Coda Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated

It's really easy to use and I love their pricing model, which I prefer over their main competitor, Notion. Pricing is based on doc makers and not on viewers, which I think is the appropriate way to go.

I can't think of anything at this time that I dislike about Coda.

Many of my clients are SMBs that don't have massive budgets to invest in work and operations-related technology. They also have a significant percentage of their workforce that work virtually, which often creates challenges with communication and engagement. Coda is cost-effective and highly efficient at enabling my clients to share information, engage with their employees and allow collaboration to happen in real-time.

Coda makes easy building complex docs to gather all the info you need in one place. Thanks to their tables, automations and easy to grasp interface, building everything that you need is extremely easy.

The main issue is that you cannot have infinite pages inside a Table element, unlike their competition. Apart from that it's got you covered in practically every way.

It is provinding a central piece to manage all my team's info in one place. From documentation to project management to manage my financials in one Doc. Coda is the tool we use for centralising everything.

I love how I can easily customize coda docs to however fits my needs. It makes managing any projects , note taking, and collaborating a breeze once you understand their language.

I would love to see improvements on a couple of things. 1: Locking specific cells in a table vs a page can help ensure that certain things do not get edited 2: Being able to drag (or double-click) on a cell and have it copy & paste whatever is in that cell to the next - this will make manual efforts more efficient with table making

Coda is solving our teams way of managing projects but it's also changing the game on how to take better more effective notes. It makes looking back on info much less chaotic and has a simple sophisticated user interface which we love!

Adaptable, scalable, flexible. Coda is a great incentive to do and learn all sorts of things. All the data you put in becomes executable in so many ways. You're always able to consider what you've already learned and how you can apply the content and/or methodology for future outcomes.

They've taken on quite a significant challenge so some of the expectations of app performance require a bit of patience. It's also disrupting most out-of-the-box solutions, so managing competition and staying true to their own product has sometimes been difficult.

Coda solves almost every productivity problem. But if I were an educator and wanted a way to introduce almost any student population to computational logic and design, I'd do it with Coda.

Phone application, types of organization

Offline possibility (on the phone at least)

Wikipedia/knowledge management, time planning, lists (movies, groceries)

Flexible tool that gives the opportunity type of powerful doc you can imagine.

So far, I have not found things I disliked.

Centralizing all the docs you could need in one place. Also enhancing collaboration.

- Real-time collaboration, great for brain storming ideas with the team - Packs that integrate the tools with other tools from our workflow (jira, google docs, slack, etc...) - Ease of use

search within the document, especially in large documents, seems like the feature was developed for small documents with just a few results

Knowledge base for our team. when we want to know about some feature of our product coda is the go-to place to get that info. Sometimes I use it as a kind of internal blog for our area. where I put posts, guides and how-tos on very technical issues.

First of all, if you look at coda as a place for internal documentation for your company - it looks nice. Typography works, pages look great and it's improve adoption for sure - people of your organization would not be afraid to use it. The second thing is the flexibility that the coda gave to you. We moved a couple of internal processes and organize them through coda and rely on them from now on. In addition to driving the adoption of new processes, we also set up a couple of automation that send messages to slack and emails so that everybody be on the same page on updates. I can say that coda is one of the most important tools in my daily routine these days.

As with all software, coda has its own limitations. We're still missing ability to have access to comments in automation (e.g. there is no way to set up reminders based on the absence of comments at the moment, while we need them). It's also require some understanding of data structures if you want to build the process on it (not just documentation). But overall anyway it's great.

Internal documentation storage and search; processes automation; internal communication archive; collaborative tool;

In my view, Coda has plenty of strong points, but I would pinpoint just these five: 1. Extremely powerful formula language, that goes well beyond that of competing apps. 2. Built-in automations, that do not depend on external services. 3. Extensible platform, by means of "Packs". The documentation and SDK used to build them are top-notch. 4. Straightforward way to create a personal maker profile, publish docs and packs, track their usage, and even monetize them easily. 5. Lively and helpful user community, hosted by Coda. To summarize, Coda is, in my opinion, an exceptionally versatile, well-thought platform, that put simply, is a joy to use.

Three aspects that I consider could be improved: 1. In my experience, performance in complex documents is slightly sluggish at times, but I acknowledge this is a common chore in many similar, cloud-based platforms. 2. Despite formulas and automations being extremely powerful and suitable to tackle a wealth of use-cases, the doc-based, compartmentalized philosophy of Coda perhaps makes it not so suitable in knowledge management scenarios. 3. The document manager is pretty basic and lacks some features that are often taken for granted, i.e. subfolders, different views, drag and drop UI...

I am using Coda to solve multi-user process workflows that require event-driven automations and rich user interfaces. Besides that, I find the built-in charting capabilities extremely useful to build reporting dashboards without relying on external services.

The connectivity/integrations between Coda and everything else we use.

The access permissions for the team folders were confusing but I believe that's just a plan limitation.

