# GatherContent Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Is GatherContent the right Website Builder solution for you? Explore 17 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/153261/GatherContent/reviews --- GatherContent 4.2 (17) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 13th, 2026 # Reviews of GatherContent Ease of use 4.1 Customer Service 4.2 ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 1-17 of 17 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use VR Verified Reviewer Chargée de projet Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "GatherContent smoothed the content management process" May 4, 2018 4.0 Improve our content management process and communication flow for content Pros Before GatherContent, I managed content with Word, Excel or Google Docs. For years, I have prepared template for my customers and we were doing back and forth until a final version. Every time, no matter how much work I have put in my files, it was a total nightmare from the beginning to the end, because projects evolved, content changed, there's alway many person involved and different approval levels. I have been looking to improve the process and I was so glad to finally find a tool dedicated to this need. Gather Content allow to create templates, assign responsibilities, set due dates, manage status, track history, comments and more! It's easier for my clients to managed, edited, review and approved their content and for my team to be sure they really got the final version to integrate into website Cons Gather Content could sometimes be glitchy and/or slow. I think it's when there's a lot of content in a same page. Review Source Jessie B. Content Marketing Direcor Writing and Editing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Transformed my editorial process" June 7, 2017 4.0 \- More automated editorial process (saved time) - Less time spent communication with writers on the status of their articles, where to find their assignments, and other logistical questions - Better historical record of submissions - No more loosing submissions in the "blackhole of Google Drive" Pros I used GatherContent to get out of Google Docs and into a more sophisticated and consolidated platform for my editorial content. Some huge pros were: - Automated email notifications to writers when I changed the status on a page - HTML and plain text versions of everything - The way everything was organized - Flexible tagging / customized organization - Ability to create "forms" for content submissions (so, for example, I could encourage writers to fill out sections for standardized content, like a guide, rather than free-form compositions) - Overviews and content progress Cons Sometimes it could be a bit glitchy. I know they're still working on it and the pros far outweighed the cons, but there were times where I'd click on one spot and start typing and the text would appear somewhere else... also if I'd put custom HTML into the HTML side (e.g. a class), it wouldn't save it. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Director, Communications, Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Extremely disappointed in customer service and billing policy" June 1, 2018 1.0 It helped us organize web content. Pros It served its purpose. Cons The software was fine, but the auto-renewal billing policy locked us in to another year's subscription when we did not want it, and the company showed ZERO flexibility in regard to letting us cancel. I will not use this product again. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CMS Consultant Hospital & Health Care Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Goodbye Microsoft Word, Endless Emails, and Disorganized Content Teams!" December 4, 2018 5.0 GatherContent really helps accelerate and organize the content production process. It reduces the time needed to get the job done, and reduces the amount of errors made. Pros Finally, something for writers, designers, and developers to track and edit content production. It also helps content migration immensely for large website redesign projects. For someone that is user centered and content first, this tool (and the free training provided) will help make your case clear. Cons Sometimes setting up workflow is not always straightforward, but that is more of a learning curve for teams and requires someone with more high-level project insight to create and help update. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Operations Manager Publishing Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Q: Can't We Just Use MS Word? A: NO!" July 26, 2019 5.0 The software's been fantastic thus far. Getting a team of noneditors to work on Gather Content has been rather painless and the customizability for templates for various web page content we'll be working with is awesome. Keep up the great service and great UX. Pros Gather Content provided excellent customer service and onboarding with the team using it here. I saw its value straightaway. We're working on a substantial website redesign, and without someone in house whose sole purpose it is to manage the editorial process needed to bring over old content and repurpose it for the new site, there was no way that trying to handle the content creation across four teams and a dozen or so people would be healthy in a word processing program. Connecting our current-site content to Gather Content and then exporting it and working in Gather Content rather than WP has been a godsend. Cons I've not run up against any showstoppers for Gather Content. A few times I've logged in, I'm a bit unwowed by the simplicity of the dashboard and home screen. But too many bells and whistles are distracting, so I'm torn. I also wish the content map was a bit more robust and would allow me to order the subtopics in any one area. Reason for choosing GatherContent Gather Content was developed for the specific purpose of working with the content for our new site. We don't need another project management tool or doc storage system; we don't want to work with content inside of WordPress (drives me mad). So we chose the best tool for the job. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Business Development & Marketing Computer Software Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Good product to track progress on content creation and edits" August 1, 2018 4.0 Pros This is a good product for collaboration on content development. We have used this to track progress on content for the past 18 months and have been mostly pleased with the functionality. There are different stages of content creation that can be used with this product that assigns ownership to certain people/teams for review/approval. Cons The product doesn't easily allow red lines and tracking of edits. We may have not been using it correctly, but it didn't seem as intuitive as it should have been. Review Source CT Chris T. CEO Entertainment Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great tool for content professionals who hate writing content in a CMS" July 31, 2019 5.0 GatherContent helps me organize my content for clients and deliver to them for review and approval rather seamlessly. Pros GatherContent does a great job of bringing content creation, review, and approval in one place, outside of a CMS. Plus, GC offers a number of services that content it to major content management systems, making it a great way to export content to a CMS without having to work with development to customize templates or features within CMS for days and days. Cons GatherContent has some very useful features but at times it's not intuitive as to how customizable you can make templates within it. It led me to experiment quite a bit before I found a format and workflow that worked. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Delivery Manager Design Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Probably more powerful than we need" October 26, 2018 5.0 We use GatherContent purely for organising content for new websites. Although I find it straightforward to set up projects, I find that clients I am trying to encourage to add their content don't find it as easy to use - but this is more user error / inexperience I would say. Pros This is a really well thought out, scaleable software for content planning and management. The interface is clean and simple. Cons I suspect that this software is slightly too powerful for what we need. It still works great for small projects, but I would really like to see a pricing option for smaller scale usage, perhaps based around number of items, or even credit based. It is verging on too expensive for us in relation to our level of usage month by month. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Data Manager Media Production Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Not Bad!" July 24, 2019 5.0 GatherContent allowed us to easily communicate with an external team. Although we could not put special accent marks or upload huge files, GatherContent was much easier to use than I had expected, and I think most people would find it's a better alternative to the Google Suite for something like web design. Pros GatherContent made it easy to communicate with our website designers to allow us to upload pictures and text for our website. Cons I couldn't just put the link in the text, our developers said I had to put the link as a comment so that it would load into Wordpress properly. There were also some size limits that made my life a tiny bit more difficult (had to submit elsewhere all my PDFs as zipped files). Review Source Sean T. Search Manager Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Took some getting used to" December 16, 2017 3.0 Hard to say - I think we might have had better results with another tool, but I've nothing to directly compare it to. Pros It works okay as a tool to bring together content and make it available for review and feedback, although it's definitely nothing special in that respect. Cons The presentation of content as components of a greater whole takes a lot of getting used to, at least in the uses I've seen as a recipient of content for review. You miss the holistic picture when content is broken down to its core components and it's hard to know whether the content works as a whole. Review Source SK Sarah K. Marketing coordinator Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Simple to use" January 31, 2020 4.0 I liked it. Unfortunately, my company decided to switch over to DivvyHQ and so we no longer use GatherContect. I am not a fan of Divvy HQ and I miss using GatherContent. Pros It was easy to use and had a lot of great features. I especially loved the Christmas theme and music during the holidays. Cons We have a team of freelancers writers and there was no easy way to create content calendars for them so that we and they can see their work all in one place. Reason for choosing GatherContent N/A Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Senior Associate Acquisition Marketing, Strategy and Planning Oil & Energy Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "GatherContent Review" December 5, 2018 5.0 GatherContent really helps us organize content for web projects and improved our process for creating and organizing content for the web. Pros I like that there are HTML and plain text versions of content so people who have varying preferences. The email notifications are really helpful and make collaboration much easier. Tagging users is also very helpful for collaboration. Cons It's not very intuitive. A tutorial is definitely makes a big difference in navigating the tool. Tracking edits is also a bit confusing. Review Source Michael S. President Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "null" October 21, 2016 5.0 Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Campaign Marketing Specialist Machinery Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "great tool for company vs. agency " November 19, 2018 5.0 Pros Using this for when we work with agencies is a great way to push and pull information, especially for a project like a website update Cons not very intuitive, not a super 'smart' tool Review Source BB Bob B. Presidnet Financial Services Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Don't use if you're actually the owner of your business" August 2, 2019 1.0 I see no reason from a business owners perspective why this product exists. Regular old Word does the trick for content editing. Pros nothing. It potentially makes our web developers job easier as they can upload to site faster but if you actually want to be involved in the content going into your site stay away. Cons no ability to track changes and manage multiple parties editing the content with the ability to see who wrote what. Review Source KM Krysti M. Paralegak Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Gather Content has completely changes my organization and made my day so much easier to manage!" January 10, 2018 5.0 Pros I love that I can keep track of my due dates of all the different projects that I am working on. I like that I can leave comments on each individual piece so that others who have access can see what I'm doing and thinking! Cons I wish that I could integrate it with our case management software so that I could easily manage other pieces of information! Review Source MH Megan H. Writer Writing and Editing Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Pretty streamlined content management " January 30, 2020 5.0 Very positive, and I usually find working with these systems annoying Pros One of my clients uses this for handling projects, I really like the numerous convenient features for uploading project elements Cons So far, nothing, I really prefer it to Trello for the same sorts of projects, at least so far. The notifications are on point Review Source Similar Products Featured ## Send me user reviews about this product ### Fill out the form and we'll send a list of the top-rated software based on real user reviews directly to your inbox.