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Float

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Last updated March 13th, 2026

# Page 4 - Reviews of Float

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EB

Evan B.  
Animator  
Media Production  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Effective and easy to use with simple UI."

August 24, 2023

5.0

Great experience overall since integrating into my workflow.

Pros

Float's simple UI makes navigation extremely easy. Tracking my time across multiple projects is incredibly easy and makes forecasting future projects a breeze.

Cons

Not a ton to complain about with Float, it's easy to use and gets the job done.

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Senior Director  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Easy to use but lacking some features"

September 1, 2023

4.0

I use it weekly to staff members to projects and track their capacity. it gets difficult when we need to restaff people and/or use different timing in different times

Pros

You can filter down by project, title, names. You can also add details of the team members (what team they belong to, direct report or even simple tags like experience level)

Cons

When you assign a team member to a project, and they need to work different hours in different weeks, you have to create an entry for each segment. E.g. 3hrs/day in Q1 and 4hrs/day in Q2, and then the same in Q3 and Q4, you need to create 4 different entries. It gets complicated if you program by week.

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Flor C.  
Software Developer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Planning projects with Float"

March 15, 2023

5.0

For an economical price it is a useful tool that satisfies medium-sized project planning and budget control.

Pros

A very important feature is the ability to run detailed reports such as the budget report that allows management to ensure that costs are on budget. Float is simple to use, but requires time to explore and manage all your resources.

Cons

It is suitable for managing small to medium-sized projects, but not for large ones. This is due to the fact that a large project requires multiple tasks in the same project and some of them in the long term, a disadvantage that Float sometimes does not manage.

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MD

Merle D.  
Head of Animation  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Integral part of our internal production process"

August 13, 2020

5.0

Float has honestly been a game changer for our studio and as a result, the wider business. The minute we first started using the platform, it transformed the way we visualise our busy schedules and communicated with the wider teams about our availability and timelines. It's made our lives easier and simplified the overall production process - taking a lot of guesswork and confusion out of the equation.

Pros

The simplicity and immediacy of the timeline interface is massively important for digesting and understanding an often hectic and clogged schedule. Customisation of clients, projects and tasks means that we can see, at a glance, exactly what clients and projects we are working with - it takes a lot of the project management stress out of the process for teams like mine, who need to focus on their own tasks at hand.

Cons

I think there could be more options to input information within the tasks in a schedule - although there is a notes section, it would be great to see more integration with other platforms like the Google suite (Drive, slides, docs) that could streamline our process even more.

Alternatives considered

[Slack](https://www.capterra.com/p/135003/Slack/)[monday.com](https://www.capterra.com/p/147657/monday-com/)[Asana](https://www.capterra.com/p/184581/Asana-PM/)

Reason for choosing Float

Cost, ease, user experience

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VR

Verified Reviewer  
Project Manager  
E-Learning  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great Visual Tool for Resource Management"

August 1, 2019

4.0

We've been able to better project planning times for business needs coming in. When we know how long something takes via Float, we're able to give clearer milestones to our clients and we can manage our internal deadlines better. When you're able to take a quick peak at Float and see what someone is working on for the next few days, it's a more efficient way to manage resourcing expectations internally and across business units internally.

Pros

With Float, I love that you can make instant decisions on capacity management. I can assign someone a scheduled task and easily move the task back and forth between two team members if needed. It's a great visual tool to see how long people are spending in a certain area and to help plan ahead for the future. It gives a full visual picture of capacity and resource management, which can be hard to do. I love that you're able to assign color coding and different notes to each project, so you can monitor the health of the project properly and understand how many people are actually touching it.

Cons

Sometimes, there are some small glitches that happen, where you make an update and it either disappears or adds additional time to someone's schedule (making them fully at capacity). There aren't many cons to this application other than that because sometimes it can just take a lot of refreshing and some rework because sometimes the refreshes can cause a loss in information inputted.

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CH

Caroline H.  
Project Manager Lead  
Consumer Goods  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "CH review"

August 22, 2023

4.0

Pros

Desired features (resource planning / time tracking per project)

Cons

Some features are missing (duplicating phases / templates are not great so had to create mine)

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KZ

Kelly Z.  
Post Producer  
Media Production  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Best Project Management Software I've Ever Used"

June 28, 2022

5.0

Our team works much more efficiently since we have started using Float. It has helped with project management and time tracking. We are able to seamlessly track all hours and days spent on project and go back and reference projects from months ago.

Pros

I like the ease of project scheduling and management for my teammates. There are multiple people on my team who do scheduling, so we can all easily view which resources are available with Float.

Cons

The only feature that needs improvement is the dragging of project dates. It skews the dates of the project, and can work a little better.

