monday.com Reviews

We use the solution for project management across the web team specifically responsible for desktop, tablet, and mobile design. Our team used this platform for planning projects, discussing blocks, and triggering the next steps for teams outside of the platform. 

We moved on from Monday.com only for the reason that there was a proprietary project management tool already taking over the company and since we weren't a part of it we were missing out on visibility to stakeholders. We switched over recently to Workfront in order to maintain that visibility.

It allowed us to gain line of sight and start to ask ourselves questions revolving around project management, time on tasks, and the processes that we weren't asking previously. 

It gave us the platform to start to combat burnout and increase communication across teams that were difficult to reach in a more automative and efficient way. Ultimately, Monday.com gave everyone on the team a workspace to get their work done. It was also a home base for all things work where they could see today, tomorrow, and forever if they wanted. 

We really enjoyed the sub-items feature, sharing GIFs, and templates. 

The templates helped me to kick off process solutions for our team. 

The sub-items helped me to incorporate the smaller tasks to get the job done down and visible for management and planing purposes.

For a team where management is still learning the nuances of our work, time tracking the small steps are so important in planning and evangelizing the work.

The GIF sharing helped reinforce a sense of culture and camaraderie amongst our team.

We built so many dashboards and information utilizing templates and came into a few errors where information and ways of working with Monday.com were not as expected. 

Monday markets itself as a project management tool that is flexible to work the way you want. That said, it has more limitations than we expected. It is fine, however, at the end of the day, they need to share more about how to use the platform videos rather than telling us to go off on our own and create something that doesn't ultimately work. That was frustrating and hard to explain where my hours went to management. 

I've used the solution for two years.

We are now using Workfront. We were using both platforms for a little while. 

We did not evaluate the other solutions previously.

Monday.com is my main organizer for all my video production projects, film distribution projects, future project research, and brainstorming sandboxes. I sometimes use it for social media management as well. It's great for intern management and task liability/tracking.   

I'm also currently using it to review an opening animation for a TV series I'm directing/editing. It's great due to the fact that the Illustrator and I can comment on individual shots and portions of the sequence all separately but under one umbrella as well. It would be a nightmare doing it via email and such.

I first got it to keep track of the equivalent of sales leads, which in the film distribution world was keeping track of each company, org, person, etc. who wanted to purchase a group/community screening. Tracking what point in the process we were, keeping track of each step of communication via email ports, facilitating what stage in the process, etc. 

Now, it's expanded 5X in other areas. 

Integration with things like Gmail makes tracking leads of possible screening organizations and our communications so much more streamlined.

Creating super-smart to-do lists, intern management, and sales leads lists has been huge. Organizing all the brainstorming and pre-production aspects of a proposed or actual new project, web design stuff for my nonprofit, and film festival entrances (the list goes on) is easy. All of the individual features, integrations, automations, and customization makes it amazing. It also helps keep things organized much better for my team members as well across a variety of different production-related tasks.

The only thing I'd adjust is this little tiny user interface thing. And that's if I'm being super nitpicky. As far as I know, when I make a new entry on a Board, and I'm putting in the first piece of information, you can't just hit return or tab to the next element. It clicks off on the screen somewhere and clicks back. i.e. Enter Name, but then you finish, and if the next option is Status of Conversation you have to click off and then click it to edit it. 

I've been using the solution for two years and running!

I've never had any technical issues whatsoever.

It scales as broadly as needed.

I haven't needed much experience with support, however, when I do need them, it's timely.

Positive

I tried Asana and didn't like it. I use Google Drive for a lot of things (storage of video, image assets, and file management), however, there was a gap missing that Monday makes a lot easier.

They have a library of training videos and offer free phone/web consultations, as well as webinars. That's plenty for me.

I set it up in-house.

I'd advise others to look at the options and see what works for you. That's personal to your projects, budget, etc.

I looked into Asana. I tried one other one, however, I can't remember which. I have some other tools I integrate with it like Hootsuite and Squarespace.

I'm not sure what I'd do without Monday.com at this point.

I work as a website developer. That includes client-based work. Monday makes it easier for a client-facing team to get information from the client and put it somewhere we can all see it. 

