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December 09, 2019
IFTTT's value is how much time it saves my clients.
I use IFTTT to help set up starter information for several of my client's blogs. One of the services offered by my business is researching industry news or other relevant news for blog posts. For example, I set up apps at IFTTT that will post set information from online, feeds or internal website use directly as a blog draft. I can use the drafts to decided what information I want to expained upon to create blog post(s).
- They are easier to use than other products.
- Website is straight forward giving you the information you need and not information you don't.
- You can quickly set it up so data goes directly to cloud spreadsheets.
- Email to social media share.
- Ability to have several users on one account.
- Create your own app. I wish I could add more custom codes or shortcuts to draw other information automatically.
It allows for automation of fairly simple and straightforward tasks, while remaining a maintainable and fluent user experience for orchestrating workflows across SaaS products. The fact that the supported products keeps growing ensures we leverage it more as our needs change.
- Orchestrates among SaaS products.
- Provides a maintainable and fluent UX.
- Ensures integration between top-of-class products.
- Support for more actions/parameters per integrated service.
- An event pipeline for orchestration.
- Programmatic capabilities.
August 19, 2019
IFTTT for Enterprise Integration
IFFT is being used as part of our automation back end. We are currently using it as a bridge between multiple services such as Google and different sensors that do not normally talk to each other. We are using IFFT to publish data to Google Docs and read in data from other services.
- Very simple interface.
- Connects to a multitude of services and sensors.
- Allows integration between services that would normally require expensive custom solutions.
- The interface is sometimes too simple.
- There are some clunky issues when you want to do more than one event at a time.
- Not open for full customization.
We used IFTTT for some of our prototyping before we built out a more complicated orchestration tool behind the scenes. It was a great way for us to connect a couple of services we've built in the past so that we can easily move things up to production.
- Quick and light weight.
- Fairly reliable.
- Easy to set up and adopt new connections.
- Wish it had a better way to chain commands. It only has a single step and is not very easy for complex operations.
- It's a little too basic and has issues working with a more complex use case. When you have requirements to do transformations, it is not the right solution.
- Some less used integrations break since they aren't used regularly. Support isn't always up to date on all integrations.
December 03, 2018
If you read this then you will use IFTTT
IFTTT is used in our organization to automate and connect different software platforms quickly and reliably. With this tool, we are able to get notifications or link different, but similar, tools together. For example, I can link my Todoist To Do lists to my Google calendar, so calendar events go into my to-do list, where I track my day. Basically, it allows us to use the tools we feel comfortable with, while still connecting to tools that we may not use as often.
- The large library of applets and services allows for many options and uses
- The user interface is straight forward and simple to use
- Apps for mobile devices allows for additional features and event triggers
- Ability to make your own applets or connect your own software with the IFTTT Platform and tools
- Free
- Sometimes the Android application can be a bit buggy
- Android application drains the battery
- Sometimes the applications can already do what IFTTT applets are designed to do
I am a game designer and health researcher working at health games in a Brazilian public health institution. Our team is small and we have to take many roles simultaneously. At the same time, it is normal that contacts and events cross between our professional, academic and personal lives. We started to use IFTTT to streamline some routine processes of our daily work schedule, allowing us to coordinate the many apps we use.
- Save our iOS contacts to a team shared Google spreadsheet
- Create an iOS reminder on my iPhone when a card (task) is assigned to me on Trello
- Log our Uber trips to a Google spreadsheet
- The website section "Activity" tends to get very crowded over time. It would benefit from some search and filter functionalities.
- Some services lack ingredients. "Ingredients" are attributes passed from one service to another to enhance IFTTT's power. However, some services (like Evernote's notes, for example) currently have too few ingredients available.
- It is not possible to link more than two services. It would be great, for example, to have an option to take a mail message and post in multiple social networks and blogs with the same applet.
December 05, 2018
A quick solution to social sharing RSS feeds
I use IFTTT for quick and easy social sharing to ensure that content I create is being marketed. It’s helpful because instead of having to remember to post on all of my social media channels, IFTTT will pull any updates to the RSS feed and post automatically. I use this for my blog and for my podcast.
