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Overview

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Smartsheet, an online work execution platform, empowers organizations to plan, track, automate, and report on work. Over 80,000 brands rely on Smartsheet for project and work management because of its easy-to-use interface, real-time gantt charts and dashboards, and work automation features.

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From sales and marketing to HR and operations, teams can design and customize Trello to fit their unique needs and work styles. And with over 100+ integrations with other key tools like Google Drive, Slack, Jira and more, Trello is a breathing project hub of cross-team collaboration.

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

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Pricing

Starting from

9

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

6

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.5

3.3K

5

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would recommend this app

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97%
would recommend this app

Pros

It's been great having so many templates to choose from and customize. Awesome that it can be integrated with MS Teams.
I love the ease to customize your sheet for whatever you need and however you like it. Love being able to switch around columns and sort rows so quickly too.
The project being web-based helps to share information with other members of the team. The ability to export to various formats, as well as get team updates is a huge benefit.

Pros

So natural to utilize Very visual Price is correct Easy to add/eliminate individuals Search ability is superb.
The product has a good look and is easy to use. Regarding the integration of the processes, it is very good and agile with the other members.
Excellent software to maintain the progress as a team and achieve the targets as a team. Monitor the team's progress and a wonderful application full of tools helps us to do things right.

Cons

I then took the Smartsheet training to be certified and that opened my eyes to the power of the tool (and also to the fact that the sheets I hated were users in our company using it very, very WRONG).
The only complaint that I have is that if the spreadsheet is very large, the page can be slightly laggy.
Some features seem to be missing or limited features available.

Cons

The accidental "drag/move/delete" is scary for us because you can accidentally move a card when you're just trying to scroll over on the screen and that can be problematic.
Fear of insecurity is a shortcoming of the apps. Some bad people can use this app for their ill purpose.
I HATE that i can not see the archived tasks on the calender as an option. Not being able to archive a task after you complete it and still see it on the calender is a bummer.
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Key features

