ClickUp vs Planview PPM Pro comparison

ClickUp and Planview are both solutions in the Project Management Software category. ClickUp is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.8, while Planview is ranked #16 with an average rating of 4.0. ClickUp holds a 2.0% mindshare in PMS, compared to Planview’s 2.5% mindshare. Additionally, 88% of ClickUp users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 88% of Planview users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Dec 19, 2024

Planview PPM Pro and ClickUp are project management solutions. Planview holds a competitive edge in resource management and customization, while ClickUp is preferred for task management and user design.

Features: Planview PPM Pro offers detailed reporting, flexible customization, and robust resource and demand management, enhancing project visibility. ClickUp is appreciated for intuitive task management, a user-friendly design, and visually appealing task management tools ideal for agile environments.

Room for Improvement: Planview users experience challenges in resource management with larger datasets and desire better integration and an enhanced interface. ClickUp faces critique on mobile UI, the need for more industry-specific tools, and simplification of reporting, with some users finding the interface cluttered.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Both Planview and ClickUp operate on the public cloud, providing similar ease of deployment. Planview's support receives mixed reviews, while ClickUp generally has positive support feedback but also faces occasional delay issues.

Pricing and ROI: Planview PPM Pro is a higher-end solution targeted at large enterprises with complex needs, reflecting nuanced ROI, while ClickUp is seen as cost-effective with flexible pricing, suitable for businesses of all sizes.

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Categories and Ranking

ClickUp

Ranking in Project Management Software

14th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.2

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Planview PPM Pro

Ranking in Project Management Software

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

7.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Project Portfolio Management (8th)

Mindshare comparison

As of May 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of ClickUp is 2.0%, up from 1.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Planview PPM Pro is 2.5%, down from 2.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

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VarchasSubrahmanya

Director of Products at ADP

A stable solution that offers it users a choice to opt for a streamlined approach to task management

From a product management function perspective, it can be challenging to measure whether ClickUp improves efficiency on a month-to-month basis. However, I believe that using ClickUp helps maintain our efficiency levels. If we were to stop using it, I am 100% sure that our efficiency would decrease. That being said, just because we are using ClickUp does not automatically mean our efficiency will increase. We have reached a point where we understand how to use ClickUp effectively, and without it, it would definitely be a problem. However, using it alone does not make us better every day. The absence of ClickUp would definitely cause a problem. But, since we are using ClickUp, we don't get to improve 10% on a month-by-month or a year-on-year basis. So, that's very difficult to measure. Introducing automation and AI would greatly benefit ClickUp by reducing manual work. Currently, team members need to update tasks and communicate issues, which requires me to read through each task and comment to understand the situation. However, if AI could assist in making faster decisions, it would greatly improve efficiency. I need to intervene at a minute level to discover if someone is facing a problem, but AI could help detect issues faster. The success of AI implementation can be seen in how ChatGPT has utilized AI.

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MartinQuiroga

Value Stream Management specialist & Solution Leader at Tricise at OdPe Business Solutions

Needs to improve roadmap, scalability and communication

The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well. I am working with the product for two to three years. The product is not scalable. We have around 15-20 users for the product. My…

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"So when I take a note, I have the ability to highlight text and have it transform into a specific part of the note as a task."

"The most interesting feature is the ability to share what you are working on with an external entity. The customer has direct visibility on what is being done on a particular project and this provides a lot of transparency."

"It gives reminders for important project dates and when a particular task is about to close."

"The simplicity of the tool is valuable because it has categories and subcategories."

"ClickUp offers a relatively user-friendly experience, especially when it comes to its fundamental features."

"It is a scalable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten."

"The product has an efficient design."

"We found it very simple and intuitive to use...The initial setup is straightforward."

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"Has good visibility."

"The solution's time-tracking abilities are one of the strong points. The only challenge is enabling it to the minute-level task. It's not at a project level but it's at an organization level. If I want it to be at a higher level as compared to some of the other projects where I want it to go to the nth level of a task for the time reporting, I cannot control it at a project level but it's controllable at an organization level. That's the only big challenge that I have."

"The most valuable feature of this solution is that my team can use one tool that's reliable, scalable, and provides the leadership team visibility to what's going on."

"I've worked at many different companies, and the customer service and the support from Daptiv are unlike anything I've encountered before. They far excel any other company I've worked with. I always say to people that Daptiv is like a sub-department in your company. You don't realize they're a vendor. It feels like you're working with somebody who is part of your own company."