- Easy to find applets
- Easy to implement applets
- Easy to review which applets are on
- Easy to monitor applets in use
- None
December 20, 2018
IFTTT keeps me updated when I need to be
We use IFTTT to help us to monitor changes to websites. This enables us to notify clients and react when appropriate to these changes.
It works best with RSS feeds as it can detect when a change occurs, often within minutes.
It works best with RSS feeds as it can detect when a change occurs, often within minutes.
- Step-by-step setup
- Email alerts that do not require any further installations
- Tons of options to choose from
- There is a final step when creating a recipe that seems superfluous. There have been occasions in the past when I thought I was finished and closed the page only to realize that I hadn't completed the process.
- The email alerts are great but become generic if you don't edit each one
- It is very hard to search your recipes, making it difficult to isolate ones you can delete.
November 26, 2018
IFTTT manages social media so well it deserves a raise!
As the Director of studentLife, the youth ministry at a medium sized church, we use social media to communicate regularly with our students, parents, and volunteers. Because of the number of different social media platforms, plus the differing formats for images and posts, IFTTT has been a huge help for us to post across all the platforms. Our primary use for IFTTT is to take a post from one platform and have it post the same information, in a native format, to the others.
- IFTTT manages a number of social media accounts quite well. Being able to login to one platform with access to all your accounts is great.
- IFTTT is easy to set up. IFTTT has a number of crowd sourced and created formulas that you can use, or if you're looking for something specific you can create your own. This allows for an endless number of combinations and ways to engage with the program.
- IFTTT doesn't require constant upkeep. Once you have things setup you can forget about it and it just works.
- IFTTT can occasionally cause some confusion because of the massive amounts of possible ways you can set it up. The customization and flexibility are great, but sometimes it can be a bit overwhelming.
- Every once in a while IFTTT slows down and I have to manually have the formulas check before they run.
- I have not, as of yet, figured out a way to incorporate more than one account of each type on the IFTTT platform.
November 08, 2018
IFTTT - Save Time and Automate!
The nonprofit I used to work for was very lean, so automation was key. We used IFTTT to trigger posts between Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and other socials. In addition, we would use it to kickoff certain actions internally such as email notifications, automatically creating calendar events, etc. IFTTT was a great way to integrate different apps that didn't have a direct integration.
- Their UX and UI for creating recipes is brilliant. So easy to use and very well thought out.
- I love that you can search for recipes other users have created and implement those if you choose to do so. It saved me so much time vs. having to figure certain recipes on my own.
- Their notification and syncing options are spot on. I love how much I can customize what I want to see. Their variety of apps is also phenomenal and I love that they're adding new integrations/apps every week.
- There are some apps/recipes that are very basic where I wish the integrations would go a bit deeper. I wish there was a bit more control over which fields you could sync into and more actions available to take.
- Sometimes when I've created a recipe I would get an error message that it automatically turned off, but no info on why the recipe stopped running.
- Their recipes are easy to implement, but sometimes it can be hard to understand what exactly a recipe will do. Perhaps having a video of a recipe in action could help better explain a recipe's actions.
IFTTT is used by our marketing department to automate certain marketing and business processes. For example, every time a live webinar concludes and the recording is available to be posted, a reminder is sent to the person whose job it is to post the recording in our membership area. Other uses include posting new blog posts automatically to several social media channels when appropriate.
- Once you set it up you can pretty much forget about it. If there is an issue with one of the rules, they will send you an email to let you know.
- IFTTT connects pretty much all the apps that you need connected.
- Whenever I come across a step that should need no human action, I try to set it up with IFTTT first.
- At first it is hard to learn the "language" of IFTTT but once you get the concept, it is easy to set up rules that will automate your business.
- There are many superfluous sample rules that are show cased that will make you wonder, Why would anybody want that? But the idea is to give you a picture of endless possibilities.
November 16, 2018
IFTTT is great, but married to Buffer, is an ideal match.
I use IFTTT and manage its use by my clients, mostly as a secondary level of Social Media publication automation. It is used by clients' marketing/media/content departments, but as a whole by myself. The business problems it addresses are how to connect Social Media and other off-site platforms to mainly trigger as a result of content published otherwise by Buffer app. Not all of Buffer, especially its free version, provides the reach a brand can achieve by simply using a single platform (I usually use Twitter) to trigger other relevant platforms with automated, scheduled publishing.
