We compared monday.com and Airtable across several parameters based on our users' reviews. After reading the collected data, you can find our conclusion below:
Comparison Results: monday.com is praised for its user-friendly interface, flexibility, automation features, and integration possibilities. On the other hand, Airtable is highly regarded for its continuous improvement, ease of use, and ability to work with relational databases. The pricing for both products varies, with monday.com being considered reasonably priced but not the cheapest option, while Airtable is seen as affordable for personal use but potentially expensive for large organizations.
"I am impressed with the tool's continuous improvement. Every six months we get to see a completely different product. You can build a new product using no-code applications. We are able to scale up with the product."
"I am impressed with the product's user interface and integrations. It helps me to ship products very fast."
"The product is very easy to use and flexible."
"The product helps us track activities, address complaints, and make improvements."
"The sorting of the data is the best feature of Airtable. In a Google sheet I have to insert some data and Airtable provides the default option of doing it automatically."
"The solution makes it easy to structure data into simple data tables."
"Airtable's ability to bring people from different teams and geographies together into say a master calendar, with complete control over who sees what when and in what format, is highly beneficial for communications organizations."
"Airtable stands out for its exceptional user-friendliness, making it accessible to users of all skill levels. Its intuitive navigation ensures a smooth experience, allowing users to easily explore and comprehend its functionalities. Moreover, Airtable offers powerful automation capabilities that enhance efficiency. One particularly advantageous aspect is the seamless linking of databases, enabling the effortless creation of relational databases. Overall, this feature has proven to be immensely valuable and has been the primary focus of my usage."
"The sub-items have been incredibly helpful."
"Monday is very easy to use and is very user-friendly."
"The analytics view is very powerful with Gantt charts and multiple chart visualizations."
"The automation feature saves us hours of time reviewing activities, sending reminders, and sending emails."
"We use the status column quite frequently and the search bar to easily find specific customers and orders."
"We also love that Monday talks with Mailchimp so we can always stay connected with people."
"Monday.com has made it much easier to keep track of a wide range of tasks whilst we have a team distributed over multiple countries and timezones."
"The free version provides all the utilities that I need."
"The tool has changed the syncing time between the tables which has affected our multiple systems. I would like the product to add more calls per second to the API. It also needs to improve data storage. The tool starts to have problems after having huge amounts of data."
"They should allow us to duplicate the data to share it with others."
"The user interface should be more intuitive."
"The product should improve the Spanish translation."
"The template library is huge. I have a few suggestions with respect to that. But to complete automation, I think a bit more documentation around that would be really helpful because there are a lot of features in that which common people explore them less"
"It'd be nice if the record limit of 50,000 record limit per base on pro accounts were substantially higher."
"Airtable needs improvement with the loading speed. It takes a lot of time to load."
"Reporting, specifically anything involving exports, could be improved."
"We would like to connect with email solutions such as Outlook."
"Now, we are using a cloud option and then we send the link on Monday to the other team members. It was too slow and with some bugs sometimes."
"It would be great to have better email integration so that you could have all of your inboxes consolidated there."
"I would love to be able to have a chat option with Monday.com's IT so that if I'm looking to add a new view or experience to our planning boards, they could easily talk me through the best option."
"They need to improve the user interface of the automation/integrations."
"It would be helpful to have a direct comparison table/spreadsheet for Monday.com versus Asana and the many other project management software platforms."
"Better integration with Outlook would be awesome."
"Monday.com has tons of features and capabilities. However, you’ll need to upgrade your plan to actually benefit the most from these tools."
Airtable is ranked 11th in Project Management Software with 11 reviews while monday.com is ranked 1st in Project Management Software with 222 reviews. Airtable is rated 8.8, while monday.com is rated 9.4. The top reviewer of Airtable writes "An ERP tool for project tracking with continuous improvement ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of monday.com writes "We can collaborate with our customers efficiently and professionally, and automation makes it easy for everyone". Airtable is most compared with Spreadsheet.com, Microsoft Project and Adobe Workfront, whereas monday.com is most compared with Wrike, Asana, Microsoft Dynamics CRM, Microsoft Project and Zoho CRM. See our Airtable vs. monday.com report.
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