Release History

2026

22.09.26 – awork AI – Chat and Agents, ready for your AI rollout

One chat for all your questions, project-related or not

The AI Chat gives everyone on your team a place for the questions that come up every day. Ask everyday questions just like you would in a regular AI tool, plus get answers with real project data when it matters: timelines, resources, time tracking, customer feedback, and more. No tab switching and no need to manually hunt down context. The answer fits your question right away, powered by the LLM of your choice.

Hand off recurring tasks to Custom Agents that already know the context

Start with ready-made agents built for typical agency use cases, or create your own and share them with your team in just a few clicks. Custom Agents take on the complex, repetitive tasks that would otherwise eat up your afternoon, so your team can focus on what really matters.

Every agent is built for agency work from the start. Use templates for client reports, briefs, and creative reviews, so you don't start with a blank prompt.

Start private, open it up to your team with one click

New threads start as private by default, so you can think freely before you have anything to share. Link a thread to a project when your team should see it. Then your project's access rights apply automatically, all the way down to the client level.

Any LLM you want, fully GDPR-compliant and hosted in the EU

Pick the right LLM for each task. awork AI runs on the model of your choice, with no lock-in to a single default model. Every agent stays strictly within your permissions, so client work never bleeds into another client's context. And because everything is fully hosted in the EU and 100% GDPR-compliant, your team can roll out AI without opening up a whole new compliance discussion.

Full transparency on AI usage, by project, team, user, or client

Keep track of AI usage by project, team, user, or client for clear, simple cost control and billing.

09.07.26 – The new awork

Cleaner design, up to 30% more compact

The whole design is calmer now. New typography, a fresh icon set, stronger contrast. That brings up to 30% more onto your screen, with clearer hierarchy, so you see more of your work at a glance. Beyond Dark Mode, there's now one more contrast level (Standard → High) for better accessibility.

Clearer navigation, everything where you'd expect it

The new main menu keeps personal content, workspace, and projects neatly separated, so you find what you're looking for faster. The new Floating Action Bar bundles search, awork AI, quick actions, and timer in one fixed spot, plus context-specific actions for the page you're on.

The new lists, the right view for every job

The lists in awork got a complete overhaul. Now you can group, sort, and switch to table view in any list. That used to only work in filter views. Set up columns per list and edit entire task hierarchies in one action. Group a project by assignee, sort by due date, and you instantly see who's overloaded, without leaving the project.

04.06.26 - Fully functional MCP Server

No more missing endpoints

The awork MCP Server now supports the complete awork API. AI agents connected through Claude, ChatGPT, or other MCP-compatible clients have access to everything in awork. No more workarounds for missing endpoints.

External AI agents that truly understand awork

Thanks to embedded access to awork documentation and best practices, your AI agent doesn't just know the API. It also knows how to use awork the right way. The result: fewer errors, more reliable results on complex tasks.

Lean, fast, and further

A smaller MCP footprint means less token consumption per session. Complex agent workflows stay efficient throughout. Setup: one URL, one login, done.

20.05.26 - Copy Docs as Markdown (.md)

Export content with one click

Open an awork Doc, click the action menu, and select "Copy as Markdown". The content lands straight in your clipboard, ready to paste into Notion, GitHub, Slack, or any other tool that supports Markdown. Headings, tables, lists, code blocks, and text formatting all stay intact.

Structure and context come along

Every export includes a YAML header with the document name and a link back to the source in awork. Inline comments get resolved into their own section at the end of the export.

30.04.26 - Workflows

Unified processes for all your projects

Use Workflows to define recurring processes once (statuses, automations, and custom fields for tasks). Then apply that workflow to any of your projects. When you update the workflow, all connected projects automatically adjust.

Set up projects quickly and safely

Assign a workflow to a project template to launch new projects with the right process built in. Already have a well-configured project? Save it as a workflow in the project settings and roll those settings out to as many other projects as you want.

Get started with workflows

When you link an existing project to a workflow, a setup wizard opens to help you get it configured. In the project settings, you see exactly which workflow is active and what it controls. You can switch workflows anytime.

Flexibility at the project level

Not every project fits a workflow perfectly. That's why you can disable individual workflow automations per project, or add project-specific automations and custom fields while keeping the project connected to the workflow.

See which projects use which process

Search, filter, and group your project list by workflow. This is especially useful once you have multiple workflows running, so you can spot gaps, check coverage, and keep track of everything.

16.04.26 - Filters with AND/OR logic

Build complex filter conditions

Combine criteria with AND/OR connections and group them in brackets to build multi-level logic.

Use Quick Filters when you need results fast

Apply Quick Filters on any page (Projects, Tasks, Users, etc.). You see results right away without opening a new input form or loading a saved filter.

Save, share, and organize filters

Save filters, share them with people, teams, or your entire workspace, and keep everything organized in views. Favorite what matters, archive the rest.

16.04.26 - Views: Create and organize what you want to see

A dedicated space for filters and saved views

Views is now its own area in awork. Your filters and saved views have a clear home. Easier to find, manage, and track down.

Standard views ready to go

You start with three standard views: New Tasks, My Tasks, and Private Tasks. Ready to use, no setup needed.

Share views purposefully with the right people

Share views with specific people, teams, or your entire workspace. You decide right then whether they can read or edit. No more broadcasting to everyone.

Just the beginning

Views launches with list view. More view types and workspace-wide views are coming soon.

16.04.26 - Bulk actions for projects

Update multiple projects in one go

Update several projects at once - change status, tags, dates, project owners, and more all in one step. Select your projects, choose an action, and confirm. Each project reports its own result, so nothing fails silently.

14.04.26 - Duplicate projects directly from the context menu

Duplicate any project - complete structure included

Copy the entire project structure all at once - tasks, lists, custom fields, automations, and more included. Open the action menu for a project and select "Duplicate project". The copy is independent and has no connection to the original.

Control what gets copied

Members, assignees, documents, and files are included by default - you can toggle each element off independently before duplicating. Task statuses can be reset so the project starts with a clean slate.

10.02.26 - Project & task keys

Reference tasks uniquely

Every project gets a short key (like MKTG or BRND) and every task gets a permanent number (like MKTG-42). Say goodbye to "that design task we talked about yesterday". Instead, you get clear references for Slack, Git commits, customer emails, and team calls. Task numbers never change, even if the title does, so your documentation and commit history stay valid forever.

Find quickly, copy even faster

Search any task by its number (just type "42" or the full "MKTG-42") and jump straight to it. Click the task key to copy the URL, click the project key to copy the project link. Perfect for developers committing code, account managers updating clients, or anyone who needs auditable traceability without the copy-paste dance.

You control the visibility

Keys are generated automatically for all projects and tasks, but you decide who sees them. Workspace admins set the default (visible or hidden), project managers can override it per project. Enable project keys for your workspace whenever you're ready.

10.02.26 - Manual automation triggers

Kick off multi-step processes with a click

Not every workflow should run automatically. Manual triggers let you start automations exactly when you need them - like running your QA checklist before a client review, or your "prepare invoice" flow when a project phase wraps up. Set up the automation once in your project settings (or template), and then any team member can trigger it directly from a task using the new button in the top right.

Same power as automations, but with total control

Set up manual triggers just like regular automations: select Manual as the trigger type, give it a clear name (like "Start release process"), add your actions (change status, assign users, trigger webhooks), and save. The automation appears in a dropdown on every task in that project - ready to run when you click, not when an event fires.

10.02.26 - Trusted workspaces - skip setup for known Connect partners

Auto-accept select Connect invitations

If you're constantly collaborating with the same agency, client, or freelancer workspace via awork Connect, you shouldn't have to approve every single project invitation. Now workspace admins can mark specific workspaces as "trusted" to automatically accept invitations from them. Your regular partners can jump straight into projects, get assigned tasks, and get going.

Set it once and forget it

Go to Workspace settings > Connect > Trusted workspaces, add your partner's workspace (by ID or URL), hit save, and you're done. From that moment on, everyone from that trusted workspace can connect with your users instantly. Perfect for agencies with regular clients, companies with dedicated freelancer pools, or any team tired of approving the same people over and over.

10.02.26 - All-day calendar entries for bookings and tasks

See assigned tasks where you plan your day

The "All-day" row at the top of your calendar now shows tasks and bookings assigned to you (not just time off and calendar events). This means you can see at a glance what projects you're booked on and what tasks are waiting for you - all in the same view where you already plan meetings and block focus time. Tasks show a solid border, bookings show a dotted border (like in timeline views), and hovering shows the full name. Makes it much easier to drag your actual work into free slots and build a realistic daily plan.

Decide what shows up

Go into your calendar settings and you'll find three new options: "All-day tasks" gives you your assigned tasks from active projects. "Tasks without start date" adds tasks that only have a due date (they show as a 1-day item on that day) - but the first toggle needs to be on. And "Show bookings" displays your resource bookings. Play with the settings to see what matters to you and hide the rest.

