Microsoft Planner vs. monday.com

Microsoft Planner

monday.com

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Planner	Score 7.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Planner is presented as a solution to organize teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management. With it, users can create Kanban boards using task cards with files, checklists, and labels. Users can collaborate in Planner and Microsoft Teams and check visual status charts—all in the Microsoft cloud.	N/A
monday.com	Score 8.3 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.	$12 per month per user

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Microsoft Planner

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Planner	monday.com
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Planner Richard (Ric) Hazel Strategy Planning Advisor Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner is far superior and doesn't require expensive training to give people access to it. It is far easier to customize and allows for people to add projects and milestones without the cumbersome interface that Agility offers. I would far rather use Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner We tried to select software from various tools, and in the end we chose Planner both for economic reasons (it is included in the Microsoft 365 license we have in the company) and for its ease of use (we have no particular or specific needs, such as advanced scheduling or ticket … Incentivized Helpful? MC Micaella Cirilo Talent Acquisition Specialist Chose Microsoft Planner Main reason is that it is cost efficient because we're already using Microsoft 365 and it's literally part of the ecosystem. No need to purchase any other software. Microsoft is also a well known company, credible for providing business solutions and has a strong enterprise … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner is free and integrated with other Microsoft products that we use. We don't have a need for something more sophisticated given the price it would have cost to purchase licenses for a dedicated task/project mgmt tool. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner isn't as detailed for project planning as some of these. However, it is more user friendly. Anyone can learn how to use it. If you want simple and affordable for a diverse group, it's the way to go. Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager Chose Microsoft Planner Our organization chose MS Planner because it is an included tool in the MS Suite, and since we are unfortunately replacing our current and much better project management tool due to a consolidation of the tech stack. However, it doesn't appear that any of the teams using the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner In my experience, Microsoft Planner has much less features and less effective than other project management tools. But, it's free and included as part of Microsoft 365, so senior management may think it's saving them money. However, the poor productivity and the inefficient … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner The Planner has a more straightforward and intuitive interface, making it ideal for teams that want to get started quickly without a steep learning curve. Additionally, Planner is more budget-friendly, making it a better option for smaller teams like mine. Additionally, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner We used Microsoft Planner because it was free to our organization but ended up paying for Asana for more features we needed for our team. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner stands out for its seamless integration with Microsoft 365, making collaboration with tools like Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint effortless. Its user-friendly interface, with drag-and-drop features and color-coded labels, simplifies task management. Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Aldridge Learning Analytics Lead Chose Microsoft Planner Compared to the other options, we already had access to Microsoft Planner, preconfigured accounts, and support and ordination from tech internally to use it. We previously used Wrike, I wanted to use Asana, and other people in the organisation either used Microsoft Project, or … Incentivized Helpful? francesca turra Project Manager Chose Microsoft Planner The integration with Microsoft Teams is a must that other platform doesn't have. Incentivized Helpful? DA Deepika Arora Digital Marketer Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner was included in our package of Microsoft email. Thus, we [don't] have to pay anything separately. This is was the main reason. However, the functionality we required was similar. [Microsoft] Planner also gives a schedule calendar where we can add tasks as per … Incentivized Helpful? Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Chose Microsoft Planner While Asana and Trello are mature products, Planner is getting there pretty quickly. Since our organization is on the Microsoft ecosystem, it helps to use SSO for most of the apps that are within the same license. It helps save money and does the work. For proper project … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner won out over Todoist due to it's ability to integrate other software and allow us to be able to do more work in one software. The project management functions were superior as well. Probably the biggest advantage was the task management. We liked how it worked … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Have moved to JIRA in my recent project. I can say Microsoft plan is a good option but JIRA is more powerful compare to this tool. The only thing is its integration and easy communication feature between teams or assigned groups stand it out while comparing with the similar … Incentivized Helpful? DS Darshil S Assistant Manager Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner has a clear cut edge over all the other project planning software of having its native and extensive capability of integrating with the Office 365 apps which everyone uses heavily. Also, it is highly accessible and usable to a large extent through PDAs and … Incentivized Helpful? Christie Carbone Digital Marketing Analyst Chose Microsoft Planner Pros: Communicating with all members of the plan is easy since it’s part of the Office 365 suite. This allows you to easily communicate via Outlook. You can quickly view all the tasks everyone is working across Boards Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner provides better integration with Microsoft products that are used across the organization as a whole. It provides better connection to SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Office products, and even in MS Outlook, which is the company's email client. Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Chose Microsoft Planner Many areas of the company still use Trello to organize their activities and tasks, but gradually Microsoft Planner must replace the activities. Users are often "attached" to familiar technologies, but Office 365 takes advantage of the more organized use of the tools. This year … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner I would recommend Planner for light project / team management with strong MS Teams integration. For a PMO / large project with resources/cost/gantt management, I would really recommend MS Project. Incentivized Helpful? John Bayerl Director of Teaching Excellence Chose Microsoft Planner I have not used any other products that serve a similar function to Microsoft Planner. