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Requires iOS 10.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
25 reviewers had the following to say about Float's features:
I can report on activities, track billable activities and how available my resources are.
Pros
Simplicity / Ease of User Interface Drag & Drop Reporting
Cons
Not much - wish it had a time tracking system so it could replace another tool
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Project Planning Scheduling and Time Management Resource allocation Easy to use
Pros
I like that I can keep track of the projects the team is working on and easily delegate work Float also helps with scheduling and timing as well as monitoring the evolution of the project.
Cons
Lack of push notifications to notify concerned parties when there's a new task Lack of a project timeline planning tool
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
The data it collects is really useful for analysing what my team works on and what projects take up the most resources.
Pros
It has a nice clean UI and it's easy to drag and drop tasks around the calendar.
Cons
We still need to use other software to track the project status.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
We can track the time spend on each project very easy and that helped us to more accurate bill our work.
Cons
The project management and milestones interface could be more intuitive
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I liked it for tracking day to day progress.
Pros
I liked being able to see in a glance what all my team members would be working on day to day.
Cons
I wished it integrated with other project management software.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Occasionally
Likelihood to recommend
Team management has always been quite messy on our teams, and no overall was available with Notes calendar, so Float has been worshiped when we got it
Pros
Overall planning for teams, easy day-by-day task management, task categories, project / customer management, api to retrieve planning on other software (such as notes calendar)
Cons
Still quite difficult to manage 1/2 day task, no way to plan meeting easily
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
It is very visual and practical. Easy to use and see.
Cons
I would like a Project Gantt aditional tool. Tasks in the Project would appear on resources assignation.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Gives you the opportunity to actively plan your time beforehand and not only to react like a classic time tracking tool would.
Pros
What makes this app unique is the ability to use it as team planning and ressource management but at the same time to track worked time and have powerful reporting and analytic tools.
Cons
Integrations could be improved (two-way google calendar sync, native toggl sync) and you need some time to get used to the main timeline view (but it works quite well, wenn you do). a way to reflect flexible work hours would be good (i.e. total hour target for a week or month but not per day). a gannt view for quick project planning would also be appreciated.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
It is a useful cloud software that you can use daily.
Pros
It is easy to use and you can keep track of your activities, tasks and projects for the day.
Cons
It is a little bit hard to import tasks from other platforms but that is not so important for me.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Very easy to use, great dashboards and continuous enhancements to the product.
Planning resources in the near future - thanks to this we can easily know what specialist and when will have free time for some short maintenance or start new project. 2. Planning time off office days 3.
Pros
To book resource or edit time range you only need a few clicks or drag and drop.
Cons
It will be nice to get notifications about not booked time of some resource and small tool for moving all booked resources for a given project in time.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Easy visual scheduling for the team
Pros
We love the easy drag and drop interface, the ease of use of the whole system, the API allowing us to create/sync projects and tasks from our project management system, and the ability for our team to sync their Float schedule to their iOS or Exchange calendars via the iCal feed.
Cons
We think there are some minor things that would make the software even easier to use missing from it: - ability to drag and drop to copy a schedule from one person/resource to another (not just reallocate) - ability to see Notes on a project by hovering over the quick note icon on the schedule - ability to see confirmed appointments vs tentative (clients are using colours to do this at the moment)
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
im solving the hiccups of meeting and review scheduling as a agency head it always hard to keep up with the developments of a project so with the help of floats we can have a integrated dairy system that we all have an opinion on based of job urgency and availability.
Pros
The ability to share my dairy to multiple coordinators and operation managers for the easy access of scheduling meetings.
Cons
The lack of time tracking and keeping most ops managers estimate a time, but there is no way to keep track of the amount of time one has actually put into the project.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
I've used it in a larger agency and individually. Definitely the best scheduling software for creative teams.
Pros
You can colour code all of your project, drag, drop or duplicate tasks.
Cons
The allocation of time across multiple days. I would prefer to do it manually and it can be a bit tricky to update time.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Float keeps us organized, on task, and our project manager can quickly understand how close we are to capacity on projects, when we can start new projects, etc.
Pros
Super easy to learn/use, easy to drag and drop assignments from one person to another, keeps us on task which means we can be more profitable!
Cons
I think the mobile UX could be better.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Pros
- Color coding - Easy keyboard shortcuts - Smooth interface - Detailed project information on budget, timing - Information on activity e.g. what has been changed by whom
Cons
- Sometimes it has issues updating in real time - Drag and drop feature at times jumpy and unprecise
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We are using to plan projects and see the overall resource
Pros
The easy way to use, useful feature to plan activity, easy view of status
Cons
Not enough color to assign per projects We would like to have an option to export forecast of resource allocation to see some gaps or overbooking
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
We needed a way to easily plan and then communicate on our respective tasks for the week.
Pros
I like that I (as a project manager) can manage time easily for our team of two, but can easily add contract workers, and that visually it works for my designer as well -- he struggled with really seeing how his week needed to flow when just using tasklists, like Basecamp.
Cons
Anything I haven't liked has been added (e.g. ability to do recurring tasks, reordering tasks).
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
So far float was well worth the money our team payed for it. The calendar does what it's supposed to do.
Pros
Easy to use calendar and dashboard enabling for instant glance through all projects.
Cons
Limited integration abilities due to third party hosting.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We are planning design and manufacturing tasks / workload using it.
Pros
Very simple and extremely fast to use interface. I picked up how to create customers, projects, tasks and to schedule them without using the help documentation or customer support.
Cons
I'd like little additional features here and there but adding features naturally increases complexity so I cant really complain. The ability to see things offline occasionally would be helpful.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
This has improved the teams overall planning of jobs and has allowed us to see what we can take on, what we need to reschedule and at times when we have to call in additional help to meet the deadlines.
Pros
This allows us to schedule when projects and tasks need to take place, and who is working on and responsible for each project and task.
Cons
This is great but when these scheduled tasks or projects need to be changed or reshuffled it can only be done by the admin person / account owner and not the individual.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
We are able to better track our time against projects to make sure we are charging appropriately.
Pros
The design is easy on the eye and intuitive.
Cons
For the most part it is ok, but some of the processes could be easier and more flexible in how a user can interact with them.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
