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    Chanty

    Score8 out of 10
    N/AChanty is a simple and fast team chat app that helps teams of all business segments work more productively. Chanty helps the user easily get in touch with colleagues in private, public, group and one-on-one conversations. Chanty's Teambook menu allows keeps all messages, files, links and tasks in order. Third-party apps help teh user achieve a new level of productivity with Chanty. Integrations turn a team…N/A

    Freehand by InVision

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AFreehand, from InVision headquartered in New York, is an online whiteboard that enables teams to plan, brainstorm, and draw together. It aims to give everyone a simple way to visually represent ideas with charts, diagrams, and drawings. Whether for mind mapping, creating a customer journey map, or drafting up an org chart, Freehand can help teams make ideas and plans visual.

    $4

    per month per user

    Pricing
    ChantyFreehand by InVision
    Editions & Modules
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    Freehand Free
    $0
    per year per user
    Freehand Pro
    $4
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    ChantyFreehand by InVision
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup Fee$3 per user, per monthNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsChanty Free plan is for teams with up to 10 members. Chanty Business plan, starts at $3 per user, per month and delivers additional features and unlimited members.—
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    Community Pulse
    ChantyFreehand by InVision
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    Chanty
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    InVisionApp Inc.
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    Would buy again
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    88%
    Would buy again
    90 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
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    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    87%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    97%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    98%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ChantyFreehand by InVision
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Chanty and Freehand by InVision
    Feature
    Chanty
    8.5
    2 Ratings
    9% above category average
    Freehand by InVision
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    Task Management9.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Search8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Communication
    Comparison of Communication features of Chanty and Freehand by InVision
    Feature
    Chanty
    9.3
    2 Ratings
    15% above category average
    Freehand by InVision
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    Chat10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Notifications10.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Discussions8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Internal knowledgebase9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    File Sharing & Management
    Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Chanty and Freehand by InVision
    Feature
    Chanty
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    11% above category average
    Freehand by InVision
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    Video files9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Audio files10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integrates with Google Drive8.01 Ratings00 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    ChantyFreehand by InVision
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.9
    (102 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    7.5
    (16 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    Performance
    -
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    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    7.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
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    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
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    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
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    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
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    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    Professional Services
    -
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    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
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    9.1
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    Vendor pre-sale
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    9.1
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    User Testimonials
    ChantyFreehand by InVision
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Chanty
    There are endless tools similar to Chanty, I don't know if they are better or worse, so far we have tested this platform and it is really comfortable to use, it fits exactly what we need for our work and I can recommend it if you are looking for something simple to use without so many complications.
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    InVisionApp Inc.
    InVision Freehand has quickly evolved to be a very robust solution for our pre-design process and collaboration with stakeholders and other product teams. It has brought a lot more hands-on workshopping opportunities and created engaging spaces for cross functional teams. Internally to our design org we are able to prototype ideas faster and generate insights or changes BEFORE going into more hi-fidelity design tools or processes.
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    Pros
    Chanty
    • Notifications
    • App loading speed
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    InVisionApp Inc.
    • Bring in and embed external files and view them on the board without having to move out of freehand. eg. pdf's, power point, youtube etc.
    • Creating wireframes, flow maps, all and any kinds of created art boards to share with team members.
    • Ability to create text and link to external sites
    • Can format and create pages with text and bullet points right in freehand, rather than having to go to another software to do the same.
    • Collaborate with Team members all on the same board and project at the same time and get feedback live in a meeting and/or even later.
    • Love the different templates that have been provided for me to use as a starting point.
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    Cons
    Chanty
    • It offers few integrations, there are complementary systems in the hands of a panel of activities with which we would feel more comfortable to work, a communication and planning system also needs a calendar and a file manager to be able to have them at hand.
    • Customer support is not the most efficient team, very rarely have I been able to receive answers that offer a solution to my problems.
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    InVisionApp Inc.