It's then easy for them to assign me to a task where I can provide constant updates to the client's team on the progress of the task. I can also use it for scoping out new website builds, laying out each task I'd need to complete for the overall project, and providing time estimates for each individual task I've created. 

The main improvement Monday has provided is keeping all of the tasks across our boards organized and up to date. By using Monday I can easily see what work needs to be completed still, what work still needs a time estimate and what work needs feedback on it.

It allows our organization to easily keep all information about a single task in one place, and allows us to easily bring in other team members where necessary who can see a full history of the ongoing task so they are fully up to date on it's progress.

I really enjoy all the additional columns you can add to your Monday pulses to cater to what information you need. For example, in my line of work, I do a lot of time scoping and estimating how long a job will take me. By using a column to put in estimates it's easily visible and speeds up my workflow when scoping out loads of tasks for a new project. 

I also like how easy it is to assign different people to the pulses. It allows me to easily look at a board and spot my profile icon to know which pulses I should be looking at. 

I would enjoy my own personal board on Monday that only I can see. This board could then populate with all the tasks I've been assigned across every board on Monday so that it's all in one place and I'm not constantly switching between different boards for all my assigned tasks. 

I'd also love improvements to the notification and inbox section of Monday, as I find if my notifications or inbox ever start to fill up from lots of tagging there's no easy solution to mass clear these and I instead have to individually click through each one. 

I've used the solution for one year.

I've had problems over the year where Monday has gone offline and wouldn't load, or wouldn't let me upload images to my pulses. 

It's really good for my line of work where you have many different clients. It allows us to split them into their own boards and stay organized. 

I've never had to contact customer service.

Positive

This was the only platform I've used.

The initial setup is straightforward. 

I'm not sure if an outside vendor was used. 

I'm unsure of my ROI. 

This isn't something I directly deal with.

This was the platform my company chose.

The solution is used for managing tasks for educational courses to ensure the delivery of the courses for course delivery and examinations. This includes updating course materials, preparing exam papers, and keeping track of academic malpractice schedules. 

It's also used for giving time-frames for working on course manuals and preparing these with authors and design services to ensure these a prepared annually ready for the beginning of a sitting.

Courses in general have a lot of information held within a board so that each sitting is monitored. 

Boards are also used for other company projects to help keep track of tasks and work collaboratively with other teams. 

Monday.com has enabled the department to create boards that help keep the tasks for each sitting and each course in one place and on track. Tasks can be allocated and it makes inter-department co-operation much easier for projects. Adding in comments and tagging them means they will receive your note. 

Managers can keep track of people's workload and support or split tasks within the team to ensure that work is balanced. 

It is visually a really nice platform compared to some other project management tools, which makes it much easier to work with.  

Being able to see 'my work' at a glance in the "My Work" section allows me to see what tasks are coming up and which ones are in progress. 

Being able to duplicate boards from sitting to sitting and also being able to upload .csv files for tasks is great. 

Creating a baseline so I can see when tasks in a project should have been completed as opposed to when they are completed helps a lot. This allows me to see where delays occur in the project and change the amount of time given to reflect more accurately the realistic time frame of each task for next time. 

The Gantt chart also gives a really good visual guide to the workload at different points in the project. 

For tasks that have a time frame, they should make it optional as to when they appear in 'My work' - as in, not just the end date of the timeframe. I'd also like to see the beginning. 

When duplicating boards it would be useful if Moday.com could have the option to auto-populate the dates for the following year, as education courses run in cycles, with dates for tasks due being quite similar, year on year. This would then just leave a few date tweaks rather than having to change all the dates for each of the tasks. 

They should make it possible in the inbox to select all inbox updates and mark them as read. 

I've used the product for over a year.

The solution has not let us down. It's stable. 

This is a very scalable solution.

Customer service and support are very responsive.

Positive

I did not use a different product beforehand.

The initial setup is straightforward yet time-consuming.

The solution was implemented in-house

The solution offers very good value for money.

I did not look into other options.

Monday.com is used in multiple areas, from being a CRM that I use for influencers, reaching out to new ones, and keeping in touch with long-term influencers. It's also a great to-do list for all my tasks.

It's used for content calendars and approvals. It's easy to leave specific comments on specific posts and how to change them. This way there is no need to go back and forth on chat.

