Nifty Reviews

Pros

It helped me onboard employees easily in the past.I use it daily to assign tasks to a small remote team, post updates and comments on all those tasks.

Cons

The chat mixes employees from different projects (not a big deal).The file uploading system and management could be improved quite a bit.

Pros

Nifty is more than we could hope for, at the price point. The best part about Nifty is how quickly they are releasing new features to improve their product. Their support team is second to none, as well. We get responses almost instantaneously, every time we need help with something. In terms of features and functionality, this app has it all!

Cons

There is only ONE THING that we truly have a gripe about, with Nifty. The SEARCH algorithm is not great. There's so many times we're searching for something and just can't find the thing we're searching for, despite knowing that we're using the correct keyword. I would LOVE to see them implement an Algolia search tool within nifty, or do something to create a better COMPREHENSIVE search function. If a word exists somewhere in a task, comment, native doc, google doc, sub-task, tag, project name, milestone, etc.... we should be able to quickly and easily find it. This is the only CON that we've run into with Nifty, time and time again.

Alternatives Considered

ClickUp

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

Better value, while not losing any critical functionality

Switched From

Slack and Asana

Pros

I enjoyed separating projects and utilizing task management.

Cons

The system has many kinks and issues to workout. I will schedule a task and then need to change it. The system either doesn't take or reverse the steps I did.

Alternatives Considered

monday.com, ClickUp and Asana

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

I enjoy Appsumo products because they are cheaper and lifelong. The kinks I had with Nifty did cause me to switch to another alternative and I am now with Clickup and Asana.

Pros

Being able to see My Work all in one spot gives me a calendar and deadline view to work from, and I can set up not just multiple projects but also multiple portfolios to segment my business paths. Add to that an active development process that just keeps making it better, and I'm thrilled!

Cons

More events would be great for Zapier integration (right now it only has events for newly created items or task completion, but not status updates).

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp and Asana

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

Easier to use, great interface for website, Windows app, and mobile. It does everything I need to do everywhere I need to do it, without all the extra clutter.

Switched From

Trello, Basecamp, ClickUp and Asana

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

More streamlined and less overhead on task management

Pros

I love how well laid out Nifty is. Everything is very clean and easy to see, easy to read, and a joy to use. The site is snappy and not slow like many other tools I've used. Nifty has almost every feature I need, minus a couple of organizational features. But I'm able to manage as many projects as I need, create custom tables and fields, and even have a client portal where I can let clients see and manage tasks, documents, and even embed things like reports, videos and pretty much anything else that can be embedded. I also love how you can use cName so put your whole Nifty account into your own custom domain on your site, which looks better for clients. This is AMAZING in a tool of this price.

Cons

I really wish there was one more level of nesting for projects, so I can have multiple projects under a single brand. It's not terrible as I can create multiple portfolios and put them inside it. But one more level would allow me to organize things a little better, which is the only thing I miss from my previous task management app. I would also love to have the ability to embed a pre-sorted "finished tasks" view easily. Right now, it doesn't properly sort tasks when your client visits a shared view. The email system where you can add tasks and documents through email works most of the time, but I've had it not add things a few times.

Alternatives Considered

ClickUp

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

ClickUp is fantastic, but has just gotten a little busy and complicated. While it can do most everything, it's almost TOO much. But also, a major issue for me is that ClickUp is more limited in sharing views and you can't use your own domain for that.

Pros

The app has everything you need to manage a suite of projects from different clients in an interface that just makes sense. And constant updates being new exciting features often.

Cons

Automations are great, but there are some simple things that should be improved like the ability to remove dates

Alternatives Considered

ClickUp

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

Nifty supported the next level in our growth.

Switched From

Trello

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

Simpler, faster, and easier to use

Pros

The ease of use, UI and it’s features. Very easy to use even for non tech people.

Cons

It’s not free and I wish they’ll support payment for invoice too.

Alternatives Considered

Jira

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

We just want to try it out, eventually it works.

Switched From

Trello

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

It’s cheaper and more user friendly for non tech people

Pros

We have Kanban and Gantt view and the best is with each task we can put subtask and put many comments on it with member attribution.

Cons

I think this tool would be great if they implement with Notion to avoid Docs and folder.

Alternatives Considered

Trello and Slack

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

Because we have all in it (like trello, slack, gantt) .

Pros

The pricing was attractive and the fact that it allowed for a good number of internal and external collaborators worked out well for us.

Cons

The UI feels like it would benefit from a review by a UX expert to reduce the number of clicks to select things and do basic actions.

Alternatives Considered

Trello, SuiteDash, Microsoft Project and ClickUp

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

Nifty offer more options to track hours and project administration.

Switched From

Trello

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

Price

Pros

Nifty is a great task management and project management software especially for agencies. The active developers are updating it regulary and seem to be open for feedback.

Cons

The Milestone feature in projects could be improvised UI-wise and there should be more integrations for nifty. Also the german translation and the date formats could be more accurate.

