How to Migrate from
ClickUp to Thicket
ClickUp does everything — and that's exactly why teams leave. If you're tired of custom fields, automations, and dashboards you set up once and never touch, this is the calm landing. Thicket is six tools your team actually uses, with nothing to configure.
Less to manage. Nothing to configure. $49/month flat.
Free plan available. No credit card required.
The Everything-App Tax
ClickUp's breadth has two costs. One is the time your team spends configuring and navigating features it barely uses. The other is on the invoice: ClickUp bills per seat, so the bill grows every time you add a teammate, client, or contractor. (ClickUp prices verified June 2026.)
| Team size | ClickUp Unlimited ($10/user) | ClickUp Business ($19/user) | Thicket (flat) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 people | $50/mo | $95/mo | $49/mo |
| 10 people | $100/mo | $190/mo | $49/mo |
| 20 people | $200/mo | $380/mo | $49/mo |
ClickUp Unlimited is $10/user/month and Business is $19/user/month, billed monthly. A 10-person team saves $51–$141/month switching to Thicket's flat $49, and a 20-person team saves $151–$331/month — the gap widens with every hire. Full breakdown on our ClickUp alternative page.
Before You Start
Migrating away from a complex tool is mostly about deciding what not to bring. A little preparation keeps the rebuild to an afternoon.
Set aside 1-3 hours
Rebuilding a typical account takes an afternoon. Because there are no custom fields or automations to recreate, you're re-entering active tasks — not reconfiguring a workspace.
Check your export access
ClickUp's CSV export lives in a List view's export options and is available on paid plans. If you're on the Free plan, you can still copy your active tasks by hand — there are usually fewer than you think.
Decide what's actually active
Don't migrate everything. List the Spaces and Lists your team touches weekly. Old Spaces, one-off Lists, and completed tasks stay in ClickUp or your exports — you rarely need them rebuilt.
The 5-Step Migration Process
There's no import — you rebuild by hand. Because you're leaving the complexity behind, that rebuild is faster and lighter than the setup you did in ClickUp. Here's the whole process.
Export your ClickUp data as a reference
You're not uploading anything into Thicket — there's no importer — so the export is purely your reference while you rebuild. In ClickUp, open a List you care about, use its view options to Export to CSV (available on paid plans), and save the file. Your ClickUp workspace also stays intact until you cancel, so the simplest approach is to keep it open in a second tab and rebuild from what you see. Focus on Lists with active work; archived and completed Lists rarely need to come across.
- In ClickUp, open each active List and export it to CSV from the view's export menu
- On the Free plan, or for a handful of tasks, just copy the active items by hand — there's less to move than you'd expect
- Keep your ClickUp workspace open as a read-only reference while you rebuild
- Export the Lists you want to keep permanently before you cancel ClickUp
- Skip archived Spaces and completed Lists — they don't need to move
Create your Thicket workspace
Sign up at thickethq.com/signup and name your organization — this replaces your ClickUp Workspace. The free plan gives you 1 project and 5 team members, which is enough to rebuild one Space and feel the difference. If you're moving several projects at once, start the 14-day Pro trial for full access.
- Go to thickethq.com/signup and create your account
- Name your organization (your team or company name)
- Choose Free to evaluate, or start the 14-day Pro trial
- You'll land on your organization home — ready to create projects
Rebuild each active Space as a project
This is where migrating away from an everything-app is easier than you'd think: there's far less to recreate. For each active ClickUp Space, create one Thicket project. Recreate the active Lists as to-do lists with their open items, assignees, and due dates. Rebuild your Board view as a Thicket board — recreate the columns, add cards for in-flight work. Move the docs your team still opens, re-upload current files, and add upcoming events to the schedule. Skip completed tasks, custom fields, and automations — the point of the switch is to leave that overhead behind.
- Create one Thicket project per active ClickUp Space
- To-dos: recreate active Lists as to-do lists — open items, assignees, due dates; skip completed tasks
- Board view → Boards: recreate your columns and add cards for in-flight work
- Docs & Files: rebuild living documents; re-upload files that are still current
- Schedule: add upcoming events; recurring events and iCal feeds work like you'd expect
- Don't recreate custom fields, statuses, or automations — start clean
- Set up project templates if you spin up similar projects often
Invite your team and clients
Add everyone from your ClickUp workspace. Thicket never charges per person — employees, clients, and contractors are all included in the flat price, so there's no seat math before inviting someone. Give clients scoped access with approvals so they see only what you share.
