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Overview

What is Coda?

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)…

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Pricing

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Free

$0.00

Cloud
per month

Pro

$10.00

Cloud
per month per doc maker; unlimited editors (paid annually)

Team

$30.00

Cloud
per month per doc maker; unlimited editors (paid annually)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://coda.io/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Coda Beginners Guide: Creating Coda Docs [30-Minute Demo]

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Product Details

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

Coda Screenshots

Screenshot of One unified surface means ideas aren’t limited to a file type. A project doesn’t have to be split across tabs of documents, spreadsheets, and apps.Screenshot of Packs are a version of integrations or plug-ins. They connect the  doc to the apps in use every day, so as to pull live data in or push updates out automatically.Screenshot of Drag-and-drop templates provide a quick-start shortcut to commonly used templates like Upvote/Downvote, To-Do List, and Team Sentiment Tracker.Screenshot of Slice, dice, and chop data using Views. A View is a mirror of data that can be tailored to unique needs, all while staying connected to the source.Screenshot of When accessing the doc from a mobile device, it should feel like an app. Doc pages become tabs, buttons become swipe actions and doc notifications become push notifications.Screenshot of The Doc Gallery contains docs self-published by the Coda community. These published docs have a webpage-like interface and have varying levels of interactivity like view, play or edit. Find and share tools, templates, tiny apps, interactive handbooks, and anything else that can be built in Coda.

Coda Videos

Meet Coda
Learn how Figma's Yuhki Yamashita uses Coda to ship product
Watch Coda CEO & Co-Founder Shishir Mehrotra transform Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson's fabled offsite doc into an interactive Coda doc

Coda Competitors

Coda Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple 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.

Notion, Quip, and Dropbox Paper are common alternatives for Coda.

The most common users of Coda are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Comparisons

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Reviews From Top Reviewers

(1-5 of 19)

Coda is great for creating a single source of truth with customizable views that live update in an aesthetically beautiful way

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 09, 2021
TV
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
2 years of experience
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.
Cons
  • 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.
Very helpful for project management and creating a source of truth. Hasn't been as helpful for resourcing and gantt visuals.

Amazing for high-level product management (plays nice with Jira!)

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 26, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
2 years of experience
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.
Cons
  • 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.
Absolutely top-notch in situations where you need to sort and filter large amounts of data in different views for different groups (simultaneously). Unmatched in its flexibility to customize through formulas and code. We've looked at Airtable, Notion, Smartsheet, and several others, and Coda is the only one who gets the job done.

Coda has been a game-changer for our product team

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 25, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
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.
Cons
  • 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.
It's really great if you want to keep a lot of information organized in a single place. I've found many use cases in my job but also in personal planning outside of work, for example, I created a planner for my MBA cohort with a combined view of all the syllabus work.

Coda delivers on the promise that there is a much better alternative for Excel lists and tables

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 10, 2021
Vetted Review
Verified User
We started to use Coda to
  1. keep track of all of our upstream and downstream customer projects
  2. maintain a detailed view of application and OS configurations,
  3. manage software version compatibility overviews.
We manage our projects in Coda full-fledged, (e.g., with trackers for milestones, deliverables, actions, issues, decisions and more). Soon after establishing that framework, we started to use Coda to publish information relevant for a much wider group in the organization by means of "booklets" comprising a set of views that are filtered, grouped, and formatted as relevant for the audience. It's amazing to see how we've expanded the use of Coda on a week-by-week basis, now including trackers for daily standups, OKRs, and other purposes.
  • 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.
Cons
  • 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.
This is the best tool I ever used that delivers what it promises: it removes the need of using Excel for maintaining lists, filters, lookups, and what have you. Coda combines the power of Excel with a real database, conditional formatting in the tables, and rich text formatting in the text parts. Altogether, it is suitable for use as a company-wide information sharing tool.

Easy access, space for improvement for intuitive search of content

Rating: 6 out of 10
February 25, 2021
LG
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
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.
Cons
  • Intuitive to find information through similar key words, not necessarily exact.
  • Speed when showing the contents, somethings it can lag.
When trying to save and share a higher amount of information without having to use computer space.
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