TrustRadius Insights for IFTTT are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
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IFTTT has proven to be a valuable tool for many users, helping them streamline routine processes and automate tasks to improve efficiency and save time. Users from various sectors, including youth ministry, nonprofit organizations, and businesses, have found it particularly useful for coordinating multiple apps and automating posts between different social media platforms. By connecting social media with off-site platforms, IFTTT enables automated publishing of content, making it easier for organizations to reach their target audience effectively.
Individuals within organizations also benefit from IFTTT by using it for personal tasks such as tracking work hours and syncing social media platforms for marketing campaigns. Marketers find IFTTT helpful in maximizing social media impact through automation, social listening, competitive intelligence, reminders, and updates. It allows them to manage social marketing campaigns across multiple platforms seamlessly.
Clients have reported increased productivity with the help of IFTTT, using it to natively post on multiple social channels and back up posts. With features like tracking worked hours and setting up automated reminders and alerts, users can stay organized and ensure important tasks are not overlooked.
Furthermore, IFTTT proves its value in improving efficiency by automating data input into other systems, reducing the need for manual cross-referencing. It also facilitates communication between automation and IoT devices, providing a flexible foundation for integration.
Users appreciate IFTTT's library of integrated systems that allow them to connect different platforms and fill in gaps in their existing software solutions. With its automation capabilities, IFTTT becomes an excellent tool to orchestrate workflows across different SaaS products while maintaining a user-friendly experience.
Social media strategists utilize IFTTT for social media automation purposes such as automatically posting Instagram content to platforms like Pinterest or Tumblr. Monitoring website changes is another use case where users rely on IFTTT to promptly notify clients about any modifications made.
Overall, whether it's automating routine tasks or connecting various systems together, IFTTT offers an array of use cases that cater to different user needs. The ability to leverage existing recipes and build custom solutions makes IFTTT a valuable tool for enhancing productivity and efficiency.
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.
Pros
Orchestrates among SaaS products.
Provides a maintainable and fluent UX.
Ensures integration between top-of-class products.
Cons
Support for more actions/parameters per integrated service.
An event pipeline for orchestration.
Programmatic capabilities.
Likelihood to Recommend
With IFTTT we orchestrate simple workflows between typical SaaS products. It complements typical enterprise applications with alerting/automated documentation capabilities. It automates time-consuming/trivial chores related to internal policies.
VU
Verified User
Strategist in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
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).
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
One scenario I use is the Spotify app. I have an app set up so that whenever a song is added to one of my playlists, the information from Spotify is set to my blog. Then I add add from there to create the blog post draft to work from. It's a huge time saver.
VU
Verified User
Administrator in Professional Services (1-10 employees)
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.
Pros
Quick and light weight.
Fairly reliable.
Easy to set up and adopt new connections.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
For simple operations, IFTTT is a great tool for you to quickly set up a connection between services and control this via a rules based engine. When your needs gets more complicated you will have to directly integrate, but it's great for the initial testing and set up.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees)
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.
Pros
Very simple interface.
Connects to a multitude of services and sensors.
Allows integration between services that would normally require expensive custom solutions.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
IFTTT really shines in two major places. First, integration between two platforms that are not normally integrated, like Google and Twitter, for example. You could have any tweet with specific keywords dumped to a Google spreadsheet and then have that sheet loaded into a DB for data mining. The second is the ability to call a Web Hook.
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.
Pros
Step-by-step setup
Email alerts that do not require any further installations
Tons of options to choose from
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
When you need to be alerted when something changes.
When you want something else (an app or process) to react to something else changing.
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.
Pros
Easy to find applets
Easy to implement applets
Easy to review which applets are on
Easy to monitor applets in use
Cons
None
Likelihood to Recommend
Great for RSS feeds and social sharing. I like how it will repost unique pins from my Instagram and YouTube.
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.
Pros
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
Cons
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
Likelihood to Recommend
Because of the multitude of options with IFTTT, it is hard to describe the best use scenarios, but I will share how I use the platform at this time.
I use IFTTT to check Craigslist for certain IT equipment postings and email me if that occurs, turning items on and off with geo-fencing and WiFi network presence, and linking my calendar to my to-do list.
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.
Pros
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
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
IFTTT is a great tool for people wishing to integrate different productivity tools, but who lack the resources and/or knowledge about programming these connections themselves. Anyone who uses at least email, calendar and social networks on a regular basis can benefit from IFTTT.
However, it probably won't be appropriate and/or relevant to casual users, or users inexperienced with the many possible links between smartphones and online apps.
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.
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
IFTTT is well suited as a social media management tool, which is really all we use it for. I have a number of administrators logged in across all the platforms and it posts our content natively to each social media platform. I do know that it can be used to manage calendars, automate e-mail responses, and other things. We just haven't utilized those features because we don't have the need.
<div>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.</div><div>
</div><div>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.</div>
Pros
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.
Cons
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.
Likelihood to Recommend
<div>I can recommend this tool in scenarios where simple automation is required, that is, it only requires the implementation of 2 simple steps.</div><div>
</div><div>And I would not recommend it where it is necessary automations of more than one level, that is, automations of more than 2 steps, or longer flow diagrams. </div>
