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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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Coda Reviews

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 19, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified 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 spre...
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Verified user
Employee
Coda2 years of experience

Coda Rocks!

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 15, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 c...
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Verified user
Manager
Coda1 year of experience

Coda Is The Best By Far

Rating: 9 out of 10
April 13, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 wi...
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Verified user
Employee

Coda Is One in/for All!

Rating: 8 out of 10
December 8, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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, spreads...
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Verified user
Manager
Coda1 year of experience

Coda the Giant

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 28, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 compa...
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Chelsea Thompson
Account Manager - Customer Service
Talent Coach
Plato HQ
Coda3 years of experience

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
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We started to use Coda to keep track of all of our upstream and downstream customer projectsmaintain a detailed view of application and OS configurations,manage software versi...
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Verified user
Director

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 9, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 man...
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Tara Vajra
Manager - Other
Program Manager
MasterClass
Coda2 years of experience

Great tool to use

Rating: 7 out of 10
March 3, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 re...
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Verified user
General Manager
Coda1 year of experience

Incredible Organization & Automation for Power Users

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 1, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 f...
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Matt Woods
Employee - Product Management
Growth Product Manager
Tailwind

Coda--the doc you've been missing

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 26, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 w...
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John Sanchez
Manager - Information Technology
Technical Success Team Lead
MaritzCX
Coda3 years of experience

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 26, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified 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, ...
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Verified user
C-Level Executive
Coda2 years of experience

Great for user research and project management

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 25, 2021
Vetted ReviewVerified 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 ...
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Verified user
Director
Coda1 year of experience

Driving cost-effective and meaningful impact in small-medium enterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 25, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 b...
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Pearl Cheah
Manager - Other
Physics & Application Manager
Transmedic Group
Coda1 year of experience

Coda's flexibility allows us to dream up workflows that were difficult to streamline before.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 25, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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, visibili...
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Camille Hidalgo Nussbaum, CSM®
Project Manager - Other
Project Manager, Creative Technologies
Netflix
Coda2 years of experience

Coda applied to Higher Education management

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 25, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
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 excellen...
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Verified user
Manager
Coda1 year of experience
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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

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Coda Integrations

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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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Reviews and Ratings

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Community Insights

TrustRadius Insights are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, 3rd-party data sources. Have feedback on this content? Let us know!

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.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

Reviews

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Coda Reviews

Rating: 8 out of 10
April 19, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Very intuitive to use
  • Highly flexible- you dont need to think of formats
  • Very agile and collaborative
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is extremely agile and works really well for highly collaborative organisations that do not want to get into the hassles of managing different formats and storage of different information. It makes organising information very structured and easy and also keeps it highly collaborative for internal as well as external teams.

Coda Rocks!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 15, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Collaboration
  • File sharing
  • Knowledge consolidation
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda has served us well as we establish and measure OKRs on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis. The multitude of owners that play a role in these results creates challenges as it pertains to information gathering, sharing and reporting. Coda is helping us solve all of these challenges. Coda is working well for our smaller organization but could present challenges at a larger enterprise.

Coda Is The Best By Far

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
April 13, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Great organizational tool
  • Collaborative
  • Easy to use
Likelihood to Recommend
We like Coda because it's very simple and easy to use. It's a great resource for us as we can be aligned with each other and can instantly make updates or changes if need be. Instead having multiple open documents it's very convenient to have this in one place. So our team definitely takes advantage of the different features and having separate sections to keep things organized.

Coda Is One in/for All!

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
December 08, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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!
Pros and Cons
  • Document creation.
  • Storing documents in a neat and organized manner.
  • Integration with Gmail and Slack.
Likelihood to Recommend
Well-suited scenario: A team works on a report. An outline is very clear since we use pages and subpages. It contains images and tables and that is well combined. Everyone can add their part, and also everyone can leave comments. Less-appropriate scenario: A new person needs to get onboarded and learn to use Coda. Past familiarity with text editors is of no use and it will take significant time.

Coda the Giant

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
September 28, 2021
CT
Chelsea Thompson
Talent Coach
Plato HQ (Professional Training & Coaching, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Organization
  • collaboration
  • dark mode
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is great if you know how to code documents and it's good for storing information in an organized manner. However if you're looking for a simple solution I don't think this is it, to get good one would need training.

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

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 10, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

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
Incentivized
March 09, 2021
TV
Tara Vajra
Program Manager
MasterClass (E-Learning, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Very helpful for project management and creating a source of truth. Hasn't been as helpful for resourcing and gantt visuals.

Great tool to use

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 03, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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
Pros and Cons
  • You have a variety of contect you can create
  • There are predefined templates that you can use
  • You can invite people via email domain
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is great to build a place for your users to go to and see information. It is easy to navigate through and the variety of content creation is great. However, it is not always easy to create what you want and there is a lot of playing around and learning.
Coda also sometimes misses some functionality which is expected. For example, downloading a list of users that have access to the platform. Being able to send push notifications when a new page has been created etc.
Overall it is a good tool to use just be prepared to invest time!

