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Flow (discontinued)

Score9.7 out of 10

13 Reviews and Ratings

What is Flow (discontinued)?

The Flow task management app featured a range of tools like kanban board, checklist, timeline, and other features for tracking projects from start to finish. The product is discontinued, and the company Flow Technologies is no longer operating.

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Flow (discontinued) has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
Based on 13 ratings of Flow (discontinued)'s features
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Top Performing Features

  • Resource Management

    Resource management is workload planning to maximize resources.

    Category average: 8.1

  • Gantt Charts

    Gantt charts are charts that show tasks or events along the y-axis displayed against time along the x-axis.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Scheduling

    Scheduling capabilities allow users to set schedules on tasks, and create timelines and milestones.

    Category average: 8.3

Areas for Improvement

  • Budget and Expense Management

    Budget and expense management provides the capability to track all expenses by employee or department and link them back to department. It also enables hourly rates to be set.

    Category average: 7.7

  • Support for Waterfall Methodology

    Waterfall methodology is a tradition development method that is linear and sequential.

    Category average: 7.9

  • Mobile Access

    Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

    Category average: 7.6

Reviews

What users are saying about Flow (discontinued).
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Go with the Flow! (as long as you dont work from your phone)

Incentivized
Dustin Rinehart
Senior Art Director in Social Media at TVGla (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Flow as a project management system to organize and oversee all the task our company is currently working on. We have multiple projects going on at the same time, with employees not only US based but worldwide. Flow allows us to quickly and easily assign and view tasks to get the job done. Our tasks have multiple steps which include design, internal review, client review and delivery updates. Flow's UI allows us to assign and organize tasks without any issues. We've been working with Flow for many years now and have been able to get in contact with their team to implement design choices and updates that would benefit not only our company but I'm sure many others.

Pros

  • Project management
  • User support
  • Organization
  • Ease of use/setup
  • Web and desktop app are great

Cons

  • Mobile app is garbage
  • Would be nice to be able to attach all media types to assignments
  • Sometimes glitchy when implementing new features

Most Important Features

  • Notifications. You can set up desktop app notifications and email notifications so you always know whats going on
  • Ease of use. Over the years we have had a steady increase in employees and no one has had any issues using and getting used to Flow.
  • Organization. Filter by client, projects, due time, assigned tasks or by employee

Return on Investment

  • Delegate tasks easily and quickly
  • @tag employees for quick notifications. No one can say they didnt see your task
  • Negative- mobile app is garbage and would not recommend trying to work from it

Other Software Used

Adobe PhotoShop, Adobe After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro

Manage your daily task with Flow

Incentivized
John Tyagi
Marketing manager in Marketing at Rckcofficial (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The flow Project Management tool is really easy to use. I've been using it for one year and I find it a great way to manage projects, tasks, and timelines. The interface is very easy to use, even for a non-tech person like me. I also appreciate that I have access to my tasks on my phone, so I can respond to requests wherever I am.

Pros

  • Good support
  • Organization
  • Manage projects
  • Great UI

Cons

  • Integrate Google Calendar
  • Improve mobile app

Most Important Features

  • Project management

Return on Investment

  • Improve task management
  • Workflow automation

Flows Nicely with Everything in Project Management Except Reporting

Incentivized
Daniel BerryView profile
Lead-Gen Specialist in Marketing at Cheaper Than Dirt (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Easy-to-use interface
  • Beautiful design
  • Short learning curve

Cons

  • Passing on a task to the next person takes multiple clicks
  • Switching from task to project view isn't seamless
  • Doesn't provide top-notch reporting

Return on Investment

  • Positive impact: improved efficiency
  • Positive impact: easy time trackin
  • Negative impact: poor reporting

Alternatives Considered

Teamwork Projects and Trello

Other Software Used

Teamwork Projects, Trello

Excellent platform to carry out project management in a much simpler way

Incentivized
Hanna BedoyaView profile
Software Developer in Research & Development at iModules (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • Flow contains an interface similar to a social network so using it is really simple.
  • Its interface contains a very clean and organized design.
  • Provides really optimal functions to streamline, plan and organize business projects.
  • It contains high-level support because they are always attentive to questions or problems that are presented to users.
  • Provides much more enjoyable communication so planning and exchanging ideas is really easy.

Cons

  • It would be great to be able to integrate with Google Calendar as this way it is much easier to keep an order of important dates.
  • Your search is somewhat tedious because even though you have searched for a file before, it does not save it, so it must be searched from the beginning.

Return on Investment

  • Implementing Flow has allowed for better performance at the collaborative level since communication is much more efficient.
  • Thanks to that you can take better management of the projects ls deliveries of projects scheduled for certain dates is much faster.
  • It is difficult to forget or pass a delivery date as it allows us to create reminders.

Other Software Used

McAfee Endpoint Security, CloudBerry Backup, Skype for Business (formerly Lync)

Utilitarian project and task management for small business

Incentivized
Rusty AngellView profile
eGroups Director at Elevation Church (201-500 employees employees)

Pros

  • The “catch up” tab is especially helpful for staying up to date with all the projects you are part of.
  • Being able to overview all of the projects and their status within a team helps give our top-level leaders a snapshot of where we are at any given moment.

Cons

  • The lack of sharing ability outside of your organization, if you work with volunteers this really limits how you can work with diverse teams.
  • The UI is not always the most intuitive. While they have been making improvements, there are times that I find myself searching help documents more often than I have another project management systems.

Return on Investment

  • Our biggest issue prior to flow was scrambling at the last minute to meet a project deadline. Flow has helped us manage tasks towards a deadline to execute more successful events and projects.
  • Since Flow is being used across our entire organization, the speed at which we can collaborate cross-departmentally has increased. This is especially true of our communication and collaboration with our Marketing team.
  • Flow has allowed our leadership team to be able to see the progress of a project at any time just by looking at that projects dashboard. This has both given them confidence as well as let them know when they need to intervene.

Alternatives Considered

Asana

Other Software Used

Google Drive, Zoom, Salesforce for Nonprofits