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner, tho its user interface could be improved, was leaps and bounds better than TYA suite. Their user interface is difficult for many at our job site to use, especially the older generation. The decision to bring it in was largely a corporate decision. Individuals likely … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner I've used Asana and prefer it to Microsoft Planner. Asana has more functionalities than Planner and I think it is more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Trello is better as a one off product, but if you use the Microsoft suite then Planner integrates better into the rest of your day-to-day apps. The integration into team members' calendars and mail makes the ease of assigning tasks across our organization well worth using the … Incentivized Helpful?	monday.com Micah King Sr. IT Security Administrator Chose monday.com monday.com feels like it offers a lower barrier to entry as well as more versatility, extensibility without becoming too complex. Atlassian is geared more for larger companies requiring a greater degree of granular controls. Both platforms have a number of integrations (though, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com I used Pipedrive in my previous roles, so I did not evaluate monday.com as an alternative to Pipedrive. Similarly, Salesforce is not positioned as an alternative to monday.com for us. We currently use both Salesforce and monday.com, as they serve different purposes and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com monday.com does more than just a single function like other tools. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com Planner is very hard to figure out. Insightly is a good resource to keeping track of customers and their info but for tasks, monday.com is far superior Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com Workfront offered a more intuitive user interface, which made team adoption easier. It also included additional products that aligned well with the needs of our Dev, Work Management, and Service teams. Incentivized Helpful? RL Richard Lowin Senior Project Manager Chose monday.com Wrike Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com Atlassian Jira, Jira Service Management and Jira Work Management Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com I actually found clickup easier to use and they had better features for recurring tasks Incentivized Helpful? Daniel Cascarina PMO Specialist Chose monday.com Cost is a big factor as the alternatives stacked up poorly in user costs and built in features. Also, the business was already using a different facet of monday.com so it was a quick setup and we already had experience and people were Jo knew the platform. Less complex and also … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com monday is more capable and comprehensive when it comes to project and task management as well as the CRM side. However, Odoo is better suited for managing other areas that monday doesn’t cover, such as employee management, payroll, and invoicing. If one were to prioritize cost … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com Very similar feature-function-wise wise but the UI is the ultimate differentiator that makes adoption so much easier on monday.com. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com We have not used anything like Monday.com before. We used to do all of what I described on Google Sheets and share them with the company. It was very time consuming and cumbersome to remake new sheets every year, Monday.com gives us the freedom to add on year by year and not … Incentivized Helpful? Gina Jehn Director of Human Resources Chose monday.com Features and automation blow this product out of the water! Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com monday.com is far superior to Microsoft Planner and Basecamp, and arguably superior to Trello and Slack Lists as well. Asana (for work management and Zendesk (for request management) put it to shame. My main monday-using client selected it primarily because of its slightly … Incentivized Helpful? Chance Johnson Production Supervisor Chose monday.com We have only ever tried one other software that was designed to work similarly to monday.com. I will not name the company but our experience with it was just short of harrowing. The company was friendly and supportive but the product they designed was not user friendly. It did … Incentivized Helpful? Aviv Degani Cloud Solutions Architecture Manager Chose monday.com monday.com is the sweet spot of rich feature set and simplicity Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com I think trello was nice so self-use, but not for a team Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com monday.com is so much better and cheaper. We moved from Zendesk because, in our experience, their customer service was terrible, they kept raising prices, and there was limited functionality relevant to our organization. The tools within monday.com allow us to use it as more … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com It's been a while since trying Asana, so it's hard to say. I think they are very similar from what I remember, but maybe monday.com has more reporting and customization possibilities? Incentivized Helpful? Giovanni Jurado Business Analyst Team Lead Chose monday.com monday.com offer much of the standard tools and seems to be ever evolving. They seem to take feedback and constantly upgrade the tools. If all the tools are there, the differentiating factor might be the cost, any integrations you may need, and the visual "chemistry". To me, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com We chose to move from Zoho to monday.com when our company started growing exponentially. Overall, our team was thankful for the change because we were growing at far to fast of a speed for Zoho's tools to keep up with us. monday.com is a better, beefier platform with far better … Incentivized Helpful? RC Roberta Coleman Executive Director Chose monday.com We decided to go with monday.com because they offered a free tier for nonprofits and because they are easier to use and offered additional features that we could not find on the other choices. Hands down, there was no better choice for us than monday.com. Incentivized Helpful? Brandon Stokes Customer Operations Enablement Manager Chose monday.com When I arrived at my org, I was initially disappointed to hear that we used something other than Asana for project management. Fast forward just a few months, and I became a complete monday.com convert. While its organization is similar to Asana's, it's user interface, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com Outperforms them by leagues Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose monday.com We use Jira, Confluence, Miro and the full Salesforce stack and it's very reliable as are the other softwares. Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft Planner

