A monday alternative built around your customers and jobs
Short answer: If you want a monday alternative, the first question is what you track. monday.com is a flexible work management platform: you build boards for almost anything, and it is strong for teams that like to design their own workflows. Alori is the all-in-one app for service businesses. Tasks, projects and deals already sit next to your customers, quotes, jobs and invoices, so there is less to build and nothing to connect.
Who monday.com fits well
monday.com is a good fit when:
- Your team runs many kinds of work (marketing, operations, HR) and wants one flexible board tool for all of it.
- Someone on the team enjoys setting up columns, views and automations, and keeps them up to date.
- You need the large ecosystem of templates and integrations that a broad platform offers.
If that sounds like you, monday.com does the job, and its flexibility is the reason many teams love it.
Why service owners look for alternatives
For a small service business, a blank board can be more work than help:
- Everything is a board you build yourself. Customers, quotes and jobs become columns you set up and maintain. When the person who built them leaves, nobody wants to touch them.
- The money lives elsewhere. Quotes, invoices and payments often sit in other tools, so the team copies the same job from one place to the next.
- Customer conversations are outside the board. Texts, calls and emails with the customer are in a phone, an inbox and a group chat.
- Seats add up. Board tools are often priced per seat, so owners think twice before adding a technician.
Side by side
| monday.com | Alori | |
|---|---|---|
| Main idea | Flexible boards for any kind of work | An all-in-one app for a service business |
| Tasks and boards | Yes, many views | Tasks with list and board, repeat, assign and accept |
| Projects | Yes | Projects that group tasks, jobs, quotes and invoices for a customer |
| Deals pipeline | Yes, through its CRM product | Yes, deals board with your own pipelines and stages |
| Quotes, jobs and invoices | Built yourself or with other tools | Built in, with online signature and card payments |
| Customer texts, calls and email | Through integrations | Shared inbox, business phone and texting built in |
| Change the app | Configure boards and columns | Ask in plain words and Alori changes it |
| Users | Per-seat plans | Unlimited users on every plan |
What Alori replaces, and what it does not
Alori replaces the work management you need to run customer work:
- Tasks with priorities, due dates, a board with To do, Waiting, In progress and Done, tasks that repeat every week, month or year, and assign with accept or "can't do it".
- Projects that group the tasks and jobs that belong together, like a renovation or the maintenance season, and link the jobs, quotes and invoices of that customer.
- Deals on a board, with your own pipelines and stages, products and recurring revenue.
- The rest of the business in the same app: customers, quotes, schedule, jobs, invoices and a shared inbox.
- Automations in plain words. Tell your bot "each time a deal is created, post it in our #sales channel on Slack", and it sets it up.
What it does not replace: monday.com's breadth. If you run many unrelated teams on custom boards, with Gantt charts, workload views and a big integration catalog, monday.com covers more ground. Alori's Dashboard shows today's work, money and sales at a glance, and a read-only key lets Power BI or Excel pull your records for deeper reports. You can also ask Ask Alori questions over your data, like "which quotes from last month were not signed".
How to switch
- Describe your business. Alori builds your app with the tools your trade usually needs.
- Import your tasks. Export a board from monday.com to Excel or CSV, then click Import in Tasks. Alori reads your columns (titles, due dates, people, projects, statuses) and makes the tasks, with an Undo.
- Bring your customers. Paste a list into Ask Alori, or use the HubSpot move if your contacts are in HubSpot.
- Invite the team. Every plan has unlimited users. Start on the free plan, no card needed, and see pricing when you grow.
FAQ
Is Alori a good monday alternative? Yes, if you are a service business that mostly tracks customers, jobs, projects and deals. If you need a flexible board tool for many different kinds of work across a large company, monday.com is likely a better fit.
Can I import my monday.com boards? You can export a board to Excel or CSV and import it in Tasks. Alori finds titles, due dates, people, customers, projects and statuses on its own. Columns it cannot place go into each task's description, so nothing is lost.
Does Alori have Gantt charts or dashboards? No Gantt charts. Alori has task lists, a task board, projects with progress, and a deals board. Its Dashboard shows today's jobs, your tasks, money and sales at a glance.
Who is Alori for? Service businesses like HVAC, plumbing and cleaning companies, and agencies that run client projects. See also the Asana alternative.