- Invite team members by email from your organization settings
- Add clients with scoped client access — they see only what you share
- Assign people to the projects you've rebuilt
- No seat counting: the bill stays the same no matter how many people you add
Run both tools briefly, then cancel ClickUp
Start all new work in Thicket from day one and keep ClickUp read-only in practice. Because there's so much less to learn, the parallel period can be short — a few days to a week is typical. Set a firm cutover date, verify your CSV exports downloaded, and then cancel ClickUp. After the cutover, your exports cover the history and Thicket covers everything current.
- All new tasks, docs, messages, and events go in Thicket from day one
- Set a firm cutover date — 'after Friday, everything happens in Thicket'
- Verify the CSV exports you wanted downloaded completely
- Cancel your ClickUp subscription once the team has fully moved
- Keep your exports as your permanent record
Rebuild your first Space today
The free plan gives you 1 project and 5 team members — enough to move one ClickUp Space over and feel how much lighter it is.
Most teams rebuild their first project in under an hour.
Free plan available — no credit card required
$49/month flat for unlimited users on Pro — no per-seat fees
14-day free trial of all Pro features
Cancel anytime — your ClickUp workspace stays intact meanwhile
ClickUp Concepts → Thicket Equivalents
This isn't a feature-for-feature crosswalk — it's a deliberate simplification. ClickUp's nesting and configuration fold down into six calm tools. Two things map to a lighter version (Boards, and progress & health), and two are left behind on purpose.
| ClickUp | → | Thicket | How it maps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Workspace | Organization | Your top-level container. People, projects, and settings live in your Thicket organization, the way they lived in your ClickUp Workspace. | |
| Space / Folder / List | Project + To-do lists | The big simplification: ClickUp's Space → Folder → List nesting collapses to a flat Thicket project with to-do lists inside it. No hierarchy to design — recreate each active List as a to-do list in the right project. | |
| Task / Subtask | To-dos + grouped to-dos | Tasks become to-dos with assignees and due dates. Subtasks become grouped to-dos under the same list. No status columns to configure first — a to-do is open or done. | |
| Custom fields & statuses | Left behind on purpose | Thicket keeps to-dos to the essentials — assignee, due date, open/done. ClickUp's 15+ custom field types and per-List status pipelines don't carry over, and most teams find they don't miss the ones they'd stopped filling in. | |
| Docs | Docs & Files | ClickUp Docs become Thicket documents, with file storage alongside them. Rebuild the living docs your team still opens; leave the stale ones in your export. | |
| Chat & task comments | Message board + Chat | Project-level announcements and decisions go on the message board; realtime conversation moves to group chat and direct messages (pings). Task-level discussion lives in each to-do's comments. | |
| Board view | Boards | The first honest difference in name only: ClickUp's Board view is Thicket's Boards — a kanban board where cards move through columns. Recreate your columns and add cards for in-flight work. | |
| Dashboards & Workload | Progress charts & project health | The second honest difference: Thicket has no dashboard builder or Workload view. Instead you get per-project progress charts and an On track / At risk / Off track health status — simpler and less configurable, enough for most small teams. | |
| Automations | Left behind on purpose | Thicket has no if/then automation engine. Auto-assigning, status-triggered moves, and recurring-task rules become things your team does by hand — which, at small-team scale, is usually faster than maintaining the rules was. | |
| Gantt, Mind Maps & Whiteboards | No equivalent | Thicket doesn't have Gantt charts with dependencies, mind maps, or whiteboards. If any of those are central to how your team plans, keep a dedicated tool for that part of the work — Thicket won't replace it. | |
| Guests | Client access + approvals | ClickUp guests become Thicket client access — scoped visibility with approvals. The difference is the bill: guests are free on Thicket, where ClickUp meters them against your plan's limits. |
Your top-level container. People, projects, and settings live in your Thicket organization, the way they lived in your ClickUp Workspace.
The big simplification: ClickUp's Space → Folder → List nesting collapses to a flat Thicket project with to-do lists inside it. No hierarchy to design — recreate each active List as a to-do list in the right project.
Tasks become to-dos with assignees and due dates. Subtasks become grouped to-dos under the same list. No status columns to configure first — a to-do is open or done.
Thicket keeps to-dos to the essentials — assignee, due date, open/done. ClickUp's 15+ custom field types and per-List status pipelines don't carry over, and most teams find they don't miss the ones they'd stopped filling in.
ClickUp Docs become Thicket documents, with file storage alongside them. Rebuild the living docs your team still opens; leave the stale ones in your export.
