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This is a live review of Clickup, a potential digital workplace platform for your organization. It’s part of a series where we review products which can function as a new digital HQ for your organization.
Reviewers:
- Vonda Page of Radical Change LLC
- Vijay Anand of The Startup Centre
- Neil Miller of The Digital Workplace
What is Clickup?
Clickup is one of the many platforms that claims it is the one app to replace them all. Its strength is in its project management capabilities, and it tries to reorganize everything related to work management into a project management framework. Clickup claims that it can do to-do lists, project management, docs, spreadsheets, email, events, reminders, goal tracking, time tracking, recording, resource management, and chat.
What’s our take?
Here’s a summary of our opinions after doing a Clickup review.
Vonda
I love that anyone can come into Clickup and structure their work in the way that makes sense to them. If you already have good flows, communication, and collaboration with your team, you will find Clickup to be very helpful. For teams that are brand new and just building their infrastructure, Clickup may be a little much.
I tried to build some workflows and link tasks together to create a more streamlined activity. But it was hard to do and took a long time to create. I had to do too much clicking to make it worth it for a project I wasn’t going to repeat again later.
Vijay
Clickup is clearly trying to be a work hub rather than a collaboration hub. That’s an important distinction. There are certain parts of business like HR, or procurement, or order fulfillment that are still going to need a completely different set of functions that are outside what traditional project management does. For example, can I use this to request a day off? I don’t see how to get around sending an email to someone.
Clickup is going to be very useful to you are trying to execute projects that already have some structure. But if you are coming from nothing and trying to build things that never have been done before, it might be challenging. It feels like Trello, but with some added contextual collaboration.
I love seeing that they added goal management, but the goals seem to serve the projects and not the other way around.
The mobile app is extremely well thought through and very useful.
Neil
It’s hard to find a feature missing in Clickup’s project management tool. It’s got everything you could want. I like the fact that even when used in a larger ecosystem, two different managers could use the same tool in very different ways, but still be conversant with each other and work together on the same platform.
Its strength and weakness is the same: it sees all of work through the lens of project management. For example, the fact that it built a document builder inside the product is amazing. It’s quite interesting to think of every document being assigned to a project or task instead of existing on its own in some random folder.
But there are parts of work that aren’t projects. You might have very loosely structured collaboration that can’t be done in Clickup. You might also have highly structured automated processes which also can’t be done. So, Clickup has nailed the middle “guts” of work – all the semi-structured projects. But you’ll still need other tools for the bookends.
Clickup pricing
Check their pricing page for the latest details. Plans vary, but start as low as $5/user/month as of this recording.
Live Clickup review
Other reviews
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Friday.app review
Kintone review
Qatalog review
Swit review
This is a live review of Clickup, a potential digital workplace platform for your organization. It’s part of a series where we review products which can function as a new digital HQ for your organization.
Reviewers:
- Vonda Page of Radical Change LLC
- Vijay Anand of The Startup Centre
- Neil Miller of The Digital Workplace
What is Clickup?
Clickup is one of the many platforms that claims it is the one app to replace them all. Its strength is in its project management capabilities, and it tries to reorganize everything related to work management into a project management framework. Clickup claims that it can do to-do lists, project management, docs, spreadsheets, email, events, reminders, goal tracking, time tracking, recording, resource management, and chat.
What’s our take?
Here’s a summary of our opinions after doing a Clickup review.
Vonda
I love that anyone can come into Clickup and structure their work in the way that makes sense to them. If you already have good flows, communication, and collaboration with your team, you will find Clickup to be very helpful. For teams that are brand new and just building their infrastructure, Clickup may be a little much.
I tried to build some workflows and link tasks together to create a more streamlined activity. But it was hard to do and took a long time to create. I had to do too much clicking to make it worth it for a project I wasn’t going to repeat again later.
Vijay
Clickup is clearly trying to be a work hub rather than a collaboration hub. That’s an important distinction. There are certain parts of business like HR, or procurement, or order fulfillment that are still going to need a completely different set of functions that are outside what traditional project management does. For example, can I use this to request a day off? I don’t see how to get around sending an email to someone.
Clickup is going to be very useful to you are trying to execute projects that already have some structure. But if you are coming from nothing and trying to build things that never have been done before, it might be challenging. It feels like Trello, but with some added contextual collaboration.
I love seeing that they added goal management, but the goals seem to serve the projects and not the other way around.
The mobile app is extremely well thought through and very useful.
Neil
It’s hard to find a feature missing in Clickup’s project management tool. It’s got everything you could want. I like the fact that even when used in a larger ecosystem, two different managers could use the same tool in very different ways, but still be conversant with each other and work together on the same platform.
Its strength and weakness is the same: it sees all of work through the lens of project management. For example, the fact that it built a document builder inside the product is amazing. It’s quite interesting to think of every document being assigned to a project or task instead of existing on its own in some random folder.
But there are parts of work that aren’t projects. You might have very loosely structured collaboration that can’t be done in Clickup. You might also have highly structured automated processes which also can’t be done. So, Clickup has nailed the middle “guts” of work – all the semi-structured projects. But you’ll still need other tools for the bookends.
Clickup pricing
Check their pricing page for the latest details. Plans vary, but start as low as $5/user/month as of this recording.
Live Clickup review
Other reviews
Twist review
Friday.app review
Kintone review
Qatalog review
Swit review
