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What is Coda?
Coda is a doc that brings words, data, and teams together. It starts with a blinking cursor on a blank page and can grow as big as a team's ambition. Coda comes with a set of building blocksーlike pages for infinite depth, tables that talk to each other, and buttons that take action inside or outside the docーwhich users can combine to make a doc as powerful as an app. The vendor says people have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests.
Coda Features
- Supported: Pages: Every Coda doc starts with a page. And can grow into as many pages as desired, so users cannot outgrow the doc, no matter how big a team or idea.
- Supported: Tables & Views: A table in Coda can be as simple as a list or as deep as a database. And it can have customizable, connected views, so everyone can work off the same data, in their own preferred way.
- Supported: Controls: Controls—like buttons, select lists, and sliders—to make a doc feel more like an app for teams.
- Supported: Packs: Packs connect Coda doc to apps in use—communication tools, coding tools, and design tools.
- Supported: Formulas: Formulas can live anywhere in Codaーon the page or in a control or table. These are like the connective tissue between building blocks in Coda.
- Supported: Automations: Automation is the building block that puts repetitive yet important tasks on autopilot.
- Supported: Templates: Popular compositions of building blocks are offered as templates and made them available inside the doc.
- Supported: Forms: Collect inputs and data and synthesize using Coda's building blocks to view and filter data
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Coda Integrations
- Zapier
- Slack
- Intercom
- Jira Software
- Typeform
- GitLab
- GitHub
- Shopify
- Twilio
- Google Drive
- Zoom
- Figma
- Miro
- Discourse
- Greenhouse
- Phabricator
- Google Calendar
- Google Translate
- Gmail
- Spotify
- Wikipedia
- YouTube
- Google Contacts
- FedEx
- USPS
- UPS
- Weather
Coda Competitors
- Notion
- Quip
- Dropbox Paper
- Google Docs & Sheets
- Microsoft Office
Coda Technical Details
| Deployment Types | Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application | Apple iOS, Android |
Frequently Asked Questions
Coda, from Coda Project headquartered in San Francisco, is a template-based document generation solution, supporting a variety of use cases presented by the vendor as ideal for smaller companies that might otherwise be relying on spreadsheets to maintain (for instance) product development, or inventory tracking. It is available free, with paid editions to support teams, automations, or for more advanced collaboration and workspace features, as well as more advanced security features.
The most common users of Coda are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Users have found Coda to be a versatile and flexible tool that has helped them in various aspects of their work. One key use case is project management, where Coda has been used to track progress, deadlines, and manage tasks. Customers have also utilized Coda for managing their installation base and generating reports. In addition, the software has been used to create and send customer marketing emails. Another valuable use case is point-of-care usage, where users can easily access and manage relevant information. Coda has also been effective for post-event analysis, enabling users to analyze and evaluate event outcomes. Overall, Coda serves as a centralized platform for teams to collaborate, manage data, and streamline workflows across different departments and industries.
Automation Features: Reviewers have praised the automation features of Coda, with multiple users stating that it has helped streamline their processes. The ability to automate row creations and actions has been particularly appreciated, making tasks more efficient and saving valuable time.
Flexibility and Customization: Many reviewers have highlighted the flexibility of Coda, noting that it allows them to build virtually anything and migrate data from Excel. This feature has been extremely useful in simplifying information access for teams, keeping information current and easily accessible.
User-Friendly Interface: Users have consistently praised the user-friendly interface of Coda, finding it powerful and flexible for document building. The intuitive nature of the interface, along with the use of Coda formulas and Packs, has made it easy for users to create complex documents with ease.
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Limited API access: Several users have expressed frustration over the limited access to APIs in Coda, stating that it hampers their ability to integrate the software with other tools and platforms effectively.
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Steep learning curve: Some reviewers have found that Coda has a steep learning curve, requiring significant time and effort to fully grasp its capabilities and features. They feel that this can be a barrier for new users or those looking for a quick and easy solution.
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Occasional performance issues: A few customers have reported experiencing occasional performance issues with Coda, such as slow loading times or laggy behavior. While not consistently encountered by all users, these disruptions can impact productivity and user experience negatively.