  • Total features214
  • @mentions
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Planning
  • Activity Tracking
  • Activity/News Feed
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Analytics
  • Approval Process Control
  • Approval Workflow
  • Asset Tracking
  • Assignment Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Automatic Backup
  • Availability Management
  • Backlog Management
  • Bar Chart
  • Bed Management
  • Bid Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Brainstorming
  • Brand Management
  • Budget Management
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Bug Tracking
  • Business Process Automation
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Calibration Management
  • Campaign Analytics
  • Campaign Management
  • Campaign Planning
  • Capacity Management
  • Change Management
  • Change Order Management
  • Channel Management
  • Charting
  • Claims Management
  • Client Management
  • Client Portal
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Color Codes/Icons
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Commercial
  • Communication Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Contact Database
  • Content Management
  • Contract/License Management
  • Contractor Management
  • Cost Estimating
  • Cost-to-Completion Tracking
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Dashboard
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Tabulation
  • Data Visualization
  • Deadline Management
  • Dependency Tracking
  • Digital Asset Management
  • Discussions/Forums
  • Display Ad Management
  • Document Management
  • Document Review
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Due Date Tracking
  • EMR/EHR
  • Electronic Data Capture
  • Electronic Forms
  • Email Management
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Email-to-Task Conversion
  • Employee Activity Monitoring
  • Employee Management
  • Equipment Tracking
  • Event Calendar
  • Expense Management
  • Expense Tracking
  • Feedback Management
  • File Management
  • File Sharing
  • File Transfer
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Reporting
  • For AEC Industry
  • For IT Project Management
  • For Residential
  • For Small Businesses
  • Forms Automation
  • Forms Creation & Design
  • Forms Management
  • Functions/Calculations
  • Gamification
  • Gantt/Timeline View
  • Goal Management
  • Goal Setting/Tracking
  • Graphical Workflow Editor
  • Guest Access
  • HIPAA Compliant
  • Idea Collection
  • Idea Management
  • Incident Reporting
  • Innovation Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Job Scheduling
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Kanban Board
  • Key & Lock Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lab Information Management
  • Live Chat
  • Marketing Automation
  • Marketing Calendar
  • Marketing Reports
  • Markup Tools
  • Media Planning
  • Meeting Management
  • Messaging
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Dashboards
  • Multi-Campaign
  • Multi-board
  • Multiple Projects
  • Negative Feedback Management
  • No-Code
  • Notes Management
  • Order Management
  • Orientation Workflow Management
  • Patient Management
  • Patient Records Management
  • Payroll Management
  • Percent-Complete Tracking
  • Performance Metrics
  • Permit Management
  • Physician Management
  • Planning Tools
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Policy Management
  • Polls/Voting
  • Portfolio Management
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Prioritization
  • Private Dashboards
  • Process Change Tracking
  • Process Modeling & Designing
  • Product Data Management
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Productivity Tools
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Planning/Scheduling
  • Project Scheduling
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Project Tracking
  • Project Workflow
  • Projections
  • Public Dashboards
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • RFI & Submittals
  • ROI Tracking
  • Real Time Editing
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Recurring Tasks
  • Reminders
  • Remote Access/Control
  • Remote Support
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Request Management
  • Requirements Management
  • Rescheduling
  • Resource Management
  • Resource Request
  • Resource Scheduling
  • Retrospectives Management
  • Risk Management
  • Roadmapping
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Rules-Based Workflow
  • SSL Security
  • Sales Reports
  • Scheduled/Automated Reports
  • Scheduling
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Service History
  • Single Page View
  • Single Sign On
  • Skills Tracking
  • Spend Management
  • Spreadsheet View
  • Sprint Planning
  • Staff Calendar
  • Status Tracking
  • Strategic Planning
  • Sub-Task Management
  • Subcontractor Management
  • Subcontractor Monitoring
  • Supports Scrum
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Tagging
  • Task Board View
  • Task Editing
  • Task Import
  • Task Management
  • Task Planning
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Task Scheduling
  • Task Tagging
  • Team Management
  • Technician Management
  • Template Management
  • Templates
  • Testing/QA Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time & Expense Tracking
  • Time Tracking
  • To-Do List
  • Traditional Methodologies
  • Training Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Version Control
  • Visual Workflow Management
  • Visualization
  • Web Forms
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Widgets
  • Work Order Management
  • Workflow Configuration
  • Workflow Management
  • Total features152
  • @mentions
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Planning
  • Activity Tracking
  • Activity/News Feed
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Analytics
  • Approval Process Control
  • Approval Workflow
  • Asset Tracking
  • Assignment Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Automatic Backup
  • Availability Management
  • Backlog Management
  • Bar Chart
  • Bed Management
  • Bid Management
  • Billing & Invoicing
  • Brainstorming
  • Brand Management
  • Budget Management
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Bug Tracking
  • Business Process Automation
  • CRM
  • Calendar Management
  • Calibration Management
  • Campaign Analytics
  • Campaign Management
  • Campaign Planning
  • Capacity Management
  • Change Management
  • Change Order Management
  • Channel Management
  • Charting
  • Claims Management
  • Client Management
  • Client Portal
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Color Codes/Icons
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Commercial
  • Communication Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Contact Database
  • Content Management
  • Contract/License Management
  • Contractor Management
  • Cost Estimating
  • Cost-to-Completion Tracking
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Dashboard
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Synchronization
  • Data Tabulation
  • Data Visualization
  • Deadline Management
  • Dependency Tracking
  • Digital Asset Management
  • Discussions/Forums
  • Display Ad Management
  • Document Management
  • Document Review
  • Document Storage
  • Drag & Drop
  • Due Date Tracking
  • EMR/EHR
  • Electronic Data Capture
  • Electronic Forms
  • Email Management
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Reminders
  • Email-to-Task Conversion
  • Employee Activity Monitoring
  • Employee Management
  • Equipment Tracking
  • Event Calendar
  • Expense Management
  • Expense Tracking
  • Feedback Management
  • File Management
  • File Sharing
  • File Transfer
  • Financial Management
  • Financial Reporting
  • For AEC Industry
  • For IT Project Management
  • For Residential
  • For Small Businesses
  • Forms Automation
  • Forms Creation & Design
  • Forms Management
  • Functions/Calculations
  • Gamification
  • Gantt/Timeline View
  • Goal Management
  • Goal Setting/Tracking
  • Graphical Workflow Editor
  • Guest Access
  • HIPAA Compliant
  • Idea Collection
  • Idea Management
  • Incident Reporting
  • Innovation Management
  • Inventory Management
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Tracking
  • Job Scheduling
  • KPI Monitoring
  • Kanban Board
  • Key & Lock Management
  • Knowledge Management
  • Lab Information Management
  • Live Chat
  • Marketing Automation
  • Marketing Calendar
  • Marketing Reports
  • Markup Tools
  • Media Planning
  • Meeting Management
  • Messaging
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile Dashboards
  • Multi-Campaign
  • Multi-board
  • Multiple Projects
  • Negative Feedback Management
  • No-Code
  • Notes Management
  • Order Management
  • Orientation Workflow Management
  • Patient Management
  • Patient Records Management
  • Payroll Management
  • Percent-Complete Tracking
  • Performance Metrics
  • Permit Management
  • Physician Management
  • Planning Tools
  • Point of Sale (POS)
  • Policy Management
  • Polls/Voting
  • Portfolio Management
  • Preventive Maintenance
  • Prioritization
  • Private Dashboards
  • Process Change Tracking
  • Process Modeling & Designing
  • Product Data Management
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Productivity Tools
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Planning/Scheduling
  • Project Scheduling
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Project Tracking
  • Project Workflow
  • Projections
  • Public Dashboards
  • Quotes/Estimates
  • RFI & Submittals
  • ROI Tracking
  • Real Time Editing
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Recurring Tasks
  • Reminders
  • Remote Access/Control
  • Remote Support
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Request Management
  • Requirements Management
  • Rescheduling
  • Resource Management
  • Resource Request
  • Resource Scheduling
  • Retrospectives Management
  • Risk Management
  • Roadmapping
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Rules-Based Workflow
  • SSL Security
  • Sales Reports
  • Scheduled/Automated Reports
  • Scheduling
  • Search/Filter
  • Secure Data Storage
  • Service History
  • Single Page View
  • Single Sign On
  • Skills Tracking
  • Spend Management
  • Spreadsheet View
  • Sprint Planning
  • Staff Calendar
  • Status Tracking
  • Strategic Planning
  • Sub-Task Management
  • Subcontractor Management
  • Subcontractor Monitoring
  • Supports Scrum
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Tagging
  • Task Board View
  • Task Editing
  • Task Import
  • Task Management
  • Task Planning
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Task Scheduling
  • Task Tagging
  • Team Management
  • Technician Management
  • Template Management
  • Templates
  • Testing/QA Management
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Time & Expense Tracking
  • Time Tracking
  • To-Do List
  • Traditional Methodologies
  • Training Management
  • Vendor Management
  • Version Control
  • Visual Workflow Management
  • Visualization
  • Web Forms
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Widgets
  • Work Order Management
  • Workflow Configuration
  • Workflow Management