"PPM Pro is really great at the portfolio level like seeing what projects are in flight versus complete, or maybe not started. The portfolio level view is good for stage-gate management specifically."

"Time tracking, portfolio management reporting, and what-if analysis create visibility into project planning, resource capacity, and demand planning."

"The dashboards are one of the most valuable aspects of this solution, although, we've only developed a few that anyone's using. There is more maturity there and, of course, we're a month and a half into this, but getting our executive leadership to see these things is half the battle. I think dashboards are going to be critical."

"The product's deployment is straightforward."

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Cons

"ClickUp doesn't have a roadmap vision and a proper way of planning."

"It would be good if the solution facilitated voice calls or an option to chat directly with a person on ClickUp."

"The product is not user-friendly."

"The cloud-based solution can get bugs in it occasionally, causing latency and loading issues."

"The tool is not user-friendly."

"There is a need for significant improvement in the user interface to make it more intuitive and less time-consuming to become familiar with."

"ClickUp's interface needs improvement."

"I would love to see ClickUp integrated with more tools, possibly like Microsoft Loop."

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"The calculated field area needs improvement. There are a lot of formulas and functions available to make a calculated field, but it is still not comprehensive. We process the data to represent it through a report or dashboard. Due to the current constraints, for complex calculations, we do the data processing outside PPM Pro."

"Connecting funding and strategic outcomes with work execution is a challenge right now for us. Part of what we are facing is we have a couple of drivers of where projects are coming from. One of them is our innovation group. They are just sort of tangentially using PPM Pro for recording the status of projects and not really planning them within there. We need a stronger link between our current financial reporting system and Planview PPM Pro, so we can start to more easily record our external costs in the tool."

"We don't use their existing dashboard functionality. Hopefully, with the new reporting release that is coming out in November, we will be able to evaluate as to how we can leverage that. What I hear, "Everyone has either a Tableau or something else because Planview doesn't provide a dashboard." We should not need to use another tool. Planview has the data, so it should be able to give us what we want. This would also reduce costs since we are paying licenses for those tools too."

"The resource management tab is clunky, inefficient, and slow. And from a portfolio manager perspective, it would be nice if there were an easier way to view enterprise-wide resourcing to manage my team more effectively."

"Based on my experience, the financial management screens have gone a long way, but I think there's still some room for improvement in terms of how you model them and the different version controls."

"We found that sometimes when they have monthly rollouts that there might be some unintended consequences."

"There should be the ability to store historical functions, but this is not just for this tool. It is applicable to many tools. It would be great if we were able to store specific historical data, such as risk management."

"Integrating with other tools should be easier and more straightforward."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"ClickUp’s pricing is better than Jira Align’s."

"It's very affordable."

"The price of ClickUp is reasonable. The price is approximately eight dollars per month per person."

"The product is expensive."

"I use the free version."

"ClickUp is affordable."

"This solution costs $20 per user per month. If you have 20 users, you would pay $400 per month. There are no hidden fees that we are aware of."

"The product’s cost is high."

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"The pricing for me is more about understanding your own needs in the company because it is one license for one person model. So, you have to really understand how many licenses you need and what may be the influx of your staff. The good thing about Daptiv is that we just need a quick telephone call to our customer success manager if we want to increase our licensing. It takes a day or two to do. So, we can upscale very quickly. We've never downscaled, but I'm guessing if we had to, we'd have to wait till the contract completes or renegotiate a different licensing cost. So, you definitely need to understand what different types of licenses provide from a functionality point of view, and then order 10% more than you need based on the influx of staff in the company. There are costs in addition to the standard licensing fees. We have the report functionality for which we pay separately for 10 hours per month."

"A collaboration of all their tools truly gets the biggest bang for the buck."

"Because we have PPM Pro with Project place, we transitioned to the Flex model."

"The cost was in line."

"We have their Flex plan."

"Bulk volume discounts are a little better. Right now we have to buy in lots of 20 at $200 a license. That's a little steep. For example, with Service Now, I pay $48 a seat for a license."

"$6 million has been the return on investment so far, and that was because of work intake. Now that we are scrutinizing the work intake and asking questions like, "Is there an alternative to your $10 million project?" We had one project come in for $10 million, scrutinize it through our gate review process, and wound up with the alternative, which was $3.8 million. So, a $6 million savings."

"My advice is to pay attention to integration opportunities to reduce your licensing cost with Planview. There are additional costs for consulting services and advanced customer support."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Healthcare Company

13%

Financial Services Firm

University

Financial Services Firm

13%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Healthcare Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about ClickUp?