10.02.26 - Out of office blocks now reduce your capacity

Your calendar absences count toward workload planning (if you want)

When you block off half a day for a doctor's appointment or a free afternoon in your calendar as "Out of Office", awork can now see it and reduce your capacity in the planner's workload accordingly. It's completely optional: go to your calendar integration settings and enable "Load absences and treat as out of office". Once it's on, your OOO blocks appear in the awork calendar and are automatically factored into resource planning. Leave it off if you prefer to manage absences differently.

Perfect for absences that don't fit the all-day pattern

Not every absence is a full vacation day. Sometimes it's a two-hour dentist appointment, a half-day conference, or "leaving early for parent-teacher night". Out of office blocks let you capture these shorter absences without logging them separately in a separate HR system. Your team sees you're unavailable, the planner adjusts your workload, and nobody assigns you stuff when you're already gone.

2025

03.11.25 - MFA, new slash commands, and Docs improvements

MFA: Extra security, made simple

awork now supports multi-factor authentication (MFA), giving you an extra layer of protection when you log in. Beyond your password, you can now confirm your identity with a code from your email or an authenticator app.

Apply formatting with slash commands

Speed up your writing flow. Use "/" in docs, descriptions, and comments to quickly insert headings, lists, images, and other formats without ever touching your mouse.

Slack notifications for Doc activity

Get notified in Slack when someone comments or reacts to a doc, mentions you, or shares a doc with you.

Link a doc directly from the task

You can now link documents directly in task details. Keep your context and notes exactly where you need them.

29.10.25 - Gantt View for Projects

Your project roadmap: Clear, visual, and easy to plan

The new Gantt view visualizes your project plan with task bars showing start and end dates plus duration - including dependencies and clear hierarchy from lists, parent tasks, and subtasks. Plan campaigns sequentially, drag and drop phases, keep predecessors and successors stable, and export your timeline as PNG/SVG for your clients.

Scroll into focus

One click in the sidebar and the view jumps directly to your chosen task in the timeline. Saves you endless scrolling in large projects and gets you to your next to-do faster.

Automatic adjustment for parent tasks

Automatically align the start and end dates of parent tasks with their subtasks. When automatic adjustment is active, the subtask dates control the parent timeframe.

28.08.25 - awork AI (Beta) - your smart project assistant

Create helpful content in seconds

Create client updates, task briefings, meeting notes, or doc drafts in seconds - right where you're working. awork AI uses your current project context to nail the tone and details, so you refine instead of starting from scratch. Save valuable time and stay in the flow.

Manage projects with less manual effort

Skip the busywork and let awork AI do it for you: create and assign tasks, adjust timelines, update statuses, or change priorities. For bigger changes, the AI asks for confirmation - staying safe stays smart. Less admin, more done.

Get answers in the right context

Get clear answers on demand about status, deadlines, capacity, or logged time - no report wrangling needed. awork AI reads your current project or task (within your permissions) and delivers insights plus next steps. Aligned in seconds, even during stressful phases.

Protect sensitive data

GDPR-compliant hosting in the EU, no use of your data for AI training, strict permission enforcement. Admins can disable awork AI workspace-wide if needed. Use AI with peace of mind - even with sensitive client data.

26.08.25 - Quick Reports for instant overview

Create your most important time reports in seconds

Quick reports let you skip the setup for classic time reports and select the right filters with just one click. Choose between "Monthly time capture overview", "Logged vs planned", "Billability per user", and "Ready for invoicing".

15.07.25 - Improved time reports: Faster, clearer, more flexible

More intuitive layout and instant results

Time reports are now generated automatically as soon as you select filters - no need for an extra "Apply" button anymore. Filter selection is now much more direct and convenient.

Keep planned efforts in sight

New columns for "planned effort" make it easy to compare planned time and actual logged time directly in your report.

Reports by task list - including export

You can now filter time reports by specific task lists - a frequently requested feature. The corresponding task list is also shown in exports.

Primary task list for complete clarity

Since tasks can be assigned to multiple lists, you now select which one is the primary task list when moving a task to another list. Time entries are only assigned to this primary list - keeping your reports clean and traceable.

15.07.25 - Export Docs as PDF

Work with your docs outside of awork too

You can now export any doc as a clean, shareable PDF file - perfect for printing, archiving, or sharing outside of awork.

10.07.25 - Doc versioning: Every change saved, full control

All edits automatically saved as versions

With the new versioning, awork automatically saves every change within Docs - whether private, in a space, or in a project. So you always have your complete document history at your fingertips.

View and manage version history

Open the three-dot menu to see all saved versions including previews. See at a glance who changed what and when, and jump directly to the version you want.

Restore earlier versions - without losing data

You can restore an older version anytime. Your current version stays in place - so no information is lost and you have maximum flexibility when reverting.

Security and control for every team

Versioning is available for all doc types. Users with edit permissions (Professional plan and above) can view versions and jump back - for seamless team collaboration, even with lots of changes.

10.07.25 - Custom fields for projects: More flexibility, more overview

Custom fields for every project

You can now create custom fields for all projects - just as easily as for tasks. All custom fields you create are automatically available in every project.

Integrated directly into all workflows

Show custom fields in your project list, set them up in project templates, and edit them directly in project details - so every project adapts to your needs.

Targeted filtering for quick overview

You can now filter by custom fields for both projects and tasks. So it's easier to get the overview you need.

19.06.25 - New Docs editor features

Text colors in Docs

You can now change text colors in Docs. Highlight important info, structure content visually, or just make it a bit more colorful - right from the toolbar.

Syntax highlighting in code blocks

Developers, rejoice: Code blocks in Docs now support syntax highlighting for popular programming languages - making snippets easier to read, copy, and review.

Checklist format in Docs

Stay organized while you write: Add simple to-dos directly from the toolbar to any document and check them off when done.

Fullscreen view for embedded images

Click the fullscreen button in the image toolbar to display a larger version.

20.05.25 - Quality week: 60+ minor updates, including improved workflows and new Xero integration

New billing integration: Xero

awork now connects seamlessly with Xero - making invoicing even easier for agencies and project-driven teams (especially in the UK).

More overview and flow

Navigation, lists, and filters are now even smarter and more intuitive - so you and your team always have the perfect overview and find what really matters faster.

Faster (and smarter) in your daily work

From task creation to time tracking: Many small optimizations make your workflows smoother, eliminate annoying friction, and save you valuable time with smart shortcuts.

More efficiency for teams

Collaboration is now even more straightforward: Improved permission management, optimized document handling, and cleaner context menus let your team focus on what matters.

Reliability and data protection

Many detailed improvements ensure awork remains a secure and reliable workspace for your team - with full focus on data protection and compliance.

13.05.25 - Calendar and time tracking come together, new bulk editing options, bookings without project reference, and timeline updates

Calendar and time tracking now in one view

Time tracking in awork has never been easier. By bringing together time entries and your calendar, you now have all your bookings and appointments in one place - right in your calendar.

• See time entries directly in the calendar: Stay on top of things at all times: your time bookings are now displayed directly in the calendar. Just click on the time badge above the day or week to get a quick overview of all entries for that period.
• Create time entries directly from calendar events: Log your work time even faster: use the context menu on synchronized calendar events to create a time entry directly from them. The event title is automatically added as a note - you can adjust the duration, task, or project anytime.
• Create entries or tasks with drag and drop: Simply drag across the calendar to open the quick creator. Then choose whether you want to create a time entry or a task. Tasks are automatically scheduled - just like when you move them from your task list.
• View time entries from other team members: Want to see what your team is working on? Simply select the team members you want and their time entries and calendar events will be displayed alongside your own. With the right permissions, you can even log time for others.

Bulk editing for subtasks

You can now select multiple subtasks - either individually or all under one parent task - and edit them together or assign them to a new parent task with just one click. Organize and update your projects faster and easier than ever before.

Book capacity in the planner without project reference

Want to block time before the project even exists? From now on, you can book capacity in the planner without assigning it to a project - perfect for early planning, placeholders, or internal tasks.

Improved UX for project and task timelines

Small but mighty: the project and task timelines (outside the planner) now also use the new, smoother timeline technology from the planner update. A small upgrade with a big impact.

09.05.2025 - awork Docs: Bring documentation and project work together in one tool

Project-related documentation

With awork Docs, you create project-related content like briefs, meeting notes, or client updates directly in the project - and can link them to tasks if needed. This keeps your knowledge flowing, everyone on the team (and your clients) has access to the same information - without switching tools.

Workspace-wide documentation

In addition to projects, you can also create central, workspace-wide documentation - for example, design guidelines, onboarding guides, or technical instructions. Thanks to the flexible folder structure, everything stays easy to find, current, and well organized.

Collaboration, formatting, sharing, and much more

Edit content together in real time, control access permissions precisely, and design your documents with the versatile editor exactly as you need them. Your Docs grow with you - structured, secure, and in the context of your work.

💡 Find all the details about Docs in this help center article.

28.03.2025 - The new planner: Redesigned for reliable plans and happy clients

Clear layout for project and user overview

The split-screen view in the planner has been removed. Instead, there's now a separate project and user overview that you can switch between seamlessly. This gives you better visibility of your projects and lets you focus on the relevant information for capacity planning.

