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The most consistent frustration our team has encountered with monday Work Management over our time using it at Alarm Masters is the learning curve tied to board structure and scalability. When we first implemented the platform, individual agents started creating their own boards organically for different task types — follow-up tracking, collections cases, account modification requests, escalation logs — and within a few weeks we had multiple boards doing almost the same thing with different status labels, different column structures, and no single place to see overall team progress. The platform gives you tremendous freedom to build, but that freedom works against you if you don't establish standardization upfront. Consolidating those boards into a coherent, scalable structure took approximately three to four weeks of cleanup and required buy-in from the entire team to adopt consistent naming conventions, status values, and column types across all boards.

Automation reliability has also been an occasional frustration. Our team relies heavily on automations to trigger due date notifications, reassign tasks when agents are unavailable, and move follow-up items through workflow stages automatically. On most days these automations run without issue, but we have experienced intermittent delays — particularly during periods of higher platform load — where automations fire later than expected or require a manual trigger to execute. For a customer support team managing time-sensitive follow-ups on active alarm monitoring accounts, even a 30 to 60 minute automation delay can affect the timeliness of a customer callback or a collections follow-up.

The mobile app experience is the third area where monday Work Management falls short of the desktop version for our use case. Updating task statuses, adding comments, and viewing dashboards on mobile works adequately, but the mobile app lacks the full functionality of the desktop — the automations editor, certain column types like formula columns, and board template access are all unavailable on mobile. For agents who occasionally need to check or update their boards outside of regular hours, the mobile experience is functional but noticeably limited compared to what the desktop offers.

None of these issues have been significant enough to reduce our team's overall reliance on the platform — but they are real friction points that teams should be aware of and plan around during implementation and ongoing daily use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The core problem monday Work Management solves for our team at Alarm Masters is the lack of shared visibility that used to define how we tracked open tasks, follow-ups, and escalations across our team of approximately 19 customer support agents. Before monday Work Management, every agent managed their own follow-up workload independently — through personal notes, calendar reminders, and informal Slack messages — which meant that open items tied to active customer accounts were invisible to anyone except the individual agent handling them. When an agent was unavailable, tasks fell through the cracks, follow-up calls didn't happen on time, and customers with active billing disputes or unresolved alarm monitoring issues had to call back in to chase resolutions that should have been proactive.

Monday Work Management solved that visibility problem entirely. Every open follow-up task — payment arrangements on past-due monitoring accounts, scheduled callbacks, pending account modifications, escalation tracking — now lives on a shared board that the entire team and our supervisors can see in real time. The benefit to me personally is confidence that nothing I'm responsible for will slip past a due date unnoticed, because the platform surfaces upcoming and overdue items automatically and triggers automated notifications before a deadline is missed.

The automation layer has directly addressed the coordination overhead that used to sit on our supervisors. Before monday Work Management, redistributing tasks when an agent was unavailable required a supervisor to manually identify what was open, who could take it, and then communicate that reassignment through Slack or a direct message. Now those reassignments happen automatically based on rules we configured upfront, which has freed our supervisors to focus on higher-value coaching and escalation management rather than daily task logistics.

The dashboard reporting has also benefited our team leadership significantly. Before monday Work Management, understanding the team's overall workload distribution required manually compiling information from multiple sources — a process that was time-consuming and always slightly outdated by the time it was complete. Now our supervisors have a live dashboard showing how many open items each agent has, which task types are accumulating, and where bottlenecks are forming, all updated in real time without any manual reporting work.

The cumulative benefit across all of these improvements is a customer support operation that is more organized, more accountable, and more responsive than it was before monday Work Management was in place — and our customers notice the difference in the form of faster follow-throughs and fewer instances of having to call back about an issue that should have already been resolved Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jira’s UI feels cluttered and click-heavy for new users, with simple edits taking too many steps. Performance drops on large backlogs and the mobile app is slow and limited. Pricing jumps sharply from Free to Standard to Premium, and useful features like advanced permissions are paywalled. Onboarding has a steep learning curve; setup and workflows are DIY, and support response times are slow without Enterprise. Integrations are powerful but configuring them often needs an admin and breaks after updates. Atlassian Intelligence still hallucinates in JQL and gives generic suggestions, so you can’t trust it blindly. Overall, it’s overkill for small teams and admin overhead eats time you’d rather spend shipping. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jira solves visibility and chaos across teams by centralizing all work, ownership, and status in one place instead of scattered docs and Slack threads. It killed our endless status meetings because anyone can check a board and see what’s blocked, in progress, or done. Traceability from bug -> story -> code -> deploy means we debug faster and have clean audit trails for releases. Automations handle handoffs and notifications, so work doesn’t stall waiting on people. The benefit: we ship faster with fewer dropped tasks, less misalignment between dev/PM/QA, and stakeholders get real-time updates without us writing them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What we dislike about Asana is that it can sometimes feel overwhelming, especially on larger projects with lots of tasks and notifications. Keeping boards and tasks up to date takes consistent discipline from everyone, and without that, information can quickly become outdated or confusing. It can also be hard to customize certain workflows, and some features feel more complicated than they need to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Asana is solving problems around project visibility, task coordination, and communication across teams. It helps keep work organized in one place, clarifies ownership and deadlines, and makes it easier to track progress without relying on constant meetings or follow-ups. This benefits us by improving collaboration, reducing confusion, increasing accountability, and helping projects move faster and more efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Notion mail. I haven't been able to use that because I use outlook. If outlook integration is supported, I'd love to use mail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In simple words, Notion is helping me organize my knowledge. I'm constantly learning new technologies, and it's easy to loose track of what I've learned. I take notes, heavily, on notion. I can view them anytime from my mobile or tablet for review. They are highly organized in hierarchies.

