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Wrike

Overview

What is Wrike?

Wrike is a project management and collaboration software. This solution connects tasks, discussions, and emails to the user’s project plan. Wrike is optimized for agile workflows and aims to help resolve data silos, poor visibility into work status, and missed…

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What makes Wrike great!

9 out of 10
April 15, 2024
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I use Wrike to manage print and digital PR content projects for multiple brands. Wrike makes the tracking of the status of the projects …
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Wrike feedback :)

8 out of 10
April 06, 2024
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We use Wrike to organize ous jobs, adjust our week workflow and register our daily timesheet. Or to organize the briefings and workflow to …
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Popular Features

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  • Team Collaboration (671)
    8.6
    86%
  • Task Management (673)
    8.6
    86%
  • Scheduling (587)
    7.8
    78%
  • Workflow Automation (569)
    7.7
    77%

Reviewer Pros & Cons

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Video Reviews

2 videos

Wrike Drives Accountability When Working With Cross-Functional Teams: Product Review
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Wrike Review: Works Well For Introduction Into Task Management, But May Be Outgrown
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Pricing

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Wrike Free

$0

Cloud
per month per user

Wrike Team

$9.8

Cloud
per month per user

Wrike Business

$24.8

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

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

Offerings

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

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $9.80 per month per user
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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

7.8
Avg 7.5

Professional Services Automation

Features that support professional services organizations

7.8
Avg 7.4
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Product Details

What is Wrike?

Wrike is an enterprise-grade collaborative work management platform designed to help companies do their best work. The vendor boasts thousands of brands use Wrike to scale their output, boost visibility, and increase results. Wrike is designed to help users create a structure that helps accelerate business impact, and lets teams focus on the right work. With tailored solutions for marketing and creative teams, project management teams, product teams, service delivery teams, and more, Wrike states their goal is to define the next generation of work management worldwide.

Security: Wrike is ISO/IEC 27001 certified and has data centers in the US and EU. Data is encrypted both at rest and when in transit. Wrike offers flexible data access control setup by allowing admins to control Access Roles. Wrike’s data backup provides near real-time database replication to ensure data is backed up and available on dispersed servers.

Collaboration: Brings the enterprise together, regardless of where people are in Wrike’s collaboration space. Break down silos with built-in communication and editing tools that foster teamwork and productivity while reducing risks. Wrike offers hundreds of integrations to make work easier.

Visibility: visualizations of team and project portfolio performance to facilitate faster and smarter data-driven decisions. Reports and dashboards bring transparency into project expectations for stakeholders.

Wrike Features

Project Management Features

  • Supported: Task Management
  • Supported: Resource Management
  • Supported: Gantt Charts
  • Supported: Scheduling
  • Supported: Workflow Automation
  • Supported: Team Collaboration
  • Supported: Support for Agile Methodology
  • Supported: Support for Waterfall Methodology
  • Supported: Document Management
  • Supported: Email integration
  • Supported: Mobile Access
  • Supported: Timesheet Tracking
  • Supported: Budget and Expense Management

Professional Services Automation Features

  • Supported: Project & financial reporting
  • Supported: Integration with accounting software

Wrike Screenshots

Screenshot of Resource ManagementScreenshot of Wrike TemplatesScreenshot of Team WorkloadScreenshot of Wrike ReportsScreenshot of Wrike apps & integrationsScreenshot of Wrike Gantt ChartScreenshot of Wrike CalendarsScreenshot of Custom Workflow ManagementScreenshot of Wrike Boards

Wrike Videos

Wrike for Marketers: An End-to-End Solution for Marketers & Creatives
How a common working day in Wrike for a manager could look like and how to improve team efficiency.
Freedom from Work: Wrike for Creatives
Spaces, projects, folders, and tasks: These are the Wrike building blocks.
Wrike for services delivery teams
Hear what Wrike customers have to say

Wrike Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android
Supported LanguagesEnglish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil)

Frequently Asked Questions

Wrike is a project management and collaboration software. This solution connects tasks, discussions, and emails to the user’s project plan. Wrike is optimized for agile workflows and aims to help resolve data silos, poor visibility into work status, and missed deadlines and project failures.

Wrike starts at $9.8.

