Basecamp — Basecamp 5 is all new for 2026

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With well over 100 significant improvements, Basecamp 5 is faster, simpler, and more capable than ever before. We’ve packed 22 years of experience into the best version of Basecamp we’ve ever made. Here are some highlights.

A new action-oriented home screen

Rather than just being a launchpad to get you into a project, the new home screen shows you recent activity on the right, shows you projects you’ve recently visited right down the center, and gives you instant access to create new projects, invite new people, and handle all administrative tasks. Reorganized, reprioritized, and miles better than what came before.

Notifications and pings that live alongside your work

The all-new New For You sidebar contains all your notifications and pings. Keep it open, hide it away, you’re in control. Now you can check a notification or direct message a colleague without leaving where you were. And you can take a quick peek without moving your mouse, too. SHIFT+S opens it, keyboard arrow keys navigate it. A massive experience upgrade.

Vastly improved search plus live filtering

We’ve revamped the tech behind search so it’s faster and significantly more accurate. Plus, we’ve added a live filter field to nearly every major screen so you can type a few characters and see the screen you’re looking at narrow down in real-time to exactly what you’re looking for. So much better.

Global and project-based calendars

A top customer request, Basecamp 5 now features a full-blown full-screen calendar at the global level and one for each individual project. View all projects on a single calendar, just a few, just your starred projects, or just into one. Subscribe to your Basecamp calendar in whatever other calendar app you use as well. Spanned events, repeating events, even to-dos and task assignments show up on the calendar. Quickly just view stuff you’re involved with, or see all events for everyone.

Updated API, a new CLI, Skills, and AI agent ready

We’ve refreshed and extended the API, added a CLI, built out Skills, and fundamentally upgraded Basecamp so it’s ready for the next wave of AI agents. Get full access to Basecamp through the command line, or with your favorite AI agent. ChatGPT, Claude, Codex, OpenCode, Cursor — all are welcome. Fully at your discretion, and even turn it off for your account if you don’t want your employees using AI in Basecamp. You’re in control, but we’re ready if you’re ready.

All new text editor with tables and Markdown

Another top request: Now you can create basic tables wherever you can post messages, documents, or comments. Plus, we offer Markdown support so you can type in Markdown format or paste in Markdown-formatted text and have it be converted to fully stylized text inside Basecamp. This is especially useful when pasting in Markdown-formatted text from LLMs. Code blocks are auto-formatted and color coded as well.

Voicenote support everywhere you can type

Yet another top customer request. Now you can record and leave voicenotes in posts, documents, comments, chats, and pings. Hit record, say your bit, listen back, redo it if you want, post when you’re ready. So nice.

All new “My Bar” with instant access to tasks, upcoming events, and bookmarks

The old “My Stuff” menu required you to leave where you were to see your assignments, upcoming events, bookmarks. The new “My Bar” gives you instant access to all that stuff no matter where you are, and you never have to leave what you’re looking at. It’s a game changer.

Upcoming event reminder highlights

Got a meeting or event coming up in the next 15 minutes? Basecamp will now show you a little reminder at the bottom of the screen. A little peripheral vision nudge so you don’t miss anything. And if there’s a Zoom or Teams (or whatever) video link to join, it’ll give you a instant-join button as well. Finally, the closer the event gets, the greener the color shifts. We’ve thought of everything so you don’t miss anything!

Bubble Up notifications, pages, and comments later

Get a notification you want to respond to, but you don’t have time now? Just mark it to Bubble Up later. Could be later today, tomorrow morning, later this week, next week, whatever. When the time comes, it’ll show back up in your New For You sidebar. You can also bubble up comments, posts, or most other things in Basecamp. One of HEY’s most popular features comes to Basecamp!

Loose to-dos and subtasks on to-dos

Want to just add some to-dos but don’t want to have to categorize them on a list? Find that overhead unnecessary? No problem! Now you can just add “loose to-dos” that appear at the the top of the to-do list page, but are unattached to any list. Drag them into a list later if you want. Or drag any to-do on a list out into the loose area if you aren’t sure where it belongs yet. Further, now you can add subtasks...