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Coda
Text and spreadsheet documents management solution
Coda Pricing, Features, Reviews and Alternatives
Coda FAQs
Coda has the following pricing plans:
Starting from: $12.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
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Q. Who are the typical users of Coda?
Coda has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Small Business
Q. What languages does Coda support?
Coda supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Coda support mobile devices?
Coda supports the following devices:
Android, iPad, iPhone
Q. Does Coda offer an API?
Yes, Coda has an API available for use.
Q. What other apps does Coda integrate with?
Coda integrates with the following applications:
GitHub, Dropbox Business, Coda, Jira, Lever, Zapier, Gmail, Google Drive, Phabricator, Slack, Google Contacts, Google Calendar, Greenhouse, Twilio, Instagram, Intercom, Shopify
Q. What level of support does Coda offer?
Coda offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, Chat, Knowledge Base, FAQs/Forum
Coda product overview
What is Coda?
Coda is a document management solution, which helps businesses create, edit, and view text documents and spreadsheets, streamlining processes related to product launches, project management, application development, and more. The platform comes with customizable templates, which lets organizations create personalized documents for meetings, brainstorming sessions, customer feedback, to-do lists, and market research.
Key benefits of using Coda
- Automations: With time- or action-based rules, you can put small, important tasks on autopilot—like sending daily updates.
- Packs are our version of integrations or plug-ins. They connect your doc to the apps you use every day, so you can pull live data in or push updates out automatically.
- Cross-doc connects information between docs. Sync tables or parts of tables across docs for a never-stale source of truth.
- Revision history: access prior versions of your doc
- Explore and share docs: Our Doc Gallery contains docs self-published by our community. These published docs have a webpage-like interface and have varying levels of interactivity like view, play or edit. Find and share tools, templates, tiny apps, interactive handbooks, and anything else you can build in Coda.
- Drag-and-drop templates give you a quick-start shortcut to commonly used templates like Upvote/Downvote, To-Do List, and Team Sentiment Tracker.
- Table Views. With Coda, you can slice, dice, and chop your data however you'd like using Views. A View is a mirror of your data that can be tailored to your unique needs, all while staying connected to the source
- Mobile-friendly and app-like. When you access your doc from your mobile device, you’ll feel like you built an app. Doc pages become tabs, buttons become swipe actions and doc notifications become push notifications (if you want them to).
Collaboration
- Real-time collaboration: See changes from other editors in real-time and who's in your doc right now.
- Doc sharing: Share docs directly, by link, or via a folder and choose who can edit, comment or view.
- Hidden pages: Simplify a doc for your team by hiding supporting pages and archiving old content.
- Locking: prevent editors from making accidental changes by locking pages or a whole doc. With advanced locking, restrict who can unlock, add pages and configure settings in a doc.
Workspace features
- Unlimited folders: Organize docs across different folders in your workspace.
- Private folders: Require an invite to see and access private folders in your workspace.
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- Likelihood to recommend8.73/10
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Dave C.
Director
Design, 1-10 employees
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Emily L.
Director of Investor Relations
Venture Capital & Private Equity, 11-50 employees
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Thibault L.
Computer Software, 1-10 employees
Used daily for 2+ years
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We use coda as a data hub to let the entire team understand where we are and what we are doing. It helped a lot having everyone on the same page.
I love how it is easy to manage data thanks to view. Very easy to link with external data source. Our entire team processes are now managed with Coda.
It lacks of export features for graphs.
Nadia B.
Online Media, self-employed
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Coda is a quick start for anyone familiar with google docs or other collaborative platforms. I use Coda for managing a team of 20 volunteers on web content publishing projects.
I like the templates library and integrations.
I am waiting for a rollup function to include all team comments across documents. This feature is currently missing and makes the software difficult to use for managing a large team with multiple documents.
Timothy L.
Computer Software, 51-200 employees
Used daily for 6-12 months
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Coda is a good tool that excels as a simple product. If you don't need or want to worry about having to learn a new tool to collaborate / store knowledge and want a well built tool then Coda may be what you are looking for.
Coda is simple to use and easy to share pages with colleagues. As a knowledge management tool or collaboration tool it gets the job done without a steep learning curve.
Coda felt like it had limited capabilities to make deeply customizable content like tables or pages with diverse content.
Marc M.
Consumer Goods, self-employed
Used weekly for 2+ years
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Beyond utilizing the initial document/app I was provided, I found my experience frustrating at best. It’s not Coda’s fault, this product could be perfectly ideal for someone with the right skills, that’s just simply not me.
The idea of building up an ‘app’ to be exactly what I need functionality-wise, and based off of an all-encompassing spread sheet was very appealing. I would have access to all the info I needed on desktop and mobile.
Building it out to be what I needed required an ability to code the document in every way, and that’s just not something I’m knowledgeable enough for. Nor do I have the time to figure it out. Even once I did finally build out features, I would easily delete them accidentally. That said, I got some help early on to get everything set up correctly, but again, without knowing how to do it myself, I couldn’t maintain or expand on what I was provided.
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Marketing and Advertising, 201-500 employees
Used monthly for 1-2 years
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As I said, it's a surprising powerful app that's still very easy to use and the user/dev community is actually very active and helpful. I discovered and started using Coda in their early days and I have tried every single app listed above and then some since (and still use many for various things). For its unique combination of features, though, I still always find myself coming back to Coda. So much so that, while their free plan is surprisingly feature rich with high limits, I finally decided to pull the trigger and commit by purchasing a plan.
For my needs, it's like the developers took the best features of Google Docs, Airtable, Notion and Confluence and wrapped them all up into uniquely powerful and easy-to-use product. I have to do a lot of off-the-cuff analysis and tracking, and the features they provide around tables exceed even Google Sheets for my uses. I often find myself building little apps that make a task so much easier to get done and with minimal effort compared to other apps (custom scripts in Google Sheets anyone?). The formula and control options are also second-to-none both in just how much you can do with them and also how they can be brought together into a much more usable interface.
I don't understand why you have to go with a Team plan or above to access document locking functionality. I've got it now that I'm paying, but I've built a lot of tools in Coda in the past that I wanted to share but didn't because I also had to then give folks editing access. If I'm going to trust anyone with editing access, it's my team - I'm trying to lock things down for colleagues, clients and leadership. Also, they have got to add in the option to import data from a file - this copy and paste from a spreadsheet is a pain and not always reliable.
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