Streamline collaboration on internal projects, easy-to-build aesthetic documents to clients, easy to edit playbooks/wikis for company-wide communications

It's seemless, easy to use, intuitive and the user interface is beautiful. It makes collaborating a breeze, and creates really great looking resources for everyone to use.

I don't have much negative feedback about Coda. There are tons of resources within the application to help acclimate and become comfortable using it to support their teams.

Coda provides a centralized resource that can function as a knowledge base, a platform for development, personal growth and professional growth.

The customer support for the paid version has been amazing! It's also relatively easy to learn the basics and they have a great tutorial/help section to help get you up and running. I use it for personal stuff, and for business with my team to track jobs statuses and other details. I also like that you don't have to pay for every user, only users who need higher permsissions. Most apps charge you per user, even if they are only using a very basic part of the application. So Coda's pricing was great for us.

I wish it had an offline mode, since I am unable to pull up the app and view information if we are in an area with little or no mobile data service. Some of the terms used within the app take a little getting used to, so I get a little confused when trying to complete certain actions, but I guess that's probably pretty common when using a new application.

In the office, we use it mostly to track the status of our jobs. We are using a table view with filters and sorting showing just the information we need in the order we prefer. In the field, our crew can just see current jobs, and they are able to leave notes, photos, update statuses, about the job as we go to keep everybody including the office on the same page. I love the option to use checkbox lists, bullet points, mentions (where other users will get a notification when we post something), and text formatting. This makes the information easy to view and follow the coversations.

Coda is more than just a document editor. I've been able to create team hubs, project trackers, newsletters, event invites, book clubs, Dungeons & Dragons campaigns, personal goals trackers...and the list goes on and on. I tell everyone I know about the power of Coda.

Coda's advanced tools can take a steep learning curve for folks who are not familiar with basic logic that we'd see in Excel, etc. It's fine for me, but a focused course on logic would be amazing.

Coda is our solution for team hubs, trackers, and onboarding emails/documentation. At first we used it just to store information and get feedback, but all the of amazing Packs allow us to do so much more!

Coda is so easy to get started with, use, and continue learning throughout your time with the product. The keyboard shortcuts make doc creation 10x faster than Google Docs.

It can be a bit slow for a page to load so its hard to toggle between pages quickly - definitely cant toggle through docs quickly at all, as you can only view one doc at a time

All of our documents and information for different projects lived in different places. Our team works on 1-2 projects at a time on a rolling basis, so we needed a place to keep our documentation so we could stay organized.

Coda creates a collaborative space for our team where we're able to find information easily, provide more accountability, and simply be more productive during our workday.

There are a few features that would be helpful to our specific team but Coda's team is so responsive and receptive to feedback that we know these features are being considered and hopefully implemented down the road. In the meantime, their team is always able to provide workarounds or tips on how to achieve the same outcome.

Coda is helping our team stay organized and create more meaningful conversations internally by streamlining communication in one space. We're able to keep track of projects, provide resources, and so much more.

Coda combines quantitative and qualitative capabilities that I couldn't find or accomplish with any one vendor before. Anything I have tried to do, has been possible in Coda.

Would love to have the ability to have filter views! As of right now, if one page is filtered by any user it is filtered for everyone - would love to have this more specific to a given person.

Coda is making it possible for us to have the needed visibility and accountability in order to hit our deadlines for annual turn when it comes to rep's books/quotas globally.

Its data capabilities and integrations with other tools makes it a key component of our agency's operations. We use it to organize projects and keep consolidate all of our systems in one place.

We need the ability to trigger webhooks and make API calls from within page elements such as buttons. It would unlock a whole new wave of power that isn't currently available.

We use it for everything in our agency, from project management, client portals and feature tracking. We also use it to track client payments and calculate the % payout to the team.

lo fácil que es construir todo un imperio de seguimiento y administración, además de lo limpio que es el diseño y la rapidez de la curva de aprendizaje es una joya

probablemente el dark theme está muy descuidado, me gustaría que el diseño fuera un poco diferente ya que la paleta de colores no cuadra tan bien y me deprime verlo así de mal

hemos podido administrar equipos de trabajo de más de 100 personas en una sola cuenta, con acceso incluso a clientes, pagando una fracción de lo que pagábamos con otras herramientas

The ability to create processes and automations unlike any other platform.

Limited visual formatting, not so great suitable for text entering.

Organising information across my whole business, sending notifications, keeping on top of my tasks and schedule. Basically, everything.

For the first time, dozens of documents from the last few years are able to be consolidated and shared with other faculty & students. The way are able to engage with the students has been revolutionized.

The forms lack logic so we are still reliant on Formstack to create more complicated and nuanced forms. There are likely additional workarounds, but I haven't learned how yet.

An easy-to-use and organized student-facing platform to share documents, internships, articles, job postings, and coaching sessions. We no longer need to spend hours designing newsletters or opportunity emails.

