What users are saying about

Nifty vs Smartsheet

Nifty
12 Ratings
Smartsheet
Top Rated
635 Ratings

Nifty

12 Ratings
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Score 9.3 out of 100

Based on 12 reviews and ratings

Smartsheet

Top Rated
635 Ratings
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Score 8.4 out of 100

Based on 635 reviews and ratings

Feature Set Ratings

  • Nifty ranks higher in 2 feature sets: Project Management, Professional Services Automation

Project Management

9.7

Nifty

97%
8.2

Smartsheet

82%
Nifty ranks higher in 14/14 features
Nifty ranks higher in 14/14 features

Task Management

9.3
93%
3 Ratings
8.6
86%
117 Ratings

Resource Management

9.6
96%
3 Ratings
7.7
77%
101 Ratings

Gantt Charts

10.0
100%
3 Ratings
8.8
88%
100 Ratings

Scheduling

10.0
100%
3 Ratings
8.6
86%
103 Ratings

Workflow Automation

9.6
96%
3 Ratings
7.8
78%
91 Ratings

Team Collaboration

10.0
100%
3 Ratings
8.6
86%
113 Ratings

Support for Agile Methodology

10.0
100%
1 Rating
7.6
76%
74 Ratings

Support for Waterfall Methodology

10.0
100%
3 Ratings
8.0
80%
70 Ratings

Document Management

9.6
96%
3 Ratings
7.7
77%
93 Ratings

Email integration

10.0
100%
2 Ratings
8.2
82%
91 Ratings

Mobile Access

10.0
100%
3 Ratings
7.8
78%
87 Ratings

Timesheet Tracking

8.7
87%
3 Ratings
8.2
82%
57 Ratings

Change request and Case Management

9.0
90%
3 Ratings
8.6
86%
61 Ratings

Budget and Expense Management

10.0
100%
2 Ratings
8.1
81%
67 Ratings

Professional Services Automation

9.5

Nifty

95%
8.5

Smartsheet

85%
Nifty ranks higher in 2/4 features
Nifty ranks higher in 2/4 features

Quotes/estimates

8.9
89%
2 Ratings
8.2
82%
38 Ratings

Project & financial reporting

10.0
100%
2 Ratings
8.1
81%
53 Ratings

Invoicing

N/A
0 Ratings
8.7
87%
30 Ratings

Integration with accounting software

N/A
0 Ratings
8.9
89%
28 Ratings

Attribute Ratings

  • Nifty is rated higher in 1 area: Likelihood to Recommend

Likelihood to Recommend

9.0

Nifty

90%
3 Ratings
8.4

Smartsheet

84%
138 Ratings

Likelihood to Renew

Nifty

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

Smartsheet

100%
24 Ratings

Usability

Nifty

N/A
0 Ratings
8.6

Smartsheet

86%
12 Ratings

Performance

Nifty

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

Smartsheet

100%
2 Ratings

Support Rating

Nifty

N/A
0 Ratings
8.1

Smartsheet

81%
90 Ratings

Online Training

Nifty

N/A
0 Ratings
7.0

Smartsheet

70%
1 Rating

Implementation Rating

Nifty

N/A
0 Ratings
10.0

Smartsheet

100%
18 Ratings

Likelihood to Recommend

Nifty

I've found myself recommending Nifty to other business owners as well as for personal use. I've personally found it to be invaluable when it comes to:
  • Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Quarterly recurring tasks
  • Creating templates for company processes such as new product creation, marketing strategy, on-boarding, quarterly goals, content management
  • Having forms zapped into a new task from multiple locations ensuring they're never overlooked
  • Having clear milestones and timelines for projects
  • Communicating on projects, tasks, and just in general
  • Assigning different components of projects to different people
  • Creating prior requirements that must be completed before completing the task

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Ashlie Pappas | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Smartsheet

There were new vendors who needed to submit their documents by the sales department for legal and Risk department for reviewing and checking the validity of the documents, The way of escalation and attaching the documents and the vendor's data was well suited to be done through the smart sheet. As the sales use smart sheet tickets for submitting the vendor's details and attaching the documents. Through the Smartsheet automation process, a notification mail was sent to the legal and risk department for reviewing and the tickets were assigned already to the admins for validating . After the admin's review and tick mark on the check box of reviewing in the smart sheet which was customized than when its clicked send automated emails to the supervisors for approval, Then after the supervisor's approval, an automated mail was sent to the sales team for completing approval of the vendor. All of these scenarios and hierarchy did because of Smartsheet.

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Mohamed Emam | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Pros

Nifty

  • An overview of project timelines and milestones.
  • One-on-one or group conversations.
  • Tracking the status of projects and tasks.

