Colorful UI, lacks functionality of features they try to get you to use. Fine if you aren't using software, lacking relative to competitors.
August 30, 2022

Colorful UI, lacks functionality of features they try to get you to use. Fine if you aren't using software, lacking relative to competitors.

Tanner Ingalls | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with ClickUp

We transitioned from Wrike to ClickUp. Basically using it as a direct competitor. We run Product, Development, and the rest of our internal departments are using ClickUp. The main use is to keep track of work for each department and show the status of what is going on in the company at any time.
  • Colorful UI
  • Automations
  • Marketing their Product
  • Sprints -> Customization doesn't even work...
  • "Save 1 Day a Week" slogan is a bunch of crap
  • Feels over designed and under-engineered
  • Added work time to our schedule in the conversion
  • Added time trying to get Sprints to work
  • Has felt impact-wise the exact same as using Wrike just took a long time & amount of resources to transition.
It hasn't improved. Functionally, it's been the exact same as using Wrike. It may have come down to we got a slightly cheaper deal / user than when using Wrike? If anything, it's been worse since we had years of established processes and items in Wrike that have basically started over with on ClickUp. Sure.. there's a transition tool but it wasn't great and most of the organization viewed it as a clean start with the software change.
It really hasn't. If you've used Wrike or Trello, it's functionally the same. ClickUp's slogan "Save 1 Day a week" is a pure marketing ploy. If anything, my experience has been that it has added hours worth of work to my week because of our use of ClickUp. If your company hasn't used a Product / Project tracking tool before and it's the cheapest, it'll be fine. If you've used a competitor, you'll likely just be frustrated and annoyed with it.
If it's cheaper, it's probably better.

Product-wise, they struggle with some functionalities actually working and that's why I'd recommend either Wrike or Trello first. Wrike is visually not super appealing where-as ClickUp has a much better design / Color Palette. If you make decisions on your software based solely on color schemes, pick ClickUp. If you like your software to be easy and actually work, don't use ClickUp.

Do you think ClickUp delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with ClickUp's feature set?

No

Did ClickUp live up to sales and marketing promises?

No

Did implementation of ClickUp go as expected?

No

Would you buy ClickUp again?

No

The Sprint view they try to get you on is not intuitive and doesn't functionally work for customizations. What should be a core feature doesn't even work. For that reason, I'd rather just use Wrike or Trello..

Really... with how crowded this Product / Project management space is, it feels like they're relying on heavy marketing to try to break-down Wrike or Trello. The product really isn't too much different for features that actually work.

ClickUp Feature Ratings

Task Management
5
Resource Management
5
Gantt Charts
Not Rated
Scheduling
6
Workflow Automation
6
Team Collaboration
4
Support for Agile Methodology
6
Support for Waterfall Methodology
6
Document Management
6
Email integration
Not Rated
Mobile Access
Not Rated
Timesheet Tracking
Not Rated
Project & financial reporting
6