Integrations

  • Total integrations180
  • Asana
  • Basecamp
  • Dropbox Business
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Gmail
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Drive
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Jira
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Teams
  • QuickBooks Online Advanced
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • Zendesk Suite
  • Total integrations701
  • Asana
  • Basecamp
  • Dropbox Business
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Gmail
  • Google Calendar
  • Google Drive
  • HubSpot CRM
  • Jira
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Excel
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Teams
  • QuickBooks Online Advanced
  • Slack
  • Trello
  • Xero
  • Zapier
  • Zendesk Suite

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Carter L.

Consumer Services, self-employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Smartsheet

Tried it and kept goong

Reviewed 6 months ago

Onboarding left me wanting, I need a lot of support for new products. Found that with another providor.

Pros

It wasn’t terrible - if you like the excel format of CRM it is going to be a dream for you.

Cons

I am NOT an excel girl! So I needed something more like TRELLO and Smartsheets combined. I found that with BIGIN

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Joseph Z.

Higher Education, 1-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Smartsheet

Trello clone

Reviewed 6 years ago

I came on board an existing project whose leaders were using this platform. I would have never selected it as I prefer Trello since it is a bit more intuitive.

Pros

Smartsheet is easy to set up, share, and use. It can be set up in a Gannt chart format, or even a calendar format. Those are two positives.