Other important thing that notion is recently helping me with is my writing. I write about what I learn, about the technologies and the projects I'm working on. Notion AI is the best writing assistant out there. It helps me find the right title for my study article. It helps me optimize my article for seo. It helps me correct my grammar. It even rewrites my draft in fewer or more words. It's something once I couldn't even imagine. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At least at my company, it's a challenge to get between project documents. I would like to be able to view all the projects even if I can't open them all. Basically I just have to go to the home page to access any of the projects I've accessed recently, but if there's a project I'm added to, I have to ask for the link rather than go through a tree of projects and access it that way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Smartsheet helps our company stay on the same page when it comes to projects by making all the notes from meetings visible and accessible to project associates. And it makes it easy for associates to follow up and provide more information regarding specific project issues. Our project managers find this to be very helpful for aligning the team members Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

So far, I honestly don’t see any downsides. I’m still discovering new ways it can make my life easier. Adding AI has helped turn some areas I might not have wanted to spend time figuring out into things I actually like. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In marketing and PR, there are often many moving parts to manage before a project is truly finished. Before using ClickUp, it was difficult to keep up with emails, comments, meeting notes, and tasks, and deadlines could easily get lost in the mix. Now we can collect all relevant data and information in one place, which makes it much easier to stay organized. It saves time because we’re no longer searching through everything separately, and saving time is especially important in this industry. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural still has several gaps, but it does seem dedicated to improving. The positioning and alignment reference lines have improved a lot, but it’s still lacking when it comes to placing items within areas, or when you have areas inside other areas. On a lower-capacity computer, Mural also tends to take a long time to load. I still don’t see much AI in Mural, and I think this is another area where it could improve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mural helps me consolidate ideas into a solution, since I can brainstorm and turn it to a clear workflow. Not really sure how measurable this is, but would say it makes online sketching possible, and compared to only text notes or paper, it's 100% better. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One limitation I noticed is that performance can slow down slightly when bases become very large and heavily connected with automations and linked records.

I also felt that advanced permissions, reporting, and analytics capabilities could be more flexible for complex operational workflows involving multiple teams and restricted-access data.

Although the interface is user-friendly, designing larger workflows properly still requires planning; otherwise bases can become difficult to manage over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Before using Airtable, engineering coordination activities, project tracking, and documentation follow-ups were spread across spreadsheets, emails, and separate trackers, which made status visibility and ownership tracking difficult.

For example, while managing review activities, BOM updates, and multi-stage project coordination tasks, teams often depended on manual follow-up communication to understand pending actions and latest updates.

Airtable solved this by centralizing related project information into one connected workflow with linked records, dashboards, reminders, and customized views. Instead of manually combining information from multiple trackers, teams could directly view project status, ownership, pending approvals, and documentation progress in real time.

This reduced duplicate tracking effort, improved coordination visibility, and simplified follow-up management across ongoing engineering activities.

From an ROI perspective, it reduced time spent maintaining separate trackers and improved workflow efficiency by automating repetitive coordination and reporting activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love most part of this platform but I wish that more improvement is made to make the platform feel less heavy. Other than this for the user may need some training for improve efficiency in using this platform. Other than this I also wish that there was more seamless integration capability of this platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This platform actively assist in building strategy and preparation of roadmap. It improves collaboration among teams and improve productivity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It would be helpful to have more integration options with product management tools so that time entries could be connected directly to feature tickets or backlog items. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

actiTIME gives us a reliable way to track effort across the product development lifecycle. It helps identify where bottlenecks occur, whether estimates are realistic, and how workload is distributed across the team. This leads to better planning, more predictable delivery, and clearer communication with leadership about timelines and capacity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I just wish more marketers knew about this tool, since it’s still not as widely recognized as it deserves to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Before using Morningmate, our marketing projects often suffered from scattered communication and missed deadlines across different tools. Morningmate centralized all project management tasks, which cut down planning time and reduced confusion between teams. Real-time KPI tracking helped us identify underperforming campaigns quickly and optimize budgets more effectively. Collaboration with external partners also became smoother, since everyone could work in the same workspace without constant email back-and-forth. Overall, it solved the problem of inefficiency and gave us clearer visibility into campaign performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There's nothing I dislike, but it would be nice if they had a full general ledger accounting system to handle accounts payable, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ravetree helps us map out projects, set project budgets, allocate people to those projects, log time and expenses, and create invoices. Pretty much all of the day to day stuff at our firm. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In reality, the problem for me is the mobile functionality when the signal strength is low. The offline functionality also lacks strength in that I continue to have a notebook to record the updates when I am offline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I've reduced missed appointments & last-minute curveballs by utilizing Bordio as the Field Operations Manager. This allows the crew to see the priorities more clearly, me to recognize overloading sooner, & our daily route to look less reactive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No regrets or faults to report for the time I have used Conceptboard. It has been an awesome experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