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Response from Pixel Paddock

July 1, 2022

Thank you for your review, Kelly! We love hearing that your team is more efficient with Float. Happy to hear it's helping you manage projects and time more effectively.

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Program Manager  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Program Manager using Float"

February 11, 2019

4.0

We are using Float in our organization to manage resource allocation and we have been using it for the last 3 years. It has been mostly great and enhanced our resource allocation amazingly and provided great visibility into resourcing across different programs and into the future. We use Float to track Holidays and vacation across all regions (worldwide), we use it to forecast allocation and revenue across the team per each project. Permissions are straightforward and allow us to control what we want. We can keep projects as tentative while awaiting for the contract and still allocate people to provide visibility into anticipated resourcing load. Overall Float has been great for us and I would recommend it to any organization providing services and focused around resourcing their team. Float has been constantly evolving and you can notice the difference and improvements rolled out weekly if not daily. Thank you for your work Float team!

Pros

\- Easy of use - Performance - Interface - Good visibility into my resources and their load

Cons

\- There were couple glitches and numerous updates in January but that is resolved now - Previously performance was not great, but there are great improvements recently on that part - Adding holidays could be easier - When grouped by project I'd like Float to show all assigned project for people, not only specified project

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Aidan D.  
Chief Product Officer  
Computer Software  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Beautifully simple and easy to use"

January 26, 2019

5.0

Float is a product I like using, and I wish some of its features and UX elements were in the other software that I use! We use Synergist for job and project management, but Float for scheduling because it UX is so much better than Synergist's scheduler tool.

Pros

Float's user interface and logic are inspirational. They have made the activity of coordinating multiple resources on multiple projects about as easy as it can be. They have paid a lot of attention to usability, efficient use of screen real estate and simple navigation. However the killer feature is the intuitive yet clever way that searching and data navigation work. All searching and filtering is done using a single search field, which offers indexed word search on pretty much everything including tags. There is also a well-worked out protocol for handling union and intersect searches.

Cons

The only real bugbear is that any user that can enter data into the system can define new values for any field. It isn't possible to centrally control lists such as task names, clients, job descriptions etc. This means that if you have more than one person using the system, very quickly you get different versions of the same thing being defined (e.g. job roles being slightly different) which makes it difficult to analyse across records. Not a dealbreaker, but I do think it should be possible to lock down lists of values. Also it would be good if you could zoom out the view a little more - if you're dealing with more than a dozen resources/projects.

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MK

Mateusz K.  
Project Manager  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "poject management for retail media team"

August 28, 2023

4.0

I can generate reports of time spent per specific task or project by my team. Can monitor current progress of the project, check which part of my project was bilable or not

Pros

easy and fast to measure, user friendly and integrated with excel (csv)

Cons

choosing reporting and many users using "and" app is crashing often, I need to refresh or roll down the screen againg, it's problematic

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AG

Aisha G.  
Production Manager  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Float is a great tool for resource and project management"

August 23, 2023

4.0

Overall very good.

Pros

The colour coding of projects and ease of real-time alteration of bookings.

Cons

The delete function at the moment makes it too easy to make a mistake and delete a booking in error.

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BW

Brad W.  
Senior Graphic Designer  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Float review for Audio Visual Studio"

January 17, 2019

5.0

With using Float we have been able to have one central, accessible platform for the team to schedule tasks and projects and to assign them to the relevant individuals, sometimes weeks ahead of the deadlines. This has improved the teams overall planning of jobs and has allowed us to see what we can take on, what we need to reschedule and at times when we have to call in additional help to meet the deadlines. Float is quite easy to use and is improving all the time with new features. For us as an audio and design studio it has become an essential tool in our day to day operations that has benefited our overall productivity.

Pros

As a busy audio and visuals studio the biggest advantage we have seen with using Float is the scheduling feature. This allows us to schedule when projects and tasks need to take place, and who is working on and responsible for each project and task. As we have a number of people on our team and often numerous projects on the go at one time, Float has allowed us to better coordinate everything and has become vital in ensuring that projects and tasks are completed on time by each individual team member. As a team we can view the overall workload and time frames involved, while as an individual you can keep track of what tasks or projects you are working on and what projects you can or can not take on due to scheduling.

Cons

Sometimes the administrator /account owner has certain scheduling permissions and can add projects for individual team members int he scheduling feature. This is great but when these scheduled tasks or projects need to be changed or reshuffled it can only be done by the admin person / account owner and not the individual. There have been times when the admin person has not been available and I have needed to change the scheduled projects created by the admin person but have not been able to and have had to wait for the admin person to do it. This is the only downside so far that I have experienced using Float.

