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42 Ratings
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Based on 42 reviews and ratings
Feature Set Ratings
Project Management
Creately
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

8.4
LiquidPlanner
84%
LiquidPlanner ranks higher in 13/13 features
LiquidPlanner ranks higher in 13/13 features
Task Management
N/A
0 Ratings

8.9
89%
13 Ratings
Resource Management
N/A
0 Ratings

8.6
86%
11 Ratings
Gantt Charts
N/A
0 Ratings

8.7
87%
10 Ratings
Scheduling
N/A
0 Ratings

9.0
90%
12 Ratings
Workflow Automation
N/A
0 Ratings

8.4
84%
9 Ratings
Team Collaboration
N/A
0 Ratings

8.8
88%
13 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology
N/A
0 Ratings

7.9
79%
8 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology
N/A
0 Ratings

8.7
87%
7 Ratings
Document Management
N/A
0 Ratings

9.9
99%
3 Ratings
Email integration
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
16 Ratings
Mobile Access
N/A
0 Ratings

6.7
67%
11 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking
N/A
0 Ratings

7.9
79%
12 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management
N/A
0 Ratings

8.1
81%
8 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Creately
Feature Set Not Supported
N/A

8.4
LiquidPlanner
84%
LiquidPlanner ranks higher in 3/3 features
LiquidPlanner ranks higher in 3/3 features
Quotes/estimates
N/A
0 Ratings

8.5
85%
6 Ratings
Project & financial reporting
N/A
0 Ratings

8.7
87%
7 Ratings
Integration with accounting software
N/A
0 Ratings

8.0
80%
6 Ratings
Attribute Ratings
- LiquidPlanner is rated higher in 2 areas: Likelihood to Recommend, Support Rating
Likelihood to Recommend
8.4
Creately
84%
2 Ratings

8.5
LiquidPlanner
85%
19 Ratings
Likelihood to Renew
Creately
N/A
0 Ratings

4.4
LiquidPlanner
44%
2 Ratings
Usability
Creately
N/A
0 Ratings

10.0
LiquidPlanner
100%
1 Rating
Support Rating
5.6
Creately
56%
4 Ratings

9.0
LiquidPlanner
90%
4 Ratings
Likelihood to Recommend
Creately
Very good online option for flowcharts and other purposes; can be quite cost-effective, too, depending on how you use it.
Office Manager
Bates Group LLCFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
LiquidPlanner
LiquidPlanner is amazing for any time of project management scenario where you have to manage several teams and details. Running a project through LiquidPlanner is so easy because it lets you break down the project into sections and folders and small tasks that you can assign to specific people. With a small to medium size team-- LiquidPlanner is amazing for organizing and tracking details. If you have a huge team or not a ton of details to track LiquidPlanner might not be right for you because it is a software that requires some good training to learn and has tons of functions that can be utilized so it seems better suited to be used by a smaller group looking to coordinate or for people who have lots of details that can be difficult to track.
Client Success Manager
DentalCMOMarketing & Advertising, 11-50 employees
Pros
Creately
- Creately provides the same experience that other similar tools (i.e. Visio) provides, but presents it in a much more colorful, unique manner. The colors are vibrant, and my clients have always been impressed with the quality and feel.
- Creately provides a lot of creative control over how your images look. I can play with the opacity and color scheme, or use what they already provide.
- Creately also allows me to create wireframes for clients to review, whether desktop or mobile. I can create simple, easy to understand frames and concepts in minutes - they're super professional looking and ready to share.
- I like the pricing model. Right now I can pay month-to-month, or pay a one-time fee for a year. It's also less expensive than Visio, which is very nice.
Senior Business Analyst
Southwest Gas CorporationUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
LiquidPlanner
- Priority based planning. Every other planning software we've used relies on dates and therefore needs constant attention. Priority based planning means that the plan is always up to date.
- Ease of use. LiquidPlanner has a very short learning curve. This is critical to getting team members to use it.
- Forecasting. LiquidPlanner makes it very easy to run scenarios by simply dragging and dropping projects and reassigning resources.
- Awesome Support. I get personal responses very fast. Usually within a couple hours. And, they listen and ask for more information.
V.P.
Twin Cities Automation, Inc.Machinery, 11-50 employees
Cons
Creately
- The transition Creately made this year to their new non-Flash platform seems to almost function like a beta release in some instances.
- Customer support sometimes takes a while to return and the responses are not always the best or most helpful. Follow up isn't great, either.
Office Manager
Bates Group LLCFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
LiquidPlanner
- The interface is messy and cluttered. The best way to find things and see what you actually want to see is the main Projects view which is also the most cluttered and hardest to maneuver in.
- Clicking an external link someone posted in a comment or task description doesn't open in a new window by default, so we are constantly having to go back to get to LiquidPlanner again.
- The way that the interface saves your state globally (rather than per tab instance) means that if you click a link from someone else to a task that's not yours, then it adjusts your filters on the Projects page. Then if you refresh another LiquidPlanner window where you were on the Projects tab, suddenly all of its filters are updated and what you were looking at may no longer be there.
- It might just be the way that we use the system, but the Home and My Work tabs are fairly useless for us. They typically don't show the tasks we're actually looking for.
Head of Development Technologies
Top Floor TechnologiesInternet, 11-50 employees
Pricing Details
Creately
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
6.95
Starting Price
$40 per month
Creately Editions & Modules
On-premise Edition
Creately Desktop | $751 |
---|---|
Creately Server | 6.951 |
- per user
SaaS Edition
Creately Online Personal | 6.951 |
---|---|
Creately Team 5 | $401 |
Creately Team 10 | $801 |
Creately Team 25 | $2001 |
- per month
Additional Pricing Details
We offer deeply discounted prices for non profits, educational institutes and charities.LiquidPlanner
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
Starting Price
$24 per month
LiquidPlanner Editions & Modules
Edition
Professional | CONTACT US1 |
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Enterprise | CONTACT US1 |
Subscription | $45.002 |
- 5-user minimum
- per month
Additional Pricing Details
—Likelihood to Renew
Creately
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
LiquidPlanner
LiquidPlanner 4.4
Based on 2 answers
We may not renew LiquidPlanner's contract, but only because my company has recently been acquired and we'll be adopting some of the software that they're using to standardize process. LiquidPlanner's development team releases new features pretty often, so it seems like the gaps and inefficiencies are slowly getting smaller/less frequent

