We performed a comparison between ClickUp and Microsoft Project based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Project Management Software solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."The simplicity of the tool is valuable because it has categories and subcategories."
"ClickUp offers a relatively user-friendly experience, especially when it comes to its fundamental features."
"I am currently exploring ClickUp AI, which I think is very good."
"It is a scalable solution. I would rate it a ten out of ten."
"The most interesting feature is the ability to share what you are working on with an external entity. The customer has direct visibility on what is being done on a particular project and this provides a lot of transparency."
"So when I take a note, I have the ability to highlight text and have it transform into a specific part of the note as a task."
"The most valuable feature of ClickUp is its AI recommendation."
"Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten."
"It is easy to use and pretty intuitive. User interfaces have stayed the same for the most part for the last 20 years. So, there is a familiarity."
"Microsoft Project is user-friendly and easy to use to do very complex project plans."
"Microsoft Project is used to track the project delivery and the project management."
"It can auto-connect based on the dates, which makes it easy. It auto-assigns people, and when you're starting to type in, it auto-fills and populates for you, which is great. It provides little time savers when you're typing everything out."
"If you work with Microsoft, it's very easy to work with this."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"Resource leveling is very useful. We like this feature. We like to be able to expand tasks and look at different resources and tasks usages. It is good at assigning tasks to teams. It is pretty compliant with the Project Management Institute approach, which is useful for being comprehensive. It allows us to make little Gantt charts and network diagrams."
"Time tracking and budget tracking are the most valuable features of the solution."
"It can be improved by making it more user-friendly."
"There is a need for significant improvement in the user interface to make it more intuitive and less time-consuming to become familiar with."
"The email portion, specifically the email automation, where you can add attachments, has room for improvement."
"ClickUp's interface needs improvement."
"ClickUp could improve by streamlining its functions and organizing them better for easier access."
"ClickUp can improve the UI for mobile devices. For example, they are lacking some features in the Android version, such as Gantt charts."
"ClickUp could improve by being customised to the development industry. We would like to have bug trackers and an agile approach built into the solution."
"ClickUp doesn't have a roadmap vision and a proper way of planning."
"There needs to be better integration with other Microsoft products such as SharePoint, and the like."
"I find the setup a little bit cumbersome."
"Microsoft's solution isn't really a collaboration tool, however. If you need a collaboration tool, you can use Slack, which can be integrated with your JIRA."
"Microsoft Project should include more visualization, queries to filter out data, and more reporting structures."
"The solution could offer waterfall options for agile and sprint planning."
"We'd like to be able to see different timelines as a part of one task."
"We'd like to have more resource allocation and monitoring features."
"It has a bit of a learning curve since there are a lot of features in it, and we haven't really gotten a chance to train through the whole product."
ClickUp is ranked 13th in Project Management Software with 15 reviews while Microsoft Project is ranked 2nd in Project Management Software with 77 reviews. ClickUp is rated 7.8, while Microsoft Project is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of ClickUp writes "A stable solution that offers it users a choice to opt for a streamlined approach to task management ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Microsoft Project writes "A stable solution that very accurately runs projects". ClickUp is most compared with Bitrix24, Jira and Broadcom Clarity , whereas Microsoft Project is most compared with Asana, Jira, Microsoft Project Server, Smartsheet and Planview ProjectPlace. See our ClickUp vs. Microsoft Project report.
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