Incredible Organization & Automation for Power Users

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
March 01, 2021
MW
Matt Woods
Growth Product Manager
Tailwind (Marketing & Advertising, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
When Coda Works Well
  • Using Airtable, but struggling to add the right context + automation? Coda's document/database hybrid with smart automation could save you tons of time.
  • Hitting the limits of your latest Google Sheet? Coda brings a fuller set of features that unlock collaboration and can help you filter down the complexity in some cases.
  • Setting up a no-code internal tool for your team? Coda excels at most use cases like this. Automate idea collection, voting, etc.

When Coda Doesn't Work Great
  • Collaborating with users outside your team? You probably want Google Docs instead.
  • Want a simple, no-fuss spreadsheet or doc? Coda's extra features might just get in the way.

Coda--the doc you've been missing

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 26, 2021
JS
John Sanchez
Technical Success Team Lead
MaritzCX (Information Technology & Services, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Connected lists
  • Dynamic documents
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is a document that can leverage formulas. It is great for creating documents that need to summarize data from tables. It can also visualize the tables of data in multiple ways (e.g., a contact list can be shown in a normal spreadsheet-style view or in a series of cards).

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

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 26, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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!
Pros and Cons
  • Organizing information.
  • Sorting and filtering in multiple views.
  • Importing issues from Jira.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Great for user research and project management

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Customer support
  • Sharing information
  • Data management and analysis
Likelihood to Recommend
Takes a while to create a template for user research but having done so it's much cheaper than dedicated alternatives.
Great for natural language (NLP) analysis, much easier than using Google's tools directly.
Very good for project management and integrating with other tools.

Driving cost-effective and meaningful impact in small-medium enterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
PC
Pearl Cheah
Physics & Application Manager
Transmedic Group (Medical Device, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
View profile
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
I think Coda is well suited for management of simple data in general. I'm a medical physicist, so some of our calculations are quite complex. This makes it such that I have to break down the formula into various columns and run a multiple calculations before it can output to a final result that I want. Hence, complex calculations, while workable, expect to spend more time in the building process. And if it's too large a data for calculations, you might run into a less than optimal situation with document loading.

We are still discovering more areas to work on and where it can add value/impact to our internal processes. I believe there's still room for growth in our usage for our organization.

Coda's flexibility allows us to dream up workflows that were difficult to streamline before.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is an excellent tool for custom project and team management. Unlike other PM platforms, you can create your own framework that works for you and your audience. With that said, the flexibility can be overwhelming, but once you are familiar with how to navigate and code, the possibilities are nearly endless.

What has been a great use case for us is that folks are doing project management in a number of tools (i.e. a memo, a database, a to-do list, etc.) and you can actually bring all of that into one Coda doc. Coda provides a space to create a real source of truth, jumping off point, hub, etc. and that has been very helpful for us to create more streamlined workflows and data cleanliness.

Coda applied to Higher Education management

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Organizing ideas.
  • Interrelating tables.
  • Organizing different sources of information in the same place.
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is very well suited for multiple purposes, but the user should be ready to devote some time in the beginning to grasp all the possibilities and the way to implement them. Some tech-savvy recommended.

Coda has been a game-changer for our product team

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
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.

Simple and effective solution to create a rich database of informations.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is well suited for creating a unified database that the company can use to have a better view of future deadlines or to analyze and evaluate past work. Once the database created, it is very easy to filter out and search for information. We do not use it as an everyday platform to share and exchange information.

Coda facilitates internal communication

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Automation
  • Organization
  • Flexibility
Likelihood to Recommend
For our team, we've found that Coda is a great place and aptly suited for consolidated updates and roadmaps. On the other hand, we've seen that it is less appropriate for writing specs and collaborating on joint documents since the tooling is not as comprehensive as it is in other tools like Google Docs.

Coda to the rescue

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Organization
  • Scheduling
  • Skill assessment
  • Communication
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is well suited for keeping track of people and what projects they are on. It's also easy to keep track of the skill set of each person with great filtering to see who all has the same skill but also the breakdown of who is better at said skill.

Great product for big teams!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • The use case templates.
  • Accessibility and navigation.
  • Providing updates & tagging capabilities.
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is great if you have cross-functional dependencies or manage large teams. It's been a central place for us to track progress on key projects. I do think that for tracking more granular projects, an Asana or Jira is better suited but Coda is great if you have different use cases like status meetings, etc.

Easy access, space for improvement for intuitive search of content

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
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Luisa Gomez
Family Concierge Associate
Sprout Therapy (Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
When trying to save and share a higher amount of information without having to use computer space.

Coda: What a God-send for startups!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Flexible functionality.
  • Ease of use.
  • Great affordable price-point.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a small/lean team that needs software that can scale with you, Coda will be so good for you. What's attractive is their team of support agents, affordable pricepoint, and library of templates to make your own.

Automatization is your best friend

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 24, 2021
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • Automatization
  • Formulas
  • Table management
  • Pages and sections with its links
Likelihood to Recommend
Managing projects, teams and sales. Managing large scale projects, by time or complexity, is not recommended. Coda is best when you have identified the process you think are messy or can be automatized, or both. Recommended for users who must track progress and Excel is too complicated to understand for others. Not recommended for those who have specific task, or one-day rush duties.

Coda is an organizational dream

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 24, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.
Pros and Cons
  • 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.
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is great for tracking projects, project documentation, OKRs, and anything where you have multiple people needing to update information.
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