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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Grist

    Score9.9 out of 10
    N/AGrist combines the capabilities of spreadsheets, databases and app builders. Using a familiar spreadsheet interface, information can be organized as a relational database, and dashboards built using drag-and-drop. Solving spreadsheet problems Ensures data is well-structured and stored in one place with no duplication, no spreadsheet-wrangling, no merging documents. Collaboration on sensitive data Data is protected…

    $8

    per month per user

    monday.com

    Score8.2 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.

    $36

    per month (3 seats)

    Pricing
    Gristmonday.com
    Editions & Modules
    Pro
    $8
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Contact Sales
    Basic
    $12
    per month per user
    Standard
    $14
    per month per user
    Pro
    $24
    per month per user
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    Pricing Offerings
    Gristmonday.com
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
    Additional Details—An 18% discount is available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    Gristmonday.com
    Considered Both Products
    Grist Labs
    Chose Grist
    Grist is easier to use, faster, and loads quicker with heavy data.
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    monday.com
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    98%
    Would buy again
    2239 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    1899 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
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    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    2243 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    1572 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    96%
    Implementation went as expected
    1745 Answers
    Features
    Gristmonday.com
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Grist and monday.com
    Feature
    Grist
    -
    Ratings
    monday.com
    7.6
    2321 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.92314 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings7.71984 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.91370 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.71931 Ratings
    Workflow Automation00 Ratings7.82014 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings8.62269 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.21218 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings6.91877 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings7.21667 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.01848 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings7.61091 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management00 Ratings7.91210 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings7.21086 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Grist and monday.com
    Feature
    Grist
    -
    Ratings
    monday.com
    6.9
    1058 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings6.5713 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings7.5943 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings6.7534 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Gristmonday.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (2 ratings)
    8.4
    (2335 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (34 ratings)
    Usability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.1
    (2263 ratings)
    Availability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (11 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    6.4
    (11 ratings)
    Support Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.0
    (1963 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.3
    (5 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (10 ratings)
    Configurability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.6
    (9 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (9 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (11 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    7.9
    (9 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    -
    (0 ratings)
    8.5
    (9 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Gristmonday.com
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Grist Labs
    This is well suited to someone (or a team) who are technically minded and have a dataset that they need to be able to use in many ways. It's less appropriate for a team who isn't technically minded and/or don't have the data they need to manipulate. It would be useful for things that you could use a database or spreadsheet for such as CRM, Advertising database, Business tracking, Health tracking etc.
    Incentivized
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    monday.com
    Another feature I love in the free plan is the “Sort” feature, which enables me to sort all my clients by name alphabetically. Or sort by date,
    status, progress notes, etc. I make extensive use of the text column, where I can keep ongoing, detailed notes on the progress of a particular client's work and the information I am still waiting on. I have it open automatically every day, and my tasks are listed there for me to follow through on.
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    Pros
    Grist Labs
    • Provides amazing customer service, help, examples, and explains what they are having you do
    • The layout is easy
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    monday.com
    • Intuitive board functionality with a variety of column types and customizations to address different use-cases, such as templates for user lifecycle management, checklists for onboarding.
    • Extensive automation capabilities to reduce tedium in more complex boards, such as our company's computer asset inventory board, to ensure devices are kept organized within the board for quicker reference.
    • The ability to connect boards and mirror info across them allowed us to build out a cross-functional, quasi-ticketing system enabling more efficient processing of requests that involved action items from different departments and/or teams.
    • We could use both the many board functions in tandem with the WorkForm feature to create an IT ticketing system that could be replicated and tailored for other teams needs.
    Incentivized
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    Cons
    Grist Labs
    • Making the user permissions more obvious on how to use them - They are highly adaptable, but hard to understand how to use them
    • Small changes such as auto colouring the choices/toggles options and being able to edit them once set.
    • Being able to copy the formatting from one column to the next
    Incentivized
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    monday.com
    • The management of holdable items, continuously drops in incorrect places or doesn't show the 'correct way' to handle in the wished place, it happens with the dragable items on dashboards
    • The 'favorites' menu on desktop is now with 'Use my IA feature' everywhere and has removed the Fav section of for the boards in the sidebar. It was so useful when there were hundreds of Tables and only work on or update 3 - 4 of them (it is still visible on the mobile version, by the way)
    • The errors after using for a while, like 90 minutes, I am writing something and unexpectedly the app says something is wrong and I need to reload the page, and the thing I was doing doesn't still local storage as in other use cases
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Grist Labs
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Grist Labs
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    monday.com was pretty easy to use from the get-go. Their automation templates are really easy to get things set up. A few of my monday.com boards are essentially upgraded spreadsheets that are much easier to digest and automatically send out reminder email to myself and my team.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Grist Labs
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
    Incentivized
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    Performance
    Grist Labs
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Grist Labs
    No answers on this topic
    monday.com
    I personally haven't found their customer success managers to be proactive or useful as the primary user of our monday.com account. This is different from a few years ago, when I had a contact that I reached out to as-needed (we are an enterprise account). I don't get a lot of touchpoints with anyone from monday.com and rarely submit tickets.
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    Online Training
    Grist Labs
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Grist Labs
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Grist Labs
    Grist is easier to use, faster, and loads quicker with heavy data.
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    monday.com
    monday.com gives us the most flexibility when it comes to its features -- to create templates and quickly modify or customize. While limited in its overall functionality, it is secure and does what it is supposed to do well. An ability to interpret documents given to it -- not just its own assets -- would take monday.com to the next level.
    Incentivized
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    Scalability
    Grist Labs
    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.
    Incentivized
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    Return on Investment
    Grist Labs
    • It's saved a lot of time in both creating an advertising database and managing it week to week effectively. I had previously created in others that haven't worked, and this does, saving me a good 1 hour weekly, and 5 hours or more each time I had problems with the last ones
    • Being able to stay on track with this has meant I'm following up at the right time (advertisers) and keeping a professional manner and not losing business due to missed communication
    • Saving me $ from buying a program like Access (or Airtable monthly) and then the learning curve that that has. This has a much easier learning curve to say the least.
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    monday.com
    • The platform has saved us time by allowing us to have all of our program information in one place.
    • The fact that it is easy to set up has saved us countless hours of trying to learn the platform.
    • The platform has helped us greatly with collaboration with our program partners who need to use our data.
    Incentivized
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    ScreenShots

    Grist Screenshots

    Screenshot of the drag and drop dashboard editor used to build layouts.Screenshot of the custom user permissions that determine who can see what, down to each column and row.Screenshot of dynamic charts and reports that update with the click of a mouse.Screenshot of Grist's formula support for Excel-like functions or Python formulas. Technical users can drill into database structure in code view.

    monday.com Screenshots

    Screenshot of Work OSScreenshot of Ready-Made TemplatesScreenshot of MobileScreenshot of Visual BoardsScreenshot of Real-time NotificationsScreenshot of Automations