    • The resolution: Our webpage designs always pass the resolution threshold to where freehand starts to work its compression. During presentations, it can be a little embarrassing when we can't read the copy because it looks like potatoes.
    • Embedding videos: GIFs are only good to a certain point, and creating Vimeo embeds is tedious. I wish I could embed MP4s or web assets a lot quicker.
    • Touchpad panning: I can't tell you how many times I've "gone back" in my browser when I'm just trying to pan across the freehand. Has honestly made me wanna force quit on many occasions.
    • Sticky notes and text in shapes: Overall, it's really hard to use the sticky notes and text inside rectangles without the text just getting all over the place. It's different sizes, it gets too tiny, it gets way too big, and overall, it just doesn't look professional, even with a lot of fussing.
    • No ability to crop/mask an image. Nice to have, but sometimes we just need to delete a chunk off a screenshot, and it requires opening PS or taking a screenshot to edit anything.
    • Wish there was a way to have "internal comments" that are not visible to our clients.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Chanty
    No answers on this topic
    InVisionApp Inc.
    Honestly as in any organization it's up to budget. I feel like every organization I go to I'm constantly striving to keep InVision as part of the main funded tools used by the team especially in a remote environment. I feel there is a push to move to Figma and Zooms new white boarding tool but I'm still not a fan of Zoom's tool. Microsoft also created a white boarding tool which has been buggy.
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    Usability
    Chanty
    No answers on this topic
    InVisionApp Inc.
    Color Selection can be tricky when changing colors for shapes and text I've seen other users struggle with creating sticky notes and getting text to fit in the box properly and had to abandon the tool for a workshop for this reason After having a demo, I learned of new features I wasn't using. I don't know it would have been intuitive to find on my own.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Chanty
    No answers on this topic
    InVisionApp Inc.
    For availability, we never have to even think about whether inVision Freehand is going to be available for us to work with. There has never been a time when we have opened up the application and had any issues of any kind. I can't imagine why anyone would work with a platform that is unreliable. inVision Freehand is realibel, stable, and getting better all the time. Whether it's their built-in tools or the expanding of Templates to work with Freehand has been a reliable go-to platform for us.
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    Performance
    Chanty
    No answers on this topic
    InVisionApp Inc.
    It is a little slow when bringing artboards from Sketch to Freehand using Craft. I have had some issues loading and redrawing pages when I have a lot of images on my freehand board. It gives me an error message while I am in the file and starts to reload and redraw all the photos again. Not sure if it has a limit on how many images it can handle on a board at a time.
    Incentivized
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    Support Rating
    Chanty
    I have been sent quite a few emails about functionality and support on a pretty regular basis, which is great. I have not had any need to contact support as the platform is pretty simple to use, it was easy to download and install and I have not encountered any bugs or other issues so far.
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    InVisionApp Inc.
    I haven't had to use the support team for anything, which is great news because that means the product usually works as expected! In terms of online support, I've been able to find videos that show how new features work. Also, many of the people I work with have experience with the tools so they are a great resource for me.
    Incentivized
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    Implementation Rating
    Chanty
    No answers on this topic
    InVisionApp Inc.
    The implementation is pretty much easy-peasy and plug-n-play. We simply download the applications and install, signed in and were good to go. I really cannot imagine that there would be anyone who would have any difficulty whatsoever in getting started in more than just a few minutes. It's really how implementing these officewide improvements should always go.
    Incentivized
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    Alternatives Considered
    Chanty
    We really do our work very little with google tools, so it was not a completely comfortable space, it has little customization, and its interface was not very comfortable. We tried Chanty and without a doubt it fit exactly what we were looking for.
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    InVisionApp Inc.
    Miro (formerly Realtime Board) is the original product concept for this tool and I used it for 3-4 years for product development. Invision is aesthetically a carbon copy of the tool but lacks in fine usability controls. We actually didn't choose Freehand, it just came as an added tool under our Invision subscription. It's helpful but knowing the previous tool, it's been a hard sell because it's just not as good. Again, it's really fine tuned usability things like navigation, zoom, switching from tool to tool, selecting and deselecting, etc
    Incentivized
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Chanty
    No answers on this topic
    InVisionApp Inc.
    Getting set up with inVision Freehand was super simple. We figured how many of our team members were going to be using it and we set up our account knowing that. There were no negotiations, contract hassles or anything that would have been a waste of our time, efforts or resources.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Chanty
    No answers on this topic
    InVisionApp Inc.
    Not everyone in the company has access to Invision, and they can't view the links I provide to them. I also wish everyone could view a file without logging in to the enterprise account. It comes in handy when I am doing focus-group studies or other studies with our customers that don't have Freehand. Unfortunately, if that is possible, I don't know how to do that.
    Incentivized
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    Professional Services
    Chanty
    No answers on this topic
    InVisionApp Inc.
    We didn't use an outside vendor - that's why I gave this option a 10.
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    Return on Investment
    Chanty
    • Increased visibility
    • Increased opportunities
    Incentivized
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    InVisionApp Inc.
    • Positives all around. Everyone is able to see and collaborate.
    • Granting access is sometimes a pain. Sending the link does not always work, and I get emails as people try to access boards.
    • No negatives really, I love learning all of the different ways it can be used.
    Incentivized
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