Coda makes me feel like a genius. The tool is incredibly flexible without a huge barrier to entry. Anyone can sit down and start using a Coda doc. With just a little more effort, anyone can start building connected tables and do some really cool things. With automations and linked tables, I made a template for usability testing that automatically graphs the metrics tracked on multiple pages in the doc. One of co-workers told me they were "crying tears of joy" when they learned how easy it was to use. Coda makes me better at my job.

The mental model shift from tables to connected "views" of tables is one thing that I have to try to explain to each new person on my team who uses the tool. Once you get it, it's great, but it takes a minute to make the shift.

We chose Coda primarily for our User Research Repository - we've built templates and automations to encourage robust, consistent documentation practices. However, as soon as Coda was available for our team to use, a ton of additional use cases have popped up. People love the organization structure, ease of use, and flexibility of the tool.

The ability to create documents that include automation which creates an easier workflow.

The learning curve was a little steep for me but with help of the forums and youtube videos I manged.

Record keeping, tracking how tasks are being performed, emailing our customers pre formated information that can be changed to their needs

The ability to design workflows based on my actual team needs vs being constrained by how software designers want me to run my team

There are some standard functions and list behaviors which are not available at the moment which require more complex workarounds. This prevents faster document creation but ultimately do not prevent workflow just creates BoH paperwork.

I am performing complete Product Management through CODA now and automating task creation and dependencies. The largest benefit has been providing tracability to the entire development team.

How easy it is to link databases, and how quick it is to connect multiple levels in a formula

It can be hard sometimes to figure out what exactly is going on under the hood. The profiler is good but limited. The lack of comments in code is the biggest problem. Also the data input error checking could be a little more seamless

We had a commercial mrp that didn't fit the intricacies of our business structure, and it wasn't easy to make it user-friendly enough for the people managing inventory actually to use. This caused us to lose a lot of time and money trying to make it work. Coda let me build a fully custom MRP system to manage everything from production planning, a full parent-child BOM, hundreds of vendors, and thousands of unique parts, in addition to full inventory management with order fulfillment. There were some growing pains in the process but you guys kept releasing crucial features so it all worked out. The biggest thing is being able to manage all the data while building friendly and well guided dashboards for each type of user

- docs within docs - integrating tables and data - amazing help community

- interface of doc home page - the ability to make your doc wider in view

- finding information easily using the search function and doc within doc feature

Coda is a combination of a word editor, a spreadsheet and a project management software. It works smoothly without any bugs. Its clean interface is another big plus; makes it a pleasure to use Also, Coda continues to innovate, bringing new features all the time and communicating well to its users about them. I see no reason why professionals must continue with the archaic way of different software for different kind of work and not use Coda.

Coda files were stored in Google Drive. There was no way to back them up. So, if you lose the file from your Google Drive, its gone! Retrieval was not possible. I am not sure, I think this has changed now. The Print feature does not print the page correctly. Lot of formatting is lost. Coda does not support presentation features so that I can present my document in meetings.

I use it to save my sales and marketing collateral and efficiently retrieve them when needed. I also use it track my project progress and other information about my projects. The use of Coda makes my work efficient and effective.

I can create complex formulas without any program experience and knowledge. The help desk and the community are a great help.

It takes a smal time investment to under the formulas. BUT Maria's video lessons gave me the info needed.

I'm doing audits with complex formulas for my clients. I can use my Coda doc and then share the results in a meaningful way with the clients and it now takes much time.

You can start out small and confidently grow your documents as your needs and insights into the issue being addressed become more clear. We're using Coda to organize several aspects of our consultancy including client prospecting and engagement. The documents are growing organically with our company. Having them online makes sure all members of the geographically disbursed team are all on the same page. Our documents look great online. And there's an API for tracking and manipulating documents with other tools. Coda offers very fair pricing with a very generous free tier. I cannot imagine running our company without it.

The UI is a few rough edges. For example, links can only be created in the table view.

Keeping a centralized repository of corporate knowledge. Having all this information in a central, trusted source reduces friction and ineffciencies in the company.

Love the flexibility and ability to have our knowledge base easily accessible across the team. All of the widgets, templates, and doc gallery are extremely helpful, and can help guide new processes (e.g., product review meetings, go to market, etc.)

Sometimes duplicating data and cross-linking is unintuitive and can get messy. Also the formulas and sorting can get messy; still use Google Sheets for a lot of tabulation. Would be great to get that into Coda.

Solving the problem of knowledge management and cross-team organization. We have fairly organized bases within Coda for a lot of our teams, as opposed to a giant mess of unlinked docs and spreadsheets.

The table structure brings a familiarity to working with a Coda doc. The interface itself is quite intuitive. The instruction videos are engaging and inspire one to explore more. Plus the community forum seems to have answers for everything under the sun. The packs allow cross-platform integration with other common workspace tools, making it a breeze to automate work.

The support team's responses can be a bit obtuse at times - I wish they'd actually look at the user's work/usage history before deciding what level to respond at.

Collaborative working with multiple teams and managing/implementing the process on one platform rather than trying to coordinate the work on multiple platforms/tools.