Wrike vs. Smartsheet: Swap cells for a powerful platform
Increased visibility
When you’re ready to scale your business, you need a work management platform that scales with you — without compromising on visibility or creating unnecessary duplication. Wrike is the solution.
Cross-functional collaboration
Work across teams without copying tasks between projects. With Wrike’s cross-tagging, one task or project can live in multiple workspaces at once, so teams can track the same item their own way.
Advanced analytics
Wrike has reports, dashboards, and even advanced analytics — and they can all be set up quickly and easily. Just describe the chart you need, and Wrike AI builds it for you.
Award-winning user experience
Wrike is recognized by G2 users for ease of use and fast implementation, so new team members find their way around quickly and work in the style that suits them.
Built-in integrations
With 400+ built-in integrations, you can use the tools you prefer without ever leaving Wrike. You’ll cut out wasted time and energy when you stop switching between platforms, and achieve more.
Enterprise-grade security
Run work on enterprise-grade infrastructure: ISO 27001 certification, SOC 2 and SOC 3 reports, role-based permissions, and a full audit trail, all backed by a 99.9% uptime SLA.
The support you need, when you need it
Wrike offers global support to customers in 140+ countries. From instant webchat to multilingual telephone assistance, we’re available to help you 24/7. For those who prefer to troubleshoot, you can check out our bank of resources, templates, and expert guides.
Wrike and Smartsheet both offer table, board, and calendar views for day-to-day tracking, so the difference shows up in capacity planning. Smartsheet’s workload tracking starts on its Business plan, while Wrike’s workload charts track requested effort per person each week and let AI surface capacity risk before it causes a delay.
Wrike supports proofing on images, documents, videos, and webpages, with integrations for Adobe Creative Cloud, MediaValet, and Bynder. Smartsheet also proofs images, videos, documents, and PDFs on its Business plan and up, so the main difference is Wrike’s webpage proofing and asset management integrations.
Wrike and Smartsheet both include interactive Gantt charts on their entry-level paid plans, with milestones, dependencies, and drag-to-reschedule functionality. The difference is context: in Wrike, the Gantt view connects to the same portfolios, dashboards, and workload data as the rest of your work, so a change on the timeline updates everywhere.
Yes. Wrike is a strong replacement for teams that want table, board, Gantt chart, and calendar views together with AI agents and assistants in one platform. New collaborators typically spend about 30 minutes learning Wrike, and prebuilt templates and guided onboarding help teams get moving quickly.
Both offer workload tracking, but the packaging differs. Smartsheet’s workload tracking starts on its Business plan and deeper capacity planning requires its resource management add-on, while Wrike includes workload charts in Business and adds role-based capacity forecasting on higher plans.
Yes. Wrike’s Table view gives you a familiar spreadsheet-style grid, and on paid plans you can switch to Board, Gantt chart, or Calendar view in a click — so people who think in rows and people who think visually work from the same project.
Yes. Wrike offers a free plan with unlimited users for basic task and board tracking, and you can start a free trial of a paid plan to test Gantt charts, dashboards, and automation before you buy.
Yes. Wrike supports formulas through calculated custom fields, so the calculations you rely on in Smartsheet carry over — you just won’t need to build whole workflows out of cells.
Yes. Every Wrike plan includes free viewer access, so clients, contractors, and teammates in other departments can follow work without a paid seat. On Business plans and up, you can also collect approvals from external guests.