Cons

It has a look and feel like Trello but not as eloquent. It just tires my eyes to look at it.

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Lauren P.

Biotechnology, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Smartsheet

My go-to software

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

This software merges the functionality of Gantt, Excel, Trello, and many other softwares to create an all-in-one platform. Smartsheets allows for collaboration and visibility.

Cons

I would love to see added customization tools to the dashboards!

SB
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Sunny B.

Government Administration, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Smartsheet

Cloud based Project management tool with a familiar Excel format

Reviewed 5 years ago

We have been using this tool after moving away from Trello. After initial training, most users have found this tool to be very intuitive.

Pros

The advantage to using Smartsheets over other project management tools in the market is simply their Excel-like platform. This makes the tool intuitive to use without requiring an excessive amount of training. Just like the collaborative component of Excel, tracking of changes and sharing is built-in bringing multiple teams together with their respective timelines and resource allocations on the same page.

Cons

The reporting aspect of the tool can be improved on as it does not justify the additional cost attached.

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Chad F.

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Smartsheet

Amazing for project management

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

It has really helped me organize my projects and collaborate with team members. I also use Trello but Smartsheets is nice for those who prefer to work on spreadsheets/excel.

Cons

I do not have any cons with Smartsheet so far. I highly recommend.

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Computer Software, 201-500 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend3/10

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Smartsheet

It's really just a spreadsheet, to the user. The admin may love it, but whatever.

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

I like the card view of the sheets. It loosely emulates a good UI like Trello or Monday. In order to optimize that, you do have to be careful when sheet planning

Cons

I'm on a Creative Team with high-volume production. It's just a spreadsheet. There is NO WORK being saved an average user nor is the interface engaging enough to make it interesting to update. It's just a chore, which Project Management is anyway. But this doesn't even sugar coat it. I'm told there are interesting linking and display functions, perhaps our PM enjoys those, but it's a bummer from a user perspective.

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Jeremiah L.

Food & Beverages, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Smartsheet

Great Project Management Tool!

Reviewed 8 years ago

Other products like Trello and Basecamp have some of what we wanted. Smartsheet had everything we wanted. Gantt Charts are created very intuitively and sub-tasks are easily rolled up into that.

Pros

Gantt Charts, sub-tasks, online and updated in real time, and very easy to use

Cons

Not free and I still have to convince my boss that we need to get it. So, as a group we don't currently use it.

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Internet, 10,001+ employees

Used monthly for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend7/10

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Smartsheet

easy to create task lists and share for project management

Reviewed 5 years ago

program consolidation and tracking across teams or a department

Pros

good for enterprise sized companies to share collaborative task oriented project tracking lists and components

Cons

asana has more options and a kanban board and jira is a more built out ticketing system as premium options and trello is a great substitute alternative that is free which make smart sheets fall behind because it is only free for 30 days

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Apparel & Fashion, 10,001+ employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Smartsheet

Highly effective in streamlining and managing tasks

Reviewed 3 years ago

Smartsheet are used to help with product launches. We use Smartsheet to keep track of the different teams engaged in the product launch process and the current status of each item. It helps us stay on track and keep our heads down.

Pros

In terms of communication, we've noticed a big improvement. Form and automated notification feature allowed us to cut down on the number of email exchanges required to begin a project as well as notify those involved at its conclusion.

Cons

Because of its Excel-like user interface, Smartsheet may not be as 'fluid' as other options such as Trello, Basecamp, or Asana. Perhaps I'm missing something because I'm not familiar with what Smartsheet has to offer. Overall, I have no complaints about Smartsheet because of the way my team and I are required to use it for our work.

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Paul W.

Telecommunications, 1-10 employees

Used daily for 1-2 years

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  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Smartsheet

Take the Giant Step Up from Excel!

Reviewed 3 years ago

It significantly improved and increased our efficiency and effectiveness in order and project management. This is our second year of our subscripition and we don't see any reason to change to anything else for what we have to do.