New project overview for more control and flexibility

Improved filter, sort, and grouping options provide clearer structure and help you keep all relevant projects in view. Customize the project sidebar individually to create the exact view that makes you most productive - complete flexibility without losing the big picture.

Improved project navigation to switch between planning levels

A new navigation menu makes it easier to navigate into and out of projects during planning. When you click on a project in the planner timeline, the new navigation opens, letting you dive directly into the task timeline or project users for detailed planning - or navigate to the full project outside the planner.

Planner checklist to spot risks early and respond immediately

The new, customizable checklist flags potential issues in your project plan, like upcoming deadlines, delayed tasks, or over/under-allocated team members. Perfect for your weekly planning meetings! You can generate the checklist anytime based on your active project view (including filters) and your chosen time period. Click any item to jump directly to that issue.

Bulk select tasks for efficient planning and replanning

The new bulk selection in the planner's project timeline makes it easier to plan and replan tasks. Activate bulk selection by clicking the cursor icon at the bottom of the screen. Select multiple tasks to move or edit them at the same time.

Editing options for projects in the planner timeline

Projects in the planner timeline can now be edited intuitively to adjust your project portfolio more easily. You can drag and drop projects to move them or adjust their duration - right in the project overview.

User availability data for quick task assignments

As you assign a task to team members, you can see their availability directly to ensure efficient workload distribution - without needing to open the planner.

Filter options for user tags when assigning tasks

When assigning tasks, you can now filter by tags like skills or qualifications to quickly find the right team members for your tasks.

Experimental AI to resolve overallocation

When team members are overloaded, affected tasks can be automatically rescheduled with the help of AI - an experimental feature designed mainly for smaller scopes. Open the user timeline, select the tasks you want to replan, and click "Autofix". Within seconds, the tasks are automatically rescheduled to create balanced workload while considering deadlines and capacities. You can also work with a prompt to give awork clear instructions on how to replan.

13.02.25 - Retainer budgets, improved automation for budget notifications, and new settings for greater budget precision

Retainer budgets for projects

Retainer budgets in awork let you set monthly recurring budgets for a project instead of using a single fixed budget. Team members can define an individual retainer period and decide whether and how unused or exceeded hours in one month affect the budget for the next month.

Retainer view in the project time tab

When a project has a defined retainer budget, you'll find the new retainer view in the project's time tab - in addition to general project KPIs. The new retainer charts give you a clear overview of the project's current and previous months. If you enable the option to carry over unused and/or exceeded hours, you'll also see how your monthly available budget is affected by the previous month.

Improved automation for budget notifications

The triggers for automations are now even smarter: in addition to notifications when a project's budget is fully used, you can now set up notifications based on specific budget values - whether it's a percentage, logged hours, or days.

Precise budget control with billable hours only

You now have the flexibility to choose what counts toward your project budgets: either all logged hours or billable hours only.

Customizable budgets in project templates

Templates now contain flexible budget values. This lets you create or modify budgets within a template.

30.01.25 - Desktop Tabs and a New Release Feed

Tabs for the Desktop App

The awork desktop app now supports opening and working with multiple tabs. This also includes new shortcuts that make using the awork app even more intuitive.

The New Release Feed in awork

There's a brand new release feed right inside awork! From now on, you can easily track all feature updates and improvements directly within the app. You'll get notified when changes happen and find all the information you need to get started with the latest updates right away.

2024

Time-Fries-Release 🍟 - 29.11.2024

Bar Charts in the "Time" View

The bar charts show you how much time was tracked and in what way for projects, users, or clients over time. You'll find them in the Times tab of a project, client, or user in the "Time" view. The bar charts let you flexibly group time spent by billability, activities, users, or projects and choose your time period between daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly, or yearly views.

Line Charts for the "Recorded vs. Planned" View

The line charts visualize your project budget progress in relation to the work hours recorded. These charts are available in every project in the "Recorded vs. Planned" view. They're especially valuable for spotting trends or deviations early and responding accordingly. Showing the progress of the last six months and visualizing budget overruns with color changes help you effectively monitor your projects' financial framework.

Improved Search in Your Workspace

The search function in awork has been significantly improved to help you find information faster and more efficiently. The expanded view now displays more results at once, and your search coverage includes comments, notes, project descriptions, files, and task lists. Detailed hit displays, supported by tooltips, make it easier to find specific content. With increased result display of up to 40 entries and new navigation options like the "Tab" key for switching areas and the option to open results directly in a new tab, searching in awork is now even more intuitive and user-friendly.

New List View for Time Evaluations

The display of time evaluations in the "Time Evaluations" tab has been switched from a tile view to a list view to improve clarity. In the upper right area of the view, you'll now find sorting options by name and creation date as well as a search function that makes it easier to find specific evaluations. Additionally, an action menu next to each evaluation lets you share reports directly from the list view without having to open the individual evaluation.

Selectively Hiding Comments and Task Lists for External Connect Users

In projects shared via awork Connect with external users, you can now selectively hide both comments and task lists. Before sending a comment, you can hide it from external users, indicated by a red eye icon in the comment field that shows the comment isn't visible. Task lists work similarly: through a special action menu next to the list, you can completely hide them from external users, ensuring only relevant content is visible to them while protecting internal information.

New MOCO Integration

The new MOCO integration allows seamless transfer of project details and times between awork and MOCO. This lets you create projects directly in MOCO and then automatically sync all relevant information and time entries to awork, minimizing the need for manual data reconciliation.

New easyJOB Integration

The integration between easyJOB and awork syncs projects and tasks between the systems. This improves project management and automates time tracking, making your team more productive.

Holiday-Spritz-Release 🍹 - 14.10.2024

Regional Holidays in the Planner

Regional holidays can now be automatically considered in the planner and marked as "unavailable". These holidays are based on the regions assigned to your users. An admin sets up these regions and they're then available to all users in the account settings.

Workspace-Wide Absences

Admins can now define workspace-wide absences. These absences apply to all users or specific regions and are automatically considered in the Workload view.

Time Period Selection in the Workload View

The new time period selection lets you view your team's or a user's available capacity for a specific time period. After selecting a time period in the timeline, both individual and total team member capacity is displayed. The "Sort by Availability" sorting function lets you rank users by their free capacity, with the user with the most available capacity listed first.

Hide Completed Tasks

The "Show Done" button lets you toggle completed tasks on and off in the Workload view with just one click.

Improved View for Large Lists

Lists in awork dynamically adapt to your screen size and use the full available width to provide optimal display without zoom adjustments. Switching between wide-screen mode and compact mode happens automatically based on your browser window size.

Optimized Navigation

A new forward button improves navigation through recently accessed views in awork. Your navigation history is saved per window or tab and remains visible even when the sidebar is collapsed.

UI Improvements

The awork user interface has been optimized. Contrast in the timeline has been increased and names for long entries now scroll more smoothly. Week separator lines have been added to the timeline header to improve clarity.

Save Last Tab in Project Selection

When creating a project template, the last selected tab is saved and automatically opens the next time you use a template.

Recent Activity for Connect Users

In the Connect tab of Workspace settings, admins can now see in the new "Recent Activity" column when a user was last active in that workspace.

Support & Help Button

The "Support & Help" button is now in the top right of every workspace and gives you quick access to important resources. Clicking it opens a two-part popup: on the left side you'll see contact options for support, access to the awork Community, links to relevant documentation from the Help Center, and the release history. On the right side, context-relevant Help Center articles are suggested based on the area of awork you're currently using.

Custom Icecream Release 🍦 - 23.08.2024

Personalize Your Tasks with Custom Fields

In awork, you can create custom fields to integrate additional details directly into project tasks. This feature enables consistent and flexible use of details like text, numbers, checkboxes, selections, dates, or users. Fields are created workspace-wide and can be activated or deactivated in projects as needed. You can display fields as columns in task lists and use them as filter criteria. Custom fields are only available in Business or Enterprise plans. The Business plan allows up to 12 fields, while the Enterprise plan has no limit.

Sort Your Project Overview

Sort projects by end date, start date, name, client, budget, task progress, time progress, or status.

Move Projects in the Timeline

Move complete projects via the action menu in project details or selected tasks and lists via multiple selection by a specific number of days.

Progress Bars for Project Details

Keep track of the progress of due dates, budgets, time spent, and tasks at the project level with progress bars in your project details.

"Planned vs. Logged" View for Clients

See planned and actually logged times for client projects in the Times tab of the client overview.

Change the Activity Directly in Task Details

Update a task's activity directly in the task details.

Personalize Your Task List View

Sort, group, and filter tasks in your dashboard widget by various criteria.

Absences Widget for Teams

Set up an absences widget for your entire team on the dashboard. You can specifically select which teams should be displayed. You can also place multiple widgets for different teams on your dashboard.

Edit Tags in Templates

Take over tags when creating templates from the respective projects and tasks, and edit tags in templates afterward.

Take Over Task Start and End Dates in Templates

Set start and end dates for tasks when creating a template as relative dates that are automatically applied when creating new projects.

Sorting and Search for Templates

Find templates easily through alphabetical sorting and the new search function.

Customize Your Task Split View

Use the customizable split view to individually minimize or maximize task views, allowing you to work within a task while keeping full visibility of your task lists.