- It connects/triggers non-Buffer platforms such as Diigo, Blogger, Medium, Digg and Tumblr.
- From a Social Media standpoint, this is a strength as it mitigates the time and energy otherwise spent manually publishing to each.
- The biggest hurdle is how the "recipes" occasionally fail. Sometimes they don't trigger for days or weeks, so you have to monitor all recipes, checking them to make sure they're active still. Otherwise, you have to check the platforms themselves, which is a good idea, regardless, but for the purpose of automation, when a recipe stops or even pauses, your content is not published, nor are you notified.
- I believe a lot of this issue stems from the fact that users create so many recipes. I would recommend IFTTT vet all recipes, like Google Play vets apps, to assure any solutions users might employ will always work as advertised.
I used IFTTT to set up complicated steps that needed notifications to input data into other systems. At the time, API integrations were few an far between so it was difficult to get what I needed without a million tabs open to cross reference things. With IFTTT, I was able to automate checking with an extremely limited budget.
- Alerting to new information
- Making different programs create work flows
- It can get complicated with a number of different steps
- Daunting for a first time user
I personally use IFTTT to automate tasks and improve efficiency. There's always "little things" that need to be done through the course of a work day in fitness, and little events that trigger other things that need to happen. IFTTT allows me to think less, work smarter, and make sure I'm not missing out on any of the things that need doing without necessarily having to pour over a checklist every time.
- IFTTT integrates with many of the apps and programs I use on a regular basis, increasing it's value and usefulness to me and my business.
- IFTTT has a pretty easy to use and intuitive structure - it really is "if this... then that"! No complicated formulas, structures, or commands.
- The user interface is visually attractive and easy to navigate on any platform.
- It would be great if I could create more specific or specialized triggers in IFTTT, for example, triggering a specific task at a specific time to be added to my ToDoist on a specific list, label, or project.
- It would be great to see more professional products, including my Club Management Software (ClubOS) and my virtual coaching platform (Trainerize), integrated into IFTTT.
I use it to send text notifications about sales of automated products so I know how my funnels are performing and the passive income my company is making.
- Automation
- Syncing
- Warning you when you need to update account info to keep the sync going.
- Sometimes texts / automations lag by a day or more. This has only been happening very recently though.
November 07, 2018
IFTTT makes the connections to keep us alert.
Most of the integrations that we are using help ensure that connections with constituents are not lost by sending off notifications when certain actions are fulfilled within our Salesforce Org.
- Many systems available
- Fun to play around with
- Easy to use and link systems
- Repository of other recipes created by other users
- Limitations on some business platforms
- Many links must be made at the user level to connect systems
November 07, 2018
IFTTT is the automation tool of choice!
IFTTT is a tool that works behind the scenes to help us automate some of the work in the office. We use it to connect Twitter to our Google accounts, which automate tweets we schedule on our calendar. We use IFTTT to help share information between systems, including emails, notifications, and data being sent to Slack. It is so easy to use and set up, it has saved us money and a huge amount of time.
- Automate tweets using Google Calendar. You can use a spreadsheet to import a tweet schedule to your calendar, then IFTTT will watch for your keywords and tweet for you. This has replaced the need for a social media automation tool.
- We've used IFTTT to connect to "smart" lights. When there is a sale on the sales floor, the light changes colors for a visual display of congratulations.
- It would be nice if there were more business software platforms on IFTTT, but I think that will come with time.
- I wish the site had an area to search pre-built integrations based on category or need.
- There really aren't too many cons to using IFTTT, the service gets better all the time and continues to grow almost daily.
I use IFTTT to facilitate communication between automation and IoT devices and services that would otherwise not be compatible with each other. It provides a flexible foundation for this integration. The ability to customize the connectivity for our needs makes it a good option when the hardware is not an option.
- The biggest feature is the ability to connect multiple devices that would not otherwise be able to be controlled.
- The ability to script actions between applets and devices based upon input from each other is vital to providing a fluid automated IoT system of separate things.
