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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    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

    Planview ProjectPlace

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AProjectplace is a collaborative work management solution. The vendor says the product is built with teams of all sizes and complexity in mind, from virtual teams of five to entire global enterprises with tens of thousands of active users. It is also designed to incorporate waterfall and agile workflows.N/A
    Pricing
    Freehand by InVisionPlanview ProjectPlace
    Editions & Modules
    Freehand Free
    $0
    per year per user
    Freehand Pro
    $4
    per month per user
    Freehand Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Freehand by InVisionPlanview ProjectPlace
    Free Trial
    YesYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Freehand by InVisionPlanview ProjectPlace
    Considered Both Products
    InVisionApp Inc.
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    Planview
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    88%
    Would buy again
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    94%
    Would buy again
    88 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    97%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    98%
    Delivers good value for the price
    80 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    87%
    Happy with the feature set
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    97%
    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    97%
    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
    98%
    Implementation went as expected
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    94%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    Freehand by InVisionPlanview ProjectPlace
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Freehand by InVision and Planview ProjectPlace
    Feature
    Freehand by InVision
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    Ratings
    Planview ProjectPlace
    7.7
    198 Ratings
    0% above category average
    Task Management00 Ratings8.4191 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings6.7158 Ratings
    Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.7171 Ratings
    Scheduling00 Ratings7.7169 Ratings
    Team Collaboration00 Ratings8.7193 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.7151 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.8140 Ratings
    Document Management00 Ratings9.0184 Ratings
    Email integration00 Ratings6.4163 Ratings
    Mobile Access00 Ratings7.7147 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings6.0129 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Freehand by InVisionPlanview ProjectPlace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.9
    (102 ratings)
    8.1
    (198 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (9 ratings)
    9.2
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.5
    (16 ratings)
    10.0
    (75 ratings)
    Availability
    8.7
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
    8.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.4
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (72 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.5
    (2 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    8.2
    (2 ratings)
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    9.1
    (2 ratings)
    Professional Services
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.1
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Freehand by InVisionPlanview ProjectPlace
    Likelihood to Recommend
    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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    Planview
    Planview ProjectPlace is a vibrant platform that manages all activities and schedules different roles based on their urgency, importance, and requests. Further, Planview ProjectPlace outlines the need for proper documentation with the aim of accurate referencing. Tasks are credibly shared, and proper reporting is enhanced to transform firms' work environment. ; Lastly, Planview ProjectPlace brings sustainable email integration for enterprises.
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    Pros
    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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    Planview
    • Easy of use. Modules are well define.
    • Navigation: Users can use the tool's search functionality to find what they are looking for easily. The home page is configurable to the users' needs.
    • The knowledge center is a key function to understand the tool capabilities.
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    Cons
    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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    Planview
    • Under the time tracking, it would be nice to have a set template that would load each week and not have to click a button to load the previous week's template.
    • Somehow making it more intuitive.
    • Having to add in each service line and each detail that I cover for every service line each week is a bit ridiculous.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    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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    Planview
    We're committed now & have >50 users on Projectplace. All our projects are now tracked in the tool. We this investment of time & training, the cost of maintaining Projectplace is relatively low for the benefit. So we will renew, even if there are some idiosyncrasies in the tool & there are opportunities for improvement.
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    Usability
    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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    Planview
    Easy to use platform and provides the user with an amazing experience and straightforward tools that empower and help execute tasks with fast performances that allow quick and easy service delivery. Easy on implementation and get started immediately with enterprise-ready Planview Projectplace and start to connect with teams and departments at once.
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    Reliability and Availability
    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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    Planview
    No downtime-issues since the implementation. It has been very stable
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    Performance
    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.
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    Planview
    No answers on this topic
    Support Rating
    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.
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    Planview
    I haven't needed to get in touch with support because the product is quite well structured and understandable. There were no issues initially when making payments or later for monthly payments. The project manager using the software is quite skilled in the software and has not needed much help. New licenses are easy to acquire, and there is no delay in getting them. I know there are several ways of support available, so that's a plus.
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    Implementation Rating
    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.
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    Planview
    create an extensive change management process to help folks embrace the change
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    Alternatives Considered
    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
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    Planview
    [In my experience] Jira is more refined, better looking, and easier to become familiar with. Also, the massive market share of Jira helps in consultancy as you can switch between clients easily. Projectplace has many powerful tools but so does Jira, and Jira integrates with our suite of software much easier compared to Projectplace.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    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.
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    Planview
    No answers on this topic
    Scalability
    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.
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    Planview
    It is a bit more difficult to fluently use in large scale implementations
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    Professional Services
    InVisionApp Inc.
    We didn't use an outside vendor - that's why I gave this option a 10.
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    Planview
    No answers on this topic
    Return on Investment
    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.
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    Planview
    • [We have the] ability to support remote work through projects that scale across multiple groups
    • We have large-scale quarterly projects, so the ability to save and duplicate project templates are helpful for us to keep track of tasks down to the specific card
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    ScreenShots

    Planview ProjectPlace Screenshots

    Screenshot of Collaborative Workstream: Streamlined interaction between activities, boards and cards. Users can plan and follow up in the Gantt while their teams execute and collaborate for optimum productivity on the Kanban boards.Screenshot of Document Management: This helps to ensure changes to documents are visible in real-time. Version control ensures that team members see the latest document versions with access to document history.Screenshot of Gantt Charts: These support planning and visualizing every step of enterprise work and projects with Projectplace Gantt Charts. Track progress to make sure you'll meet your deadlines and know when things are not happening on time.Screenshot of Kanban Boards: This enables teams to execute and collaborate for optimum productivity, and includes activity notifications, messaging and visualizations of progress of day-to-day tasks.Screenshot of Workload View: A visualization of the workload of members in all workspaces, used to determine whether a team member is overloaded with work, or has room to do more.Screenshot of Workspace Overview: This offers an overview of all work and tasks that have been assigned across all workspaces. Personal tasks can be added that help offer a more complete picture of what's left to do.