Get an Overview of All External Users

The new Connect tab now provides a complete overview of all external users involved in projects within your workspace. Remove them if needed, check their last activity, and group them by projects or other criteria.

Move a Task to a Project

A simpler method for moving tasks to another project has been introduced. Via the action menu of a task or through multiple selection, you can now move tasks to another project using the Move to Project button.

Offline Page for the Desktop App

The desktop app now features an info page that displays when there is no active internet connection.

Improvements for Export Files (Excel and Google Sheets)

New columns for Excel and the Google Sheets integration are available for time exports.

Watchers Based on Your Settings

In your profile settings, you can now specify whether you want to be automatically added as a watcher to all tasks you create.

New Filter Criterion for Tasks: "Created By"

With the new "Created By" filter criterion, you can filter tasks that were created by yourself, a specific user, or multiple users.

Snack Release 🍩 - 05.07.2024

Browser Extension for awork

The browser extension for Chrome and Arc offers an easy way to start and manage time tracking directly from your browser in awork without switching between tabs. After installation, an awork icon appears at the top of your browser window, providing access to all relevant time tracking functions. Here you can start, stop, pause, or discard time for projects, as well as mark times as billable or non-billable. Tracked data is seamlessly and in real-time transferred to your connected awork workspace. The extension also enables integration of the awork timer on tool pages like GitHub, HelloHQ, Pipedrive, and MOCO.

KPI Reports for Clients

KPI reports can now also be used for clients. Simply go to the desired client profile and select the new Times tab to access KPI reports and the Times view.

Edit Planned Effort Directly in the Times Tab

You can now enter and edit planned effort directly in the "Logged vs. Planned" view. Simply click the desired value for tasks and subtasks to change the effort immediately.

awork Connect 🔗 - 20.06.2024

awork Connect

With awork Connect, you can easily and free of charge share projects with external users. This allows you to benefit from genuine collaboration, direct communication, and simple information exchange with external users, whether they're clients, agencies, or freelancers. In the project details view, you'll find the Connect button to invite external users. After accepting the invitation, they become full members of the project and can view and edit tasks based on their permission role. Unlike internal users, external users only have access to the shared project from their own awork workspace and are not part of your workspace.

Guest Migration

With the introduction of awork Connect, you can now convert all existing guests in your workspace into external users. In rights management, you'll find a Connect button next to the respective guest users. After conversion, former guests can now be invited as external users to individual projects without becoming a permanent part of your awork workspace. Shared projects offer the same collaboration options as previous guest licenses. To save on guest license costs, simply remove them from your current awork plan.

Same-Domain Signup

Team members can join a workspace directly without needing an invitation. Once a team member registers with awork using the same email domain, that domain is recognized and automatically assigned to the existing workspace with the corresponding domain.

Budget Bento Release 🍱 - 21.05.2024

KPI Reports for Projects and Users

KPI reports provide quick and easy access to key metrics around times for projects and users. In the Times tab, KPIs can be found at the top of the project overview. For projects, there are KPIs for "total logged time," "ready to bill," "budgeted time," and "logged vs. planned." For users, there are KPIs for "total logged time," "ready to bill," and "absences."

New Time View: Logged vs. Planned

The new "Logged vs. Planned" view in the Times tab offers more detailed insights into all individual project contents, including lists, tasks, and subtasks. The columns "planned," "logged," "completed," and "total billable" are displayed directly next to the corresponding task lists, tasks, and subtasks.

Link Task Lists

You can directly create links to task lists by clicking "Copy link" in the action menu of the list.

Add Teams to Projects More Easily

When assigning teams to projects, all teams in your awork workspace are now displayed, not just the first 10. This allows you to find teams not only through active searching in the search bar, but also by simply scrolling through the list.

Faster Search in Rights Management

The search function in rights management has been expanded to include role names, email addresses, and team names to filter the list accordingly and enable more efficient searching.

"Due By" Instead of "Deadline"

The word "Deadline" in task details has been replaced with "Due by."

Copypasta Release 🍝 - 01.04.2024

Collaborative Live Editing

The new live editing feature lets your team members work on texts at the same time while keeping track of who's doing what actions in each text field.

Copy and Paste Formatted Text

You can now copy formatted text and paste it with all the same formatting both inside and outside of awork.

The Improved Toolbar

for text sizes and styles.

New Formatting Options

The awork toolbar has been optimized and now offers new formatting options, including various text sizes and styles as well as the ability to add links, file references, and emojis.

"Undo" and Other Essential Shortcuts

New shortcuts let you quickly undo or redo text formatting plus perform other text actions.

View Time Spent Directly in Tasks

awork now lets you see the time spent on individual tasks right away, so you get a better overview.

Select and Edit Entire Lists at Once

You can now mark lists completely, which makes it easier to edit time entries, time reports, and task lists within your projects.

Assign Multiple Time Entries to a Single Task

When editing multiple time entries at once, you can now set the related task for several selected entries.

Filter Tasks by List Name

The task filters now also let you filter by list name.

Coffee Break Release ☕️ - 12.02.2024

Flexible Timer 2.0

The flexible timer 2.0 comes with tons of improvements for time tracking in awork. You can now pause a running timer or, if needed, completely delete the time you've already tracked so it won't be included in your time entries. Plus, you can adjust the start time of a running timer after the fact and create tasks directly in the timer. The running timer is now much more visible in your task list view and you can edit it from there.

New Features for Selecting Multiple Time Entries

In any time entry list view in awork, you can select and edit multiple time entries depending on your permissions. When editing, you now have new actions available: "Set Project", "Set Task", and "Set User". These let you change the related project, task, or user for your selected time entries all at once.

New Shortcuts for the Quick Action "z"

When you create a new time entry using the "z" key in awork, you now have expanded options to create an entry quickly and accurately. This includes the new quick actions: "/now" to set the current time as your end time. "/8" to set your start time to 8 AM using a shortcut. "/8-12" to set both your start and end times directly to 8 AM and 12 PM.

Duplicate Time Reports

You can now select the new "Duplicate" option directly from the actions menu (three dots icon) in the overview or in the details of your chosen report to create a copy.

Improved Search in Task Lists

The improved search in your list views lets you search for specific criteria, similar to using a filter command. From now on, you can search by task lists, priority, due date, and status name.

Swiss Cheese 🧀 - 22.01.2024

bexio Integration

A new invoicing tool expands our integration library with this release. With more than 70,000 users, bexio is a popular business software from Switzerland that's especially popular with freelancers, small businesses, and startups. bexio is the solution for anyone who's been spending way too much time on accounting in their daily work, and it aims to make administration as simple as possible for small and medium-sized businesses.

Improved Search

With the improved search, you can now also search through project and task descriptions. Plus, you can sort your search results using new filter options for projects, tasks, users, and customers.

2023

The New awork ✨ - 04.12.2023

awork Design Update

The release of the new awork is all about improving awork's core values for you (simple, fast, beautiful). By completely redesigning our design system and applying it to almost every part of the application, awork enters its next evolution.

Improved Design

Logical and thoughtful design rules now apply throughout the application. This helps you understand awork better and process information more easily. We've been able to improve the look and feel of the application and make working with awork faster and more enjoyable.

Improved Structure

This is achieved by overhauling the entire visual (and logical) appearance of the user interface (for example, standardizing navigation options in the new sub-navigation). The introduction of new customization options (like adding favorite projects, filters, and teams to your sidebar) lets you adapt the default structure to your individual needs. Providing the right information and navigation options for your individual workflows helps you get a better understanding and overview of whatever view you're currently in.

Improved Usability

Linking a feature to a specific design element (like a blue plus button in the top left) helps you quickly learn intuitive behavior and actions. By reducing complexity, we've cut down friction when using awork, making it faster and easier for you to understand.

Snack 🍩 - 21.08.2023

Subtasks in Templates

Subtasks are now available when using project and task filters.

MOCO Integration

We've added another invoicing tool to awork's integration library. MOCO specializes in agency-specific workflows.

@Task Notifications Enabled

With @Task, you can notify all team members assigned to a task directly in its activity section.

Rhino 🦏 - 30.05.2023

awork Desktop Apps

awork is now available as a desktop app for Microsoft Windows and Apple macOS, including native notifications.

Improved Task Details in Dashboard Widget

The detail information for tasks on your dashboard is now more visible and the task name is larger.

"Today" on the Left in the Timeline

Timelines now open with "Today" on the left side of the screen, instead of centered like before.

Filter by Disabled Users in Time Reports

Select disabled users in your time reports to filter by them.

Task List Summary Always Shown

The header of the task list in your project now always shows progress on completed vs. all tasks and tracked vs. planned time.

Subtasks in Recurring Tasks

When recurring tasks create a new instance based on the recurrence rule, all subtasks are also copied.

Comment Indicator in Tasks

Tasks now show a small indicator in list and board view when they have comments.

Quokka 🦘 - 08.05.2023

Improved project and task selection when logging time

When logging time and creating tasks, empty fields have been enhanced so you can assign a project and task faster and more easily.

Wider selection popups

All selection popups have been widened so you can better recognize long names.