Verified User
Team Lead in Professional Services
Computer Software Company, 51-200 employeesUsability
Creately
No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic
LiquidPlanner
LiquidPlanner 10.0
Based on 1 answer
Easy to learn and utilize. Can export charts and reports for sharing with colleagues.

Verified User
Project Manager in Research & Development
Biotechnology Company, 201-500 employeesSupport Rating
Creately
Creately 5.6
Based on 4 answers
I haven't used Creately's support. I don't know what to rate this to be honest. If there was an "N/A," I'd use that. I like products where I don't have to do a lot of research or studying to learn how to use the software. Creately allows me to jump in and go.
Senior Business Analyst
Southwest Gas CorporationUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
LiquidPlanner
LiquidPlanner 9.0
Based on 4 answers
They have been great in trying to come up with creative solutions to help us do what we want to do with the platform. I would say their support has been exceptional because we have hit them with some complex requests.

Verified User
Manager in Marketing
Biotechnology Company, 1001-5000 employeesAlternatives Considered
Creately
In terms of pricing and functionality, Creately was the clear winner at the time, although the jury is still out on Creately's new version in terms of how simple it may be to use.
Office Manager
Bates Group LLCFinancial Services, 51-200 employees
LiquidPlanner
LiquidPlanner offers a whole lot more on the project management and tracking side, but Powow is more efficient in terms of the AI that powers it to efficiently manage meetings. AI definitely brings a big difference to Saas products and can magnify the benefits that would otherwise not be realized.
Executive
Ultimate Sales VideoMarketing & Advertising, 1-10 employees
Return on Investment
Creately
- Creately is less expensive and dare I say more professional looking than Visio. It looks great at a fraction of the price.
- Creately allows me to share ideas and processes with my clients. It shows that I understand their business processes, and increases their trust in my abilities to work with them.
Senior Business Analyst
Southwest Gas CorporationUtilities, 1001-5000 employees
LiquidPlanner
- LiquidPlanner really forces you to map out your workflow. For me, honing into a template that I can later adjust as needed has been huge, as there is less time at the beginning of a project trying to assign and figure out what needs to happen when usually it never changes.
- Communication between employees, especially ones not immediately available in the office has been very welcomed. It helps having conversations documented in a public, logical place that is easy to find and refer to as the project continues.
- Our productivity has definitely skyrocketed as we've really gotten a feel and committed to using LiquidPlanner daily. As we move forward, we continually try to add more and more ways for us to use the service.
Production Team Lead
Scenario LearningE-Learning, 11-50 employees