Project-level announcements and decisions go on the message board; realtime conversation moves to group chat and direct messages (pings). Task-level discussion lives in each to-do's comments.
The first honest difference in name only: ClickUp's Board view is Thicket's Boards — a kanban board where cards move through columns. Recreate your columns and add cards for in-flight work.
The second honest difference: Thicket has no dashboard builder or Workload view. Instead you get per-project progress charts and an On track / At risk / Off track health status — simpler and less configurable, enough for most small teams.
Thicket has no if/then automation engine. Auto-assigning, status-triggered moves, and recurring-task rules become things your team does by hand — which, at small-team scale, is usually faster than maintaining the rules was.
Thicket doesn't have Gantt charts with dependencies, mind maps, or whiteboards. If any of those are central to how your team plans, keep a dedicated tool for that part of the work — Thicket won't replace it.
ClickUp guests become Thicket client access — scoped visibility with approvals. The difference is the bill: guests are free on Thicket, where ClickUp meters them against your plan's limits.
What You Simplify, What You Leave Behind
An honest accounting. Switching from ClickUp is a deliberate downshift — you gain calm and a flat bill, but some real features don't come with you.
What you gain
- A flat bill — $49/month for unlimited users instead of $10–19 per person per month. Adding people never changes the price.
- Nothing to configure — projects are ready to use in minutes. No custom fields, status pipelines, or automation rules to set up before you can start.
- Six calm tools — message board, to-dos, docs & files, schedule, Boards, and chat. The things your team actually opens, in one place.
- Client access included — scoped visibility with approvals, and clients cost nothing extra.
- The essentials — @-mentions, notifications, rich-text editing, automatic check-ins, project templates, and a documented REST API.
What you leave behind
- Custom fields & statuses — Thicket keeps to-dos to assignee, due date, and open/done. ClickUp's 15+ field types and per-List status pipelines don't carry over.
- Automations — there's no if/then engine. Auto-assigning, status-triggered moves, and recurring-task rules become manual steps.
- Dashboards & Workload — Thicket has per-project progress charts and On track / At risk / Off track health instead of ClickUp's dashboard builder and cross-workspace reporting.
- Gantt, Mind Maps & Whiteboards — Thicket doesn't have dependency timelines, mind maps, or whiteboards. Keep a dedicated tool if those are central to your planning.
- Time tracking — Thicket deliberately doesn't track time. If you bill by the hour, you'll need a separate tool for that.
- A huge integration marketplace — ClickUp has 1,000+ integrations; Thicket is a focused, standalone tool. You're trading breadth for simplicity and price.
Not sure if Thicket fits?
Read the full ClickUp vs. Thicket comparison for the feature-by-feature breakdown and cost math, or the background on why teams switch away from ClickUp. Coming from a different tool? There are guides for Monday.com and Basecamp too.
Making the Switch Stick
The hard part of leaving ClickUp isn't the rebuild — it's resisting the urge to recreate all the complexity you came to escape. A little discipline keeps the switch clean.
Don't rebuild the complexity you're leaving
The most common migration mistake is trying to recreate every ClickUp custom field, status pipeline, and automation in Thicket. You can't — and that's the point. Before you recreate a List, ask what your team actually needs to see: usually who's doing what, by when, and whether it's done. That's a to-do with an assignee and a due date.
Most teams discover they were over-configuring ClickUp — fields nobody filled in, automations nobody trusted, dashboards nobody opened. Leaving that behind is a feature, not a loss.
Rebuild only what's alive
Your ClickUp workspace and CSV exports are your safety net — use them as one. Every completed task, archived Space, and old document lives there. So the rebuild only needs what's active: current projects, open to-dos, living docs, upcoming events.
Teams that try to recreate their full ClickUp history burn a day and gain nothing. Teams that rebuild only active work are done in an afternoon and start clean.
Keep the parallel period short
Because there's so much less to learn, you don't need weeks of running both tools. Pick a cutover date a few days out, announce it on the new Thicket message board (a good first post), and treat ClickUp as read-only from day one.
Be upfront about the tradeoffs, too: if someone relied on ClickUp automations, Gantt dependencies, or time tracking daily, better they hear it from you now than discover it mid-week-one. Naming what changes is what makes the calm feel like a choice, not a surprise.
Trade the everything-app for six calm tools
Most teams rebuild their active ClickUp work in an afternoon — there's far less to recreate, and a flat bill waiting on the other side.
