Hive Reviews & Product Details

My favorite feature is the ability to turn submitted request forms and communication plans (also completed through forms) into actionable projects that can be turned into templates for future use. On a browser, the ability to mark up proofs for correction. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The app doesn't have the funtionality it has the potential to have: We'd love to be able to nest projects in the 'My actions' tab under their parent projects for a cleaner view. A tab for forms would be amazing. We're implementing Hive forms for everything from purchase requests to maintenance requests across multiple campuses, and having our users be able to pull up any form from one place on their mobile device would be hugely helpful.

It'd be awesome to be able to assign messages as actions on the app in the same way as through the website.

The ability to make and then see annotations made to a proof in the app would be fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-customizable

-robust built-in features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

really, nothing. My team loves Hive!!!!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Flexible views, easy to set up a project, easy to have new members. Pretty user friendly. The amount of integrations that they offer have been outstanding. Their staff are responsive and respectful. Their customer service is top notch. The tutorial that they offer inside of the platform is very user friendly and gets you familiarized with the product very very easily. I like that there is an application and you do not have to just use the website for managing your projects. The application is the best way to utilize HIVE. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Wish the mobile app had more uses than chat functionality. ability to recovery accidentally deleted items/messages. I wish it could integrate with office products that were not 365, like exchange. some of the zapier plugins are a little clunky and hard to keep track of. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The interface is extremely user friendly. The different views are easy to use and appeal to different types of users. The colours, imagery, task cards, and Gantt chart view are easy to read, edit, and interact with. We also like that it is open source system that allows us to store large amounts of data within the system. The features are constantly upgraded and there is quick and responsive support from their customer service and support team. We also like that we are able to have a number of main subscription accounts which also have additional external users. We have mostly external users and this is a great selling point for us. It is a cost saving for us as well as it has much more on offer than the next leading software for a far better price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only things that we do not like about Hive is the fact that since we keep so many projects and so much detail in our projects that it can get very laggy. It will freeze up on occasion and it can be difficult to update dates if there lots of predecessors in your project. The Analytics feature is also in Beta mode still and this has quite a few bugs, however, we can see that it will be a very good tool in the future. Finally, there are some simple feature upgrades that would be good such as an "undo" button and a "indent" button. If you have used other project management software, you will know the value of these two features. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hive's completely integrated approach to productivity has been a life saving force for my team. We are avid creatives, so using a tool that allows us to chat, email, and manage products all in the same tool has really helped the team stay connected and on top of projects. Also, the time tracking abilities and extra reporting tools are robust and helpful in keeping us on top of resourcing for our team.

The resourcing tab is really helpful in planning the team's schedules. Also being able to nest projects within eachother keeps our dashboard of projects neat and organized. Overall, I highly recommend their tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only issue is that the application and the mobile app can be glitchy at times. I hope they invest more in its development in the future.

The other challenge is that it is important to create a solid process for task management and project management prior onboarding your team to the program completely. It can be difficult to organize tasks and projects retroactively without that process.

Finally, they have great budget features. It would be amazing to get include an expense option to it, so that the project budget can be completely managed in Hive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that I am able to create tasks and subtasks. It helps me stay extremely, OCD-level, organized. It also allows for you to assign tasks or have tasks assigned to you. The email sync helps me stay on top of things when I have too many windows open to notice any communications coming in. I love that you can attach emails, google drive documents, or uploaded documents to the tasks so the assignee or myself has all they need to complete the tasks, including any communication about the task, where supporting documents live, etc. One last thing about it that is great is you the different views you can change it to. If you need to follow a deadline schedule, you can view your assignments in a calendar format. If you are working on a big team project, you can view assignments by assignee. It makes it so easy to work more efficiently! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't dislike anything about Hive. The only thing I would say is that I don't typically use the chat feature in Hive becuase I use google hangouts. I think it would be great if they synced the chat feature like they do the email. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The first and foremost pro is its customizable nature. All of its built in features are very robust. It is a good source of sharing work with each other. It helps us a lot in solving our numerous problems. I like its flexibility and the ease of setting up projects. It is very much user friendly. It really offers outstanding integrations. This is the matchless tool. No one can ever find tool like this. It helps us a lot in collaborating with external team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is really nothing that I have to dislike about Hive. Me and my team love to use this. It's mobile application should add more features. There should be option of adding accidentally or mistakenly deleted messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like the ability to be able to keep track and record my tasks and projects with Hive. It has a friendly interface and really good customer service. Hive has done a great job on branding. I think it's on the right track to being a great app to use in the workplace. I like it better than Microsoft Team which I have had experience using in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I still think the organization needs a little bit of work with intuitive design. I'm still not sure if I'm using the app correctly (however, the way I use it still gets things done, just not sure if it's the proper way.) I am in a section of a design team, and I get tasked various small projects throughout the day. I noticed you guys have developed subtasks, but the problem with that is that I have so many projects, the subtasks end up taking up a large part of my notifications, which means I mean I miss the main "action" notifications (updates from superiors) often and I end up being confused or in the dark about some revision or change that needs to be done. I've stopped looking at the notifications entirely and just look at my section in Trade Team "Projects" - I'm sure you can see it on my hive.