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April 19, 2022
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Score 8 out of 10
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Verified User
We were using Coda in my previous workplace to collaborate within immediate as well as cross-functional teams and use one platform for managing all information instead of spreading work across word documents, presentations, excel sheets, and over areas. Coda provides a very intuitive and flexible platform to organise all information irrespective of the formats.
- Very intuitive to use
- Highly flexible- you dont need to think of formats
- Very agile and collaborative
- Integrations with internal tools are not great. You cannot read/write info to other tools of your choice easily.
- Managing scale can get clumsy.
- Onboarding/ initial learning curve is cumbersome for many users.
April 15, 2022
Coda Rocks!
Coda is allowing our quickly growing company to consolidate and track OKRs across many different departments and functions. We often have multiple programs, spreadsheets and communication streams floating around about the same topic with unique access to each. Coda has allowed us to bring all of this information together in a consolidated and clean format.
- Collaboration
- File sharing
- Knowledge consolidation
- Automated integration with other programs
April 13, 2022
Coda Is The Best By Far
Coda is used across the whole organization and it helps us stay unified as a team by having a resource we can all access. I feel that it makes it much easier to communicate with my team. By being collaborative it allows us to have the freedom to add or edit any docs we need.
- Great organizational tool
- Collaborative
- Easy to use
- None
December 08, 2021
Coda Is One in/for All!
We use Coda to create documents of all sorts -- text, sheets, anything -- and store them. First off, you can easily create any document type: report, to-do list, poll, spreadsheet, etc. You can add tables, images, voting, ranking... whatever comes to your mind. Then you can organize these documents with ease, creating directories with pages and subpages (also, you can add one of many interesting icons to make it all neat and funky). Finally, you can integrate it all with tools such as Gmail or Slack, which saves a ton of time!
- Document creation.
- Storing documents in a neat and organized manner.
- Integration with Gmail and Slack.
- Design can be improved. Sometimes it looks so 80s (font especially).
- It's not very intuitive.
September 28, 2021
Coda the Giant
Currently at my company we use Coda for all of our shared documents. It's essentially the "office" part of us while we're all working remote. It's a source where we keep company information and track and manage our internal processes, from onboarding to company information to track and manage budgets.
- Organization
- collaboration
- dark mode
- It's hard to know all the features or where to start on building a page
- It doesn't seem very intuitive
March 10, 2021
Coda delivers on the promise that there is a much better alternative for Excel lists and tables
We started to use Coda to
- keep track of all of our upstream and downstream customer projects
- maintain a detailed view of application and OS configurations,
- manage software version compatibility overviews.
- Overviews of any kind--think of lists you want to keep in Excel, but then easier and better.
- Links between tables (references, look-ups).
- Extensive filtering capabilities.
- Conditional formatting.
- Publishing/sharing information with a wider user group.
- Creating multiple different views based on the same primary table.
- It would be great if the row height of text fields could be capped to an x-number of lines. Now, you can select to use wrap/unwrap; however, headings and hard returns can still make the rows too high.
- The formulas in Coda are very powerful yet can turn somewhat confusing, too. The good thing is that there are many YouTube videos available with instructions. Still, it may take certain users quite some time to get a good grasp on the formulas.
- The speed of loading the pages has improved and should be improved further.
March 09, 2021
Coda is great for creating a single source of truth with customizable views that live update in an aesthetically beautiful way
We started using Coda to solve the problem of teams using a variety of trackers and there not being a single source of truth. This has proved to be a powerful tool to help many cross-functional teams align on key information that is needed at every level but allowing departments, teams, and individuals to tailor their views to their specific needs.
- Aesthetics - We have used many other programs, but Coda by far looks the best.
- Ease of use - it is fun to build Coda documents!
- Support - the customer support has been phenomenal.
- Gantt - working on making improvements, but still need more.
- Freezing Columns - would like to freeze so can see the far left column while side scrolling.
- Infrastructure training.