Basecamp, Brightpod, and ProofHub are common alternatives for Wrike.

Reviewers rate Task Management and Team Collaboration highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Wrike are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).

Wrike Customer Size Distribution

Consumers5%
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)20%
Mid-Size Companies (51-500 employees)45%
Enterprises (more than 500 employees)30%
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Reviews and Ratings

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September 28, 2023

Alwrike

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used it to organize projects and keep tracks or different processes. Some of those were product order request forms, different events that were going on at the time that different people were stationed at. We also used it for keep track of the status of the different events that we had.
  • Adding tasks
  • Task status level
  • Logging tasks
  • Assigning levels inside of Wrike
  • Lack of a training program
It has been well suited for every area of the place that I currently work. I work on the production team, but the marketing team, the IT department, the Human Resources department all used Wrike and it worked well. It was less appropriate for the worship team because of the nature of how things changed.
September 28, 2023

Not great

Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used it to manage a team of about ~7 for the King County Promise. This was a large-scale project involving partnership with King County and seven other school districts, colleges, and community-based organizations. We had many dependent tasks, shared deadlines, and not a lot of project management. The amount of tasks among us was unwieldy and always growing.
  • Tagging others
  • Linking projects with timeline dependencies
  • Allowing for discussion linked to particular task
  • the folder structure
I think it is not appropriate when tasks are dense and it's hard to keep track of where even to put a task. We found that just figuring out where to put a task was so complex that we didn't really use it. We also had so many tasks that it became difficult to manage. Or even realistically make it through or prioritize tasks.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I implemented Wrike for our company to manage tasks, subtasks, and issues for our review process of our product and projects. I use a lot of subfolders to categorize deliverables within projects. Each deliverable has stages in which I utilize tasks and subtasks. I like using Wrike and it helps with the project workflow. Blueprints is something I love because our process rarely differs for individual projects. I have been using this for 6 years and I still am not able to leverage reports as I would like. There is too much noise and tasks that reports never show up accurately. I have reached out to Wrike to assist me with this, however my account representative changes every 4 months and I seem to know Wrike better than them. I would like to see better representative that take initiative to help direct me to engineers to support what I am trying to accomplish and workshop solutions with me.
  • Blueprints
  • Project and task nesting
  • Variety of views
  • Interface changing too frequently
  • Reports (need more support)
  • Client support to assist your clients on how to improve their space.
Wrike works well as a process management system. I would like to see improvement of overall analytics of projects such as % through project. The workload feature can also be improved to block out noise of certain projects/tasks. Wrike is suited well for communication between users and solving problems pertaining to specific projects
September 28, 2023

