Kanban Tool Reviews

Pros

I've been a user of Kanban Tool for many years now. It was initially selected to support a high school competitive robotics team, but it quickly became my recommendation for my personal and corporate Kanban needs. The standout capability that I like over competing tools (such as MS Planner) is the convenience of taking a tasking email sent to me and forwarding it to a specific board with optional identifiers for swimlane, column, card type, assigned user, priority, and due date. This ensures that no task sent by email ever gets lost and is positioned to be processed immediately. It also allows me to use Siri to create tickets throughout my day.

Cons

There's nothing that I would change about the Kanban Tool.

Pros

It really helps to save time and effort in your workflow. Flexibility, you can build your own board with features that you need.

Cons

Actually I can't really say what I like the least, because I didn't find it yet.

Alternatives Considered

Asana

Reasons for Choosing Kanban Tool

Monday.com was very expensive and I don't like that it looks like Excel basically.

Switched From

monday.com

Reasons for Switching to Kanban Tool

Because it was much easier to understand how it works and it is inexpensive comparing to others.

Pros

The tool is very easy to use and understand. Also, one of the best advantages of the different boards is that are very visual so for managers it's quick and simple to understand how's the exact situation and make conclusions from it.

Cons

The necessity to add every different user manually to the board to be able to asign specific tasks slows you down a bit.

Alternatives Considered

monday.com

Reasons for Switching to Kanban Tool

Easy of use, visibility and practical as what I wanted was to build a Kanban dashboard

Pros

I LOVE the Kanban style of project management boards

Cons

The boards were too basic and did not offer advanced functionality like Trello
Too expensive per user

Pros

I like that I can see the tasks easier, ,and my team members can move them as we all complete our individual tasks. Its so much easier to see the progress my team is making and know if we are head or behind on things.

Cons

I wish there was a way to make the tasks full screen when you click on them, so that I can see everything a little better. The pop up is nice, its just not as wide as I would like.

Alternatives Considered

Slack

Reasons for Switching to Kanban Tool

Kanban seemed so much more user friendly and easier to see everything. I prefer Kanbans layout and all the many plugins they provide for the cost!

Pros

What I love most about Kanban Tool is how easy it is to use. The platforms design is simple, making task management easier. The drag/drop functionality and customizable swim lanes allow me to organize tasks exactly the way I want.

Cons

I wish that Siri could add to the board without having Siri send an email to the board. It works fine but adds an extra step to my process.

Alternatives Considered

Jira

Reasons for Choosing Kanban Tool

it was too expensive and clumsy and I didn't get along with it

Switched From

Motion

Reasons for Switching to Kanban Tool

cheaper, even free if wanted. I just needed something that worked and didn't have to pay for a year in advance

Pros

The most impressive thing about this tool is that it is super easy to manage projects and tasks, users adapt very quickly and easily to using it

Cons

I don't really like the way of displaying the tasks, it's kind of obsolete. I really think it can be made a little more suitable for today compared to others.

Alternatives Considered

Zoho Projects and ProjectManager.com

Reasons for Choosing Kanban Tool

For the price and ease of use, we really consider this more complete

Switched From

Easy Project

Pros

Ease of use and ease of transfer from task managment apps, very nice customization features, you can make it look the way you can really overview all the tasks for work. I really like the power-ups, add-ons that make it easier to work on and keep track of tasks.

Cons

You can't choose which swimlane or column is the 'Completed' section of the table. This way, I get some negative due dates on tasks, even though I put it to the Completed swimlane, but since I can't make that section the finished tasks section, I have to manually delete the due date.

Pros

Flexible, easily adaptable to my needs, visually simple

Cons

At the moment everything I have used is ok

Pros

The easy to use interface, the appeareance, the variety of tools available. It is one of the most useful tools for organizing my job.

Cons

There is no space for update the process of a task, appart from comments (which are not visible at first glance) or check lists.

Pros

It does everything I need from a Kanban Board out of the box, does so intuitively, and does not get bogged down in optimizations/extra features. However, if you want them, they're easy to implement.

Cons

It feels more like it was designed and documented by engineers rather than sales staff, and its no-frills design is a big selling point for me, but others may disagree. It's "simple out of the box, opt-in to additional features" also means a little more upfront configuration, but I still think it's good design. A few minor nice-to-have features (colored tags, saving multiple filtered views) might be missing or paywalled, but I haven't explored all the possibilities in their documentation yet.