March 03, 2021
Great tool to use
We use Coda as a tool to update our internal users on an ongoing project. The project affects many people across different departments and we wanted to give them a space to read about what's going on at product and tech level. There are only two of us creating the content and we communicate it via email/workplace to our target audience
- You have a variety of contect you can create
- There are predefined templates that you can use
- You can invite people via email domain
- The features sometimes are not as intuitive and it can take hours to do something as you envision it
- Often what looks great on a laptop looks bad on a mobile
- Feature updates or improvements deployed by coda can change how your content looks and you may not be aware for a while until you stumble across it
March 01, 2021
Incredible Organization & Automation for Power Users
We're using Coda across our entire organization to sidestep the mess caused by dozens (and hundreds) of disconnected Google docs.
On my team, it helps us keep all our plans for upcoming product, design, and marketing work in one place. It's brilliant as a source of truth because we can create a table with key project information once and re-use across multiple filtered views depending on our needs.
On my team, it helps us keep all our plans for upcoming product, design, and marketing work in one place. It's brilliant as a source of truth because we can create a table with key project information once and re-use across multiple filtered views depending on our needs.
- Flexibility. It's easy to get started on a small scale, but add more complex organization strategies as needed.
- Integrations. It's simple to ingest data from sources like Zapier for time-saving automations.
- Useful components. View table data across different formats like cards or custom detail views.
- Doesn't map 1:1 to spreadsheets. You can't use Coda to replace Google Sheets / Excel 100% of the time. Its database-like structure is an advantage for some use cases, but a limiting factor for others.
- Formulas aren't intuitive. You can unlock seriously powerful workflows with the formulas provided, but they're far less intuitive than something like Google Sheets / Excel. This often leads to buggy or incorrectly set up documents too.
- Difficult to manage complexity. You can put lots of data in one tool. But this can easily become cluttered, confusing, and sometimes redundant if a clear organization strategy isn't applied for larger documents.
February 26, 2021
Coda--the doc you've been missing
I use Coda within my team to manage some simple lists. We work with a variety of clients across the globe, and using some of Coda's visualizations helps us keep track of who we are working with and what projects they are associated with.
- Connected lists
- Dynamic documents
- Document formatting (don't format calculations differently than the rest of the document)
- Additional visualizations--mapping multiple locations
February 26, 2021
Amazing for high-level product management (plays nice with Jira!)
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Coda for the birds-eye view of our product management process. Tickets live in Jira, but because of Jira's inflexibility with respect to sorting and filtering tickets, we import everything into Coda in order to get a flexible, big picture view. The ability to sort and filter the same list of tickets in slightly different ways for different teams is invaluable. It's the only reason our process works!
- Organizing information.
- Sorting and filtering in multiple views.
- Importing issues from Jira.
- UI responsiveness with large amounts of data
- UI design: It's good but could be even better.
- Flexibility in customizing look & feel of components/tables.
February 25, 2021
Great for user research and project management
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use it for user research and project management. Switching from spreadsheets to a database approach has been great, and allows for tables to [be] synced to new pages to strip out sensitive information.
- Customer support
- Sharing information
- Data management and analysis
- Bit of a learning curve with formulas, but has good support for this
- Can't download it all in one go
Coda is still in a developmental stage in our organization. We are still learning and discovering where it can drive impact. Right now, we currently use it for:
Installation base management/reporting, Project management, Customer marketing emails, Point-of-care usage, Post-event analysis, Trackers, simple address book serving as a foundations to a simple CRM, Shielding calculation
Installation base management/reporting, Project management, Customer marketing emails, Point-of-care usage, Post-event analysis, Trackers, simple address book serving as a foundations to a simple CRM, Shielding calculation
- Automation is fantastic. Automating row creations and actions has helped streamline a lot of our processes without sacrificing too much time and effort, making overall transition easier for most of the users.
- Flexibility. We can virtually build almost anything and migrate things from our Excel.
- Simplifies information access for the team, keeping information current and accessible.
- App-like feel in mobile. This is one of the winning points when we took up Coda.
