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I do not have any real dislikes about Monday.com. Perhaps the only downside is there is a bit of a learning curve to set up project workflows. It is not 100% intuitive but to be fair the learning curve on other platforms is equal or a higher bar. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We are a global company working across many time frames, Monday.com helps us communicate about projects, workflows and our accounts receivable system. It allows me to quickly see project updates, status and timeframes. I can easily communicate with our operations team about incoming projects - giving them visibily to the sales pipeline. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complexity & Bloat: It has a steep learning curve and is incredibly easy to over-engineer with too many required fields, rigid permissions, and confusing menus.

Slowness: The user interface can feel heavy, clunky, and slow to load compared to modern, lightweight alternatives.

Notification Spam: It is notorious for flooding inboxes with automated emails for every minor ticket update unless painstakingly configured.

Plugin Dependency: To get certain basic features or advanced reporting, you often have to rely on and pay for third-party marketplace add-ons. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Siloed Communication: Centralizes tracking so developers, product managers, and business stakeholders all have a single source of truth.

Lack of Visibility: Eliminates the chaos of tracking massive projects via spreadsheets or chat apps, making it clear who is doing what and when.

Scope Creep & Chaos: Helps teams plan sprints, map dependencies, and manage backlogs so projects don't derail as they scale.

How That Benefits Me

Structured Data: Jira forces messy human workflows into organized structures (Epics, Stories, Statuses).

Easier Analysis: Because the data is standardized, it is much easier for me to instantly parse your project health, write precise JQL queries, generate accurate summaries, and help you optimize your team's workflow without getting lost in the weeds. 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boards and tasks up to date takes consistent discipline from everyone, and without that, information can quickly become outdated or confusing.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.

The biggest drawback is the lack of a true offline mode. If I am working in one of the labs at BTIRT where the Wi-Fi can sometimes be spotty, or if I am traveling for a tech competition, it can be really frustrating when pages take forever to load or I cannot access my project notes at all. Also, because it is so heavily customizable, the initial learning curve is a bit steep. I definitely spent way too much time tweaking page aesthetics and templates instead of actually studying when I first started using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It completely solves the problem of scattered information. Before Notion, managing my coursework at BTIRT alongside extracurricular robotics projects was chaotic. I had code saved in one app, hardware diagrams in a local folder, and team to-do lists in random group chats. Now, for tech competitions and college projects, my entire team operates out of a single centralized workspace. It keeps everyone on the same page, makes it easy to track who is working on which part of the prototype, and honestly just reduces the stress of balancing college life. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It has limitations but Smartsheet keeps reiterating and changing and making it better. I do NOT like the Primary column. I never use it. I hide it everytime. I do not like that we cannot have tabs like excel. It would make it so much easier to connect sheets, and toggle between them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Smartsheet is automating a lot of my processes which saves me a lot of time. It allows me to focus on other tasks. The other big item is that by setting up fool proof solutions, it allows me train other users that might not be proficient in smartsheet. They click a few buttons, and on the back end, I get all of the data and movement I need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve and set up are challenging. Since I am really one of the only people using it in my current organization, I scaled it back to just one list that I use personally and it works well for me. However, I think that the learning curve is what prevented other people from adopting and using it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The biggest problem that ClickUp solves for me now is that it gives me a place to capture tasks, and actually keep track of them in a way that I can pick them up, work on them, set them down and revisit them later if I need to. I LOVE having the additional documentation of what got completed and when so that I can look back at work that I've done and see what I actually did, rather than just operate from memory and move on from things mentally when things actually never got done. With ClickUp, I can have consistent processes that help me ensure closure and completion. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

What I dislike about Celoxis is that its extensive feature set can feel overwhelming during the initial setup. Since the platform includes deep customization and advanced project controls, new users may need extra time to get comfortable with the workflows, reporting options, and configuration settings before everything feels clear and fully usable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Celoxis is solving best is the problem of disconnected project management. Many teams struggle with scattered spreadsheets, separate budgeting tools, unclear resource allocation, and limited visibility across multiple projects. Celoxis brings project planning, resource management, financial tracking, reporting, and collaboration into one centralized platform, making it easier to manage complex workflows and portfolios efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As with any new tool, it takes some time to learn how to leverage it for maximum impact. But I have not been disappointed by its capabilities yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we ran our annual campaign to solicit big ideas for our organization, we would get many submissions that were identical (or nearly identical). No one could respond to submissions to get clarity or offer ideas for refinement. The process was basically over when a contributor pressed "submit". Ideawake is not just about gathering ideas but about starting a conversation at all levels of the organization. A process that had become stale and boring has been reinvigorated by the Ideawake platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.