For all project management needs and visual collaboration, Conceptboard has amazing features and we have used it successfully. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One thing I noticed while using Trello is that it works very smoothly for simple and medium-sized projects, but as boards grow with many cards, checklists, and lists, the workspace can start to feel crowded and slightly difficult to organize efficiently. During larger creative and design-related projects, finding older updates, attachments, or specific task details sometimes required extra searching, especially when multiple team members were actively updating boards. I also feel that some advanced features such as automation, timeline views, detailed reporting, and certain integrations are restricted in the free plan, which may limit productivity for teams handling more complex workflows. For beginners, understanding Power-Ups, automations, labels, and workflow customization can also take a little time initially because there are many ways to organize projects inside the platform. Apart from these points, Trello remains easy to use and visually organized for daily collaboration. Improving board management for larger projects and making a few advanced tools more accessible in lower plans would make the platform even more efficient and user friendly for long-term use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trello helps me solve the problem of managing multiple projects and daily tasks in a more organized way. Since I work with design-related projects, it becomes easy to separate work into boards and track each stage visually instead of keeping everything in chats or notes. The biggest benefit for me is clarity. I can quickly see what work is pending, what is in progress, and what has already been completed. It also helps with deadlines, client updates, and keeping project details in one place, which reduces confusion and makes daily workflow much easier to manage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

If I had to pick something, it would be that there are still areas where deeper customization (especially around branding, layouts, or UI tweaks) could go further.

That said — and this is important — this is actually one of the reasons I’m bullish on the product.

Unlike most tools where limitations feel “baked in,” Agency Handy is clearly being actively developed, and many of the things you might initially want are either already being improved or on the roadmap.

So rather than being a frustration, it feels more like:

👉 “This is already great — and it’s only getting better.” Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Before Agency Handy, our workflow was fragmented across multiple tools:

• CRM in one place

• Proposals somewhere else

• Invoicing and payments separate

• Tasks and delivery tracked manually or in another system

• Client communication scattered across email

It was inefficient, messy, and things slipped through the cracks.

Agency Handy has completely centralised our operations:

• Everything now lives in one system

• Client journeys are structured from start → delivery → payment

• Internal workflows are clearer and easier to manage

• Clients have a single place to log in, view progress, and interact

The impact has been huge:

• Less admin time

• Faster onboarding

• More professional client experience

• Fewer mistakes or missed steps

• Better scalability as we grow

It’s effectively become our agency operating system, not just another tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are occasional technical issues or features that could be refined, but that's to be expected with any platform. The positive side is that improvements are continually being made. It's clear that user feedback is taken seriously, and ongoing updates help ensure a better experience for everyone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At larger organizations, it can sometimes feel like individual voices get lost in the crowd. Ideawake provides a platform where my ideas are heard, considered, and valued, making me feel more connected to the success and growth of my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Hard to think of any cons for a small team with our needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Our nonprofit's communications committee uses this to manage social campaigns, newsletter production, design tasks, and email marketing. We tried Trello but switched to Freedcamp — it felt like a better fit. Before this we relied on email threads and Google Docs, which made it hard to stay organized. Good option for any small team that needs to stay on top of tasks without a lot of setup. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It feels a bit limited once work gets bigger. For small diagrams it’s perfect, but for larger planning or brainstorming sessions, the canvas feels restrictive.

It’s more of a diagram tool than a full collaboration space. When discussions go beyond flows into planning, tracking, or workshops, we had to use other tools.

Template options are also fewer compared to some other platforms, so sometimes we had to build layouts from scratch.

Basically great for simple visuals, but not ideal for large cross-team collaboration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It helps turn discussions into visuals quickly. When we talk about processes or system flows, people often understand differently. Drawing it out in Whimsical clears things up fast.

I use it during planning talks to map steps and decisions. It helps the team see the full picture instead of just hearing it.

It’s also helpful for sharing knowledge. A diagram is easier for someone new to understand than reading long notes.

So the main benefit is clarity and saving time on explanations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Navigation is the biggest frustration features are buried, the menu structure isn't intuitive, and new users will spend weeks just finding their footing. I had to write an internal guide for my team, which shouldn't have been necessary. Templates are useful but discovering and customizing them is harder than it should be with no real guided setup to help first-timers. The overall design feels dated compared to modern tools, and colleagues coming from Notion or Monday.com were visibly put off by it, which hurt early adoption. Customer support quality is fine but the response time isn't waiting a full day during a time-sensitive issue is stressful when your work depends on the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Celoxis rewards patience over instinct. The task management, collaboration, security, and reporting are genuinely strong once you're past the learning curve. But navigation, onboarding, and the mobile experience hold it back from being an easy recommendation. If your team runs multiple complex projects and is willing to put in the setup time, the value is there. Just don't expect it to feel effortless on day one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.