Indy vs. Honeybook

With so much on your plate each day, it can be hard to focus on business growth when you’re fighting to manage the chaos of running your own business: Balancing multiple projects, multiple clients, and multiple software to manage it all. That’s where Indy and Honeybook rise up to give you a tool suite that simplifies your independent business.

Let’s compare these two popular project management software so that you can make an informed decision for your business.

Overview

Indy and Honeybook are both all-in-one project management software designed to make it easy for independent business owners to manage their entire business from proposals to project management to payment. Although both platforms offer similar productivity tools, there are some key differences in the approach each software takes that we’ll explore down this page.

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What is
Indy?

Indy is an all-in-one project management software that empowers freelancers and small business owners to manage and grow their businesses—onboard clients, manage projects, sign contracts online, send invoices, and accept payments. It was designed from the ground up specifically for freelancers and small business owners, and its robust productivity tools have been fine-tuned to the needs of freelancers around the world.

What is
Honeybook?

Honeybook is a project management software that helps independent workers and small businesses with client and project management, expense tracking, and invoicing. Its productivity tools are aimed at small business owners who want to organize and manage their businesses. Honeybook also includes several features for accounting and client CRM, which has led to its pricing plans costing higher than average.

Free plan

Pro plan

$12/month
(Pro plan)

$39/month
(Essentials plan)

Automated workflows

(Pro plan)

Zapier integration

(Pro plan)

Dashboard insights

Contract management

Custom fonts & branding

(Pro plan)

Electronic signatures

File storage and file sharing

No file size limits

(Pro plan)

(15 MB file size limit)

Embed forms

Drag-and-drop content blocks

Billing & Invoicing

PayPal, Stripe, and Zelle integrations

Flexible payment options

Recurring invoices

(Pro plan)

Automatic time tracking on desktop

Kanban boards

Milestones for projects

Organize tasks by priority

Proposal management

Embed music, social media profiles, and Pinterest moodboards in proposals

Unsplash integration for designing proposals

Scheduling integration in proposals

Built-in calendar app

Educational courses for freelancers

Collaborative network for freelancers

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Indy vs Honeybook: How We Compare

As you can see from the chart, Indy and Honeybook have a robust tool suite that helps you onboard new clients, manage projects, and collect payments. Although, there are important features missing from Honeybook that freelancers need to have more control over their businesses. Let’s break down these differences in more detail.

Comparing the Similarities

Indy and Honeybook both feature easy-to-use management tools that let you create and send proposals, contracts, forms, and invoices, along with automatic time tracking and to-do lists. These tools can integrate with Zapier to create workflow automations that automate the repetitive tasks and cut your work time in half. Besides creating powerful workflow automations, Zapier lets you connect Indy and Honeybook to 1,000+ of your favorite apps, so that all your apps work even better together.

You can also accept payments directly through Indy and Honeybook with integrated payments for credit cards and bank transfers. You’ll even receive alerts so that you know the second a client pays an invoice.

Weighing the Differences

While there are many similarities shared between Indy and Honeybook’s core tools, you’ll find some important differences when it comes to project management, payments, pricing, and file sharing. For starters, Indy provides a richer project management experience with Kanban boards, automatic time tracking available for desktop, and no file size limits, making it a more robust system for managing bigger projects and balancing multiple client workloads.

You can also break down projects into smaller milestones, rearrange to-do lists with drag-and-drop ease, and add tags to set priorities for tasks.

While both Indy and Honeybook provide integrated payments, only Indy will allow you to accept payments from PayPal, Stripe, and Zelle, giving your clients more flexible ways to pay you.

And finally, the biggest reason to choose Indy comes down to its incredible value at a low price. While both Indy and Honeybook have powerful workflow automations, Honeybook’s automated workflows can only be found on their higher-priced plan of $39/month, meaning you can get access to automations and Zapier integration for a fraction of the price with Indy!

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Why you should choose Indy?

Affordable
pricing

You have a lot of expenses. We believe the tools you use shouldn’t have to break the bank. Not only is Indy one of the few project management software that offers a robust Free plan, but Indy Pro is also available for a fraction of Honeybook’s pricing.

Easy-to-use
tools

Nobody has time to learn new software. Indy’s incredibly simple user interface means there is virtually no learning curve to using Indy’s tool suite, so you can start working the minute you sign up.

Powerful task management

It can be challenging to manage a client’s project if you don’t have the proper tools to help you organize and track the workload. While Honeybook offers to-do lists, Indy has both to-do lists and Kanban boards that make it simple to handle any project a client sends your way.

Ensuring your
growth

Indy provides educational courses through Indy University that teach you how to become a freelancer and overcome any challenges along the way. And with the Indy Community, you can network with other creatives to collaborate on projects and even gain new clients from referrals.