monday.com

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Planner - Ratings	monday.com 8.2 Ratings 6% above category average
Task Management	00 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Resource Management	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Gantt Charts	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Scheduling	00 Ratings	8.50 Ratings
Workflow Automation	00 Ratings	8.60 Ratings
Team Collaboration	00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology	00 Ratings	8.20 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology	00 Ratings	7.00 Ratings
Document Management	00 Ratings	7.90 Ratings
Email integration	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Mobile Access	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking	00 Ratings	7.70 Ratings
Change request and Case Management	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings

Professional Services Automation

Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Planner - Ratings	monday.com 7.9 Ratings 2% above category average
Quotes/estimates	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings
Project & financial reporting	00 Ratings	8.00 Ratings
Integration with accounting software	00 Ratings	7.80 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Planner	monday.com
Likelihood to Recommend	7.6 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	8.6 (0 ratings)
Support Rating	- (0 ratings)	8.1 (0 ratings)
In-Person Training	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Online Training	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Implementation Rating	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (0 ratings)
Configurability	- (0 ratings)	8.2 (0 ratings)
Ease of integration	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Product Scalability	- (0 ratings)	6.9 (0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	- (0 ratings)	9.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Planner	monday.com
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Planner is a user-friendly visual tool for organizing tasks and workflows. It’s great for team collaboration, integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and Outlook, and offers flexibility for projects of all sizes. Additionally, it provides mobile and web access for seamless productivity on the go. That’s a big plus right there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	The platform is very well suited for our nonprofit programs that serve low-income clients who need diapers, wipes, and period products. It has helped us run our programs, capturing information and allowing us to view the data for reporting purposes. The ability to filter data is very helpful by allowing us to categorize information to get a better picture of the progress of our programs. Incentivized RC Roberta Coleman Executive Director Read full review
Pros	I love the ability to tag and untag others as needed I love the ability to customize the tag labels and that there are so many options I love the ability to add comments and it notifies the others tagged in the task I love that the task description can be changed as needed without notification to others assigned to the task Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I like summary of subitems, especially with subitasks as subitems and add item tracking for each subtask it can show total tracked in parent item. Similar with other columns, like numbers, status, date. Dashboard features, Many kinds of dashboard view available, we can utilize on the basis of requirements. monday.com workform is very powerful, easily share form link when submitted it will create line item in board with provided data. monday.com automation is very helpful in order to automate steps with specific rules and easy setup. monday.com also provides integrations in order to automate processes if need to integrate multiple app together. or need to transfer data between multiple apps. Incentivized AJ Anjali Jain Solution Engineer Read full review