An enjoyable experience

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it as workflow software for all publication projects, from inception to marketing to editorial to generating quotes for printing and sales.
  • Organization
  • Accessibility
  • Archival
  • Some of the menus can be hard to navigate when there are numerous linked tasks and dependencies
My use of the software is limited to publications. However, I have found it very effective for both pooling together contributions from multiple stakeholders in the production process to reviewing comments at all stages in the life of a book, magazine, or pamphet.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Wrike for keeping track of projects, subtasks of those projects, and progress on those tasks and projects throughout the organization. Since not all tasks and projects are software related, it is a better fit for a small organization working on several projects across multiple disciplines. For instance, we can use Wrike to track app and firmware development as well as scientific tests and research within the same platform.
  • Simple task tracking
  • Task tracking within larger projects
  • Deadline management and reminders
  • Its generality can fall short for certain kinds of tasks
I think Wrike is well suited as a generalized task tracker for small organizations. Its simplicity and ease of use makes it work well across teams and disciplines and it doesn't require previous experience with other task trackers, so it is easy for new people to onboard. For software teams, I think the functionality for detailed bug tracking and git integration might be lacking, especially for larger teams, but for small teams (like at many startups), it may be enough.
Arshad Shaikh | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The programs I handle are coded with Wrike codes. We are able to trace, map courses as per Wrike codes . We make entries as per Wrike codes. We have to conduct video consultation and fill the entries using the Wrike codes for the current program. It's a helpful tool. Great job team.
  • Program is mapped with Wrike codes
  • We fill trackers using Wrike codes
  • We get leads mapped to a particular course mapped to the Wrike code
It's good to ensure all leads are mapped correctly to the right programs. It's good to track spends on a particular programs marketing campaigns. We work as per Wrike codes only. If Wrike goes down then we are unable to pull the proper data hence there is a lot of dependency on Wrike for now .
Garrett Nelson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
I can into the organization when Wrike was used by ~30 people within the Marketing department and oversaw the growth of the tool over 7 years as it grew to 300 users in 12 different department across every business unit. We utilized it for Project Management for National media campaigns, Work management for Queue based team processing Salesforce tickets, and for M&A Integration management. We have used about ever feature Wrike has to offer at various level and support team who are entry level coming out of excel based workflow, all the wya up to full Agile team doing website engineering via Scrum process. When committed to apply and maintaining Wrike properly, the information sharing and therefore business acceleration is world class.
  • Project Managment: Production, Technical, and Service
  • Program Management: Cross-organization initiative coordination
  • Work Management: Queue based team task intake and routing
  • Wrike Analyze is very powerful, could using some ease-of-use improvement
  • Wrike Resources: Great for task level allocation, could use a simpler/hire level Project allocation options
  • Ability to make more custom user interfaces that could be embedded in places like SharePoint pages.
In my opinion, Wrike is Well suited for any team who want to improve the way they get work done and wants to break down silos and get out of being trapped in desktop files and email. I think Wrike is less appropriate for teams who what simple excel style chart building or closed team technical back end engineering code deployment CI/CD.
Score 2 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Our company uses Wrike to manage share tasks and projects across the company, including due dates, files, and progress. There are many projects that touch multiple departments in the business and involve multiple people to complete. Due dates are critical to our business as many projects can't be started or completed until the previous tasks have been done.
  • Keeping all communication related to a task in a single place
  • Search feature is not great. It either brings up many unrelated things but not what you're actually looking for, or the thing you're looking for is way at the bottom of the list.
  • Heirarchy of how projects are organized is not very user friendly
  • It's too easy for a due date to get lost in the shuffle with how the current reminders work as a single daily email
I've used different task management software in the past, and Wrike is my least favorite of all of them. It's clunky and hard to navigate. It's better than nothing, but I don't see a scenario where I'd recommend Wrike over something better.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Wrike every day throughout my workday, it is the basis of the scope of my work. My company and I use it as a task tracker, to communicate with one another on task-specific interactions, and to keep us on track with client requests. For me, the biggest problem the app addresses is not losing the ability to keep track of the small details.
  • Simplicity - the look of the app, which is clean, makes it so easy to navigate
  • Regular design updates, which are subtle but add to the user experience
  • It's never crashed or been out of commission in the two years I've used it
  • I love how you can search for completed tasks to refer to again and again
  • The scroll bars!! They are so tiny, it's next to impossible to use them to scroll up or down a page
  • Maybe brighter colors on the page. I know that's a personal preference, but I think it would make it so much nicer
  • The All Tasks option, to me, is not necessary; I never use it.
I can't outline any scenario where Wrike is less appropriate because it is the basis of my workday and scope of work. I use it all day, throughout the day, so perhaps I'm not the best person to make a judgement of that. However, it is well-suited to my workday because I love to write things down, and even although I'm a detail-orientated person, I can never retain small stuff in my head, so to be able to write as many details in the comments section has been extremely helpful in my position. I do wish that the time to edit comments would be extended; it expires after five or so minutes and sometimes I need to go back and add something as it comes to mind.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
With our company, we use Wrike to organize our workflow, to allow us to be more efficient and timelier with our day-to-day workflow. In cases we have a bigger size event coming up, we use Wrike to allow us to keep track of what we need to prioritize.
  • Check List
  • Project Management
  • Hourly tracking
  • Easier way to separate from different departments.
  • Better organization
  • More Admin Access
We used Wrike to help with Firewall Migration for our clients. We would have a list of clients who we needed to reach out too. We would assign users to clients and have them reach out. If an attempt was made, we would notate that. If the migration was successful, it would go to a completed status.
September 22, 2023

Wrike gets it Right

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Wrike is great to tie customers and employees across several lines of business. You can create a project and assign responsibilities and duties to other teams. It is a great way to communicate and track projects.
  • Create projects and assign to multiple program owners
  • Tracking process
  • Communicates electronically with updates for the project
  • Automated emails - I like having them, but sometimes a user makes a change and it sends LOTS of emails
Well suited to manage projects
September 22, 2023