- In the past 1 year of using Coda, I have observed large leaps of development and new feature release. This gives confidence to me as a new user that this product is here to stay and tries its best to stay relevant.
- It takes getting used to in terms of how the formulas per column is implemented, in contrast to how we build tables in Excel. For organization/team purchase, it would be worth considering having a training for the core team of users. Right now, we do a lot of self-learning.
- Inability to email charts or image without these objects being hosted on a third party. The community has been great in providing workarounds but it would be much more convenient to be able to have such ability natively.
- APAC Support. I'm based in Malaysia, due to timezone differences, even with a livechat implemented, the support for each step and conversation takes up to 24 hours per response. Having some hours covered in our timezone would greatly improve customer support experience.
February 25, 2021
Coda's flexibility allows us to dream up workflows that were difficult to streamline before.
Coda is being used as a multi-purpose application, an additional tool in our toolbelt (as we say). It is primarily being used for project management, team management, visibility, and collaboration. It just depends on the purpose. Coda's use cases and userbase are still growing, but there are some teams that have fully leaned into using Coda as a vital tool to their workflows.
As my team is made up of subject matter experts throughout the entertainment industry and located all over the world, it's difficult to find a tool that can not only accommodate all of their different styles of approach and also provide the flexibility to create a workflow that works for everyone. Coda was the first application that really could do this for us.
As my team is made up of subject matter experts throughout the entertainment industry and located all over the world, it's difficult to find a tool that can not only accommodate all of their different styles of approach and also provide the flexibility to create a workflow that works for everyone. Coda was the first application that really could do this for us.
- Ease of creating databases and automations.
- User-friendly interface.
- Powerful and flexible doc building through the use of Coda formulas and Packs.
- Providing support to their customers.
- Constantly providing improvements and rolling out new functionality.
- "Barrier of entry" is a little high for those who do not have any database experience.
- More out-of-the-box integrations with other applications would be nice.
- Performance for very heavy loaded/traffic documents could be improved.
- Scalability for enterprise level customers and doc loads could be improved.
February 25, 2021
Coda applied to Higher Education management
I use it for my personal work at the International Office. It has been of great help with the management of big numbers of incoming and outgoing mobilities, and as an excellent tool for more general purposes, like organizing my workflow and helping me to keep everything organized.
- Organizing ideas.
- Interrelating tables.
- Organizing different sources of information in the same place.
- Sometimes it can be complicated to realize how to put into practice some of its multiple features.
February 25, 2021
Coda has been a game-changer for our product team
One of our product designers introduced Coda to our team last year and it's been an absolute game-changer. We started using it with the Product team as a way to keep one "source of truth" for all the documents, project tracking, etc. But we've expanded it to create an entire research repository, using it for team standups and I also use it for my 1:1s and goal tracking.
- One source of truth: It's incredibly easy to keep everything organized and easy to find.
- Being able to show different views of the same information throughout your doc makes it really easy to customize the information.
- In general, I love the "coding" aspect of it, and being able to do advanced functions has helped us create some really interesting automation and streamline our process.
- The biggest improvement would be allowing individual adjustments to cells in tables and not just the entire column.
- The charts could be improved; I find that they aren't great at putting the information in a logical order (ascending, descending).
- Templating would be really nice to create something that can easily be duplicated cross doc or within a doc.
I am the main Coda developer in my company. We've used Coda for a couple of years mainly as a database.
We are an engineering company working on many projects, so a unified document lets us centralize deadlines, information, tasks, and people involved. It is very useful to search for information based on different filters. This setup lets us have a better and more organized view of future deadlines and useful exploitation of information.
We are an engineering company working on many projects, so a unified document lets us centralize deadlines, information, tasks, and people involved. It is very useful to search for information based on different filters. This setup lets us have a better and more organized view of future deadlines and useful exploitation of information.
- Creating a solid and unified database of information.
- Lots of capabilities over filtering out data and show them.
- Responsive support team that really tries hard to help you out.
- Better customization on calendar layout.
