productboard vs. Zenhub

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
productboard
Score 7.1 out of 10
N/A
productboard, from the company of the same name in San Francisco, is a product management system designed to help product managers understand what users need, prioritize what to build, and rally everyone around a roadmap.
$25
per month
Zenhub
Score 7.4 out of 10
N/A
ZenHub is a project management solution that runs native within GitHub with collaboration boards, file sharing, and pipeline selection.
$0
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Essential
$25.00
per month
Pro
$60.00
per month
Scale
$120.00
per month
Free
$0
Growth
$8.33
per month per user
Growth
$8.33
per month per user
Enterprise
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Enterprise
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
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Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsThe listed prices are per user, per month when billed annually.
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Community Pulse
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Considered Both Products
productboard
Chose productboard
I have previously used Aha another product road mapping/ insights driven software.

Aha had great features for the userbase of my previous products. They were allowed to create their own suggestions for the products and other users could then like or dislike the suggestion. …
Chose productboard
Productboard is more feature-rich. It has very intuitive to use and can be connected to various applications. Showcasing your roadmap is very easy and collaboration is very easy as well.

Productboard has great UX features where you can see the roadmap in multiple ways with …
Chose productboard
Productboard has a modern interface with a great user experience that will help you get onboard really fast especially if you are looking for one place to handle customer insights that are coming from different places and be able to score and report under value vs effort …
Chose productboard
productboard is geared directly towards receiving, organizing, and evaluating product ideas.
Chose productboard
Productboard is leaner, easier to use, and cleaner than Aha! I switched from Aha! to productboard and did not regret the decision. Aha! may be better suited to larger operations or teams, but productboard is perfect for smaller teams and solo product managers.
Zenhub
Chose Zenhub
Zenhub is purpose built for Github users and provides just the tools you need to run Agile sprints without any extra complexity or fluff. Azure is a much more "enterprise" solution in which you drown in all of the available options, very similar story with Jira (pricing is also …
Chose Zenhub
Zenhub partners with Github and it's nice to use both in tandem, ultimately Zenhub has the project management capabilities we were looking for. Additionally Zenhub has a really user-friendly platform that is intuitive and not much training was required for any of the team …
Chose Zenhub
The only other program we tried that had somewhat seamless integration with our GitHub projects is GitKraken's Globoards. Globoards has a long way to go to compete, though it does have a read-only option for boards so it can be displayed corporately as an information radiator …
Chose Zenhub
I have used Workfront in the past, which in my experience, is best with a traditional waterfall methodology, similar to Microsoft Project and the other more traditional project management software projects. ZenHub is truly designed around the agile methodology. Other products …
Chose Zenhub
Way better than competition if you use github because it seamlessly integrates without doing anything. You don't need to duplicate your issues, etc. As long as your devs already use github and github issues this will be a no brainer and simple to implement. With JIRA or Trello …
Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
productboard
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Ratings
Zenhub
7.2
Ratings
7% below category average
Task Management00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings5.80 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings7.00 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings1.00 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings5.40 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings7.90 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings9.70 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
productboard
-
Ratings
Zenhub
9.0
Ratings
15% above category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.4
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
The best feature of productboard is organized features, it has a very simple structure and can be read and understood by anyone. If your roadmap is very dynamic and the executive team needs to be on top of it, productboard is the best application out there. But if you have a small product and features do not change very often, then maybe you can look at other alternatives since productboard is expensive.
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Zenhub is incredible for the below areas: Burndown Charts, Release Reports, Velocity Tracking, Control Points Charts, Cumulative Flow Diagrams And if there is a bottleneck in your workflow, ZenHub identifies it. The most important aspect is serving as a collaboration tool for areas that are impeding implementation projects. For example when working with non-standard ERPs and having to document ERP integrations this tool is very helpful
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Pros
  • Flexibility - organize your products and features in any way you like
  • Input - give your teams a way to make suggestions and provide feedback
  • Integrations
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  • ZenHub continually adds to its reporting suite-- that truly allows you to track forward motion and see what issues may be the cause of any delays.
  • Both our technical and non-technical staff can understand and use the functionality.
  • We like the flexibility of being able to provide labels to our stories that can be customized to the way our company does things--- such as knowing if an epic is part of a module or a stream.
  • We also like the flexibility of the number and labeling of the pipelines--- again, very adaptable to our organization.
  • The filtering is very useful--- with and/or conditions, and allows people on different projects, doing different functions, an easy way to view what is important to them.
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Cons
  • The interface could be improved
  • Input field options could be less restrictive to the capture of data
  • Better notifications / updates on where insights have got to
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  • Sometimes, updates to a GitHub project can get lost if they're made through ZenHub. You do need to open the GitHub project occasionally, as you don't have exactly the same ability to modify issues and milestones from within ZenHub.
  • It's great to be able to see your projects from within ZenHub, but sometimes you'll need to check in on the GitHub project itself, as well.
  • I've run into some problems with updates getting lost on occasion. I think this happens when you do the update from within ZenHub instead of from GitHub itself. I also don't have quite as much control over my issues or milestones from within ZenHub.
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Usability
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Once it's up and running it's easy to use. It needs a little consideration to get set up perfectly for your own needs, but that is the same for any feature-rich software.
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Support Rating
Easy to contact right through their Intercom app and incredibly fast to respond.
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Support is good, but quite honestly, I haven't needed any support since 2015. As I remember, I was required to open a ticket and had to wait a few days for resolution. I give it a rating of 8 because of the lag in getting a solid resolution, but it was resolved adequately.
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Alternatives Considered
I have previously used Aha another product road mapping/ insights driven software. Aha had great features for the userbase of my previous products. They were allowed to create their own suggestions for the products and other users could then like or dislike the suggestion. This created a real reflection on need for product enhancements. productboard handles this slightly differently. Each user creates their own suggestions and doesn't necessarily have visibility on other users suggestions. The product/ R&D team can then tag suggestions together into the same overall suggestion. This requires more input from product/R&D with productboard. I would however, suggest that productboard is better than Aha. Aha is great for an external user point of view; however, there may be case for users to not have visibility on wider user requirements. productboard keeps more of this element hidden and would perhaps stir up less negative correlation to seeing a system requirement/suggest having had a lot of traffic and no action, compared to a more closed system that would individually update each user on the enhancement progress.
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Way better than competition if you use github because it seamlessly integrates without doing anything. You don't need to duplicate your issues, etc. As long as your devs already use github and github issues this will be a no brainer and simple to implement. With JIRA or Trello we were doing everything twice, things got dropped, etc.
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Return on Investment
  • Helps to save us a lot of time collecting feedback.
  • Increased efficiency.
  • Product prioritization can be done in a faster and more robust way.
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  • We are now able to determine output potential from our development resources based on points assignment.
  • We were able to successfully implement an Agile methodology in our department.
  • We have been able to better track tasks.
  • We have used the releases feature to group our task to business release expections and easily filter.
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ScreenShots

Zenhub Screenshots

Screenshot of Zenhub boards are similar to Kanban boards but more powerful as it's powered by data and objects from GitHub. You can also add multiple repos and automate issues across multiple boards.Screenshot of Get real-time updates on a teams performance with Zenhub reportsScreenshot of See and share work in flight with Zenhub roadmapsScreenshot of Automate hand offs between teams with workflow automationScreenshot of Get a snapshot of a team's productivity from Zenhub boardScreenshot of Request, provide and review story point estimates right on the issue. Reduce time spent in meetings by allowing team members to estimate on their own time right in Zenhub