Pros

Many are using MS Excel to track projects and orders... If this is your world, then you have to try out Smartsheet! Excel like User Interface that does a whole lot more. Schedule reminders, automate tasks, work flow, and the list goes on... and yet, the with the straightforward simplicity of a familiar EXCEL like environment. Other Project Management tools are great, but for those of us that like the EXCEL look and feel, you will find Smartsheet super easy to adopt and you will love the awesome features it provides. Smartsheet also regularly sends out tips on how to improve your processes and ideas on how to use it in many other ways.

Cons

When compared to some of the other solutions like Trello, BaseCamp or Asana, Smartsheet may not be as 'flexible' since it adheres to an Excel like user interface. Maybe this is because of my lack of knowledge in all aspects of Smartsheet's features? Overall, there's not much I don't like about Smartsheet for the way me and my team has to use it.

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Suzanne V.

Computer Software, 51-200 employees

Used weekly for 1-2 years

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  • Ease of use
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  • Customer support
  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Smartsheet

Great planning software, beats your Excel easily

Reviewed 4 years ago

Cooperation is good, they regularly release new features

Pros

Smartsheet is a great tool to do your project planning. It has the flexibility of a spreadsheet but easy to use features to make it an interactive planning with gantt charting, start and end dates, dependencies etc. It is easy to share sheets with colleagues and even customers that don't need a license for that.

Cons

Integration with other tools like Trello is quite basic I miss the overall definition of "project" which makes it more difficult to group sheets that belong to the same project and to get an overall view on all our running projects. We also use 10,000ft and I hope the integration there will improve soon as this is still quite rudimentary.

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Benjamin H.

Used weekly for 2+ years

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Mr

Reviewed 7 years ago
Pros

Smartsheet is cloud based, so can access it anywhere. Love the little things like hitting the "insert" key inserts a new row. They clearly think about intuitive and easy workflow enhancements. Granted, we're not advances users of Excel, but in our architecture practice, there's nothing excel does that we couldn't do in smartsheet. We also use the Gantt chart feature for design and construction schedules. We didn't have MS Project before, but now we don't need it.

Cons

The last time I checked, their Kanban worksheet setup didn't make sense, whereas Trello had it figured out. I was going to say the timeline formatting options in the Gantt charts left a bit to be desired, but I just checked and they fixed it! So there you go - great and constant feature development. Neutral grade for customer support because I've never had to use it.

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Health, Wellness and Fitness, self-employed

Used daily for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend2/10

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Smartsheet

Not impressed--too much work to set up

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

If you are someone who wants to create and control every single detail of a project management tool (essential recreating the wheel) then this is the software for you. If you, like myself and 95% of the marketing /PM world, prefer to pay for a high-quality, easy-to-deploy PM tool, this is NOT for you. PRO: you can customize SmartSheets to be exactly what you want, but it will take time and training.

Cons

I was working as a consultant with a company who already utilized this software. As a user, I found it very difficult to create new projects and track them. The team had one dedicated Smartsheets admin who had gone to multiple conferences to be the team "expert" for Smartsheets. Honestly, this seemed overboard. For project management, Asana and Trello are much easier and faster and high-quality than Smartsheet.

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Information Technology and Services, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 6-12 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Smartsheet

Best tool to manage and automate project

Reviewed 2 years ago
Pros

I've been using Smartsheet for the last six months and it's been the best tool I've ever used. It makes managing and automating projects so much easier. The interface is so intuitive that I was able to master it in just a couple of days. It's also great how you can use it with other apps like Slack or Trello, which is a huge plus! The customer support is also very helpful!

Cons

I don't knoq about all functinality. But whichever I used, it all perfom well.

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Shannon Y.

Health, Wellness and Fitness, 501-1,000 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Smartsheet is like Excel & PowerPoint had a child

Reviewed 3 years ago
Pros

Smartsheet is a great option for middle of the road users that don't need the powerhouse complexity of excel, but need more standardization and features to organize tasks than simple task management like Trello. Its user friendly and has the capability to move data from one team to another through automations, reports, messaging, and data display. The more users, the data, or the moving parts the more difficult Smartsheet is to use, but in my experience most people don't run into those complexities.