Everything in one place is the biggest benefit. I also like the diagramming tools, where you can create DFDs, structure charts, and more. That makes things easier.

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for ClickUp?

I rate the pricing a five out of ten. ClickUp is affordable. We pay a yearly fee.

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What needs improvement with ClickUp?

They should explain better how costs and licensing are distributed. They auto take money from the credit card without notification for a while.

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What do you like most about Planview PPM Pro?

The product's deployment is straightforward.

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What needs improvement with Planview PPM Pro?

The product feels like a toy. The tool needs to improve its roadmap. It needs to improve things on a project management level which includes communication as well.

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What advice do you have for others considering Planview PPM Pro?

I would rate the solution a four out of ten.

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Overview

Plan, track, and manage any type of work with project management that flexes to your team's needs. Work smarter as a team with real-time chat. Tag individuals or groups, assign comments for action items, and link tasks to get more done together. Stay on track to hit your goals with targets for task completions, numbers, monetary values and more. Track progress in real-time connecting tasks to goals and keep your objectives organized with Goal Folders. Tackle work from any angle with 20+ real-time views that adapt to your needs. Track tasks on List, update workflows on a Board, drag-and-drop due dates on a Calendar, and so much more.

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Planview PPM Pro centralizes the management of resources and projects while facilitating governance and providing visibility for improved decision making. Planview PPM Pro provides the ability to collect, prioritize, and execute projects so that PMOs can focus their resources on the work that delivers the most value.

Planview PPM Pro helps businesses get out of managing projects in complex spreadsheets or tools so they can gain visibility into all work and resources. For informed decision making, use Planview PPM pro to streamline project efforts into a single source of truth. The solution gives businesses the ability to align their centralized project portfolio to achieve business outcomes through financials, projects, and resources.

Planview PPM Pro Features

Planview PPM Pro has many valuable key features. Some of the most useful ones include:

Portfolio planning: Select the right projects that bring the most value to the business.
Reporting and dashboards: For better decisions, measure, manage, track, and report on all work.
Manage demands and plan resource capacity: Evaluate and make trade-off decisions based on available resources. Manage work requests in one place.
Manage resources: Ensure resources are working on the most important projects and understand resource capacity to appropriately staff those projects.
Manage portfolios and financial planning: Manage tasks and resources, project schedules, and the financials to deliver on time and on budget.
Scoring: Gather scores from across the organization throughout the project lifecycle to prioritize the highest value work and requests.
Planview FLEX: Use Lean-Agile and collaborative tools to help teams deliver their best work.
Centralized portfolio: Get visibility into all work, streamlining projects into a single source of truth. This establishes governance and improves overall delivery.
Predictive portfolio analysis: Identify the optimal mix of projects to predict, plan, and re-plan a balanced portfolio of resources and projects. Optimize delivery, increase agility, and save time and money.
Top-down portfolio planning: Create as many portfolios as needed to drive business alignment. Organize projects in portfolios, or contribute varying amounts across multiple portfolios.

Planview PPM Pro Benefits

There are many benefits to implementing Planview PPM Pro. Some of the biggest advantages the solution offers include:

Ability to prioritize project portfolios with top-down planning.

Increased confidence in knowing what resources are working on what projects. You can proactively allocate resources and improve delivery across your entire project portfolio.

Deliver on time and on budget to focus on your highest impact work. Align your projects with your goals.

Dashboards and reporting visibility give you power to accelerate PPM time-to-value for the business.

Ability to empower teams with FLEX because today’s enterprise is embracing a combination of work approaches to increase the success rate of strategic delivery.

Integrate your core applications seamlessly.

Reviews from Real Users

Planview PPM Pro stands out among its competitors for a number of reasons. Some of these include its exceptional customer service, its easy customization, and its real-time dashboards. PeerSpot users take note of the advantages of these features in their reviews:

Jai A., IT Project Manager at Orange Business Services, notes, “For every project, we have to establish timelines, set deadlines, and estimate the completion date of a particular task. PPM Pro notifies us if we are approaching the deadlines, and we can customize this to give notice two or three days in advance.”

Prateek A., a Manager at NISG, writes, “It helps you visualize all your strategic plans and the KPIs. It provides that information on a unified dashboard, in which you can track all your resources and the portfolios. It helps senior stakeholders and executives with clear reporting about project intake and demands, in real time."

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The Weather Channel, corcs, Crayola, Scan Health Plan, Vermont, Bank of the West, North West Company, University of Southern Mississippi, Jeffries, Purdue University, Chesterfield County Virginia, City of Memphis

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