No credit card required to start.
$49/month flat — a 10-person team saves $51–$141/month vs ClickUp
Unlimited users — invite your whole team, clients, and contractors at no extra cost
Nothing to configure — no custom fields, statuses, or automations to rebuild
Free plan to evaluate, 14-day Pro trial, cancel anytime
Migration Questions Answered
Common questions from teams considering the switch from ClickUp to Thicket.
How long does it take to migrate from ClickUp to Thicket?
Most teams finish in under a day. Counterintuitively, coming from ClickUp is quick precisely because Thicket is simpler: there are no custom fields to redefine, no automations to rebuild, and no nested Space/Folder/List hierarchy to recreate. You're re-entering active tasks into a handful of projects, not rebuilding a configuration. A typical account takes 1-3 hours to set up.
Can I import my ClickUp data directly into Thicket?
No. Thicket doesn't have a one-click importer, and there's nothing that reads a ClickUp export into Thicket automatically. ClickUp lets you export your task data to CSV (the option lives in a List view's export menu on paid plans), and that file becomes your reference while you recreate active work by hand. It sounds like more effort than it is — because Thicket has far less to configure than ClickUp, the rebuild is usually an afternoon, and most teams treat it as a chance to shed the tasks and Spaces they stopped using.
Will I lose my ClickUp data when I switch?
No. Nothing in ClickUp is deleted when you start using Thicket — your workspace stays intact until you cancel it. Keep ClickUp open as a read-only reference while you rebuild, and export the Lists you care about to CSV before canceling for a permanent record. Because you're only recreating active work, most of ClickUp's history can simply stay archived there or live in your exports.
Isn't ClickUp more powerful? Why would I switch to something simpler?
That's the whole point of the switch. ClickUp is an "everything app" — 100+ features, custom fields, automations, dashboards, and views most teams configure once and rarely use. If your team lives in tasks, docs, chat, a schedule, and a kanban board, Thicket gives you exactly that with nothing to set up, at $49/month flat for unlimited users. You're not trading down on the work you actually do — you're dropping the overhead around it. If your team genuinely relies on Gantt dependencies, sprint automation, or 15+ custom field types, keep ClickUp; those are real features Thicket doesn't have.
Does Thicket have a kanban board like ClickUp's Board view?
Yes — it's called Boards. It's a kanban-style board where cards move through columns, the same idea as ClickUp's Board view. When you rebuild a project, recreate your columns and add cards for in-flight work. The name is different and the configuration is lighter, but the day-to-day is familiar.
What about ClickUp's dashboards and reporting?
This is one of two honest differences. Thicket doesn't have ClickUp's dashboard builder, custom widgets, or Workload view. Instead, each project has progress charts and a simple On track / At risk / Off track health status, plus an activity feed and a projects grid to see everything at a glance. It's less configurable and less granular — enough for most small teams, but if cross-workspace reporting is central to how you run things, weigh that honestly before switching.
How much will I save by switching from ClickUp to Thicket?
Thicket Pro is $49/month flat for unlimited users. ClickUp charges per seat: Unlimited is $10/user/month and Business is $19/user/month (billed monthly). A 10-person team pays $100/month on Unlimited or $190/month on Business — versus $49/month flat on Thicket, saving $51–$141/month. A 20-person team pays $200–$380/month on ClickUp and still $49/month on Thicket. The gap widens with every person you add, because Thicket never charges per seat. (ClickUp prices verified June 2026.)
Can I invite my whole team and clients without paying per seat?
Yes. Thicket Pro is flat for unlimited users, so team members, clients, and contractors are all included — there's no per-seat math and no guest fees. Clients get scoped access with approvals, so they see only what you share. On ClickUp, every person you add is another seat on the bill; on Thicket the price is the same whether you're 5 people or 50.
What if my team doesn't like Thicket after switching?
Thicket has a free plan (1 project, 5 members) to test with before committing, and Pro includes a 14-day free trial. You can cancel anytime. Since your ClickUp workspace stays intact until you cancel it, trying Thicket costs you nothing but an afternoon — if it's not the right fit, you've lost nothing.
Keep the work. Drop the overhead.
ClickUp bills per seat — a 20-person team pays $200–$380/month and spends hours in configuration. Thicket is $49/month flat: six calm tools, nothing to set up, and $151–$331/month back in a 20-person team's budget.
Start with the free plan, rebuild one Space, and see how much lighter it feels. Your ClickUp workspace stays intact until you're ready to cancel.