Microsoft Planner vs. monday.com

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Microsoft Planner
Score 7.2 out of 10
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Microsoft Planner is presented as a solution to organize teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management. With it, users can create Kanban boards using task cards with files, checklists, and labels. Users can collaborate in Planner and Microsoft Teams and check visual status charts—all in the Microsoft cloud.N/A
monday.com
Score 8.4 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.
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Pricing
Microsoft Plannermonday.com
Editions & Modules
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Enterprise
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Basic
$9
per user
Standard
$12
per user
Pro
$19
per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Plannermonday.com
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsYearly plan: Save 18% Monthly plan also available
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Microsoft Plannermonday.com
Considered Both Products
Microsoft Planner

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monday.com
Chose monday.com
monday.com is a much better tool for keeping track of tasks and assignments than MS Planner. In most situations where we used MS Planner we have switched to using monday.com instead.
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Features
Microsoft Plannermonday.com
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Planner
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Ratings
monday.com
8.1
2220 Ratings
8% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.92206 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings8.31884 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.81288 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings8.31844 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.41920 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings9.22164 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.11148 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings7.61786 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings7.91595 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings7.81767 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.51036 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.01148 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.91022 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Microsoft Planner
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Ratings
monday.com
7.4
999 Ratings
0% above category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings7.7669 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings7.5883 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.1498 Ratings
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User Ratings
Microsoft Plannermonday.com
Likelihood to Recommend
7.1
(16 ratings)
8.7
(2225 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
3.0
(1 ratings)
9.0
(31 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(2153 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(8 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
8.5
(8 ratings)
Support Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1879 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
9.1
(4 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
8.9
(7 ratings)
Configurability
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(6 ratings)
Ease of integration
-
(0 ratings)
8.6
(6 ratings)
Product Scalability
-
(0 ratings)
7.2
(8 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
8.7
(6 ratings)
User Testimonials
Microsoft Plannermonday.com
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
I think Planner is a good platform for manage projects especially if I think that is integrated in MS Teams so, with a unique platform you can have the control about the project, about all the documents linked to the same project and at the same time, with the possibility to chat with other team members without change platform. I think also there are other platform (like Jira or Trello) which are better in terms of layout
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monday.com
Here, I will suggest that it is best to create employees, clients, or project reports. Easy to track with the dashboards. I did many integrations and developments. I can not list each of them here. I will say the best tool for management. I couldn't see criteria of unsuitable. But yes It will depend on the client's requirements. I will suggest it as very user-friendly tool for CEOs, CTOs, Managers, and company owners also for team.
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Add as many plans as you want
  • Keeps tasks organized via Buckets into each plan
  • Ability to create a plan directly within Teams via the Tasks app
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monday.com
  • Set stages for each task and assign people to those stages to move projects along
  • Set up automated tasks to get assigned to people and to send out notifications to Slack as well as emails to contractors to work on a project
  • Create multiple boards for projects and the ability to review tasks by date to make sure no project slips through the cracks
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Cons
Microsoft
  • Would be nice to see a calendar view instead of a list view
  • Permissions aren't configurable, anyone can delete any task at any time and there is no recycle bin
  • Notifications aren't great, you have to be attached as an owner to a task to see comments and be notified of changes, and even then notifications aren't shown for a lot of things
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monday.com
  • Ensuring I have set up a Private board vs public board is not clear - it would be useful to have an additional alert when creating a board as I work with sensitive information. It will eventually be used in a team based environment but while I test the boards, they needs to be private.
  • Time tracking is clumsy, could be easier to record
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Likelihood to Renew
Microsoft
It's not up to me, but if it were, I would not recommend using this. It is another work productivity app, which, while it has its benefits, can actually detract instead of enhance work productivity.
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monday.com
Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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Usability
Microsoft
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monday.com
It's straightforward to use and simple to understand. They have tutorials on different elements of the system that you can learn. The workflow there is very intuitive, drag and drop, which doesn't require a learning curve for most people. Templates that also make things more accessible can be found.
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Reliability and Availability
Microsoft
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monday.com
There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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Performance
Microsoft
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monday.com
Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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Support Rating
Microsoft
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monday.com
monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread.
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Online Training
Microsoft
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monday.com
To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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Implementation Rating
Microsoft
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monday.com
We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
Many areas of the company still use Trello to organize their activities and tasks, but gradually Microsoft Planner must replace the activities. Users are often "attached" to familiar technologies, but Office 365 takes advantage of the more organized use of the tools. This year we will not renew the Trello contract.
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monday.com
We have converted using spreadsheets over to Monday and so far everything is going well. Things are more organized and you don't have to worry about bookmarking a bunch of Excel pages. Everything is in one place and easy to access for the whole team.
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Scalability
Microsoft
No answers on this topic
monday.com
For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • It definitely have a positive impact in terms of ROI. as it is a part of Microsoft Suite so no need to put extra for its integration with teams or office
  • It also allows communication/chatting between team on any task and things can be clear on the spot in a timely manner
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monday.com
  • >25% of our org is using monday.com to build Boards & projects. Only 5% used our prior Work Management System.
  • 100% of project communication is kept within monday.com. Which means we don't have to search Slack, Email, or other places to find a message.
  • 100% of our project files are kept or linked with monday.com. So, we don't have to find missing files in other locations.
  • monday.com integrates with Salesforce, so we don't have to manually duplicate data
  • 3rd-Party solutions are linking to our monday.com data and producing reports as humans read reports.
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