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Podio

Overview

What is Podio?

Podio is a cloud-based platform for organizing team communication, business processes, and reporting in project management workspaces; also it may be used as a light CRM platform. It enables workflow automation and integrations. It includes a free version and paid…

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Popular Features

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  • Task Management (24)
    3.1
    31%
  • Team Collaboration (26)
    3.1
    31%
  • Workflow Automation (25)
    1.1
    11%
  • Document Management (22)
    1.1
    11%
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Pricing

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Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://www.podio.com/site/pricing

Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $9 per month
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Features

Project Management

Project management software provides capabilities to streamline management of complex projects through task management, team collaboration and workflow automation

5.2
Avg 7.5

Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

6.7
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is Podio?

Podio is a cloud-based collaboration service that was founded in 2009 and acquired by Citrix in 2012. Podio supplies a web-based platform for organizing team communication, business processes, data and content in project management workspaces; also it may be used as a social intranet or as a light CRM platform. Its reporting features allow a user to observe sales pipelines and manage budgets and time. Its task management interface is meant to be lively and dynamic as a social networking site's to facilitate sharing and task delegations, and supports document uploading. Workflows can be improved via automation of various triggered tasks. It integrates email and many familiar programs and applications (e.g. Dropbox, Gmail and Google Apps, Gotomeeting, Excel) to expand functionality, and it is mobile accessible. Podio began as a free service and a free option still remains, though three tiers of paid plans (Basic, Plus, and Premium) are now offered which expand support options from implementation only to a priority lifetime user able to gain support at any time (Premium), and limited access to shared projects for subordinate team members. However core features are supported across the tiers.

Podio Technical Details

Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

Podio is a cloud-based platform for organizing team communication, business processes, and reporting in project management workspaces; also it may be used as a light CRM platform. It enables workflow automation and integrations. It includes a free version and paid packages with additional features.

Podio starts at $9.

Asana, Jira Software, and Basecamp are common alternatives for Podio.

Reviewers rate Support for Waterfall Methodology highest, with a score of 9.4.

The most common users of Podio are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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Reviews and Ratings

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We use Podio extensively. We also use the Workflow Automations to help where Podio has shortfalls. Podio is the backbone of our sales, support, product development and management. Podio allowed us to build the workspace we needed which is fairly unique. The flexibility to customize your apps to hold sales, prospects, projects, support, etc was incredible. We share data from Podio with our custom SaaS application and vice versa. It feels like we have leveraged every possible feature Podio has to offer.
  • Customizable apps to fit your specific needs
  • Free to explore and use basic features until you grow into more
  • Clean interface
  • Crippling feature development leaves you wondering if Podio is close to end-of-life
  • Severe lack of communication. You HAVE to figure out your own solutions no matter what you pay for the software.
  • Inability to get even basic reports across multiple applications.
  • Data is siloed in each app. It has relationships but you cannot generate queries based on related apps.
  • Downtime. Podio has gone done far too many times for days without any compensation to lost time.
  • Very slow page builds. Data seems to be coming from slow datasources and takes a long time to complete rendering.
I can't see anyone engaging Podio unless it is for a very small project. When Podio launched, it was AMAZING. Unfortunately, it has sat stale for years on end while other, more useful competitors created better features. You will quickly find yourself looking for ways to migrate to a HubSpot, Airtable, Notion, etc.
  • There used to be many. Unfortunately, they have all aged very badly.
Project Management (7)
17.142857142857142%
1.7
Task Management
30%
3.0
Scheduling
10%
1.0
Workflow Automation
10%
1.0
Team Collaboration
30%
3.0
Support for Agile Methodology
20%
2.0
Document Management
10%
1.0
Budget and Expense Management
10%
1.0
Professional Services Automation (1)
10%
1.0
Quotes/estimates
10%
1.0
  • Initially it was an incredible boost to productivity.
  • Over the past 4 years we have known that the lack of development and support would force us to leave and get a more robust platform that has a roadmap.
These options weren't available when we picked Podio. Podio cannot compete with these options because Podio chooses not to actively develop, communicate with their customers or build system stability. Any serious customer should consider these as showstoppers when looking at Podio.
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