Wrike for a great teamwork

Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We used it as a management platform for the digital marketing campaigns we were running for the numerous clients of our main client, it was the main tool to coordinate them (with the many details needed), communicate with the clients and keep an eye on the progression of each campaign and the share of the work among our team.
  • keep the communication clear between different stakeholders working on the same project
  • detailed list of the requirements for a project
  • precise assignment and share of the work between the teammates
  • sometimes we got lost between all the detailed functionalities (too granular)
Wrike is really good for coordinating work between different stakeholders on the same project.

There is room for improvement in the UI for the project management board, it can easily get messy and overly complicated.
September 22, 2023

Good record keeping tool

Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Wrike to book Temporary Traffic Management. Wrike is initially operated by our internal sub-contractor i.e. Traffic Department. Easy tool where the same department uses to organise their crews and invoices me later in the month. Wrike is customizable hence user can mould it into various other tools.
  • data recording
  • bookings
  • implement an invoicing system
Wrike is data recording only, that's where it stops! good for those who don't want a complicated platform to work on.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
My team uses Wrike to manage 80+ partner projects. (Other teams in my company use it to track even more). We track the progress of our projects all the way from partner acquisition to product publication. We use blueprints to streamline new projects and set up custom workflows to track work. Wrike is how we know where we are in a project and what still has to be done.
  • Custom workflows
  • Configurability of Folder/Project structure
  • Awesome for managing a high volume of high level projects as well as task level work.
  • Missing a “Notes” function for keeping track of notes
  • Missing a messaging function to send messages that aren’t related to a specific work item
  • Missing ability to automate project status updates based on specific custom item types
Wrike is the best PM software that I’ve worked with. It’s fantastic for managing a high volume of large projects at once, while still being useful for managing work at the task level. As a PM, I love it. Though, teams without a PM might find it overwhelming because it is so configurable.
September 21, 2023

Navigable but complex

Score 6 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Wrike to stay informed about where projects are in process. I find it somewhat helpful to use but there are too many email notifications when comments are made. I don’t know of any business problems it addresses other than tracking multiple projects going on at the same time.
  • Tracking
  • Uploading docs
  • Commenting on project progress
  • Search tool isn’t very intuitive.
  • Hard to turn off notification emails
  • Would like to filter email notifications
It is helpful to receive some email notifications when a project is ready for me; however, sometimes I do t receive the notification until later in the day. For a deadline-driven environment, these alerts should be immediate. I like the ability to compare different versions of documents side by side but would really like if you could search for any previous file within a project.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Wrike for PMing. I get all my tasks assigned to me through Wrike and we do all approvals through Wrike.
This is helpful because I am able to work fluidly with my CS team, web team, and creative team without any other communication platform. Making it easy to transfer tasks from one person to the next.
I use Wrike every day and for every task. Anything assigned to me has to be done through Wrike.
  • Task management
  • Organization
  • Communication between teams
  • I can’t use the app on my computer because it totally slows it down
  • Hard to find previously completed tasks sometimes
  • Easier feature needed to scroll to past dates more than a week ago. Very hard to find things a few months back.
I’ve worked in other PM systems before and this is the only one I have actually enjoyed.
My favorite feature is the to do list. As an employee who is the “do-er” (I actually build things out) it is super convenient to have an easy dashboard where I can see all my active tasks in one place.
September 21, 2023

Review of Wrike

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Wrike allows multiple departments within the company to communicate on a specific project and house information in a central location.
  • It allows users to follow through the life cycle of a project.
  • It allows users to see eligible projects involved in specific search terms.
  • It's helped develop good processes for submitting forms and requests to other departments.
  • It could be easier to just log into Wrike online than to use the app on Mac.
Wrike is well suited for project management with a product focus. Not so much suited for a financial focus. It's well suited as a drawing board for multiple departments to collaborate.
Andrea Marcon | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Wrike as a centralized project management tool. Wrike provides a single platform for managing projects, reducing the need for multiple disjointed tools. By centralizing communication within the platform, teams can reduce the reliance on emails and improve real-time collaboration. Wrike helps teams get a clear view of all tasks and their statuses, reducing the chances of tasks slipping through the cracks. Through features like time tracking and workload management, Wrike helps in optimizing resource allocation as well.
  • Workflow Automation
  • Time Tracking and Reporting
  • Collaboration
  • Ability to integrate budget tracking and billable time for projects
Well suited for task tracking, project management and collobation. Less suited for budget tracking, allocation, and tracking time against billable hours.
September 21, 2023

As a User, it works!