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

The price and overall active developers which continually improve the product

Pros

This is the easiest-on-the-eyes, most intuitive PM platform we've tried or used (especially compared to Asana and Notion). Document storage, creation, and management is a breeze. Uploading large numbers of files is lightning fast, and document navigation is super easy. Task management has deep capacity. Onboarding has been a snap compared to other platforms. Devs have built in heavy emphasis on real-time communication and collaboration. Support is super responsive. They have a very active development schedule. Nifty will replace Asana, Slack, and Dropbox Paper for us.

Cons

There is no native print function anywhere. All uploaded files and files created in Nifty have to be downloaded in order to print. This presents companies with an added security issue. In the Files section, pdfs are uploaded as images, so even if you download to print, you just have a png.

The Share function for Files only shares to people on your team or onboarded guests.

All kinds of system notifications show up in the Discussion streams and there's no way to delete them.

The functionality of the Discussions widget is less than the functionality when you click through and expand the Discussions to a full window. So, for instance, you cannot pin a discussion from the widget. This is the least intuitive thing about the app.

Alternatives Considered

Notion

Switched From

Asana

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

Notion has terrible task management and onboarding is a nightmare due to the complexity of the platform. We looked at a lot of other platforms and none of them had the kind of document creation and management that we are looking for.

Pros

This is what our team liked about it
1. Easy leaning curve
2. Chat feature within the system.
3. Google drive files can open in the same interface , our content team could join the same group
4. The design is great.
5. Support is fast and helpful(I had asked whether the sidebar could be collapsed and teh reply came quick on intercom)
6.integration with Github.
7. The feature to lock certain tasks to ceratin task completion.
8. The mobile app is really nice , I was able to use the chat while travelling.

Cons

These are few of things we didnt like
1. No integartion with Gitlab yet.
2. The zoom call feature is pretty useless ebcasue it is nto native yet basically you just geta link to join . Initially I found it buggy.
3. The templates should have preview option , also I would liek to have templates around OKR's
4. Chat within the Projects is sometimes confusing , also discussion on any pertitcualr task .. If a log is provided for teh same it would be easier to follow..
5. If we can access Gdrive files directly from nifty it woudl be nice.

Alternatives Considered

Ora, monday.com and ClickUp

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

Design and Chat feature

Switched From

Freedcamp

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

better pricing , nice design and easy to implement.

Pros

the user interface is friendly and you can understand it quickly

Cons

1-Their database management and recording user data, for example, have an issue of duplication, and if you created a workspace and then deleted you will not be able to use this name again and the nifty system will keep sending you notifications about It like it still exists.

2-Customer support is not professional and most of the time they take around 4-5 days to reply to your questions. This is the main reason I left the App.

Alternatives Considered

Flowlu

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

The App Really Great and have a lot of options that can manage your work and give your real value for your money.

Switched From

Flowlu

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

I choose it because of the reviews and comments on app sumo but actually, it was misleading

Pros

Everything. It's the best UI/UX I've ever seen. Using the tool is super intuitive, and then you find there are even more powerful functions just underneath the surface. Makes it both approachable, easily adoptable, while at the same time being able to scale to meet the new challenges/complexities of your business as it grows.

This is the absolute best tool you have never used. Yes it's the best project management tool, but in terms of app design, feature set, quality, interface, customer support and beyond, Nifty is also the best SAAS tool that exists in any niche.

Cons

There is literally nothing I dislike. I found one problem, where I was unable to paste content with bullet points into a Nifty Doc. I reported it, and they already had it as an upcoming fix for their next update. Less than 48 hours later it was fixed. Not only was it fixed, but their support team followed up with me to let me know. Just first class in every single way.

Pros

The overall ease of use is why I am even leaving a review.

We were using ClickUp for our transaction management, however I found that platform to have a much higher learning curve and when I discovered Nifty I knew this was the platform to manage a transaction on.

Cons

The only con I can think of is that it is fairly new and has some bugs. HOWEVER, the Nifty team is very responsive and organized. They crush those bugs fairly quickly.

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

The learning curve was to high in my opinion. I found my self struggle to learn that platform. Not so with Nifty. It is easy to find what you are looking for or get the results you want because it is structured logically which makes it super easy to use.

Switched From

ClickUp

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

The overall ease of use.

Pros

Simple and easy to use for basic project and task management.

Cons

Unclear help documentation and mediocre customer support. Some features aren't as mature as you expect them to be while others—like task reminders—are missing entirely.

Alternatives Considered

monday.com

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

Value. Teamwork is very expensive and Nifty meets 80% of Teamwork's capabilities at a fraction of the cost.

Switched From

Teamwork

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

Value

Pros

Speaking about around 8 year agency experience as a Project Manager I have tried them all: JIRA, Trello, Asana, Monday and so on and so forth. I must admit that when leaving JIRA aside since it's for a different purpose IMO, nifty is the best among them! It's even that good that internally we don't use teams or slack anymore since it also offers a chat function.

