Flow vs Redmine: What are the differences?

Flow: Simple project and task management for busy teams. Flow is an online collaboration platform that makes it easy for people to create, organize, discuss, and accomplish tasks with anyone, anytime, anywhere. By merging a sleek, intuitive interface with powerful functionality, we're out to revolutionize the way the world's productive teams get things done; Redmine: A flexible project management web application written using Ruby on Rails framework. Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

Flow and Redmine can be categorized as "Project Management" tools.

Some of the features offered by Flow are:

• Simple Project Management- Visually plan and organize all of your projects as lists or cards on kanban boards
• Team Collaboration- Invite anyone to collaborate on a task whether they have an account or not.
• Live Updates- With Flow, updates happen in real-time so everyone’s always up-to-speed.

On the other hand, Redmine provides the following key features:

• Multiple projects support
• Flexible role based access control
• Flexible issue tracking system

"Easy to use" is the primary reason why developers consider Flow over the competitors, whereas "Open source" was stated as the key factor in picking Redmine.

Redmine is an open source tool with 3.41K GitHub stars and 1.86K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Redmine's open source repository on GitHub.

Weebly, WebbyLab, and Coach United are some of the popular companies that use Redmine, whereas Flow is used by Startae, Grooveshark, and WILD. Redmine has a broader approval, being mentioned in 72 company stacks & 34 developers stacks; compared to Flow, which is listed in 7 company stacks and 3 developer stacks.