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Candace Mitchell | TrustRadius Reviewer
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Smartsheet

  • Its hard to overstate the value of familiarity. Being able to use a tool that has some familiarity takes away the time needed to train and orient employees on a new tool and allows an organization to hit the ground running.
  • Smartsheet covers most of the basics of a project management tool, the usual tasks, milestones and project viewing options.
  • For data viewing, you get multiple data viewing options including a calendar view (good for marketing teams and those who work around scheduling), Kanban, Gaant etc

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Abigail Selebe | TrustRadius Reviewer
Abigail Selebe
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Cons

Nifty

  • Time Expense could be improved since we cannot edit the previous/past time logs entered.
  • Lacks expense management and Purchase order management functionality
  • Newest product updates are not always stable and I had to reach Nifty's support team a couple of times in the past to fix the issues with new updates e.g. our document management and meeting integrations had to be re-authorized

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Darshil S | TrustRadius Reviewer
Darshil S
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Smartsheet

  • Smartsheet set up is similar to Excel, yet when you upload an Excel file, things like conditional formatting are lost. Smartsheet has its own conditional formatting, and you have to reinstate the rules. It would be great if those would apply automatically once a file is uploaded
  • Some Smartsheet management and access rules can take some tweaking to work properly. This may be a case of offering more info to admins so they can apply these better and with more efficiency

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Verified User
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Pricing Details

Nifty

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
Yes
Entry-level set up fee?
Optional
$89/mo

Starting Price

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Nifty Editions & Modules

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Smartsheet

General

Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
—
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—
Entry-level set up fee?
No

Starting Price

$0

Smartsheet Editions & Modules

Edition
Individual$141
Business$252
EnterpriseContact Sales
PremierContact Sales
  1. per month
  2. Per User / Per Month
  3. none
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Likelihood to Renew

Nifty

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Smartsheet

Smartsheet 10.0
Based on 24 answers
It definitely meets our needs as far as organizing and archiving our tasks and files. As we train more staff to view it, I see opportunities for more improvement, which I am sure this program can handle. I look forward to seeing continued improvement from Smartsheet on their capabilities and functionality.

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Courtney Barringer | TrustRadius Reviewer
Courtney Barringer
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Usability

Nifty

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Smartsheet

Smartsheet 8.6
Based on 12 answers
Smartsheet is very easy to learn. However, while I have been able to pick it easily, Microsoft Excel and Project super users that I have trained on Smartsheet get bogged down in the differences and can find it frustrating. Explaining the differences ahead of time and why Smartsheet is being chosen instead of a different software seems to counteract those reactions

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Meghan M. Prentiss | TrustRadius Reviewer
Meghan M. Prentiss
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Support Rating

Nifty

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Smartsheet

Smartsheet 8.1
Based on 90 answers
I give this rating because it fills a niche in the market. MS Project scares many away from proper task management but there are limited tools our there, especially cloud-based that are mobile-friendly. Smartsheet fills this market gap, especially for small to medium-sized businesses. IT is not fair to compare it to MS Project, but fairer to see what gaps it fills.

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Jesse Bickel | TrustRadius Reviewer
Jesse Bickel
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Implementation Rating

Nifty

No score
No answers yet
No answers on this topic

Smartsheet

Smartsheet 10.0
Based on 18 answers
It's absolutely paramount to take a few minutes to actually play with the software. It's nearly impossible to do anything wrong or make a mistake which cannot be fixed easily. Under the help menu is Live Training option. After you familiarize yourself with the commands, watch the live training for some in depth understanding of how to make the software fit your needs perfectly.

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Stephanie Carpenter | TrustRadius Reviewer
Stephanie Carpenter
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Alternatives Considered

Nifty

There's no comparison. Nifty does what all of these do all in one place (with the exception of Slack's community aspect with hashtagging - not sure if Nifty can do this, never tried)Nifty even has the ability to import directly from many other platforms - I've personally imported projects from Trello and Asana, saving tons of time in migration.

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Ashlie Pappas | TrustRadius Reviewer
Ashlie Pappas
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Smartsheet

Jira and Redmine are much more robust and technologically advanced project management solutions. I enjoy using either when managing a very large project. However, I prefer to use Smartsheet for my smaller to medium sized projects. As for Google Drive - I would say that Google sheets and Smartsheet are almost identical in my opinion when it comes to functionality. Personally I prefer to manage smaller projects via Google Drive, but it is a personal preference!

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Verified User
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Return on Investment

Nifty

  • Consistent communications.
  • Staying on project schedule.
  • Aligned projects with business strategies.

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Candace Mitchell | TrustRadius Reviewer
Candace Mitchell
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Smartsheet

  • This has really opened up collaboration across teams. A lot less working in silos.
  • It hasn't fully replaced any one tool so it means having to go to another place. Hopefully, we can eliminate a tool or two in the next six months.

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Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
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