Birdview (formerly Easy Projects) is a broad project portfolio and PSA platform — task boards, portfolio management, resource forecasting and, notably, its own client-facing guest portal with unlimited free guest users. It's a genuinely capable, self-serve product, not an enterprise-only sale.
Hourglass covers a narrower, more focused slice of that: time tracking, budgets, resourcing, client visibility and invoicing, built specifically around UK billing (VAT, GBP) and native Xero sync, without the wider portfolio-management surface a small firm may not need.
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A full project portfolio management and PSA platform: task boards, portfolio-level reporting, resource planning with AI-powered capacity forecasting, time tracking, billing, and a built-in client portal with free unlimited guest users. Priced in USD from around $13.50 per user per month.
Hourglass
Time tracking, resourcing, budgets, invoicing and a client portal in one focused platform, priced in GBP from free. Built specifically for UK billing — VAT on every invoice, native Xero sync — rather than as a US/Canadian-built platform with UK pricing added on.
To be direct about it: Birdview does have a client portal, and it's a genuine one — guest users, file sharing, task-level collaboration. The real differences are UK billing specifics and how much broader platform comes with it.
Birdview pricing and feature details per publicly listed plans and product pages, 2026.
You bill in GBP and want VAT handled as a standard invoice field, not a workaround
You want native Xero sync rather than a generic accounting export
You want time, budgets, resourcing, invoicing and client visibility — without a broader portfolio/PPM feature set you won’t use
You want UK-operated support in your own time zone
You’re a small-to-mid firm that wants to be set up and logging time the same day, without configuring a wider platform first
If you need broader project portfolio management across many concurrent programmes, or AI-driven capacity forecasting across a large resource pool, Birdview's wider platform may be the better fit.
Free plan available. UK-operated. No credit card required.
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