It would be great to have "departments" within teams so we can coordinate where we put our projects. We don't always have major projects that need to be a thing on its own. We just have a lot of design work that needs to be done continuously (or adding on from the last action.) Again, not sure if we're using the app properly but it's just how our team ended up coordinating to make it all make sense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hive is a great platform for tracking multi-step onboarding and communications processes. We use it in an academic setting to track every step of our enrollment process for students, from application, to invoicing, to communications after enrollment. Being able to chat within the same platform that we use for project management is invaluable and streamlines so much of our communications. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The one issue we have with Hive is that there isn't a master-admin role that can see everything all the members of the organization are doing in the projects they make. Each of our team members has to invite our executive to our boards. It would be helpful if there was a master admin role that could assign team members to other boards that team members have created, without that role needing to be invited themselves. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The project navigator and Hive cards are very effective for our reporting structure. It's very collaborative for our team to make edits to the project cards. So we are happy. I also love using the chat feature to talk to my colleagues. Many of them work in a remote capacity and the hive chat is my primary means of communicating with them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I'm satisfied. There are times when the chat may be slow or malfunctioning, but Hive usually lets us know and the issues are quickly fixed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Collaboration among co-workers is spectacular, we're able to work in real time remotely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the mobile features aren't quite as built out as they are on desktop. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That we can assign actions to individuals...and a recently new feature that allows us to assign to a team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It was a learning curve for me to get the hang of the program, more tutorial videos please! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hive is a sophisticated platform based on identifying the collaboration in real time, significantly boosting the total dynamics of a company, acquiring tools that are very useful for the total flexibility of the functions that are constantly executed for a decent and properly structured work, one of the features that most call my attention is that through this software, registered users to their digital facilities, can visualize the increase of progress of that company, in an extremely easy way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It presents dysfunctional cases of some of its characteristics designed in the application, because it does not acquire the disposition of a mobile program, to carry out the operations in a more constructive and prudent way, that allows to carry out a cleaner and faster workflow, thus to visually achieve an increase of the collaboration at general levels, thanks to the work of this software, without excluding that it would be of great proportion to track the history of versions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hive is very simple to implement and use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The filtering could be more robust with more options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Desktop and mobile app are great. Also the chats, general and specific by project. I can manage all communication in one single platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only thing that I dislike is that when downloading from the app it kicks me out to browser. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our team enjoys the segmented nature of creating chat rooms for each client. It's a simple thing but has helped us a ton! It also helps us keep track of time for each client which has saved us so much money and allows us the opportunity to scale appropriately with clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The IOS app has been pretty buggy for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Still new to using Hive but it has been super helpful. I love the ability to visualize my to-do list in my own tab as well as taking a look and what the whole team has going on. Color coding also helps with visualizing tasks. Hive is a great place to communicate feedback and share progress on projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes I miss notifications or don't receive them. I wish when someone else comments on a project I can be notified without them having to tag me. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hive makes project management and communication simple. If we hadn't had Hive in place pre-COVID, I'm not sure we would have kept our efficiency up, as well as our ability to communicate and collaborate. Hive's constantly asking for our feedback, making us feel like we're part of their team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Honestly, there's not much, but would love to see more integration in with Zoom, etc. though I know that's on the way! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that I'm able to create quick action cards for any ad hoc requests we get while still having consistent coverage for reoccurring tasks. Easy to navigate on the platform and it takes very little time to train new team members on how to use. Also, love the ability to further break out projects that have multiple steps in a clean and easy to follow way. We heavily utilize the subactions in an action card to set separate due dates, details, and project owners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It could be a bit easier to sort through completed tasks through a table view. Also, the overall view options could be a bit more simple to navigate in general. Finally, would be nice to be able to add followers to an action card without having to assign and then remove them from the task. I see the option to follow a task myself, but would like to add other managers to follow a task assigned to someone else so they're aware that it's already been assigned and added to the task list. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

My favorite part is how essential features are not locked behind unnecessary pay walls. I get everything for one price. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I honestly don’t have any substantive complaints. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is extremely versatile and the support is great. I must have tried 20 project management apps before I decided on this on Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Maybe the ability to filter by tag in all of the views might be helpful but not a big problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.