Customer names in project selection

In the popup for selecting a project, you'll now see the customer name displayed and can search for it.

Setting for mandatory project selection in time tracking

With a new setting in your time tracking settings, you can now enforce the selection of a project when logging new time.

Recapture recently stopped time entries

The timer in the bottom right of your screen now has a new "recent" tab so you can quickly recapture recently logged time entries.

Hide time tracking suggestions in "My Day"

You can now hide the Activity section under My Time > My Day in your profile settings.

Jump from timer to task or project

When you hover over the running timer at the bottom right of your screen, you'll see the project and task you're currently logging time to. The names are now clickable, so you can quickly navigate to the project or task.

Move task lists to other projects

You can now move entire task lists, including all tasks and subtasks within them, to other projects.

Duplicate task lists with tasks

It's also new that you can duplicate entire task lists.

Easier display of completed tasks

Displaying completed tasks has been simplified. From the start, you have the option to always show all tasks in a project or only recently closed ones.

More task details on the dashboard

On the dashboard, when you have enough space, you'll now find all task details just like you'd see them in the list view within a project.

Show all subtasks when the parent task matches the filter

If a parent task matches your task filter, it will be displayed as expandable and you can see all associated subtasks, even if they don't match your filter.

Many small improvements

Text fields for project and task names no longer shrink when you edit long names. The clickable area for adding tasks between two existing tasks in list view has been enlarged.

Panda 🐼 - 06.03.2023

Real tasks as subtasks

Tasks can now be structured hierarchically in list views as sub and parent tasks. Subordinate tasks remain fully featured tasks including all functions like due dates, comments, attachments, etc.

Previous subtasks become a checklist

The items previously called subtasks within a task are now called a "checklist". Existing checklist entries can be easily migrated to real subtasks.

Different planned efforts for users

When more than one user is assigned to a task, you can assign different planned efforts for each. The total value is distributed equally among all users unless explicitly specified otherwise for individual users.

Recurring tasks in timeline and workload

A preview of when a recurring task will appear is now displayed in the timeline in your project and planner. If the task has a planned effort and at least one user assigned, it will also be factored into the workload.

Faster search and data loading

Search has been improved so search results are now displayed faster. Additionally, many other improvements have been made so data loads faster.

2022

Narwhal 🐳 - 28.11.2022

New planner layout

The planner is out of beta and now features a new layout. There are now only timeline and calendar views. Workload can now always be displayed additionally in the timeline. In the main timeline, you'll find an overview of all projects and by clicking on them, you can view the task timeline for that project.

New task sidebar in the planner

The planner now has a new task sidebar with clear navigation. This sidebar is also now available in My Planner.

New design of the task timeline in projects

The task timeline within a project has been completely overhauled and now features the planner's new design, shows the project start date, and has SVG export.

New: Allocations - for fast and easy team planning

Instead of assigning planned efforts for users in project details, you can now create allocations in the timeline and thus freely decide over the time periods of assignments.

Detailed information on workload for individual days

When you hover over the workload chart for users, you'll now see detailed information showing which tasks, allocations, and calendar entries make up the workload.

Color coding for projects

You can now assign a color to projects in the planner to better and quickly distinguish between tasks and allocations of your users.

Click and drag in all timelines

Using the proven click and drag method, you can quickly and easily create tasks, absences, allocations, and projects in all timelines. You can sketch out your planning in no time.

Google Sheets integration

awork now has a Google Sheets add-on that you can install from the Google Workspace Marketplace. This lets you easily load the main data from awork into a Google Sheet and build your own reports and dashboards there.

Mammoth 🦣 - 10.10.2022

Projects in timeline view

In the project overview, you'll now find a timeline view so you can see all projects with start and end dates in a clear chronological progression.

Individual working hours

Instead of weekly working hours, you can now set working hours on a daily basis for each user to better represent availability in the planner.

Half-day absences

It's now also possible to log half-day absences in awork to represent your team's availability even more accurately.

Personio integration for absences

With the new Personio integration, you can conveniently load your team's absences from Personio and no longer need to maintain them separately in awork.

Task sync to main calendar

You can now choose a target calendar for syncing and thus also sync planned tasks back to your main calendar so these times are blocked off before appointments, for example.

Exclusion of non-busy events

Calendar events that are marked as non-busy are now excluded from workload calculations.

Improved resizing for tasks in the calendar

Tasks in the calendar can now be dragged more precisely and shortened to 5 minute increments. Manual entry via the action menu is also possible.

More info for small timeline elements

Small tasks and projects in the timeline now temporarily and automatically enlarge when you hover over them. This way you can quickly and easily capture the information.

Improved user assignment via drag and drop

When dragging and dropping tasks into the timeline and calendar, user assignment has become more intuitive. An additional option is now always offered to prevent accidental removal of users.

Action button for projects in timeline

Projects now have an action button in the planner to directly change user assignments or open the project in the project's task timeline.

Improved server performance and reliability

We've made extensive adjustments to our servers to make awork faster, more stable, and more reliable.

Two new triggers in awork Zap (Zapier)

The Zapier integration for awork now features two new triggers: Task modified (edited) and Project created.

Lion 🦁 - 11.09.2022

New global action button

Quick Actions, the green plus button, and search have been combined into the new awork action button. Here you'll find search and actions for creating new objects.

New way to create tasks, projects, clients, and time entries

The windows for creating new tasks, projects, time entries, and clients have been completely redesigned. They feature a clean design without sacrificing any functionality. They all come equipped with handy slash commands. Definitely give them a try!

Sticky header and footer for windows

In large windows, buttons were often cut off and you had to scroll all the way down. We've fixed that. Buttons and headers now stick to the browser edges as soon as the window gets too large.

Safer closing of popups

Closing popups to assign certain values was sometimes inconsistent. We've now removed all buttons from the popup windows, and closing a popup happens by clicking outside of it. This click only closes and saves the popup without triggering any other action.

Adding task templates in automations

We've added a new action to automations that lets you automatically load a task template into a project. It's now available for all triggers like changing project status.

New billing tool integration: EasyBill

We've added EasyBill as a billing tool to the awork integration library. You can now create invoices from your time entries in awork in your existing EasyBill account.

New app connector integration: Make

Make is a tool for integrating various tools and is easy to use. In Make, you can connect awork as a trigger or action and create complex integrations.

New referral program

With the new referral program, all users can easily recommend awork to friends and partners. Every successful referral is rewarded when a new 12+ month subscription is signed up.

New subscription management window

The window for managing your subscription, changing your booked users, and payment cycles has been redesigned and is now easier to understand and use.

Updated frameworks and improved infrastructure

We've updated some of the code libraries that awork is built on and made improvements to our infrastructure to improve the reliability, speed, and stability of awork.

Koala 🐨 - 15.08.2022

Better recognition of priority tasks and faster marking

We've improved the visibility of the priority flag - as soon as it's set, it always stands out in red. Additionally, it's now also displayed on board cards and can be set as a hover action in lists and board views directly.

More information in notification emails

We've updated awork's notification emails and added missing information like project names, and made the subject line more appealing.

Show sender in tasks created from emails

When tasks are created from emails, awork now writes the sender in the first line of the description. This makes it clear who the email is from, even when it was sent by someone who isn't an awork user.

Create subtasks from copied lists (e.g., from notes)

You can now copy lists, for example from your notes, into the subtask input field and awork automatically creates a subtask for each entry or line.

Clickable links in subtasks

Links in subtasks are now clickable and are displayed shortened and highlighted. This means no more annoying manual copying to open links.

Improved board card handling

We've made a variety of improvements to the board view. These include direct display of images after upload, display of list names, the priority flag, and automatic horizontal scrolling when moving a card.

Private tasks in search

Your private tasks now appear in search results.

Tooltip for small time entries in "My Time"

Small time entries in the daily view under "My Time" now show a tooltip that displays all information about the time entry.

Improved display of project owner

The person responsible for a project is now marked with a small icon in the project details, so you can quickly see who the project belongs to.

Wider popups for selecting projects and tasks

The dropdowns for selecting projects, tasks, and clients are now displayed wider, so you can find the right entry faster.

New layout for user details

We've redesigned the details view of a user so it now looks more organized.

Many mini improvements, styling fixes, and better wording

We've optimized small design flaws, confusing text, and minor friction points throughout awork to make the whole experience more intuitive and pleasant.

Jack Rabbit 🐰 - 18.07.2022

Improved usability of comment notifications

Notifications now have an unread status to identify messages that have already been opened. Old notifications can now be viewed and we've improved grouping by projects.

Notifications for reactions

You now receive notifications for emoji reactions on comments. This is optional and can be set up in the notification settings. It makes emoji reactions a real part of your communication.

Optimized hiding of completed projects

Completed and cancelled projects are now better hidden in all selection popups, overviews, and in search. You have to actively enable them with a switch to see them.

Hide older tasks in board columns

You can now hide tasks that were completed before today from the completed column of the board. This keeps the board view organized and usable even for long-running projects.

Save scroll position in overviews

When jumping from overviews (projects, clients, etc.) into detail pages and back, the scroll position is now preserved. This helps when going through several projects one after another.