Cons

Smartsheet is new compared to a lot of other project management software and they're developing new features all the time. In some ways this is wonderful because they take customer feedback seriously and implement changes relatively quickly. However, I feel that it doesn't quite know what its going to be yet and there are limitations around data display that require time consuming work arounds or out of the box thinking. For example. I can aggregate data into a report but I can't display portions of a report on a dashboard in a chart. There are pivot table add ons that are not as simple as say an excel pivot so I essentially have to make my own pivot using formulas to chart data. It works, but its round-about and features that might improve this process are extra.

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Josh S.

Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing, 11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

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Smart Sheet = Smart Choice

Reviewed 8 years ago

Smart Sheet is best described as a "glorified" spreadsheet. However it's much more powerful in that sheets can be linked so that an update on one sheet updates any selected row or cells that are linked on another sheet or report. It's also meant to be collaborative and allows others to view and edit sheets that are created. It also doubles as a Gantt chart package and most recently was updated to include card view (similar to Trello). If you are looking for an all in one package with many features and templates, Smart Sheet is a very good value.

Pros

Easy to use, many features and Templates to select from.

Cons

If you are familiar with Excel formulas, Smart Sheet has a slightly different method. Therefore it takes a little to get use to the difference but once you do it's pretty straight forward.

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Marketing and Advertising, self-employed

Used monthly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend9/10

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Trello

Best free app!

Reviewed 5 years ago

I've used Asana, SmartSheet and others. Trello is my personal favorite overall.

Pros

Free is hard to beat. Also one of the most intuitive project and content management tools out there. Love that it's low entry with ability to scale as large as you do, Hard balance to find in SaaS these days. This grows with your business without you having to justify a big price tag just to get started. All the bells, whistles, and integrations.

Cons

While there are lots of templates out there, you have to really play with it to see what set up works best for you. My advice: don't overthink it.

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Brandy B.

Banking, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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Trello (Meh)

Reviewed 4 years ago

Overall Trello is just an okay program. I have found that Smartsheet works better for our company.

Pros

The simplisity of the program is quite helpful. I also loved the ability to track due dates for projects. Its also helpful that Trullo allows you to attach files within the program such as pictures or charts for presentations or data inquiries.

Cons

Trullo lacks the ability to do multi board reporting. It also fails to allow users to import microsoft project files. Most companies use some type of microsoft files so this feature would be helpful if they could tweak it. Sadly it also doesnt allow for exporting documents to excel which is a major issue for those like me who use Excel all day.

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Design, 11-50 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend5/10

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Trello was too complex for me.

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

I tried Trello hoping to streamline client and team collaborations and GTD tasks for members of my organization. I felt like it had a nice feel and good following and chose to test it out before settling in a task/project management software.

Cons

Though, Trello is way more user friendly and clean than the likes of Smartsheet, I still prefer MeisterTask for management to the fidelity I need. Otherwise it's a great product.

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FC T.

Retail, 1,001-5,000 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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Useful tool to manage workflow

Reviewed 6 years ago
Pros

I find the workflow is less restrictive and therefore more collaborative than other similar software packages.

Cons

Ironically this software biggest strength is also its biggest weakness, it usually requires that you also use a more formalised system to actually administrate bigger projects. It would be great if it had connectors to other packages like JIRA or Smartsheet.

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Jessica C.

Sports, 1-10 employees

Used other for 1-2 years

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  • Likelihood to recommend8/10

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User Friendly Project Managment Tool

Reviewed 5 years ago
Pros

I love the ease that someone can learn this product. The ability to colour code your tasks, upload items, and communciate with your teams remotely makes this and excellent project managament tool for orgs that don't need to use a Ghant chart or SmartSheet

Cons

So far we love how this helps our volunteer committee plan tasks without having to meet up!

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Mary Beth H.

Nonprofit Organization Management, 11-50 employees

Used daily for 2+ years

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  • Likelihood to recommend10/10

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Time to get organized!

Reviewed 6 years ago

It has become a vital part of our Program Management.

Pros

Trello allows us to communicate and plan with a team in a more informal way! It works for me individually to track my areas of responsibility while allowing the team visibility to my progress, and allows me to communicate with other team members on shared responsibilities. We use other planning tools, like smartsheet, for specific implementation plans, but Trello for managing accounts as a team and keeping track of all the moving pieces.

Cons

Notifications could be better, and tracking overall progress against completion.