ClickUp vs Microsoft To Do: Which is a better fit?

Cassandra: My name is Cassandra. I am a market content specialist at Bloom Growth, and our company is around 75 people big, and I would give ClickUp a five out of five. I've used a lot of different project management tools such as Asana, Trello, Monday, JIRA, and all of them pale in comparison. ClickUp really is superior and it's my project management tool of choice. The reasons that I choose ClickUp are kind of far and in between. I was one of the first adopters of ClickUp years ago and used it as a free user for a very long time and got so much value out of it. And as I changed jobs, I changed project management tools and nothing was as good as ClickUp. I would always tell my managers, "Hey, I know we're using this project management tool, but couldn't we maybe try ClickUp? You can try it for free, and then you'll fall in love and understand that you don't want to use the other tools." And the company that I'm with now, they did that and we're seeing great results because of it. The reason that I personally choose ClickUp not only for work, I use it in my personal life too. You can label things, you can categorize things. There's just so many different options to customize your project management. Gantt charts, lists, boards, different views, different colors. Just if you're a visual person and want to see your boards and lists and things to do in a different way, in a way that resonates with you, maybe your project is pink and all you're looking for is pink. You can do that with ClickUp and I really appreciate that. And the new tools, like the ClickUp Brain. Game changer, it helps my work so much, saves me time. And yeah, I think that's it. When I first started using ClickUp, it was essential that we managed all of our projects and I found it very simple to manage them through ClickUp. It was intuitive and easy to use. It was easy to customize things to what I needed to do. At the time, I was using spreadsheets to use data entry points, and all I would have to do is update the CSV and upload that to ClickUp. And all of my tasks magically got there and it just made my workflow so much easier. And as a manager at the time, it was really easy to teach to my incoming employees and just show them how simple it was to use. So from day one, it was just, "We use ClickUp, this is how you use it."There were hardly ever any questions. And if there were the support was there. I would hop into the chat and somebody would be with me really quickly, which kind of blew my mind because you don't usually get that. But ClickUp has been at the top of the game, in my opinion, since the beginning and since I started using it. If you're considering using ClickUp for your company, I'd say go ahead and do it. Don't wait. You'll be happy that you did. There are so many project management tools out there that will promise you productivity because of their project management platform. I've used a lot of them, and ClickUp is the one I always come back to. It's like it's home.

Andrew P.: My name is Andrew. I'm a director of Family Ministries. I give Microsoft To Do four out of five. And for more reviews like this, click below. Before we settled on Microsoft To Do, our team looked at ClickUp and Monday.com as possible alternatives. Both of those were very powerful. They also had additional cost and some additional work getting them integrated with the systems we were already using. Microsoft To Do fit in well with our Microsoft environment, and didn't come within the additional cost. We chose Microsoft To Do for a couple different reasons. The first is, as I said, it integrated well with the rest of our Microsoft environment. As an administrator, it was easy to head into Microsoft admin, go to the panel, turn it on, and get it working. That was easy to do. And because it was part of an environment our users were used to experiencing, that learning curve was a little bit less steep as well. We also appreciated how many improvements Microsoft To Do has made, particularly in the last year. It started to have features much like you might find in other kinds of task management, project management software. In particular, we are really impressed by the calendar view that Microsoft had made some significant improvements in that area. In terms of onboarding folks into Microsoft To Do, the main thing that we needed to do was to let folks know that this product was there, in the midst of all of our other Microsoft products. The other thing that took a little bit of time and a little bit of finagling was helping folks understand the different places where Microsoft To Do can live. It can live inside of a Microsoft Teams group. It can also be imported and be a web object inside a SharePoint site. So letting folks know this is the same information, the same tasks viewable in several different places, that was the hardest part of getting folks onboarded and comfortable using the product. If you are considering using Microsoft To Do, a couple things to keep in mind. The first is if you are a Microsoft environment already, chances are it's included with your Office 365 or Microsoft 365 subscription. So take a look. It might be exactly what your team needs, using the tools that you already use and are experienced in administering. If you are thinking about it among other options, you also might consider the price point, particularly as for a whole organization. Something like ClickUp or Monday.com can run into real money. Those tools are a little bit more powerful and a little bit more intuitive, at least from my perspective, so that's something to weigh. How much are you willing to put up with a little bit of a UI that might need some refinement versus a tool that costs considerably more, but has those refined features and details? Those are what I would encourage folks to keep in mind.