Coda Reviews: 4.7/5 — Highly Rated

I absolutely love Coda - it makes it really easy for multiple teams to collaborate without having to use a standardized template. Basically everyone can have their own trackers with the items that matter to their team and you can sync only what you need from other teams. You can personalize it and make it custom fit to your needs - our team uses it for project management, resource planning, automating reminders...

The permissions level needs some work - would love to be able to select specifically what people can edit and what they can't, ideally at a column by column level.

It makes resource planning a lot easier Helps Engineering and Product teams communicate and keep track of what we're working on

I love how flexible coda is. You can do simple things with it as well as build complicated systems with integrations and automations too.

Nothing really, but it did take me a little bit to learn how to do more complicated things, but that's to be expected.

I've created project, finance, and calendar management systems with coda, including a cross-calendar management tool that I could not find in the market.

First, let me begin with the sheer versatility of the Coda. Imagine having the power to weave together the best elements of your SQL with the power of business application construction all at a functional and reasonable price. Not only can I build an entire database to help facilitate the needs of my contract-based projects, but I can support it through integrated app-based formulas, ease of use for non-creators, seamless web integrations, and so much more! See what excites me most is that you can only be limited by your imagination when it comes to Coda. And what you can imagine, that may not be in the system, the Coda team is excited to hear about it and really listen to what will help. From the ground up, Coda is a game changer.

With the software and team growing rapidly, there isn't much to dislike. There are few small items here and there that have been shared with the tech team, but what I appreciate is that they will be honest with you about what can and will come down the pipeline, and not give you the standard dev response of "Oh, it's coming." Forms can really be given an upgrade to be streamed more in line with competitor software (i.e. Google Forms, Survey Monkey, etc). Coda has a far superior handle on the acquired data and when forms are better supported the data can be used and analyzed more efficiently.

We are solving internal communication fluidity challenges. Building up better functionality between contractors and staff, as well as overall tasks management and completion. Now that we are fully immersed in the software its hard to imagine not having it. The business has moved forward so much

Making dealflow out of a raw dataset within hours

Row limits pushed us to make several documents which works as well 🤩

Provide a key solution to VCs

Powerful formulas, everything is connected, canvas formulas, buttons. They got all the basics right to create a better kind of document! Once you understand how they work (and it didn't take me long), you have the power to create complete applications that solve business problems you didn't know you had. And I like the pace at which they launch improvements. At some point, I felt like they read my mind when they launched features I really needed

Some building blocks aren't very polished. Charts become useless because they don't grow to accommodate larger datasets. (I want to see a bar chart with a hundred bars) Gantt charts have a rudimentary UI. Forms are nice but lack some customization (like adding text or images to create a narrative or branding). Logic on forms (showing and hiding fields based on previous answers) would be a nice-to-have. I miss translation only on some column formats. I mean, Coda docs are blank canvases for us to write in the language we want so our docs look almost completely Brazilian. But some column formats insert text in their cells (like date columns that show the day of the week). These are the ones that kinda break the experience.

For years, our team at APIS design never had ONE tool to document and plan projects. We were scattered between spreadsheets, google docs, trello, freedcamp. We make different kinds of projects and never thought there would be a tool we could track all projects. I tried coda in 2018 to keep track of a one-year long editorial project and it really saved me from going crazy. The entire editoral flow (which we used to track in huge spreadsheets) was tracked on coda. It was MUCH easier to fill with buttons and formulas. And I could see the progress at a glance, with charts showing our speeds and highlighting the tasks we spend most time on (so I could dive in and see If I could optimize smth) After that, all the team adopted the tool. We have a doc for each project. And now we have a main doc where people can see whats happening in the studio (all projects, teams, knowledge base...)

Coda gives me the flexibility to easily pivot my data without requiring any super technical knowledge or data structuring

Nothing, coda has really solved our needs

Coda pieces together all of our customer data and powers much of our customer communication and feedback

I think of Coda as a perfect combination of Airtable and Notion. I have experience using both tools, and when I started using Coda, I was amazed by its capacity as a collaborative spreadsheet-database hybrid. Coda is very low-code. I love the flexibility to visualize datasets in different ways, filter them using controls on the page, etc. I'm so impressed by this tool. I love that my team can access many of these views without having an account. I LOVE the integration with Typeform as well. Super clean.

There's not much to dislike, but I will say that it takes some reps to understand how to use formulas in a way that work best for what you're trying to accomplish. I would also recommend that there are only a few gatekeepers as it's relatively easy to delete or mess up work.

My team primarily uses Coda to store and sort product feedback. The ability to present data in different formats is beneficial to my team. For example, I often convert some of our top product feedback themes into a pie chart visualization so that my team can easily see what topics have surfaced the most in the past 7-30 days. I often create new views of feedback categorized by different themes. The ability to create timestamp controls (in addition to many other filters) is also very useful so that my team can easily sort and filter for what they would like to learn more about. Overall, the tool is really robust, and my team has had great things to say about it.

Love that we can integrate Coda with Zapier to connect it out our other software and then create many customized views to track our progress with clients and keep all stakeholders on board!

Cross-doc syncing is not the most effective way to create views, but it is still helpful. I would prefer the opportunity to migrate a source table to a new doc.

We have streamlined our process tracking with onboarding clients and keeping internal goals on track.

Una herramienta poderosa y versátil, puedes crear sistemas para todas las áreas de la empresa.

Los formularios les falta más desarrollo y características.

He creado sistemas de seguimiento de candidatos, sistemas de seguimiento de tareas.

Coda is the best software alternative to manage database within a team framework.

The lack of design options, font and the lack of options for charts.

Manage inventories (booking, stats) with multiple views.