monday.com Reviews

We primarily use Monday to keep track of action items for project management dealing with software development. 

Our team manages multiple projects, and, for each project, we are able to create the individual tasks that need to be completed in order to finish the project.  

We also use Monday to share with our team times that we will not be in the office or be available for team meetings.  

It allows us to see which tasks are being worked on and which ones we have not started. It keeps our team members informed about our activities.

It helps us to keep track of all of the remaining tasks on a project and the remaining number of days that exist on a project.  

It provides all team members with insights into multiple projects.  

It also allows us to share information about project statuses with other team members.  

I do like the feature where you can indicate whether you are working on a particular task or if you are stuck on a task. 

It also gives provides more insight into the possible amount of time it could take to complete a specific task.  

The ability to upload files associated with a particular task is very useful to us.

It helps us share examples of reports with our team members. 

I have also found the task status feature to be valuable. You can indicate whether you have started on a task, are stuck on it, or have completed it.  

I also like that you can add your own columns to each task within a project.  

For example, if you wanted to add a column that's not already included in the Monday app to track a specific item for a project, you can do that as well.

The calendar selection for dates is not the easiest to navigate. Sometimes once you select a start date, it is hard to extend the selection out to the end date.  The date selection is confusing. If there was another method that they could use for this that would be better.  

Also, I feel as though sometimes I received notifications for Monday boards that I am not even subscribed to and the notifications, in general, are a bit much.  There should be a way to indicate which Monday boards you would like to receive notifications for.

I've used the solution for two years.

I have not had a reason to contact customer service or support.

I did not use a different solution previously.

The Monday board was initially set up by our administrator so most of the team members did not participate in the setup process.

I believe it was done through an in-house team.

I am not sure what the cost is.

I did not evaluate other options.

We use Monday.com boards to track our financial analysis for month-end financials and assign monthly tasks to specific analysts. 

This is helpful to our team. It helps us to keep track of what tasks have been completed so far and maybe what needs to be prioritized and then we can refresh the board back to the original once everything is done. 

We also use it to track potential acquisitions so the executive team and ownership can easily see what is in the pipeline and fill in the big picture. We are able to put in all the necessary information and update easily with automation features.  

The team works about 75% of the time from home. 

Since we moved from Basecamp to Monday.com, we have definitely seen an improvement in how our projects are tracked, and missed deadlines have decreased dramatically. 

We have also been able to cut down on meetings where we would discuss what projects we are working on since the projects are tracked on the Monday.com boards.      

The team has also been able to create multiple boards for deeper tracking of projects. Having all of the tracking and breakdowns of projects has definitely increased efficiency. 

We like creating statuses and assigning line items to different team members. 

The automation aspect is also extremely helpful. We have been able to keep our projects and acquisitions more organized by using the automation features to move line items over new sections based on the status. 

Being able to integrate different apps and programs has also been very helpful with communication with other teams within the company. The suggested automation and integrations are helpful for those who aren't as skilled at creating boards. 

The exporting function could be improved to offer more raw data instead of being formatted like the online view. This would be helpful for exporting boards from other departments that teams might need to work from. 

Also, the limited client access could be improved. When sharing boards with clients outside of the company, it can be very difficult for them to navigate to do anything within the board. Monday could add more project management tools and tracking features to make it even better at project management and tracking. 

Monday.com doesn’t have subtasks or task dependencies, meaning that users can’t break down project plans to a granular level or allow tasks to be dependent on the completion of others.

I've used the solution for two years.

We used to use Basecamp. We switched due to the fact that Basecamp was just awful and outdated.

I was not privy to evaluation discussions.

We use Monday.com as our primary method of communication in an entirely remote agency environment. 

The agency went remote at the beginning of the pandemic and needed a communication and file sharing solution as we were no longer sharing office space. 

We use Monday.com not only to communicate throughout the workday but also use it to manage individual jobs and deadlines for these jobs. We also use Monday.com to share project files with one another so that we can work collaboratively on our projects.

Before we started using Monday.com we were using an alternative project management software, however, the features were relatively limited in comparison to Monday.com. 

Monday.com has improved the efficiency in which we manage jobs and clients. It has also improved our overall company communication and effectiveness. Monday.com has allowed us to maintain a company culture and working structure while working completely remotely. It helps us manage our deadlines effectively and ensure that we stay on top of all of our deadlines.

Personally, my favorite feature on Monday.com is the Inbox. The Inbox helps me identify the most important notifications as these are the ones that I specifically mentioned. This ensures that I don't miss any pressing questions or briefs from my team. 

I also find that board customization is an incredibly valuable feature, we are able to customize the columns of our boards according to our needs and the role that a particular board plays in our organization. Board customization helps us to make Monday.com fit our individual needs as an organization.

