alternatives
The alternatives
The tools it is most often weighed against, side by side
Asana, Trello, ClickUp, MeisterTask and Nifty
The 5 tools Quire is most often weighed against, with where each one differs from it.
- 3.0GPA
Asana
Free plan · from $10.99/mo
Work management for projects, goals and cross-team workflows.
- Only Asana lists macOS and Windows apps.
- Quire also covers calendar, time tracking and documents.
- Asana also covers workflow automation and goals.
- 2.8GPA
Trello
Free plan · from $5/mo
Kanban boards with an inbox, planner and built-in automation.
- Only Trello lists macOS and Windows apps.
- Quire also covers time tracking and documents.
- Trello also covers workflow automation.
- 3.0GPA
ClickUp
Free plan · from $7/mo
Work platform combining tasks, docs, chat and dashboards.
- Only ClickUp lists macOS, Windows and Linux apps.
- Only ClickUp lists a browser extension.
- Quire also covers calendar and documents.
- 2.4GPA
MeisterTask
Free plan · from €13.50/mo
Kanban task boards with shared notes, hosted in Germany.
- Quire also covers calendar and documents.
- MeisterTask also covers wiki.
- 2.6GPA
Nifty
Free plan · from $10/mo
All-in-one project hub with roadmaps, tasks, chat and docs.
- Only Nifty lists macOS and Windows apps.
- Only Nifty lists a browser extension.
- Quire also covers calendar.
Part 06 · Questions
Quick answers
The questions people ask about it, each answered in a line or two
16
Questions, each answered in a line or two
The short version of everything above, for when you only need the answer. Each one is told in full in its part of the guide.
Is Quire free?
Quire has a free plan. Up to 10 members, 4 projects and 1,000 tasks per project, with nested lists, Kanban boards, chat, and 1 document and 1 custom field per project.
How much does Quire cost?
Quire lists 4 plans. Free: $0.
What platforms does Quire work on?
Quire is available on Web, iOS and Android.
Does Quire offer any discounts?
Quire publicly lists the following: Up to 30% off with yearly billing; Nonprofit discount program; Student discount program.
Does Quire have a Windows app?
No Windows app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 6, 2026. Quire is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Does Quire have a macOS app?
No macOS app was listed when its pages were read on Oct 6, 2026. Quire is listed for Web, iOS and Android.
Is Quire open source?
Quire is not described as open source on its own site, as read on Oct 6, 2026.
Does Quire have an API?
Yes. Quire offers a public API, according to its own site.
What does Quire integrate with?
Quire's listing names Slack, Microsoft Teams, GitHub, Zapier, n8n, Google Calendar, Google Drive and Dropbox.
Does Quire have a student discount?
Student discount program. The pricing page also links a form for students to apply for a discount.
Does Quire have a free trial?
Yes. 30-day free trial of the Professional, Premium or Enterprise plan.
Who makes Quire?
Quire is made by Potix Corporation.
What are the alternatives to Quire?
The closest alternatives to Quire in our directory are Asana, Trello, ClickUp, MeisterTask and Nifty.
How does Quire compare with other project management tools?
Quire's GPA of 2.4 is higher than 20 of the 79 other project management tools we grade, and level with 21.
Is Quire good value for money?
ToolGPA grades Quire C for value for money. Its paid plans start at $7.65 a month for each person, against a middle price of $8 for the category: 33 of the 74 others that charge start lower.
Could I make my own version of Quire?
The plain part of Quire you could make: tasks, kanban boards, Gantt & timelines, calendar, time tracking and documents.
Where this guide comes from
The prices, plans, platforms and features were read from Quire’s own pages on Oct 6, 2026, and the grades were given on Oct 10, 2026. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Quire's own pages on 6 October 2026. Also tested with a demo account on 2026-04-03.
Every tool we list gets five grades, A to F, each with its reason, and a GPA that averages them. How each is decided is at toolgpa.com/grades. This guide is ToolGPA’s own work; it is not made, paid for or approved by Potix Corporation. Prices change, so check quire.io before you buy.
Part 07 · About
About ToolGPA
Who made this guide, what else is on the site, and how to cite it
3,189
Tools graded, in 94 categories
ToolGPA grades software the way a school report grades a pupil: five subjects, a letter for each with the reason written beside it, and a GPA that averages them. Prices, plans and platforms are read from each maker’s own pages and dated, so you always know how fresh a figure is.
Every grade, review and ranking on ToolGPA is our own judgement. No company can pay for a grade or change one. Every tool on the site has a guide like this one, free to download and pass on. It all lives at toolgpa.com.
3,189
tools graded
94
categories
426
price changes on record
579
apps priced in 12 countries
What else is on toolgpa.com
- Quire, kept up to dateEverything in this guide, with prices and grades as they are todaytoolgpa.com/tools/quire
- How grades are givenThe rules behind every letter and every GPAtoolgpa.com/grades
- Value chartsWhat each tool costs against what it scores, for every categorytoolgpa.com/charts
- CompareAny two tools side by side, plan by plantoolgpa.com/compare
- Price changesEvery price rise and cut on record, each with its sourcetoolgpa.com/price-changes
- Prices by countryWhat apps cost on the App Store in 12 countriestoolgpa.com/prices-by-country
- Pay lessEvery public discount: yearly billing, students, nonprofitstoolgpa.com/save
- Keep or makeWhich tools are worth paying for, and which you could build yourselftoolgpa.com/keep-or-make
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