Monday.com allows me to get rid of all the mundane repetitive tasks on the daily. Things like writing a whole new email to an influencer even though I only need to change parts of it. I can use Monday.com to create a customizable email template and send it to as many influencers and as much customizability as I require.

It's also great for keeping track of tasks. Having 20-30-40 tasks and keeping track of all is not easy, the easy drag and drop on Monday allows me to prioritize and work on tasks as needed.

Automation is by far the most valuable tool ever. By automating things I save enough time to make Monday.com worth every dollar without accounting for the rest of the features.

As mentioned earlier, I've almost fully automated every repetitive task that I needed to work on day in and day out. By doing this, I've freed up my time and brain to work on tasks that actually make a difference. I like the notifications, file sharing, and most recently, the mirroring and linking of multiple boards.

I love the email automation and it's great, however, there is something that is still missing. We need to have conversations within the platform. If it's possible to filter certain emails and bring them all into one Monday.com task and have a full conversation with that person through Monday, that would be ideal. It would save me hours of time trying to find old emails, referencing them, and getting information out of them.

I'd like Google Drive integration where I don't have to leave Monday.com to look and search on my drive. Quickly linking to files, creating new folders, etc. would be fantastic

I've used this product now for two years. 

I work in the affiliate marketing industry, where we have numerous content blogs as well as other promotional models. Monday.com has helped us greatly in the organization and flow of our processes. It allows us to visualize the information in different ways, and therefore have a clear and established process of what needs to be done for each item. It also facilitates the organization and prioritization of our daily and weekly activities. Likewise, I use it to organize my projects and to have a clear and previously established process.

Monday has made our task overview much easier. It allows us to place our key actions for the day or week, and visualize those activities in different ways. It also lets our superiors know what we are working on, or if we have any specific blocks.

Finally, it has allowed us to establish clear processes for each specific task that is carried out within the company, and thus optimize our time. For example, it allows us to organize our work and personal projects, establishing the perfect order of each activity and its level of priority.

The most important feature is to be able to import items from Excel and place them in a Monday file. It allows us to drag primary information and establish clear processes of how each item is going to be attacked. It also allows us to add owners so that each person knows which item corresponds to them and can complete their activities accordingly. 

Another very important feature is the placement of dates. It allows us to know in advance when each part of the project would be finished, and thus optimize our time.

One feature that would certainly improve on Monday is the fact that each group of a board has the same columns. I would find it interesting to put the option of each group having different columns. For instance, a group of data from the final step of a process should have more columns than the previous ones, referring to final activities that correspond to the end of a process. Another aspect of Monday that I'm not such a fan of is the infinite scroll to the right. Other alternatives could be evaluated to improve this.

I have been using Monday.com for about two years now.

Previously we were using Excel for our organization, but we realized that it was not the optimal tool to organize processes in which many employees had to fulfil a part of the process. For this reason, we decided to use Monday's tool and it has worked great for us.

The integration with other applications is very easy and I have not had any problems in almost two years of use.

We evaluated the option of using ClickUp. We decided to stick with Monday as it offered us a more competitive price and the features are quite similar.

Monday is an excellent tool. I highly recommend it.

We are a small church with two full-time employees and two part-time employees. We use Monday.com to plan everything from weekend gatherings to major community events. This includes every aspect of a weekend gathering or service including, graphic presentations, bulletins, music, the message, who is on security, children's ministry details, etc. 

We usually plan each quarter ahead of time, which helps us mark major events and holidays. Using color, we are able to highlight special occasions with ease. 

Monday.com keeps us all on the same page especially when we aren't all in the office at the same time. 

It has reduced inter-office emails, texts, and phone calls significantly and reduced in-person meeting times by half. From minor details to major issues that need a running thread for staff discussion, Monday.com provides a one-stop location to house all of our thoughts, plans, and discussions. 

It is as easy to use as Facebook yet with more complex options if you want to take the time to learn how to use them. 

There are many incredible features, however, the ability to tag each other in comments, mark out progress, and get alerts through the app keeps us moving forward. As soon as someone has finished their part of a project, all members are alerted, and the next person can continue on. This also helps us see if there is a problem or if someone is falling behind so we can get the extra help if necessary. 