I am incredibly happy with the desktop experience of Monday.com, however, I struggle to use the mobile version of Monday.com. Monday.com's mobile app would be an incredibly useful tool allowing me to manage jobs and touch base with my team on the go, however, the mobile app is not suited to a mobile user's experience. The Monday.com mobile app is similar to the desktop app just smaller; I find that the information is cramped and hard to navigate. The desktop format is not suited for a mobile user experience and I think that the user experience of the Monday.com mobile app needs to be completely rethought.

I've used the solution for about two and a half years.

Monday.com is very stable. In the last 2.5 years of using the platform, it has only been down once or twice and for relatively short periods of time and did not disrupt the workflow.

I work in a relatively small team and Monday.com is incredibly useful for our team size in regards to communication and costing. However, the platform is scalable and would help the efficiency of larger teams and companies as well.

We, fortunately, have not had issues with Monday.com where we have needed customer support, however, on the few occasions where the platform has had outages their website. https://status.monday.com/ has been invaluable in keeping us in the loop in regards to the outage and what is being done about it.

Positive

Prior to using Monday.com, the company made use of Trello. Trello was a useful software and easy to use but did not have as many features or as much customization as Monday.com. 

Yes, Monday.com was very straightforward in terms of setup. I did not find that starting on the platform was complicated and got the hang of using the platform very quickly.

We used the solution in-house.

Monday.com is incredibly useful for smaller teams as you pay per user on the platform. We use the Pro package, however, there are other plans for different prices as well.

We looked at staying with Trello and we looked at other software such as Todoist and Microsoft Teams. 

Monday.com is by far my favorite work-from-home solution.

We are a start-up based in Mexico City that's mostly focused on selling online courses and giving consultancies to parishes and universities. We use Monday to keep track of our online presence on social media (followers, engagement rate, and so on). 

We use it to keep track of our database and the CRM of our customers and allies. We also find it very helpful to make forms for events and to channel all the information in one specific board and then at the end of the month to see it all visually really impacts our decision-making process to make improvements. 

It has saved us a lot of time in emails and going back and forth with feedback about processes, especially for our community manager in the area of the content approval to upload.  

It has also helped us to have all the historic decisions we've made for the past four years in a single click, we don't have to deep dive into our computers because we have it all on our boards. It has also helped us to easily to see all our databases in charts and drawings. 

To be honest, we know that we don't use half as much of the things that are offered to us by Monday.com but we are looking forward to helping it improving more our day-to-day. 

The Monday features that we find more helpful are these three: 

1. The structure it has, the sites, the boards, and how easily you can transfer information from one place to the other is great. 

2. The integrations. Even though we haven't used nearly 1/4 of the ones that Monday offers, we have managed to reduce time going from app to app with just one integration. 

3. The import option from an Excel doc into a board is great. Sometimes this option doesn't work as well. It appears to have some error that deletes it immediately and doesn't allow us to change the names of the columns.

It would help to have the option to use formulas horizontally as well as vertically in order to keep track of certain things that are accumulative.  Also, we would like the integration of mails EMAP for us to be able to use our company email and not only with the Gmail integration. 

Another thing that we would find helpful is to have an integration with Meta Business, so the analytics report would automatically be uploaded to the boards for us to have a report visually with all the other ones. 

Alongside the integrations, a Mailchimp one would help to add tags directly from Monday to the Mailchimp account. 

I've used the solution for more than four years.

I work in an online gambling company. We deal on daily basis with internal and external B2B and B2C projects. Our use case includes all possible scenarios: project management (high level and detailed), Teams management, and collaboration via vacation boards and boards with the tasks. We use forms in Monday boards to log in requests from different departments in one place, we use Monday.com to manage GDPR requests and customer journeys, HR tasks and statistics, we even used board to manage company bookings. Long story short, Monday.com can suit every possible use case that you may have.

Since we started using Monday.com (until now), this system improved a lot of things in our company. We moved from old-fashioned Excel tables to the new, fresh, modern, engaging, and collaborative environment, which is full of creativity and provides us with better visibility and collaboration over all projects and tasks, vacations, and schedules that our teams use. The part that we like the most is that this system could be easily automated and integrated with other tools like Outlook/Zendesk or Teams.

I can say that all features are vital. I mostly like automation and recently added custom automation so we can brainstorm and find the best fit for our particular use-case. 

I personally like the feature "recent updates". With this tool, I can easily open every board and see quickly what are the recent changes made. Additionally, I like the mirroring column feature it helps us divide projects between a high level and detail and update things on another board without switching tabs. Also, I like reminders and in-app notifications, they're very helpful and could be easily customized.

It would be good if we could have the option to choose custom colors for the status fields and groups so we can make some boards more branded. 

Maybe automation could be reconsidered and updated a bit. We managed to find the automation that will fit our use case. Regarding automation, I would like to see an improved search area as it's not always user-friendly as well. 

I've gotten feedback from the team that it will be very helpful if Monday.com would allow filtering by "creation date" and "last update" columns.

I've used the solution for three or more years.

We did use Asana. It wasn't that user-friendly or loved by the team.

I cannot say what the pricing is.