Dr. Jeff Williams, Ph.D. | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
At first, the system seemed a little challenging, but the learning curve was extremely easy. Wrike keeps everything in order, it has an easy communication system to send and receive messages, and then have the feedback transformed into your work. All of this is in one app and online platform. It truly made everything convenient. As a company, using this product makes everything streamlined. From the first level of employer input to the receiving employees, and then back down the channel, everything is so easy to use and the training takes little time. You truly do not miss any correspondence or other important information because it is right there for you on your phone, by way of email, or online.
  • They provide a quality platform that can be used in multiple ways (online, phone app, email). This provides the user with plenty of notifications and manner to communicate openly on a project.
  • The system to upload files and immediately provide feedback is streamline. It takes the guesswork out of where something is because it is right there in front of you.
  • It allows communication easier for those who are not in the same corporation/company/business. It creates a way for the communication to seem like it is inter-office without the need to constantly login to new platforms and get confused to where a file may be stored to look over.
  • The initial use can seem frustrating. Once you know how to use it, it is amazing, but it is the upfront work that can be slightly confusing.
  • There can be some challenges with the log in process. There can sometimes be issues with passwords but that really is not a huge concern.
  • The messaging system with file sharing can sometimes get confusing. There were moments where trying to find the most recent communication seemed trapped among other messages.
Do not hesitate to use Wrike for your company or organization. It really is a great way to use among employees, share information, yet present it in a clear and concise manner. There are other choices, but this choice does a great job in document sharing with feedback. That is what makes it a better alternative than other programs or platforms.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Wrike to track project management from conception to production. By doing so we are able to assign the appropriate staff at the correct intervals of the project. This ensures all projects are completed in a timely manner and there is a place to store comments and documents all in one place.
  • Allows you to assign responsible parties
  • Provides space for collaboration between departments
  • Provides a log of milestones on projects
  • Stores relevant files related to the project which can be shared as needed
  • Navigation could be more user friendly
  • Improve search results
  • Reorganize the Home page
Wrike is well suited for project management, individual and collaborative between departments. It provides an active log which holds the correct parties accountable. A project is able to be tracked from beginning to end. Reduces lag time on interdepartmental file sharing and includes user editing of documents able to be seen instantly by shared users.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Wrike to collaborate between different departments at our University that otherwise don’t often work together or wouldn’t have many meetings together. We’re able to get assigned projects from another department and keep them updated on progress, tag someone to ask a question, and keep all assets and revisions all in the same place. We also use it internally to keep track of our individual projects and use it as a way to organize and plan upcoming projects or campaigns.
  • The ability to tag others in projects or assign people to projects
  • Organizing projects in a way that makes sense for your specific department or organization
  • Having a place to keep revisions and other versions of a project all in one place
  • Keeping all discussion based on a particular project in one spot, rather than a bunch of emails back and forth.
  • I’d like to see other features integrated to make Wrike more of an all-in-one app, like workbooks/spreadsheets/database tables, etc.
  • I don’t completely understand how to create reports showing project data
  • I’d like to have a more customizable interface where I only see the items I need and use and nothing extra
Wrike is great for interdepartmental collaboration or in teams with more than a few people or any size team that has many projects to juggle. It wouldn’t be as useful or appropriate for really small teams/small businesses or teams that only have a small amount of projects to keep track of.
September 19, 2023

