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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:
Pros
Navigate your schedule and access information required.
Cons
Could use with more integrations with different task/project management tools and time tracking software
Rating breakdown
Time used: 2+ years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
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
Great overall experience with a simple UI that gets the job done with little to no problems.
Pros
Graphs and charts are easy to read, allowing me to quickly see what projects I'm on and what is coming down the pipeline in the following weeks.
Cons
Time tracking would be a great feature to have that I wish was available, with that float could become even closer to my all-in-one app for project management.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Ryan,
Thanks for your review! We do have time tracking available as an add-on feature in Float. You can check out how it works on our website here, https://www.float.com/how-it-works/time-tracking.
A free 30 day trial is available from the Team Settings page inside Float. Your team's timesheets will be pre-filled based on their scheduled task hours. All they have to do is verify them, and hit "Log"!
Please feel free to email support@float.com if you have any questions.
Cheers,
Siobhan
Pros
Resources can easily click + update pre-scheduled events vs needing to search for individual tasks/projects.
Cons
Our project management tools use three levels of organization.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
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
We were using Google Sheets to plan our resources, but it was a mess.
Pros
An eagle-eye view of whole resources and team schedules. Slack integration is just lit.
Cons
If it was there, we would have used just float for both project management and resource planning/scheduling.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 years
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Easy way to keep u with my projects and daily tasks/schedule.
Resource management, project scheduling and tracking utilization and efficiency.
Pros
I like that it is fast and relatively fluid to work in. Colour coding is helpful and information is organized in such a way that it's usually clear what you're looking at, even when fairly abstract.
Cons
Input of time for new tasks is quite clunky, at least for the way I schedule time.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Very good, easy to use, fast to learn, lot of functions.
Pros
You have a good overall view, scheduling is easy, the design view is great, reporting is easy and everything comes initially so you are really fast in knowing how to use it.
Cons
Takes a lot of time if you are operating in small tasks with for example 1h or 2h tasks.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 1-2 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
Our studio has tried multiple other products, both software based (installed) and Saas, float just works, and is easy to use and understand.
Pros
Task scheduling and reporting is critical for our busy studio, float makes this a breeze.
Cons
Teamwork project integration could do with being a little tighter.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
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
Pros
Helpful way to keep track of hours I have worked on each project.
Cons
I wish the job title showed up first on my tasks, rather than task first and then project name.
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
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
We really love Float and it’s been a game changer in effectively managing our resources across projects. We now have a clear view on our resource pipeline and it’s allowed project managers to better utilise team based on availability and make more informed hiring decisions.
Pros
Love the ability to easily drag to extend duration of tasks assigned.
Cons
Would be great if there was a better integration with our timesheet tool (Xero) to populate timesheets automatically based on plan in Float.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
Hi Ben,
Thanks for your review! I've passed your Xero integration request to our team.
I also wanted to let you know that we do have a time tracking add-on in Float that pre-fills your team's timesheets based on the work schedule. You can find out how it works here, https://www.float.com/how-it-works/time-tracking.
All Float users can try time tracking free for 30 days. The Account Owner needs to activate this from the Team Settings in Float.
If you want a demo of how it works, or have any questions, please feel free to email us at support@float.com.
Thanks again for the review!
Cheers,
Siobhan
In solving time management and being able to get a good feel of how much time is dedicated to each project, Float has been great. The interface is uncomplicated and easy to understand.
Pros
It was easy to reassign my time in a day or week to a different project and move projects around.
Cons
Would be good to have feature that zooms out the timeline, enabling a better overview of the month.
Rating breakdown
Time used: 6-12 months
Frequency of use: Weekly
Likelihood to recommend
Hi May,
Thanks so much for your review! In the bottom right hand corner there's an option to zoom in/out and view your schedule by days, weeks, or months. Feel free to check out our support article here, https://support.float.com/en/articles/28933-change-the-schedule-view.
Thanks again!
Cheers,
Siobhan
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
Float is one of the best scheduler/planning work commitments.
Very easy to use, great dashboards and continuous enhancements to the product.
It helps with orgnaising my time, and it makes it easy to keep track of the teams progress too, and helps especially in lockdown, for allocating time to various projects properly.
Pros
I like that I can log my time easily, and seperate each project into its individual tasks.
Cons
At the beginning, when you are working out the projects you will be working on and logging, you need to create templates to make it easier to log properly later.
Rating breakdown
Time used: Less than 6 months
Frequency of use: Daily
Likelihood to recommend