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Warren B.  
Regional Services Director  
Information Technology and Services  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Daily Float User"

September 1, 2023

4.0

Pros

My whole team can access it, and really helps drive who is on what piece of billable work.

Cons

Gets hard to manage lots of small projects and tasks, the view gets crowded and hard to read. Reporting is straight forward either, its hard to understand initially what they show

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JMC

Jose Manuel C.  
Enterprise Internal Audit Manager  
Paper & Forest Products  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "My Review"

September 1, 2023

5.0

Overall using float was easy to adapt too and have help me visualize the audits and resources allocations in a dynamic way, with all the team members able to share without issues in the interactions.

Pros

The views that allows to see what the teammates are working on and help with allocation of resources in a dynamic environment.

Cons

The notifications for changes in the schedule is not clear on what was change.

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Heather M.  
Senior Creative Project Planner  
Design  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Multi disciplinary studio management "

January 22, 2019

4.0

Currently managing a team of 9 designers in a multi disciplinary team with 30+ different jobs daily. Tool has worked perfectly well for top line management of workflow and constant changing priorities. Visually easy to understand. Since the recent update the software has performed so much better then expected and has made a massive difference to usability.

Pros

The simple usability of the software. How quick it is to add jobs, extend and move jobs around to different people. Flexible scrolling through the weeks. So easy to set someone up and get started with very minimal training. Report system very useful for monthly reports. For top line project management this is the perfect tool.

Cons

The search bar sometimes doesnt work or show particular jobs on occasion. Search seems to only work within the month you are viewing, rather then showing a job from a previous month. This is intermittent and sometimes works to find what you are looking for when refreshed. Still need to test this after the software update to see if it has been resolved. Doesn't refresh for designers, so we have updated and moved jobs around and they aren't aware as their float has remained the same, unless they manually refresh the window. Would be great to see more in depth project management potential, such as uploading briefs, designs and signing them off all on this software.

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Luis Manuel S.  
Regional BIM Project Manager  
Construction  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Great software to manage and plan resources!"

June 27, 2022

5.0

I like to use Float on my daily basis, helps me to track in the best possible way my assigned resources, time availability, billable and non-billable time to create reports on a detailed way according to assigned tasks, that helps to manage our projects and resources, looking always to prevent future issues.

Pros

Web based software, easy to use, good user interface, detailed timesheet records and reporting.

Cons

Improving some features can make Float a robust alternative. Filtering features can be improved to show resources on an easy way, also create and save custom report templates can help to final users.

Review Source

Response from Pixel Paddock

July 1, 2022

Thank you for your review, Luis Manuel!

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Projectmanager  
Internet  
Used the software for: 2+ years

### "Easy Ressourceplanning tool"

August 28, 2023

4.0

We're using it for three years now and intend to continue doing so.

Pros

This tool does exactly what its supposed to do for our Purposes. We are very glad to use it. On of the best features is the automated e-mail for the colleagues at the beginning of a sheduled week.

Cons

From our perspective there is likely nothin in particular to dislike.

Alternatives considered

[Masterplan](https://www.capterra.com/p/146642/Masterplan/)[JIRA Service Management](https://www.capterra.com/p/227102/JIRA-Service-Management/)

Reason for choosing Float

Its cheaper and covers exactly our need of having a simple and intuitive ressource planning tool

Review Source

GL

Gabriela L.  
Traffic Manager  
Public Relations and Communications  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great tool for Resource Managers"

August 24, 2023

5.0

Float is very intuitive, so easy to implement and teach people on the team how to use it.

Pros

It was a great upgrade in terms of quickly visualizing the team's capacity and modifying tasks in real time.I also like the possibility of creating a project template because it saves me time when I add new projects.

Cons

I would like the possibility of de-zooming (or making the density more compact), because as I have a big team that would allow me to visualize the big picture of the workload of the team altogether.

Reason for choosing Float

Because of it's simplicity

Review Source

VR

Verified Reviewer  
Copywriter  
Marketing and Advertising  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Accessible task management via Float"

June 22, 2022

5.0

In general, Float has assisted us in moving across from one system to another without disruption.

Pros

The presentation of all the features makes use of the software easy for technical and non-technical users alike. That reduces time spent in training users.

Cons

I guess the need to log in is a very mild pain point, but a necessary one.

Switched from

[Chase Software](https://www.capterra.com/p/206180/Chase-Software/)

Float makes it easier to track task management without adding additional steps.

Review Source

Response from Pixel Paddock

July 1, 2022

Thank you for your review!