New tag popup everywhere

The recently introduced tag popup has received several significant improvements and is now also used for clients and users. The popup is now the new standard for tags in awork.

Many improvements everywhere

We've made lots of improvements throughout awork. We've fixed some issues in the text editor, improved load times, reduced flickering, improved deep linking, and much more.

SCIM

If you're using Single-Sign-On (SSO) in the Enterprise plan, you can now enable SCIM for automated user provisioning between your identity provider and awork.

Iguana 🦎 - 06.11.2022

Calendar Sync for Planner Tasks

awork now syncs your planned tasks in the planner back to your Google or Microsoft calendar. This closes the loop and your awork planning shows up in your calendar just as you want it to. Simply enable it in your calendar settings.

Project Templates from the awork Team

Our pre-built templates are back! We've not only improved the entire selection, including marking favorites and search functionality, but we're also now offering predefined templates for common project workflows.

Task Dependencies in Templates

It's now possible to create task dependencies directly in templates. This makes creating predefined workflows much easier. When you create a template from existing tasks, dependencies are included as well.

Better Handling of Large Data Volumes

We've optimized several cases where large data volumes made the user interface sluggish or difficult to use.

Performance Improvements

We've significantly improved awork search and planner load times. The workload overview should now load much faster and more smoothly, especially when using a Microsoft calendar integration.

New Tag Popup

Instead of the tag window, there's now a new and optimized tag popup. The popup now shows you your frequently used tags or all tags used in the project. This makes selecting the right tags much easier.

Hamster 🐹 - 16.05.2022

Private Projects

With private projects, you can manage your personal to-dos without your team members being able to see them. Private projects are marked with a key icon and are only visible to you as the project creator, or to users you invite to your private project.

Project-Level Automations

Finally, you can create smart, super-nice project automations and save yourself some serious time! A whole range of new project triggers are available with matching actions for you.

Improved Project Templates

Do you have projects on your team that always run similarly? Now you can save yourself serious time! From now on, you can duplicate project templates, easily import created task bundles into your project templates, and convert existing projects into new templates.

Finally Consistent: The To-Do Status

Now you can set your preferred to-do status in two ways: either as a gray checkbox, as previously shown in the task list, or you can choose an icon with a blue background. Whichever option you choose, your to-do status will look consistent and smooth across all views!

Some Team Planner Improvements

After our big team planner release, we've made some optimizations in this release too: drag and drop is smoother than ever, workload is displayed in higher contrast, and overbooked hours are highlighted in red in the workload hover! This gives you an even better overview of your team's capacity.

🗓 Team Planner - 02.05.2022

Finally, here it is! The new Team Planner, and we're incredibly proud!

What can the Team Planner do? Quite a lot!

Finally, you can automatically see an exact overview of your team's workload across all projects, meetings, and scheduled tasks!

How does it work? By combining project planning with your team's personal calendars, the Team Planner shows the most accurate workload calculation ever!

The Workload View shows you how busy your team is in the coming weeks. Here you can see exactly how your team members' workload is made up of planned projects, tasks, and calendar appointments.

Of course, you can specify how many hours per week your colleagues actually work, so the workload is distributed across the work week.

You can also note planned vacations, sick leave, or absences, and these are naturally factored into the workload.

In the Timeline View, which you already know from your awork projects, your team's scheduled to-dos appear. You can immediately see who's working on what and can distribute unplanned tasks in a flash.

The Calendar View shows your team's calendar including appointments and blockers. Here you can schedule new tasks for yourself and other team members directly via drag and drop in the calendar.

2021

Fox 🦊 - 19.09.2021

Multiple Assignees for Tasks 🥳

It's finally possible in awork to assign multiple people to a task. And if that doesn't suit your needs, you can simply disable it. You'll find the settings for this in awork's general settings.

Project Template Preview

When creating a new project, you now have the option to preview the available project templates. This way you can make sure you always pick the right template.

Reactions in Mobile App

We've enhanced comments in the awork mobile app so they match the web app with video preview and more. By swiping over a comment, you can now quickly and easily add emoji reactions on mobile too.

Auto-Billability for Project Templates

In project templates, there's an "Auto" option for project billability. With this option, the default billability setting depends on whether the project is created with a customer, just like when creating a project without a template.

Delete Lists Including Tasks

When you delete a task list in a project, you now have the option to delete the tasks with it, without having to do it in a second step like before.

Automation for Task Watchers

You can now build automations where you send a message to all watchers of a task.

Time Tracking Limited to 10 Hours Per Day

A new time tracking setting option allows you to limit time tracking to 10 hours per day for your entire awork workspace. Saving times beyond that is not allowed. Users with admin rights are excluded from this limit.

Budget and Project Manager in Project Export

In the Excel export of the project overview, we've added the "Budget" and "Project Manager" fields.

Menu Visibility in User Roles Improved

In the user role settings, you can now only select menu items for which there are sufficient permissions in the role to prevent impossible configurations.

Unicorn 🦄 - 19.07.2021

The biggest update since awork has existed.

New Design & New Main Menu

awork shines in a fresh new look. Everything is more contrasty, friendlier, and cleaner. In the process, the main menu was also cleaned up and everything less frequently used was moved to settings. All settings pages have been redesigned and are now clearer and easier to understand.

Notifications Revamped

The notification popup has been split into general notifications and comments. So nothing gets missed. Notifications now need to be manually marked as read and then disappear from the overview. Better grouping helps you work more effectively with notifications in awork.

Quick Actions for Creating Times and Tasks

Quick Actions are new and now accessible from the app header. They allow you to create tasks and times in no time at all (even with just the keyboard). You can open them from anywhere in awork using the shortcut CMD+J or CTRL+J and get started right away.

New Project Templates and Optional Project Types

Project types are now just a categorization of your projects for reports. For all project settings, there are now project templates. Here you can predefine settings, statuses, tasks, etc. and apply them directly to new projects when creating them.

Task Packages Are Now Task Templates

Task packages are now called task templates, but nothing else has really changed. Only the public task packages were switched off and will soon be replaced by more comprehensive project templates. Furthermore, the connection between task templates and project types has been removed. Project templates now have their own predefined tasks and lists.

Show and Hide Columns

In the overviews for projects, tasks, and users, you can now determine which details should be displayed in the list. Depending on how much space your window provides, you can display up to six different columns. awork automatically remembers your settings.

Tasks Show More Details in Board and List

In the task list and board views, tasks now show more details, such as whether there are attachments, how many subtasks are already completed, and more.

Images and More in Description Fields

In the description fields for tasks and projects, you can now insert files or attach images or files already added via "@" mentions.

My Tasks + Task Views = Tasks

Task views are now task filters and have been merged with "My Tasks" into the "Tasks" menu item. In this view, you can manage your own tasks as before, but also create custom filters that span projects and users.

Time Reports in Projects

In the Times tab of a project, you'll now see a summary of recorded times, just like you know from time reports. With one click, you can jump from project times to reports and directly evaluate the project there, invoice it, or export a timesheet.

New Help Center & New Developer Docs

We've completely revamped the awork help system. Comprehensive articles in German and English will help you find answers to your questions quickly in the future. The developer docs have also been updated.

awork Google Home Voice Client Disabled

We've decided to disable the awork voice client for now, as it has seen very little use in recent years.

Dino 🦖 - 04.04.2021

Create Tasks Faster with Keyboard Shortcuts

Game-changer! You can now use the "a" keyboard shortcut to open the new task window from anywhere in awork, quickly enter tasks, and assign projects, lists, and people using slash commands. Definitely give it a try! 🤩

Multi-Select: Edit Multiple Tasks at Once

Finally! 🙇‍♀️ From your task lists, you can now select and edit multiple tasks, assign users, or move them to a different project.

Improved Formatting Options

Description fields in projects and tasks now have tons of new features that make it easier to write comprehensive, cleanly formatted briefs: think divider lines, multi-level lists, and handy keyboard shortcuts.

Emoji Reactions for Comments 💜

You can now respond quickly to comments in awork with heart and emoji reactions.

Drag & Drop Files into Comments

You can drag files directly into the comment field to attach them to your comment. You can do this even before you've written anything.

Formatting for Comments

The new formatting options are now available for comments too!

Video Preview in Comments

When you post a video link (YouTube, Loom, etc.) in a comment, awork automatically generates a video preview that you can play right there.

Recurring Tasks with Start Dates and Times

We've improved recurring tasks! You can now set when the first new task should be created, what time it should be, and when it's due.

Lots of Little Improvements 🦖

On top of that, we've made tons of small improvements and fixes to make working with awork even more enjoyable. These include activity filter improvements, priority flags in automations, editing tags directly from task lists, and much more.

Chipmunk 🐿 - 12.02.2021

Custom Project Icons

You can now assign a custom icon to every project, with or without clients, for better recognition.

Create Tasks from Emails

Forward emails to your project-specific email address and a task is automatically created. The best part? There's an automation feature so you can trigger additional actions right away.

List View for Project Files

You can now view project files in a clean list view whenever your project starts getting crowded.