Cons	Does not allow you to view all tasks and sub-tasks (checklist) in a nested view. Comments have character limits that can make it harder for teams to communicate exactly what they want to share. There is no way to mention a teammate in a comment and share files and documents in the conversation (collaborative tool???). Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Read full review	The desktop app for Mac seems to have a few issues with visual glitches appearing on screen, it only seems to go away when I close the tool and reopen it Subtasks don't show on the individual users to-do list, only main level tasks Incentivized Joshua Rodriguez Digital Strategy Manager Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It is a very useful tool that brings teams in sync with one another. The integration with other Microsoft products makes it an obvious choice because you don't have to purchase a license for a completely different tool that doesn't have cross-functional capabilities with the software you already use on a daily basis. Incentivized Richard (Ric) Hazel Strategy Planning Advisor Read full review	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. Incentivized GH Greg Hanks Graphic Designer Read full review
Usability	The tool is easy to use, but it is just as easy to set up. No specific skills are required, but its usefulness in our work is immediately apparent. Colors are very helpful in creating a clear interface and providing a very precise overview of the tasks to be performed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	It's really about ease of use. I use Click-Up as well, which I really enjoy, but monday.com is a lot less complex to use. Its structure is a bit easier to understand and I got accustomed to the functionality very quickly. I have not explored enough of its functionality to comment any further but it's a really great tool for tracking progress and for capturing absolutely everything I need to save, including ideas, brain-dump, insights, continuous improvement on tasks and processes. I am lucky to be able to use monday.com as a member of my client's team. Incentivized NB Nicole Baumgarten Consultant Read full review
Reliability and Availability	No answers on this topic	There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down. Incentivized TC Tyler Cobbs Executive Assistant Read full review
Performance	No answers on this topic	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?") Incentivized TC Tyler Cobbs Executive Assistant Read full review
Support Rating	No answers on this topic	monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread. Incentivized LW Lunda Wright Managing Director Read full review
Online Training	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized LS Laurie Sallis Administrative Coordinator to the NIRS Read full review
Implementation Rating	No answers on this topic	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. Incentivized Joseph Madere Learning Management System Analyst -- CornerstoneOnDemand Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Our organization chose MS Planner because it is an included tool in the MS Suite, and since we are unfortunately replacing our current and much better project management tool due to a consolidation of the tech stack. However, it doesn't appear that any of the teams using the current program intend to use MS Planner due to its poor functionality. We will likely be pivoting to Jira instead. Incentivized Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager Read full review	monday.com feels like it offers a lower barrier to entry as well as more versatility, extensibility without becoming too complex. Atlassian is geared more for larger companies requiring a greater degree of granular controls. Both platforms have a number of integrations (though, Atlassian may have "more" because of it's marketplace and longer tenure), but monday.com may be easier to configure, though with potentially more limited functionality. monday.com definitely lends itself well to getting a business off the ground with simpler automations and the ability to grow you to the point of "graduating" to a more specialized tools. Incentivized Micah King Sr. IT Security Administrator Read full review
Scalability	No answers on this topic	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 TC Tyler Cobbs Executive Assistant Read full review
Return on Investment	Saved over $1000 each year by not having to purchase a third party tool for our content planning Not sure that I can provide a hard number to this, but having the oversight to see when something is coming due and making sure everything gets executed in time Incentivized Christie Carbone Digital Marketing Analyst Read full review	By using monday.com as an enablement tool for templated onboarding plans, we have been able to begin calculating the number of manager hours saved through our work (not defined yet). monday.com's reporting tools also allow us to more easily report on the productivity and output of our team since we keep up with all projects and subitems in monday.com. Incentivized Brandon Stokes Customer Operations Enablement Manager Read full review
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