I cannot say what we evaluated previously.

I use the solution for project planning for software and UX design projects. 

The product has helped our organization greatly. It's helped us organize and collaborate with clients and has been a great foundation/framework to support our growth.

We really enjoy table planning, documentation, instant Gantt charting, and collaboration. Emailing the board in updates is great. It offers helpful kanban views and multiple views in general. We can share it with clients as guests. 

Story mapping would be ideal. Being able to create topic threads, not as updates and instead similar to Basecamp (in that it becomes a forum) would be useful. 

Timetracking should be a little more powerful. A full harvest integration or something similar that allows time spent vs budget would be good. 

The solution should offer burndown charts.

I've been using the solution for two years.

The stability is quite good.

The scalability is good.

Technical support is excellent and very proactive. 

Positive

We used to use Jira and switched as it's horrendously overcomplicated, scaled terribly, and takes the hardest path to a simple outcome. 

The setup is easy. It's great to let the user demo it for free. 

We did the setup in-house. It was not a great experience. I did it mostly myself. 

ROI is unmeasurable in context of the product, however, I feel very satisfied we get value from the Monday investment. 

We looked at Jira and Basecamp.

We use Monday.com to manage all of our design and marketing departments. It helps us track all the projects in the pipeline, who is the lead of the project, and who is the designer. This makes it easy for our marketing strategists, who are in charge of the designers, to see which projects each of the designers are working on and be able to assign tasks easier. 

We do a lot of events organizing on Monday.com too. This is why we like to have specifically different boards for our tasks that aren't the same as our everyday boards. 

We love that we can track all past projects that we've done, and segment them based on who worked on the project. We work with a lot of clients that need a breakdown of everything that we've implemented each quarter for them. Being able to export a PDF based on the tags on each task has made it a breeze for us to stay organized and know exactly what we've done for each of our clients. We have 200+ clients, so sometimes it can be chaotic, however, Monday.com makes that aspect so much easier for us. 

Adding subitems to each task has made multi-dimensional projects easier to manage. We have a lot of projects for the events and tradeshows that we host, and sometimes we need to break down a simple project into multiple steps and assign each subitem to a different person. 

We also love that we can keep track of the status of the project and assign deadlines, as well as have tabs on where the project is in the process. 

Being able to see your own personal specific projects makes it that much more accessible a program and is great for work productivity.  

We'd really like to have the ability to have different types of boards within a board. Sometimes we don't need the same columns for every task and we'd like to customize each task board within the motherboard. We use to have tasks with different columns and information rather than it having to be the same for every task board within the main board. This would make it so much easier for us when it comes to special projects that have varying needs and not every column will fit into the same board. 

I've used the solution for about one year now, however, my team has been using it for more than two years. 

The stability is great. 

The scalability is great. 

I personally have not had any experience with customer support, however, technical issues are usually fixed very quickly. 

Positive

We used to use multiple different programs, including Teams, however, it didnt have as much functionality that we need. 

The initial setup is very straightforward and super easy to navigate. 

We handled the setup in-house. 

It's definitely worth the cost when you are using it for work or for a team of employees that you need to manage. 

We evaluated Microsoft Teams, Asana, etc. 

I am currently a recruiter at my job. I use the solution to keep track of everyone that is currently in the hiring process. I must say, It's so easy to keep track of everything - including what person needs to do which steps, who is ready to move on, etc. 

It also helps to keep all 3rd parties I do hiring for separate from the others so there is no confusion. A majority of my work is being done through Fountain. Every important thing I need from someone, especially certain small details, is all a click away.

It has improved so much. We used to use Excel. Something somehow always went wrong. With Monday, everything is just so easy. I can make separate columns. It's really understandable. It's well organized. I just love it! 

The separation of companies I hire for is quite helpful. Being able to keep track of everything has never been so easy. It has avoided our companies from having to look everywhere for certain things. It has taken time-consuming tasks down from minutes to seconds. It's easier to get things done.

Group separation and being able to change the colors of some categories are great. 

That has been what I love the most. We used to have everything on paper and everything with colorful tabs to separate things. It's frustrating when everything keeps falling off. 

With Monday, everything is just one click away. Everything we have is separated by groups within groups. Color has different meaning. We know when the tab is green by their name there ready to move on to the next thing. When something is red we know we are missing important documents. My co-workers and I are always on track and knowing what to get done with the hiring process.

We'd like to see less downtime. There have been times when I really needed to use Monday and it would be down for half a day and saying there is an error with the system. 

Sometimes it can be really slow as well. Everything we need is kept on Monday. When Monday is down for half the day it's just a lot of time wasted. There are times we missed timelines to call certain places, as, by the time the system was finally up, the place we needed to call or the person we hired was no longer available.

I been using Monday for half a year now.

We used Excel before. We wanted something less time-consuming and more understandable. 

It's worth the price. The product has made everything a lot easier.

We did look at other options. I wasn't the one who picked Monday, however.