Redbooth vs Nifty: Which is a better fit?

Drew D.: Hi. My name is Drew and I work as a video producer at a nonprofit and I give Redbooth four out of five stars. The business problem that I'm solving with Redbooth is bringing together our entire marketing team of graphic designers, photographers, videographers, copywriters all together in one place to manage our projects and to be able to keep tabs on where everyone else is in the different stages of our projects. What I like about using Redbooth first of all is the horizontal column structure, the flexibility of moving tasks from one column to another, adding extra columns if you want to just break your project down even further. The organization options are super great, super flexible, and it just makes sense to me when we're organizing our projects. I also really like the flexibility for tagging different tasks so that I can look at just tasks that I'm tagged in, just tasks that my team is tagged in. I also like the notification options, because I can have Redbooth notifications come straight to my email inbox or I can have them as push notifications on my desktop so that I don't constantly have to have the website open and I'm also not afraid that I'm going to miss something when I'm not looking at the website. What I don't like about using Redbooth, first of all the calendar view leaves a lot to be desired. I really want to be able to sort my tasks that I'm tagged in or tasks that my team is tagged in into a nice calendar just so I can look ahead at the deadlines that I have upcoming or the tasks that are coming up maybe in the next couple of months. However, while the calendar has gotten better since we starting using it about a year ago, it just doesn't really... It doesn't work natively as well as we would like it to. Something else that's also been an issue that I've experienced has been previewing Microsoft Word documents in Redbooth. The previews, most of the time they don't work and I have to download the document and then open it and then go back to Redbooth. The same thing with dropbox previews. Sometimes images show up weird, the aspect ratios are off, and so you either get somebody telling you, "Oh, the image looks wrong," when it's right but Redbooth is displaying it wrong, or you then have to download it and then open it up again to get a sense of the image and then go back into Redbooth to get feedback, approve it, whatever you're doing with that image. So that's just another step that is a little bit frustrating and I wish was something that Redbooth would improve upon so that I didn't have to spend the extra time and have extra files floating around, when I'd love to be able to just preview all my files correctly with them with web interface.

Aryana R.: Hi, I'm Aryana, the founder of a coaching and training company, and I give Nifty a four out of five. I was working in Basecamp, and I found it hard to navigate. When I was looking for something, I'd spend a lot of time trying to find that post or that document, and it was frustrating. I decided to go with Nifty. One, the pricing. It was better than anything else that I'd looked at. I also liked it was more intuitive, and it was like I was looking at a desktop, not just this blank screen. I was able to put my calendar in there, my team members, alert people easily. It had kind of this feeling of a dashboard that was modifiable. My team and I are still working on onboarding. I found that this is what I do as a business owner is I get my team to do, "How does this all work?" Then they teach me how to do it. I would say we really ran at it very quickly and we got some projects in there. I was really impressed as we were doing it. Then things got busy, so we started to go back to Google Docs. Interestingly, just yesterday, I was like, "I'm done Google docs. I'm done emails back and forth. I need to get us using Nifty again." I started to put some projects in, some task lists. There's something really satisfying about that, when you can be like, "Tick it off. I did it." If you're considering Nifty, I suggest doing their free trial, if they still have it, and really give it a robust, try. Get your team members working in it and put an entire project in. It's going to help you because you can still use the content if you decide not to continue with their trial, but that's one thing that I wished I'd done when I was researching is just give it a good solid test because then once you do commit to it, you're going to stick with it and you're going to use it fully.