Everhour vs Resource Management by Smartsheet: Complete Comparison (2026)

Why choose Everhour

• Has a free plan (Resource Management by Smartsheet does not)
• Higher Cost score (8/10 vs 4/10)
• Higher Integration score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Better fit for small business (8/10 vs 3/10)
• Better fit for startups (7/10 vs 2/10)

Why choose Resource Management by Smartsheet

• Higher Analytics score (7/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Scalability score (7/10 vs 6/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (7/10 vs 4/10)

Everhour

Pros

• More than 20 native integrations, including Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Jira and Linear, put a timer directly on tasks, and reviewers praise these integrations most.
• A browser extension adds tracking to more than 20 other web apps, such as Figma, HubSpot and Zendesk.
• Budgets with alerts, expense tracking and invoicing that syncs to QuickBooks, Xero or FreshBooks cover billable work end to end.
• The Team plan costs 8.50 USD per seat per month on yearly billing, and the free plan covers up to 5 seats.
• Reviewers often single out the customer support, and Everhour holds about a 4.8 out of 5 average across 139 SpotSaaS ratings.

Cons

• It is not a standalone PM suite: it has no Gantt charts, docs or whiteboards.
• The free plan has no integrations, which are the product's main value.
• Paid plans require 5 seats and payment by card only, and unused time is not refunded when you cancel.
• Its security documentation relies on AWS's SOC 2 compliance rather than its own report, and it does not run formal periodic risk assessments.
• Some users report hours that failed to record, too many reminder alerts, and limited chart-style reporting.

Resource Management by Smartsheet

Pros

• Heatmaps and a visual schedule show availability and percentage allocation across every project in one place.
• Comes with Time + Fees, Expense, Budget, and Utilization reports, so services firms do not have to build them.
• Placeholders and role-based planning let managers staff a project before naming people, and help forecast hiring.
• Reviewers say time logging and adding projects are easy, and that teams need little training.
• Connects to Smartsheet projects through Control Center and Advanced Reporting.

Cons

• Prices are not published, and it costs extra on top of a Smartsheet Business or Enterprise plan.
• Smartsheet's documentation says it has no task-level tracking, subtasks, dependencies, or Gantt views.
• Its dashboards cannot be customized, and permissions are set only at the project or account level.
• Reviewers report that exported data lands in the wrong fields and that work items cannot be tied to subphases.
• One reviewer reports a minimum purchase of 15 licences.