We often post on Monday.com instead of sending emails that may or may not get lost in the shuffle. Monday.com is the best way we have found to work smarter and not harder.

We are very happy with the current state of the product. 

It would be helpful if there were a little more flexibility with user numbers and the ability to add guests for a period of time. For instance, if we are doing a major event that requires a dozen volunteers, it would be wonderful if there were some cost-effective way to give them all access to one particular board for a period of time. I understand this may not work with the business model, however, being able to allow people temporary access to a single board or even the ability to simply view a board and get alerts without breaking the bank would be icing on the cake. 

Our office has been using Monday.com for well over a year now and we could not be happier. 

Whether we are using it online via a web browser or the mobile app on our office phones and tablets, Monday.com’s stability is rock solid. We have had no data loss, crashes, or team miscommunications due to delayed web/app updates. At any time or place our team is able to access all of our shared information so we can make quick decisions. We couldn’t be happier with Monday.com’s performance.

We are a small office, however, I believe that Monday.com can be effectively scaled to fit any organization. 

We have not had to contact customer support for any reason. 

Positive

For a time, we used Trello. It did not go well.

I learned the basics and then taught the others over the course of a week. We created a test board to go along with a project we were already working on using our then current method and Monday.com. By the end of the week, we had completely transitioned.

We handled the setup in-house.

Monday.com paid for itself immediately by allowing us to be more productive and less frustrated. 

It does take a little time and money to get started, however, it is completely worth it in the end. You may have to remind people to use Monday.com rather than the old system to get them in the habit. 

We did our research, however, after a short test run, Monday.com won hands down. 

We seriously love using Monday.com.

At the communication office, we use it to manage all our topics, including what topics we have to make, Facebook ads, our social media schedule, project management, and so on. 

We are a team of 30 people working in communications for a city. We have one folder for each team and we can interact without emails about every single subject we have. We also share all our documents on Monday: communication plans, reporting, data, and so on. We manage the city newspaper on Monday as well, including who will do what, when, about what, etc.

It reduces the number of emails we exchange. It also permits us to keep an eye on what our colleagues do in a global way. For example (the example of my service), we can follow the evolution of a task to know when we will receive a final document. 

In terms of social media, we have one board. On this board, we have one item by post and we can skip to a calendar view, which is very useful. On top of that, we can also exchange with our colleagues' pieces of information, links, and pictures we need to create social media posts. All the solutions we had before are now in one platform.

The most valuable aspect of the solution is the fact that we can make the tool as we want, in the way it is the most useful for us. This customization is a strength. It adapts to everyone. For example, for social media, we need a calendar and now we have one. For the magazine, we need a big table and now we have one. 

It's also true for each single person. We have group tables yet we also can create one only for one person. It makes it easier to manage the orgzanization of the tasks we have to manage, with deadlines, documents, reminders, links, pictures, etc.

In terms of synchronization, maybe some tools can be more synchronized. For example, with Facebook Ads, we can ad campaigns and still, everything is not synchronized and is not as useful as the Facebook ads tool if we want to make reports. 

Also maybe it could be useful to make a better connection between tables. When we write something in one item, it doesn't synchronize with the one linked in another board. 

It could be interesting to have Microsoft Teams tools and also Outlook email on it and more integrated.

I've used the solution for more than a year.

It could be improved in terms of stability. We often have problems with bugs and slow service. 
- The website could be slow and nothing is loading although we refresh and clean the browser cache

- We write comments, change status or other content and when we refresh, nothing appears. So we have to try many times before it’s ok.

- The time zone change although we didn’t change it in parameters.

- To download a zip file from “folders”, sometimes it’s charging but nothing happens 

There is often scalability, which is a good thing.

I'd prefer to have online support in French. 

Neutral

We used to use Trello. It was not as useful as Monday. We switched as the service decided to. We adapted our way to work to fit with Monday.

It's quite complex to set up, however, honestly, if each employee takes half a day to test and try everything, then it's quite easy to use. 

I did not evaluate ROI due to the fact that we do not sell products.

I don't manage the license. 

It's a powerful and easy tool to work with in teams in order to centralize and reduce email.

I was not part of the decision-making team! 

It could be interesting to integrate a publication tool for social media.