Single Sign-On (SSO)

Already using SSO for your team's tools? Now you can set it up for awork too. Out of the box, we support Okta, AD, Auth0, and more.

Mention Files in Comments

In addition to users, teams, or project members, you can now mention project or task files in comments so they're directly linked.

Connect awork Projects to Closed Slack Channels

You can finally link closed Slack channels to awork too. Just use the /link slash command from the channel.

Customizable Time Format - Hours, Days, or Both?

We thought the format "4d 5h 23m" was a bit long, so we optimized it. It now automatically shows hours (like 5:23h) or days (4.7d) depending on the value. Each user can also set their own preference.

Lots of Little Quality-of-Life Improvements 💜

The purple stopwatch now shows the task and project on mouse-over; time reports now have an all-time filter and 5-minute rounding; time selection has a quick "now" option; days in your time tracking weekly view are now clickable; task drag and drop is faster; tasks now show all followers; you can close search with ESC; task names display better in the timeline for shorter tasks; image cropping got better; various performance optimizations; jump directly to the team planner from the absence widget on your dashboard.

2020

Baboon 🐒 - 20.12.2020

Export Timeline as PDF 🤩

You can now export your project timeline as a PDF. Share it with your client or add it to your next presentation.

Move Dependent Tasks Together

In the timeline, you can enable moving dependent tasks together. When you move a task in the timeline, any follow-up tasks automatically move along with it.

File Previews for PDFs and Office Documents

The file preview now supports PDFs, various Office documents, and videos.

Set Project Time Budgets

The new project time budget lets you set a budget for your entire project and track progress against it.

Start Timer from Dashboard

You can restart the timer from the action menu on any task, project, or time entry. This is especially handy on the dashboard or in search.

Mark Projects as Billable by Default

In project settings, you can mark a project as billable by default. All time logged to that project will automatically be pre-marked as billable.

Set Default Project Role

You can mark one of your project roles as the default in awork settings. This will be automatically selected when adding members to your project team.

Mention Project Team, Teams, or Entire Workspace in Comments

Use @project, @workspace, or a team name in project and task comments to notify larger groups of people.

Transfer Automation Changes

When you edit an automation in project types, you can now apply those changes to all projects of that type.

Group Project Overview

The project overview finally has its own grouping feature! Group your projects by client, user, end date, or project type. 💪

Improvements Top to Bottom

Tons of little optimizations are waiting for you, like preventing accidentally sent notifications, improved drag behavior for tasks without lists, less frequent project team loading when assigning tasks, and comments now only send with Ctrl + Enter instead of Shift + Enter.

Alpaca 🦙 - 22.11.2020

Individual User Capacity

Set weekly capacity for each user individually to better plan your team. The new capacity also automatically adjusts when the green circle for time tracking fills up.

Google Drive and OneDrive Integration

You can now attach files from Google Drive or OneDrive to tasks, projects, or comments. No setup needed. Just select and go.

New Project Progress Widget

A new battery-style widget shows you how many tasks in your project are currently in each status. Add it straight to your dashboard.

Navigation Simplifications All Around

We've optimized awork's navigation in many small ways. Tasks now open in a window on the dashboard, task links are easy to copy and share, you can jump directly to a project or task from time tracking entries, project search now includes client names, files open with a single click, and more.

Nicer Login Area

We've cleaned up the login area. Prettier, more organized, and all the important info is easier to spot.

A Few Cool Little Touches

Duration input, like in time tracking, now accepts the 4:30 format for 4h 30m. The first day of the week now automatically adjusts based on your browser's regional settings. AND: We've hidden an Alpaca somewhere in awork. ;)

04.10. "All for the team"

Teams for your workspace

Create teams and assign users and projects to teams to restrict project visibility and manage larger numbers of users more easily.

More powerful task packages

Task packages have received an upgrade. You can now assign users or project roles directly in the templates, attach files, and much more.

Filter task views by status name

In task views or on your dashboard, you now have the option to filter by the name of a task status if you only want to see tasks in a specific status.

Edit dependencies in tasks

Task dependencies can no longer only be edited in the timeline, but are now available in the task details for all project tasks - even for tasks without a start and end date.

Better workload display

In team planning, hovering your mouse now shows the actual workload for users.

Small improvements

User profile settings have moved to the first tab of your profile, making them more accessible.

When you create another workspace, there's now a new intermediate step to avoid accidentally creating a new workspace.

13.09. "Did that from home"

💻 File storage in projects

Your project now has its own file storage! And the best part is, it automatically displays files from all tasks right there with it.

💻 Copy and paste for images in comments 🥳

You can now easily attach images to comments using copy and paste and add them to your tasks or projects.

💻 Extended list views

On large screens (from Full HD and up), awork expands a bit and shows you more details in the list views of projects, users, clients, and tasks.

💻 Minimap in task lists

Keep the best overview of long and numerous task lists in your projects with the new minimap - a bird's eye view of your lists and tasks.

💻 Time tracking settings

New workspace settings allow you to restrict when time can be logged. For example, how far back into the past.

💻 Login with Apple ID

You can now register and log in using your Apple ID. You can also link it to your Apple account later if you want.

💻 Recommend awork and save money

Every successful referral (new contract with 12 or 24 month term) gives you a discount on your next invoice equal to the one-month value of the new contract. The referred person gets the same discount on their first invoice.

12.07. "Summer time awesomeness"

💻 Tags 2.0

Tags now have free color choice, a cooler design, are renamable, and can be deleted. How cool is that then?!

💻 New filters for task views

We've added several new filters for task views. You can now filter for tasks without a due date as well as for tasks via client tags (the client of the project the tasks belong to).

💻 Create tasks despite grouping

Under "My Tasks" you can now quickly and easily add new tasks to grouped lists. The corresponding value for the group is automatically added to the task, for example the appropriate due date when grouping by time.

💻 Edit dashboard task filters

You can now edit the task views you use for your widgets on the dashboard directly from the widget settings.

💻 Sort tasks by start date

Under "My Tasks" and in task views, you can now sort tasks by start date.

💻 Revised time overviews

We've redesigned the "Times" view within a project, a user, or a task. Everything is now more organized and more grouping options are available.

💻 Subscription in workspace settings

In your workspace settings, you can now see your current awork plan and easily edit it from there. It was sometimes just too hard to find in the main menu.

💻 Draggable sidebar in the timeline

You can now drag and drop the bar with unplanned tasks to the desired width via drag and drop. This makes it easier to read long task names.

💻 OAuth 2.0 for Lexware Office integration

We've switched authentication for the Lexware Office integration to OAuth 2.0. From now on, an integration can only be set up via OAuth 2.0. Existing integrations will continue to work, though. A little bonus on the side: a newly created invoice via the Lexware Office integration now opens directly in edit mode.

💻 Rejected appointments no longer in calendar

Under "My Times" you will no longer see appointments you've already rejected. This makes the view match your actual calendar better.

💻 Export tasks to Excel

You can now export tasks from a project or task view to an Excel file and continue processing them from there for custom reports, printing, etc.

💻 Many UI improvements and bug fixes 🙌

We've put in a lot of effort and made numerous mini-optimizations. This includes, for example, more intuitive message input in automations; an improved view of board columns on larger screens; a dark mode view of the notes widget; and much more.

18.05. "Let's get automated"

💻 Automations

From now on you can automate processes in awork with if-then conditions. This makes working in awork even easier and makes you even more productive!

💻 Miscellaneous field for clients

We often get feedback that you want to store additional information for clients. That's why you can now create additional fields in your client information.

💻 Dashboard - awork now remembers the size of the activity widget

awork now remembers how many entries were displayed in the activity widget and shows you the same number next time.

12.04. "Driving in autopilot"

💻 Autopilot

Autopilot helps you manage your projects. It keeps track of your project progress and proactively informs project participants and project managers via email about their to-dos and project progress.

💻 / 📱 Client names in projects and tasks

We now display client names in many more places so you can quickly see which client a task or project belongs to.

💻 Settings in projects

Projects now have a tab with its own settings page where you can manage board columns (task statuses), autopilot, and integrations.

💻 Custom URLs for workspaces (Enterprise plan)

Users on the Enterprise plan can now set custom URLs for their workspace.

💻 Time reports: Notes from time tracking entries are no longer truncated in PDF export

From now on, notes in PDF exports are displayed in full.

19.02. "Home is where your dashboard is"

💻 Customizable Dashboard

You can now set up your dashboard exactly the way you like it. We've also added some helpful new widgets to awork.

💻 Microsoft Teams Integration

Finally it's here... well, almost. Once Microsoft gives the go-ahead, you'll be able to integrate your awork workspace with Microsoft Teams.

💻 (Kanban) Boards - Group and Sort by List and User

Starting now, you can also sort your Kanban board by list or user. This gives you a better overview of your tasks.

📱 My Tasks - Group and Sort

Previously, all tasks in the mobile app were grouped by project. Now you can decide whether you want to group your tasks by project, due date, and more.

💻 Install awork as a Web App

Chrome and Edge now recognize awork as a web app. This means you can install awork directly from your browser on your PC or Mac.