PJ

Patrick J.  
Graphic Designer  
Design  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Minimal approach to project management"

August 22, 2023

5.0

Pros

I enjoy how simple it is. Software these days can feel bloated and overwhelming and in a digital age, Float has the right balance of features and lack of, to simplify the project management process.

Cons

I wish that float had a project management feature like asana built in so we wouldn't have to use both. I prefer float!

Review Source

TD

Thomas D.  
CTO  
Internet  
Used the software for: 6-12 months

### "Good experience"

August 22, 2023

5.0

Pros

We were previously working on a competitive solution. Compared to other solutions on the market, Float is affordable and allows you to use the tool to its full potential. You're not drowning in a ton of functionality and that's what I liked about it. The ease of use for users and the ease of management for administrators is very satisfying.

Cons

Perhaps the most annoying thing about Float is the ability to export a schedule for customers that is easy to understand. The statistics section could also be improved so that we can compare the time spent (and internal costs) against what has been sold (with the costs sold).

Switched from

[Forecast 5](https://www.capterra.com/p/163479/Forecast-5/)

The price, and too much features on Forecast (some users were lost)

Review Source

KW

Kester W.  
Designer  
Media Production  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Easy to use and efficient time management tool"

June 16, 2022

4.0

My overall experience with float has been extremely positive. Compared to similar products we've used in the past this is the easiest to use, and we have fewer problems than with other software.

Pros

Integration with our business was very straightforward, and there are very few problems that arise when using float on the daily. The schedule updates immediately and its very easy to keep track of an entire teams workload at a glance.

Cons

Sometimes I have issues adding in new tasks to the system, but this is quite rare.

Switched from

[Jira](https://www.capterra.com/p/19319/JIRA/)

It was a company wide decision

Review Source

Response from Pixel Paddock

July 1, 2022

Thanks for your review, Kester! Glad Float was easy to set up for your business and that it's easy to keep track of your team's workload at a glance!

NL

Nathalye L.  
Design Manager  
Design  
Used the software for: 1-2 years

### "Great tool for visibility of projects"

August 17, 2020

5.0

Overall my experience as an active user of Float has been great, it is very simple to use, and allows management to keep projects organized.

Pros

The bird's eye feature is a must, it allows for full visibility of the whole team, or segments of it, and allows managers to keep track of current, past, and upcoming projects.

Cons

Time report integration, we use Harvest and we have to use a different partner for this.

Alternatives considered

[Trello](https://www.capterra.com/p/211559/Trello/)

Switched from

[Favro](https://www.capterra.com/p/151667/Favro/)

Brid's eye view feature

Review Source

Response from Pixel Paddock

September 10, 2020

Hi Nathalye, Thanks so much for your review! We don't currently have any direct integrations with other time tracking tools. We do have time tracking available as an additional feature though on Float that pre-fills your team's timesheets based on their work schedule. https://www.float.com/how-it-works/time-tracking You're welcome to try this add-on free for 30 days. An Account Owner can activate this from the Team Settings page inside Float. If you need any help or have further questions, please feel free to email us at support@float.com. Thanks again for the review! Cheers, Siobhan

MS

Melanie S.  
Project Geologist  
Environmental Services  
Used the software for: Less than 6 months

### "Useful for Real-Time Scheduling"

June 14, 2022

5.0

Overall, I've really enjoyed using Float. I feel like I have the freedom to control my own schedule without needing to alert everyone in person, which could sometimes take a while. I like that I can easily move projects around on the calendar for myself and others. Now, anyone can look at my schedule and easily see conflicts or which days I've taken paid time off.

Pros

Float is a very easy system to jump into. My favorite aspects of Float are the real-time scheduling, and the calendar. My company has many projects going on at once, and it is easy to keep track of mine and others' schedules with the calendar function, such as dragging and moving projects around if there are conflicts.

Cons

I have not quite found a good way of managing all of my projects in one place. Difference project managers name projects in a different way than I would, so there is no stream-lined system to that.

Review Source

Response from Pixel Paddock

June 30, 2022

Thanks for your review, Melanie! Great to hear that Float preventing scheduling conflicts by making work and time off more visible. Thanks for your feedback about managing projects, we'll pass it along to the team.

GP

Gracilma P.  
Emprésaria  
Apparel & Fashion  
Used the software for: I used a free trial

### "Avaliando o Flutuar"

July 16, 2023

5.0

Tem sido uma experiência fantástica com o Float, tem me ajudado a ser mais produtiva.

Pros

Gostei de todas as funcionalidades, mas uma das funcionalidades que mais gostei foi a facilidade de agendar e gerenciar tarefas.

Cons

Até o momento não há nada digno de nota negativa, apenas preciso me adaptar mais há algumas funcionalidades.

Review Source

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