- Integration with more services
- Even if on a limited basis, allow custom applets to regular users.
November 12, 2018
IFTTT - Not just an integration platform, but a jumping off point for new ideas and functions
IFTTT is being used as an automation bridge in my organization between a building automation platform and a lighting system, Office 365 (for notifications of events), a visitor management system (Envoy) and a security platform. We've found considerable use out of levering many of the already existing recipes to quickly enable functionality without requiring programming knowledge, as well as their significant library of integrated systems. Some of the platforms that we've begun utilizing were selected because they were already integrated with IFTTT.
- They have a strong library of integrated applications, making for a wide range of options when it comes to trying to share data or structure tasks between systems. Chances are if you're trying to get System A to talk to System B, they've already done the work to connect the two and there's a recipe in place that takes 1-2 clicks to get going in your own organization. It's about as simple as it can get.
- The recipe list is very large and since anyone can contribute workflows through IFTTT, it's not limited to whatever IFTTT-only can dream up, you can get actual useful real-world uses for various systems. Many of the recipes that I've utilized have been picked because I was wondering what was possible and stumbled upon a useful workflow.
- The only issue I think I've ever had is a short delay in getting things to happen when using IFTTT as the middleware. In some cases it doesn't matter, like taking a picture when a door opens, but in others it can be a bit irritating, like turning on a light when an individual trips a motion sensor (a 5-10 second delay there is the difference between an intruder being caught in the act and someone passing through an area unnoticed until it's too late). Some kind of notice about potential delays in processing time would be useful when dealing with complex recipes.
November 17, 2018
IFTTT is a friendly tool for simple and useful automations
Since I am a social media strategist, the main use I give to IFTTT is for the management of social media automation to achieve that if a publication is made in X platform, it is also done in another. An example of this is the posting of Instagram posts to Pinterest, deciding the board through the use of hashtags. This I also do to send posts from Instagram to Tumblr. Although Instagram has this functionality, it is much easier to do it with IFTTT.
As I'm also a digital marketer, I would love to be able to use this tool to add levels of difficulty in my automation, but in that part, they have fallen behind a bit. It is an excellent tool. However, its developers need to add levels to workflows, since they are very simple. Besides, it still does not work with other tools that I use, which prevents me from making the most of it.
- Send automated publications from my web blog to the different social platforms. It does it fast and without complications.
- It is a super easy tool to configure, without needing to be a very expert person. The configuration flow is intuitive and friendly. I think even a child could do it.
- Although it still lacks tools that I use, the list of tools it supports is impressively large.
- Send posts from Instagram to Pinterest, saying the board through the use of hashtags.
- Send posts from Instagram to Tumblr, saying using the same hashtags as tags.
- My main complaint is that they still need to add a series of tools like HubSpot, Sumome, and others.
- It lacks levels of work in the automations, since it is limited to one action per applet.
- Living in the age of automation, I understand that the developers have been stuck.
April 24, 2018
Can't- live-without kind of tool
As a marketer, I use IFTTT religiously! There are many things you can use IFTTT for, and you can get very creative! Some of my use cases: social media marketing automation; social listening (I know what my target is talking about on Twitter); competitive intelligence (I know what my competitors are talking about); updates; - reminders etc.
- Easy to use
- Has lots of recipes
- FREE!
- Has helpful tips along the way
- I'd to see a newsletter featuring user cases involving specific recipes.
April 23, 2018
IFTTT Makes Using Social Networks Easy
I use IFTTT to help manage my social marketing campaigns across several different social networking platforms. By using IFTTT, I am able to post content on one social media network, usually Instagram, and have set up IFTTT so that it copies the post from Instagram to the other social networks I use, saving me time and effort.
- IFTTT is very easy to use! Anyone who is familiar with a computer can use IFTTT to set up a number of simple software programs, which IFTTT calls applets, to do a large number of tasks.
- IFTTT is designed to work with many different software platforms, as well as many different types of devices from appliances to your phone!
- IFTTT has been used by businesses large and small!
- I wish the IFTTT phone app were a little more user-friendly. The GUI is somewhat confusing at times.