Alternatives Considered

Jira, Trello and Planview AdaptiveWork

Reasons for Switching to Kanban Tool

Free out of the box use of swimlanes, expand/collapse swimlanes and columns, easy filters, splitting columns into sub-columns, expanding width of columns to be more than 1-card wide, etc. A lot of the clever visualization ideas I've seen in books like "Making Work Visible" and "Personal Kanban" are possible here that would be impossible or a nightmare to configure in other products I've tried.

Pros

Its a very useful application to manage multiple projects and delegate the tasks

Cons

Nothing as of now, it is up to mark for my requirements.

Pros

Very easy to use and work through. I especially like that you can personalize so much on it, even the background image.

Cons

The only suggestion I have is adding a simple total for each column so you can visually see how many projects are left in each stage.

Pros

One of the things I like about Kanban tool is it's default setup ,being minimalist. Any other features are added on so there's no automatic clutter.

Cons

I would prefer there to be an open color palette when it comes to labeling columns.

Pros

I love the ease of setup, of workflow control, and of visually being aware of the current state of affairs in my work.

Cons

I haven't had any issues so far, just enjoying it!

Pros

Kanban Tool is an incredibly useful tool for project management. I particularly liked its ability to visualize tasks and the progress of a project. The visual cards on the board make it easy to see which tasks have been completed, who is working on a task and what tasks are coming up in the future. I also like the ability to create custom boards and prioritize tasks. It makes it easy to clearly see the progress of a project and what needs to be done to complete it. The notifications also keep me up to date with the progress of a project which is really helpful. I also find the collaboration features easy to use and they help to keep everyone on the same page

Cons

Honestly, I haven’t found anything I have disliked about Kanban Tool.

Pros

I like that my tasks can be tracked at every stage of the project there are features to add files or attachments within each card

Cons

Should be able to send email when a card is assigned in kanban

Pros

Ability to have multiple tiers within a column that allows me to build out a real view of my process.
Clarity of the view on screen to improve visibility of the process
Potential to present the board on a larger screen in the workspace to provide live visibility of the state of work
Initial reporting that provides basic metrics

Cons

I would like a little more reporting granularity so I can see and analyze times work spends sitting and show that in a graphical way.
I would like a tighter restriction on WIP limits. It is present but not enforced.

Pros

Very intuitive features enabled me to get started quickly and it's extremely easy to customize what you only want to see, without being overburdened by too many bells and whistles that would distract from doing actual work. I really like the emailed work summary of how I have interacted with the board each day.

Cons

It's very easy to add too many work tasks on the board because I don't know what is really needed. I'd be interested if the tool can help me become more accountable in making progress on only the highest priorities, which is sometimes difficult if I don't have a real due date. I'll also try using some of the available board filters.

Pros

When working as software development manager with multiple teams juggling many priorities and interruptions, I found the Kanban methodology extraordinarily beneficial in helping to organize multiple complex work streams. This affordable Kanban tool provides the same benefits for managing my personal affairs and volunteer organization commitments, by helping me easily break down often daunting/unpleasant epics into manageable chunks and defining the custom workflow I need to most effectively actually progress/accomplish them.

Cons

No shortcomings yet for my use but will update if I uncover any.

Pros

Very helpful tool to organize and prioritize your task easily.
First time using Kan Ban and It’s very easy to get introduced in the Agile tool.
Today we have a lot of apps, and opportunities to work with, but some are not helpful, that’s not the case. I’m using it since the very first moment I joined. Happy user.

Cons

The free version only two boards, and I'd like to have more, but It's easy to solve it 😊

Pros

Flexibility, extensibility, intuitive interface.

Cons

Not being able to fully manually arrange to do items.

Pros

The ability to color-code an put into customized swimlanes, gives a great overview of tasks and deadlines. The ability to take notes in tasks provides the option to have both an agile management tool and a document handling system in one place.

Cons

I have not found any shortcomings in my use of Kanban tool, I have reached out to the support team, as I felt I was missing a feature, and they were quick to respond and guide me to the needed solution

Pros

Kanban is used by many departments for tasks.
We are able to track and disseminate tasks to team members and know were additional resources are needed. Very intuitive UI interface.

Cons

unable to sort tickets visually, search tool can be improved much more to do quick and more in depth search.

Pros

It's a great tool to improve team productivity. Whether you're in software development, sales, or marketing, it's awesome. You can easily view everyone's tasks on one board and then assign new ones, rate tasks based on difficulty and time needed, set deadlines, and more.

Cons

It is the best tool for project tracking and staying on task and productive. The only little complaint I have is that unless you log in, you can't easily see all the changes that have been made.