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Mode vs Better Reports: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 17th, 2025
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Data Visualization
4.7
Reporting/Analytics
4.8
Multiple Data Sources
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Customizable Reports
NA
Dashboard Creation
NA
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Data Visualization
4.6
Reporting/Analytics
4.9
Multiple Data Sources
4.6
Customizable Reports
4.9
Dashboard Creation
NA
User satisfaction
4.6
User reviews89
Ease of use
4.4
Functionality
4.4
Value for money
4.5
Customer support
4.6
4.9
User reviews123
Ease of use
4.5
Functionality
4.8
Value for money
4.9
Customer support
5.0
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Best for

Mode is the modern business intelligence platform that unites data teams with business teams to build analytics that drive business outcomes.

Better Reports is targeted at small and medium businesses that need to analyze the data locked in their apps (Shopify, Stripe, QuickBooks Online, etc...).

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Rohan V
Software Engineer
5.0

Rohan V.: My name is Rohan. I'm a software engineer at Lyft. And I use Mode Report just for general analytics to understand our data better. And I would give it a rating of a five. I use Mode report at Lyft for different data purposes. It might be for visualizations to better understand our data sets and to be able to get better visibility into the data that we have to understand it. At a higher level, it may be to be able to generate reports, to be able to share with other stakeholders in order for us to be able to better inform them on the data that we do have. Or it may be to even just do playground reporting. Just like being able to investigate data on an ad hoc basis to be able to figure out something on the fly. For all these different purposes, Mode report has been very helpful. I would say that the biggest thing that I like about Mode is just how easy it is to use and how nice it looks. I think the combination of both makes it a very accessible platform to be able to do anything of the use cases that I mentioned before. The fact that visually it has a lot of customization aspects to it, to be able to make it feel how you want it to. And then the fact that all the features are very self-evident, very well documented, and usually pretty intuitive to be able to look at and understand how to interact with it makes it a very engaging solver to use. The two things that I suppose has the most room for growth with regards to Mode that I dislike at the moment is the use of the collections feature and the UI for being able to navigate different data sources. For a collections, being able to organize by maybe teams or purposes is an important feature that I think should definitely be there. But I think the way that I'm navigating it feels not as fluid and not as smooth as the other aspect of Mode. It feels very ad hoc, search driven. Instead of being able to view the collections as a whole, I have to explicitly find it, which only comes from having the pre-knowledge that it exists. And for the data sources, having different engines or different data sources to be able to query data on when I'm using the Python notebooks, or being able to use the data to actually get the sets from, it tends to not have much information about its availability, about if it's actually able to be used with the table in reference. And that tends to mean that you have to have, again, a lot of pre-knowledge on the actual data that you're using to be able to know if the query engine would work for it.

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Activity Dashboard
388
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Mode

Top Features
22/35
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customizable Templates
  • Dashboard Creation
  • Data Capture and Transfer
  • Data Management
  • Data Mapping
  • Historical Reporting
  • Multiple Data Sources
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Trend Analysis
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Ad hoc Query
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • API
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Visualization
  • Drag & Drop
  • OLAP
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Relational Display
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Scheduled/Automated Reports
  • Search/Filter
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Visual Analytics
  • Visual Discovery
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  • Best Value Reporting
    Software (2024)
  • Best Value Reporting
    Software (2023)
  • Best Value Reporting
    Software (2022)
Mode
Deployment
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  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Better Reports
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
Mode
  • By ThoughtSpot
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2014
Better Reports
  • By Better Reports
  • Located in Australia
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