Ziflow vs Scrivener: Which is a better fit?

Amanda: Hi, I'm Amanda, I'm a project manager. I give Ziflow four to five stars. If you want more reviews like this, please click on the link below. So, before we got to Ziflow, we used a program called iMeet. We used it as our project management tool and also combined for some proofing. It was a very archaic system and it did not work as well as we would've liked, so we started shopping and that's how we found Ziflow. So, we picked Ziflow because we wanted a tool that gave us more than just comments from our clients and something very easy for them to use. Ziflow is a tool that allows us to upload websites, videos, graphics. And the beauty of it is that you can zoom in on extreme details or zoom out and get the full picture. And we do such a variety of work that it's really nice to be able to have all of that in one spot so each of our clients can leave the comments they need to and have all their comments in one spot so there's not a ton of back and forth emails. So, starting with Ziflow was actually a relatively easy process. The team there, the staff were just really easy to work with. They set up as many meetings as we needed to, there was no hesitation. And it was just really nice getting all our questions answered. And then if we felt like we didn't understand something, we always had point of contact we could reach out to. And it wasn't just like, "Here, submit a ticket," it was like, "Hey Jackie, I have a question," and I would hear back within 24 hours and that was really nice. I'd say it's, just like any new program, you definitely have your typical setup, getting all the accounts ready and learning the process, teaching it to your team, so there's definitely a little bit of a slow movement with that. But as we've learned, we've figured out the best way it works for us and organizing it. We were able to connect to our Slack which makes it really easy and it's just an overall pretty well adjustable program to introduce to your team. If you and your team are thinking about getting Ziflow, I would definitely take the time to set up a call with their team and discuss all the details of why Ziflow would work for you. The reason it works so well for us is because of the amount of work that we do and it's a continuous daily program that we use. So, if it's something you think you'll use regularly, I would highly recommend taking that time to speak to their team and seeing if it's a good fit for you.

John P.: Hi, my name is John. I'm an author and publisher and I give Scrivener a five out of five stars. For more reviews, click the link below. Before using Scrivener, I was using index cards and notebooks to write out my books and my plots and that wasn't working all that great. There were a number of reasons why I chose Scrivener. It helped me plot out my books before I wrote them and it put it in a much more organized way than I was used to doing, just because I could see it. I could go back. I could break down chapters and break those chapters down into scenes. And because I write series, I'm able to put those series now together and reference back to different characters and different scenes and different settings. Scrivener was one of those programs that is kind of standard now in the writing community. So there was lots of people saying that it was something to try out, something that was great to use. It took a little bit for me to figure it out just because there are so many features and I think each writer that uses Scrivener is probably going to pick the features that are best for them. But after some video tutorials and some hit-and-miss, I don't even start a book without using Scrivener now. When I started out Scrivener was a little bit intimidating just because there were so many features and so I started to try to do it myself at first. But they offered lots of different tutorials that I was able to go through step by step. And there were a lot of things that I learned how to use, but I didn't need to use. But that was still helpful because I might still use them in the future. But I would say it took an hour or two to really figure out how to set up a book and even how to import a book that I was working on from a different program. But overall, I think that with a little bit of patience, I think most writers will be able to figure it out pretty quickly. When I started out writing books, I kind of did it by the seat of my pants and those are called pantsers. I'm a planner now, so my advice is that if you really want to figure out your book and really have a solid plot line and solid characters, there really isn't any other program out there that will provide all of what you need in order to really write a great novel.