Everything you need to know about setting up your workspace, managing projects, collaborating with your team, and getting the most out of every feature.
One workspace for everything
Workel is an all-in-one workspace platform that replaces Asana, Slack, Notion, Google Drive, and Zoom with a single app. Manage projects, chat with your team, organize files, write docs, schedule events, and run video calls — all in real time, from one place.
Up and running in under 2 minutes
Getting started with Workel takes three steps: create your workspace, invite your team, and start organizing. No credit card required for the free plan.
Tip: Use the Cmd+K shortcut to quickly search and navigate to any task, project, or page.
Web, desktop, and mobile
Workel runs on every platform so your team can work from anywhere. All apps sync in real time via WebSockets — changes appear instantly across devices.
Your workspace at a glance
The dashboard is your home base when you open Workel. It shows an overview of your tasks, upcoming events, recent activity, and project status — all in customizable widgets.
Organize work into spaces
Projects (also called Spaces) are the core organizational unit in Workel. Each project has its own task board, files, chat, pages, and links. Projects live inside categories that you can create and reorder.
Tip: Right-click any project in the sidebar for quick actions: rename, archive, move to category, or copy link.
Track every piece of work
Tasks are the building blocks of project work. Each task supports rich metadata — assignees, priorities, due dates, progress, descriptions, comments, attachments, and cover images. Tasks can be viewed globally across all projects or within a single project.
Real-time team messaging
Workel has a full-featured chat system built in — no need for Slack or Teams. Send messages in project channels, group chats, or direct messages. Everything is real time with typing indicators and read receipts.
Events, reminders, and scheduling
The calendar gives you a unified view of events, task deadlines, and reminders. Create events with attendees, set recurrence rules, and switch between month, week, and day views.
Upload, organize, and preview
The file system lets you organize documents, images, and media into folders at the workspace or project level. Files support inline preview, privacy controls, and bulk operations.
Tip: Files are stored on Azure Blob Storage for reliability and fast access. Storage usage is tracked per workspace and counts against your plan limits.
Collaborative rich-text editing
Pages are rich-text documents powered by Tiptap (a modern ProseMirror editor). Write documentation, meeting notes, specs, or anything else — with real-time collaboration via Yjs.
Posts, updates, and comments
The activity feed is a social-style timeline for your workspace. Post updates, share announcements, and comment on what others post — like an internal micro-blog for your team.
Built-in video conferencing
Workel includes built-in video calling powered by the 100ms HMS SDK. Start a call from any project or chat — no separate app needed.
Workspace-aware AI help
The AI sidebar gives you a conversational assistant that knows about your workspace. Ask about overdue tasks, project status, your chats, or get help writing — all scoped to what you have permission to see.
Tip: Ask things like "How many overdue tasks do I have?" or "List my active chats" — the AI will answer from real workspace data.
Find anything instantly
Press Cmd+K (or Ctrl+K) to open the global search popup. Search across tasks, projects, and files — with recently visited items shown when the search bar is empty.
Manage your workspace members
Invite people to your workspace and assign them roles. Workel uses a three-tier role system that controls what each person can see and do.
Tip: Members can only see projects they're explicitly invited to. Use this for client projects or sensitive work where not everyone should have visibility.
Granular access control
Workel has a comprehensive permission system spanning workspace-level, project-level, and global permissions. Permissions are enforced on both the backend (Laravel policies) and frontend (useCan hooks).
Stay informed without the noise
Workel's notification system routes alerts across web, desktop, and mobile with Slack-style intelligence — delayed mobile push, cancel-on-read, cross-device sync, and server-side Do Not Disturb.
Make it look like yours
Workel supports light and dark modes with a full theme system. The theme persists across sessions and syncs with your system preference.
Simple, transparent pricing
Workel offers four plans to fit teams of any size. All paid plans include unlimited projects, chat, calendar, and files. Billing is handled via Stripe.
Enterprise-grade protection
Workel is built with security as a core principle. Data is encrypted at rest and in transit, access is controlled by policies on every endpoint, and infrastructure runs on Microsoft Azure.
Navigate faster
Workel supports keyboard shortcuts for common actions so you can stay in flow without reaching for the mouse.
Build on Workel
Workel exposes a RESTful API (v1.1 and v1.2) for programmatic access. All endpoints require Sanctum token authentication and return JSON responses.
Create your free workspace in under a minute. No credit card required.