14.01. "New year's polish"

💻 Project Types Revamp

Setting up project types is now much simpler. Project roles are now defined globally in permissions management and no longer need to be added manually to each project type. Project statuses can now be entered easily and are no longer shared across project types. We've also redesigned the interface.

📱 Dark Mode for Mobile App

Dark mode is now available in the mobile app too.

💻 Group and Sort Tasks in Task Views

Task views can now be grouped and sorted just like tasks under My Tasks.

💻/📱 Additional Updates

• My Logged Times: The week view now displays the total for the week.
• My Logged Times: Time tracking entries can now be duplicated.
• Slack Integration: The name of the linked Slack channel is now displayed in the project details.
• For each project, the last used tab (Details, Tasks, Times) is now saved.
• Task Views: Private tasks are also displayed. Of course, your own private tasks are only shown to you.
• Projects can now be pinned in the menu.
• Dashboard: The customer name is now displayed when you hover over the task.

2019

12.12. "Christmas presents"

💻 Team Planning (Premium Plan)

The timeline is now also available as cross-project planning. We have two new views for you: you can either view the timeline per team member or choose the project as your basis. So there's an ideal view for every use case.

💻 Integration of Invoicing Tools (Premium Plan)

You can now create invoices directly from awork with your project times in the following tools:

• HQ
• sevDesk
• Lexware Office

💻 Invite Guests

From now on, you can invite guests to your workspace. A guest only uses 1/3 of a normal license, meaning you can invite up to 3 guests per license. Guests can only be assigned to one project at a time.

💻 Recurring Tasks

Tasks can now be made into recurring tasks. This allows you to plan your regular to-dos even better.

💻 Group and Sort Lists in "My Tasks"

You can now customize how you group the task list under My Tasks. For example, you decide whether tasks are grouped by project or by due date.

💻 Dark Mode

Perfect for the cold season, awork now has a dark mode.

💻 / 📱 Custom Icons for Task Status

To better distinguish task statuses, you can now assign symbols to statuses in project types. There's also an additional color (purple) for the In Review status type.

💻 / 📱 Permissions Management Update for Project Times

If users don't have permission to view project times or user times, they can also no longer see aggregated times in projects or project tasks. This mainly ensures that your guests don't get too much information about your projects.

💻 Project End Date Can Now Be Edited Inline

This means you don't have to open the edit window.

07.11. "Time is money"

💻 New Time Reports (Premium Plan)

We've completely redesigned the time tracking reports. You now have significantly more filtering and grouping options. You can also now download a PDF excerpt that you can attach to your invoices, for example.

At the launch of this new module, it's also available in the free plan for 14 days. After that, this feature is only available in the premium plan.

💻 New Slack Integration

The new Slack integration doesn't just allow you to display events from projects and tasks in Slack. You can now link entire projects to Slack channels and create, edit, and comment on tasks directly from Slack.

Note: The Slack integration update may not be available immediately on 07.11.19 as we're waiting for Slack's submit approval.

💻 New Permissions Management

We've completely redesigned permissions management to make it much clearer. Plus, you now have ready-made presets you can use.

💻 New Settings in User Profile

The settings in your user profile are now much more clearly organized. You can also now globally hide timers for time tracking.

💻 Task Lists: Add Tasks Anywhere

Previously, tasks always appeared at the end of the list. Now you can add tasks anywhere within a list.

💻 Time Periods for Task Packages

Task packages now allow you to set start and end times for all tasks. This makes tasks immediately visible in the timeline.

💻 Zapier Integration Expansion

From now on, you can create customers via Zapier. This means awork can integrate even better with CRM tools.

💻 Limit of 10 Free Projects (Free Plan)

You can still earn free projects by recommending awork to others. However, there's now a limit of 10 projects.

💻 / 📱 Projects Can No Longer Be Deleted (Free Plan)

Deleting projects in the free plan is no longer possible. In the premium plan, projects can be deleted as usual.

30.09. "Give me the data"

💻 Data Import

With our new importer, you can easily transfer your data to awork, regardless of which tool you used before. 📥

💻 Task Packages

With the new pre-built task packages, you can load numerous templates directly from our library into your awork. Task packages contain project-specific lists and to-dos so you can get started and become productive right away. Of course, our library will continue to grow over time. 📦

💻 UI Update Task Packages

The task package settings now look even better and fit better with the rest of our UI. 🔥

💻 View Settings for Project Tasks

awork now remembers your last view (list, board, or timeline) for each project individually. This helps you get to where you need to go faster. 🧐

💻 Archive Task Lists

If you've created multiple task lists in a project, you can now conveniently archive them once they no longer contain any open tasks. 🧳

💻 Task List Visibility

The task list is now displayed in task details and on the board. 👍

💻 Project Name in Task Lists

The project name is now displayed in task lists such as dashboard widgets or task views. 😎

💻 Tags When Creating Projects

You can now assign tags when creating projects (as well as customers, etc.). This makes it even easier to categorize projects. 🏴

💻 New Date/Time Picker

The date and time picker now looks much better. We've also improved usability. 🕖

📱 New Onboarding Experience

We've improved the onboarding experience for sign-ups via the app. From now on, you can better personalize your workspace through the app. 💡

💻 📱 Permissions Management Update

Permissions management now includes a "permission to create projects". This means it's now possible for users to create projects without receiving the "manage" permission for all projects in the workspace. This also means that the project creator now always gets "manage" rights for the respective project, regardless of their user or project role. 🛑

27.08. "It's about time"

💻Timeline for Project Tasks

You can now plan your projects over time using our new Timeline feature. You can also set dependencies between tasks, plan milestones, and easily move tasks around with drag and drop. This gives you an even better overview of your schedule. ⏲

💻📱Activity Log Improvements

The Activity Log is now even faster than before. This means you can get more done in less time. 💪

💻📱Invite Users to Tasks via Email

If you want to assign a user who isn't yet in your workspace to a task, you can now do that. There's now an option in the user selection to invite new users via email. 📫

💻📱Premium Trial

You can now test awork's Premium features for free for 14 days. ⭐

05.08. "Amazing Stuff"

💻 Display Project Progress

From now on, you'll see your project's progress in the project details. Here you can see how many tasks are planned and completed, as well as how much of the planned time has already been used.

Also new is that the planned time for projects now calculates automatically from the planned time of all tasks in a project. This means you can now add the planned effort for a task inline in the task details.

💻 Presentation Mode in Boards

In this mode, the board is reduced to the essentials (task name, description, image). This helps you get a better overview.

💻 Collapsed Lists Now Always Show Task Count

This helps you keep track of projects with many and large lists.

📱 Display Project Progress

You can now see in the app's project details how many tasks are planned in the project and how many are already completed.

📱 Mention Users

You can now use the @ function to tag other users directly in the activity log of tasks and projects.

📱 Display Completed Tasks

You can now decide in the project details whether completed tasks should be displayed or not.

📱 Assign Tasks from the Project Team

When you want to assign a user to a task, only the project team will now be shown. This makes it easier to find the right person for a task. Of course, you can still use the search to assign any other user in your workspace to tasks.

💻 📱 Simpler Password Creation

awork now shows you how secure your chosen password is when you create it. For your own security, your password must be in the secure (green) range.

13.05. "Team's Work"

Create Task Views

With the new cross-project task views, you can create custom filters across all projects and display, for example, all tasks for your team or a specific client.

24.04. "Work-Space-Time"

Create Subtasks

You can now create subtasks for all tasks in the task details. This makes your project tasks even more organized.

New Filters in Time Tracking Reports

In the time tracking reports, you can now filter by "Billable" and "Billed" in the filters. This makes managing your time even easier.

Simplified Project Switching

Previously, you'd always land on the project overview page when switching between projects. From now on, you'll stay in the project tasks or board view when you switch between projects via the project overview.

Teams are Now Called Workspaces

Since the term "team" wasn't immediately clear to all users, we've renamed Teams to Workspaces. Nothing changes in terms of functionality for you.

07.03. "Real Social"

04.02. "awork"

Q. is now awork.

2018

Note: Before 2019, awork was in pilot operation under the brand "Q." Therefore, the following releases use the corresponding names.

03.09. "Fluffy Spacetime"

The Q. calendar integration lets you display appointments from your calendar directly in Q. This way you can create time tracking entries directly for your appointments.

13.08. "Crispy Nebula"

Complete Project List in Users and Companies

You can now see all associated projects in a user or company. The lists have all the features you're used to from the normal project list.

Overview Page for Your Q. Integration

We've improved our overview page for integrations between Q. and other tools. You can now create and test integrations directly from Q. Plus, there's a log where you can see all activities.

Time Tracking in the Weekly View via Drag and Drop

You can now track your time in Q. even more easily. In the weekly view, you can use drag and drop to set the time period for a time tracking entry.

Icon Check When Creating New Content

When you create new content, such as a task type, Q. now checks whether you're already using certain icons.

24.07. "Plasma Tail"

Drag and Drop for Files

You can now upload files even more easily by simply dragging and dropping them into your browser. Of course, this also works with multiple tasks at once.

Use Task Types for Private Tasks

Task types are now also available for private tasks. This helps you organize yourselves even better.