Airtable vs Nuclino

Airtable

It's VERY easy to use and VERY powerful. Honestly feels like a big leap in productivity tools. Airtable just feels like magic and seems to address many of the weaknesses of other great tools all at once. I have started to use it across all of Operation Fistula's work, but also across my client's work too!

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Seth Cochran

Founder & CEO

Operation FistulaNon-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees

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Nuclino

Nuclino is a great choice for a small team where you need something cheap/free and you do not require a lot of fancy plug-ins or formatting. In fact, it's superior to Confluence in some regards due to its simplicity. I was able to get my team excited about documenting because it was "easy" and didn't require my training them on how to embed various plugins. Due to this simplicity, the larger your documentation becomes it became trickier to edit, as scrolling can be difficult and also the ability to export resulted in bugs (you get a 500 servlet error if I recall). So keep your pages smaller and you shouldn't run into this issue.

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Newspapers Company, 201-500 employees

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Feature Rating Comparison

Airtable

8.0

Nuclino

6.0

Task Management

8.2

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Resource Management

9.0

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Gantt Charts

7.4

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Scheduling

8.2

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Workflow Automation

7.7

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Team Collaboration

8.8

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Support for Agile Methodology

7.9

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Support for Waterfall Methodology

7.7

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Document Management

7.6

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Email integration

7.2

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Mobile Access

7.7

4.0

Timesheet Tracking

8.0

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Change request and Case Management

8.0

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Budget and Expense Management

8.2

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Search

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8.0

Airtable

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Nuclino

7.0

Notifications

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8.0

Discussions

—

4.0

Internal knowledgebase

—

9.0

Airtable

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Nuclino

7.3

Versioning

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5.0

Document collaboration

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10.0

Access control

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7.0

Advanced security features

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7.0

Pros

Airtable is easy to use. It has an intuitive interface and plenty of video/help support for what is not.
It makes not only organizing your data efficient, but connects that data to everyone on your team in one centralized database. I love that multiple people can be editing the same records at the same time, and Airtable captures it all in real time!
Easy to link data between tables. This makes a lot of information available to users with just a few keystrokes - which makes the frustration of hunting down information a thing of the past.
Really appreciate being able to use Zapier to connect Airtable to several of our other systems that house data - MailChimp, SurveyMonkey, Quickbooks to name a few.
Being able to change the data views is one of the bigger fan favorites on our team, whether it is in Grid, Gallery, or Kanban, to grouping and sorting by Field Type. There is something for everyone's needs there.

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Sherry Raeder

Client Experience Manager

InnerWill Leadership InstituteNon-Profit Organization Management, 1-10 employees

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Clean simple interface where users can onboard quickly and get to documenting - no "plugins" that the user has to learn to use.
Great structuring method which shows on the left-hand side allowing the user to drag-n-drop items in the hierarchy where they are needed quickly.
Ability to view history to see changes and export content into word and PDF formats.
Great search interface that quickly shows the results using auto-complete in keeping with the clean interface.

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Newspapers Company, 201-500 employees

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Cons

I have the same three people on several teams as a way to break up the bases. It's a lot to have one team with 20 bases, so we break them up into much smaller groups. Then when it comes to paying, I have to add them all back into the one paid group or I'm double, triple paying for the same people. Very frustrating to not have sub-folders or sub-categories within each team.

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Jayme Kreitinger

Executive Director

College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS)Higher Education, 1-10 employees

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The product could use more formatting ability to control what content looks like; currently you cannot set text to different text color.
You cannot control the width of the content, which makes it difficult to embed large content such as tables.
Tables are not responsive; instead they scroll as if within an iframe and this makes export problematic.

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Likelihood to Renew

Airtable9.1

Based on 1 answer

compared to other products it is just fabulous.

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Andrej Vrsansky

Manager

Buddy NGO - connecting orphans with volunteersCivic & Social Organization, 11-50 employees

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Usability

Airtable9.0

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It's not perfect but it is really easy to use and I think most slightly technical people will pick it up quite quickly.

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Malcolm Colman-Shearer

Co Founder

Optimi LtdInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Support

Airtable7.3

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Sometimes, I have to wait a bit longer but I'm on a low priced option so I understand why. Generally, they're able to provide me solutions to my problems as long as I'm not in a rush.

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Malcolm Colman-Shearer

Co Founder

Optimi LtdInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees

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Alternatives Considered

Airtable is a modern data management tool. It doesn't bring in baggage from when technology was restricted to your local hard drive like other spreadsheet and database software. I don't have to deal with version control or 100 different files...and then figure out how to share them...while making sure they were editable but not corruptible.

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Liza Ray

Education & Outreach Specialist

Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research CenterResearch, 1001-5000 employees

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Nuclino is the clear winner when it comes to ease of use for both the administrator and user. Less setup time and less "training" time. The streamlined interface is quick and intuitive to learn and is not cluttered as compared to Confluence. Every tool you need to use to create a page or administer the workspace is available immediately on screen or by right-clicking. In contrast, Confluence buries many tools in administrative interfaces and only allows use of some features once you make several clicks to include a "macro" or "plug-in". We use both tools and I get complaints constantly from my team about how complicated Confluence can get just to author a quick page.

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Return on Investment

I can't provide tangible ROI at this time

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Brad Johns

Executive Director: Fabrication + Instructional Resources

School of the Art Institute of ChicagoHigher Education, 1001-5000 employees

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Having a central documentation allowed users to find data more quickly, which resulted in 50% less "question" type bugs that would appear in our queue.
Collaborating documentation before development resulted in less bugs; this is part process but the ease of sharing and making related documentation easy to access encouraged users into adapting the process.
Increased use in documentation allows support response time to be higher for triage since supporting documentation is ready to go.

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