Wrike for collaboration

Mark Ireton | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to plan and manage product development projects that span across multiple sites and involve 50-100 people on a given project. In that case we are primarily using Gannt charts and tracking tasks to completion. My team also uses Wrike to manage requests, basically a ticket system.
  • Wrike is built from the ground up for collaboration and with everything on the cloud, all users have the current information and can edit at the same time. Users can be tagged to highlight actions and tasks can be shared across multiple projects.
  • Wrike can be customized, creating workflows and views that meet the needs of each team or business. Custom fields can be used for tasks.
  • Images and files can easily be added to tasks.
  • There is no way to create an auto-incrementing numeric field. This is a common need for things like request numbers that need to be a human readable number that can be linked to other applications or the physical world.
  • There are reporting and analysis features, but they are difficult to learn, not intuitive and cumbersome.
  • Managing custom fields can be difficult. Maybe this is more of a user issue, but we have duplicate or similar custom fields and some fields are inherited that we do not want in sub-projects.
Much better than MS-Project because of the collaboration features. Works well for big projects involving a lot of people. Can work as a ticket or request system, but missing key feature of having an auto-increment numeric field that would be used for a ticket number or ID.
September 19, 2023

Task management made easy

Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Wrike for our everyday marketing tasks that come from our clients on a daily basis.
  • Easy and clear task management
  • User friendly platform and navigation menu
  • Easy navigation on all devices
  • I have 2 accounts, there was an update recently, and only one of my account got the automatic update.
I have been using multiple task management systems over the years and Wrike is one of the easiest platform to navigate through my daily projects.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Wrike is used for Project Management tracking progress and accountability on deliverables. In my case, I have blueprint of cycles that take place annually or twice a year that involve a lot of tasks, involve several people. Once the project is well established it works well triggering reminders and informing about dependencies that may have yet to be completed.
  • Reminders, although they can be excessive too!
  • Dependencies coordination
  • Blueprints
  • When a task has been marked as "on hold" or "cancelled" it continues to remind you, which I find quite annoying.
  • While making date adjustments in a blueprint, changes happen somehow that I can't understand so I end up going back and forth multiple times to adjust unexpected changes that just happened without a visible explanation.
  • Some tasks are allowed in without a due dates and of course they won't show up in the timeline
I think Wrike is even great as a To-Do list of daily tasks even if they're not part of a project. I believe that simplifying the process of creating tasks or dependencies could be helpful to optimize the use of Wrike. Sometimes I prefer not to engage with the tool because I know I'll have to spend some time setting it up and then just end up using Notes that won't give me all the benefits that Wrike would just because I don't want to go through the setup.
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
As a creative/copywriter, my issues are readily apparent in this review request! To me, Wrike is so completely focused on management and project planning, that the interface with those who do the actual creative "work" are an after thought.Wrike is very good at lining up tasks and adjusting schedules, but not so good as an intuitive interface so someone like me, a writer, can grasp an entire project from a content point of view. For instance, often I'm talking to project managers and we can't seem to get on the same page because they have a different "view". When I receive a "task" through my "inbox" and click on it, the project may be there or it may not. If it isn't then I sometimes use the search function at the top of my dashboard, which may yield dozens of projects of various sorts related to my key words, or search through "Projects and Folders"...it can become looking for a project in a haystack! I will say that the to-do list is helpful as is the "get info" tab and "pinning" projects...the rest of the interface is not all that intuitive, at least to me with clipboards, tables, gantt charts,...etc. etc. Wrike's jargon is a bit confusing and I tend to ignore it. It almost seems as if English was not Wrike's first language. All in all, I would say Wrike is far more useful for planners and managers rather than creatives.
  • informs me of "what's next" with. the to-do list
  • allows me to keep current projects top of mind by pinning them
  • Wrike does a good job of archiving earlier versions of projects
  • I do like the "edit in Wrike" function in Word...when it doesn't hang up on me!
  • Clunky and unintuitive interface, though it has gotten better.
  • Inbox messages with "task" requests should link directly to the project...
  • I don't use the shared dashboards at all...not sure how they would help me
  • Lots of desktops and tasks "status" lists I tend to ignore because it's just too much to wade through...stick to my to-do list.
  • Sometimes Managers and Creatives can't see the same thing because creatives don't have that "privilege"?
Wrike is well-suited in a campaign that has a lot of content to be delivered at different times...like creating "profiles" for a website. Everything stays straight forward and clear.
Wrike can be frustrating when a new project is launched at the background, info, project profiles are all living in different places. I would say only about 25% of Wrikes total functionality is useful to me...the rest I ignore!
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