Cons

Nothing to add here. There's really nothing bad about this software. There used to. When cloning a Milestone you'd only clone the milestone without the tasks associated with it. That problem does not exist anymore and the team has developed such awesome features of which I didn't know I need them. But I do. Every day!

Pros

I’ve used many other project tools and nifty is by far the best I’ve ever used. It’s intuitive in how you use it so team members who are new pick up how to use it quickly. It’s allowed us to manage millions of dollars of projects and ensures our projects are complying time.

Cons

Love the product no cons so can’t really put anything here

Pros

Nifty is one of the most sophisticated platforms which can be used for group collaboration. Online essential activities of projects can be effectively delivered, monitored, and control in Nifty. Nifty's progress bar is fantastic. The project members would be able to communicate instantly. The UX and UI designs of the platform are incredibly amazing. When any users faced any difficulties, the Nifty team always offered the communication channel for us so as to reach Nifty staff for any quick help.

Cons

Nifty has done an excellent job in developing the software tools. Not much thing to complaint here. What I dislike is that there is not online tutorials or documentations (even no user manual). With the manual, it helped the efficiency of the delivering the projects. I have to spend time and effort to learn how the Nifty works. I have a group of undergraduates and postgraduates who would like to try Nifty. Any training materials, or video samples (not the youtube), can be sold or gave to the Nifty Fan like myself. Anyway, offering the tools or add-on for reporting functions will be great.

Pros

I originally had known about Nifty before I finally purchased access to through an AppSumo deal months ago.

The one thing that has really impressed me is that it's a combination of two tools: a platform for project management and one for team communication.

Before signing up for Nifty, I had used quite many different project management tools and none and this unique mix. Sure, in other platforms you can communicate through comments in a task but sometimes you need more room to communicate with other members of your team, both in group and one on one.

Nifty does that: one the one side it lets you manage your projects, on the other it facilitates team communication.

This is huge because it turns Nifty into a sort of online hub for many aspects of your business.

Cons

While it's true that Nifty can replace several tools one may be using, it's a bit more of a pricey option compared to other project management tools (which may even come with a free tier).

Sure, the tool comes with a 14-day free trial but I think that, in order to really see its full potential, a user might need to use Nifty for more than just a couple of weeks before being "sold" on waiting to spend almost $40/month for its lowest pricing level.

It goes without saying that this is a company decision but I think that it's something that might potentially drive away users who would end up liking Nifty but just don't give it a chance.

Pros

Nifty allows a great deal of automation at high levels. As a creative business it's important to be able to use our terminology, with the bonus of being able to create our own icons allowing easy at a glance location of projects. Workflow is simple to set up, yet allows for a great deal of detail, and most importantly when updated will automatically inform those affected. Finally there's real time chat right in the tool. Makes quick check-ins, questions, etc. effortless.

Cons

The highest level on the left hand side menu is a Project. Right now Projects are only indicated by a name. There are no colors, icons, etc. to differentiate them. I would love to have this be customizable. I would also like to see an improvement on the in-house document capability. We don't want to use Google Docs. Yet at times the lack of functionality within the program is frustrating.

Alternatives Considered

Basecamp and Asana

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

Intuitive interface and budget friendly

Pros

It checks all of the boxes for what we need in a single application.

Cons

The mobile app can be finicky when trying to read messages in projects and in groups. Sometimes I have to restart the app to continue to read group messages.

Alternatives Considered

Google Chat, Microsoft Teams, Slack and ClickUp

Reasons for Choosing Nifty

Better features for the cost

Switched From

Hive

Reasons for Switching to Nifty

Price for features

Pros

We used a number of rather simple tools like trello and a messenging application. None of them had all the things we wanted and if they did they had MUCH MUCH more than we would want and charged MUCH MUCH more. Nifty has had all the features we were using other services for. Tasks, project milestones, discussion, guest users, channels, integrations to tools we use - particularly git repos have all meet our needs. If you use a free version of trello for project management and are looking for something better without adding way more than you need this is a perfect fit.

A super easy import from trello. Took 30 seconds

Cons

It is a little less developed than other tools out there - still growing. Updates and improvements are made quickly and the nifty team and support are great at listening to feedback.

You may want something like zapier to integrate other items.

Alternatives Considered

Trello, Slack, Basecamp, monday.com and Asana

Switched From

Trello

Pros

Ease of use and simple workspace. The UX is beautiful and makes it easy to prioritize what you need on the top.Constant updates are very nice too. I initially rated it 3/5 years ago when I had first created an account on Nifty. But now, with all the updates, I have no problem rating it 5/5.

Cons

Still dislike that we can't integrate our webinar/meeting software for team chat.

Pros

Nifty is a fully featured tool with everything you need to plan and track projects, manage internal systems, and keep your business operations on track. The docs feature is amazing for writing SOPs and linking to tasks. The automations take care of simple, repeatable steps. Overall a great project and business management tool.

Cons

Nifty is constantly improving and rolling out new features.The one thing that bugs me is the inability to use the built-in Chrome spell checker, so you can easily make typos that don't look great when sharing with clients.