February 25, 2021
Coda facilitates internal communication
Coda has been a game-changer for our team, as we've used it to increase transparency and visibility in upwards communication about our roadmap to leadership. Because of the flexibility and tooling, we've been able to link Coda to Slack, Jira, GCal, and more to build extremely helpful workflows and automations to keep various teams informed.
- Automation
- Organization
- Flexibility
- Collaboration
- Notifications
- Support
February 25, 2021
Coda to the rescue
We use Coda by department across our studio. It helps manage bookings, holds, incoming projects, and the artists we have, both staff and freelance. Several people in my department use it so when we make changes or add notes, we can all see them and communicate effectively on how we want to proceed with our current jobs in-house.
- Organization
- Scheduling
- Skill assessment
- Communication
- Communication with other software.
February 25, 2021
Great product for big teams!
We are using Coda across the product org (PMs PDs EMs PMMs) to write 360 docs, track progress OKRs, status updates, and team meetings. I personally use Coda for getting pulse updates and weekly statuses for my marketing team. Coda helps us have a source of truth for user interviews and cross-functional projects.
- The use case templates.
- Accessibility and navigation.
- Providing updates & tagging capabilities.
- Copy & pasting templates can be confusing.
February 25, 2021
Easy access, space for improvement for intuitive search of content
We currently use Coda to collect all our SOPs for different corporate roles. I find the search engine of the program can be improved to be more intuitive. I have found myself checking multiple documents before actually finding the specific information/manual I want to access. Unless the specific keywords of the manual are typed as part of my search, I would have to ask other teams to share the actual link to access the information needed. I really enjoy having the option to expand and contract titles and subtitles in order to have a wider view of the information and expand the specific subject needed.
- I really enjoy having the option to expand and contract titles and subtitles in order to have a wider view of the information and expand the specific subject needed.
- Being an online tool accessible to many users.
- Intuitive to find information through similar key words, not necessarily exact.
- Speed when showing the contents, somethings it can lag.
February 25, 2021
Coda: What a God-send for startups!
We are currently using Coda across multiple departments to help us work cross-functionally. Our design, sales, engagement, business ops, and customer success teams use it. The only team that doesn't use it would be our development team because they currently have their own tools.
It allows us to build docs and sheets according to our needs, with full flexibility as our company evolves and scales. We really enjoy the flexibility aspect of making it our own and fitting our business needs. We are also able to use templates that are provided by the Coda team to build off of and create future templates for our team. We can design financial modeling templates, track duties and metrics on an internal basis, and task management across all teams.
It allows us to build docs and sheets according to our needs, with full flexibility as our company evolves and scales. We really enjoy the flexibility aspect of making it our own and fitting our business needs. We are also able to use templates that are provided by the Coda team to build off of and create future templates for our team. We can design financial modeling templates, track duties and metrics on an internal basis, and task management across all teams.
- Flexible functionality.
- Ease of use.
- Great affordable price-point.
- Some of the Coda templates can be overwhelming.
- Some of the formulas can be non-intuitive.
- Not well known—yet!
February 24, 2021
Automatization is your best friend
Coda helped us managed our projects in a way no other platform has done it. Eternal spreadsheets are now in the past. Our efficiency has improved as well.
We are currently managing clients, sale orders and monitoring progress in experimental projects. We are intending to use Coda across our company, in other departments due to its automation-user friendly options. We believe this is the opera prima of Coda, users will find more time to dedicate in other tasks, with more complexity and more ad-on value.
We are currently managing clients, sale orders and monitoring progress in experimental projects. We are intending to use Coda across our company, in other departments due to its automation-user friendly options. We believe this is the opera prima of Coda, users will find more time to dedicate in other tasks, with more complexity and more ad-on value.
- Automatization
- Formulas
- Table management
- Pages and sections with its links
- Stability
- App
- Formulas Q&A
February 24, 2021
Coda is an organizational dream
My team uses coda to centrally track OKRs, project status, and project details. Coda makes it easy to stay organized and have a source of truth.
- My favorite feature is the ability to create views of tables and roll ups.
- Coda is completely customizable and easy to share
- Replaces having multiple google docs, sheets, etc.
- Some of the features are not intuitive such as copy and paste