October 31, 2017
IFTTT is a great personal automation tool
IFTTT is being used personally by a few members of our organization, but not company-wide. IFTTT makes it easy to track work hours in a Google Spreadsheet or to automatically upload photos to Google Drive. It's also great for syncing various social media platforms to do uniform marketing campaigns. Mainly though, IFTTT is used on a personal basis, rather than for work. It is geared toward smart homes, social media, and personal notifications more than work-related platforms.
- IFTTT has a great user experience as far as building automations goes. It's very user-friendly and visually appealing.
- IFTTT has a mobile app available, which is great for those of us who are always on the go. This definitely is something that IFTTT has over similar products like Zapier.
- IFTTT provides groups of similar or related "applets" based on applets you've already chosen/created or programs that you regularly use. It makes it easy to not have to build anything yourself - just hook up your accounts and go.
- IFTTT is lacking in business type integrations, especially those that concern email service providers or calendar programs such as Calendly or YouCanBookMe. If IFTTT wants to branch more into the business world, it needs to add more than personal-life integrations.
- IFTTT only allows for one account associated with each integration. If I have multiple Gmail accounts or multiple Facebook accounts, I can only use one of them with IFTTT. Zapier allows for multiple accounts for each platform and automations specialized to the account, not just the platform.
January 31, 2018
IFTTT - Do you need it or do you need it?
IFTTT is the most fantastic app that lots of our clients (and I myself) use it for practically hundreds of use cases that require almost next to no level of configuration and it's free! I will however mention couple of ways our client have maximised their productivity with IFTTT
1. To natively post contents on multiple social channels
2. To back up every post ever made on any social channel
3. To keep track of worked hours
4. Automated reminders and alerts
5. Add mailing campaigns to Google calendar and so on
6. Keep track of mentions and hashtag about you or your company on twitter!
1. To natively post contents on multiple social channels
2. To back up every post ever made on any social channel
3. To keep track of worked hours
4. Automated reminders and alerts
5. Add mailing campaigns to Google calendar and so on
6. Keep track of mentions and hashtag about you or your company on twitter!
- Automatically and natively posting content on multiple social channels
- Taking backup of content to your preferred cloud services
- Anything and everything that relies on automated action based on multiple triggers over hundreds of channels
- More enterprise applications could be added (but this is not IFTTT issue, it's the enterprise applications extending their support)
- There are no disadvantages really. It had tons of triggers and actions and it's free!
September 26, 2017
IFTTT will change your life, like it automated mine.
IFTTT is a seamless and intuitive automation platform that allows you to link the various APIs that different software use to communicate. This creates novel "recipes" that make the use of RSS feeds and group collaboration effortless. Also included are multiple smart home automation tools and apps that are designed by the IOT manufacturers. I really recommend this platform for both the solo blogger/freelancer and the midsize organization that wants to maximize the bang for their social media buck.
- Application Automation.
- Ideas to allow for new automation between old integrations.
- Many new apps added regularly.
- Pricing is free.
- Multiple IFTTT accounts can contain the same integrated app profile.
- No limits.
- They could start making integrated apps that fill voids they see in their usage analytics.
- They could promote themselves a bit better.
- A IFTTT run version of the now defunct Yahoo pipes would always be nice.
- AI that recommends API recipes based on the content you are pushing.
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About IFTTT
IFTTT is a connectivity platform. The vendor says they help over 700 global enterprises accelerate the digital transformation of their products into integrated services, reducing their development costs while extending compatibility and lifetime value. IFTTT is the connectivity standard and low-code alternative to building your own integrations in-house.
Their products have 17 million consumers across 140 countries and have served over 90 million activated connections. Enterprises like BMW, Domino’s, Amazon, Bosch, ING, and Samsung trust IFTTT for their connectivity solutions.
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- Has featureFree or Freemium Version Available?Yes
- Has featurePremium Consulting/Integration Services Available?Yes
- Entry-level set up fee?No
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IFTTT Technical Details
| Deployment Types: | SaaS |
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| Operating Systems: | Unspecified |
| Mobile Application: | Apple iOS, Android, Mobile Web |
| Supported Countries: | Globally available |
| Supported Languages: | English |