Float Reviews & Product Details

I like the clean UI, the ease of use and the simplicity of it.

I'd like more options and controls. I can only view a week at a time and only my calendar (this might be due to my organization's settings).

Just a simple project tracker to keep our calendars aligned.

Float is really clear and simple, making it easy for me to see what I need to be working on, and divide my time accordingly.

I haven't used Float for very long, but haven't found anything I don't like so far.

Float provides a more streamlined way for our company to set up weekly schedules and project allocations.

Came across Float while working on couple of crucial pilot projects for a big client . I'd like to appreciate how easy float made our lives in managing and allocating the workflow among team members. The UI is quite intuitive as you can view the entire team calendar in one place and add/ delete or modify tasks, jobs with ease (the colour coding is such a time saver and helps avoid confusion). Staying ahead of deadlines is so crucial in client deliverables and float was quite instrumental in helping do that.

Seemed to take up significant RAM space (at times) even while running in the background which really slowed down the system especially while working on a virtual machine. Otherwise, no other complaints.

It really helped manage the workflow of the team (assigning projects to different team members, tracking free hours, off days or leaves, etc). The colour coding is such a simple yet a very impactful tool. The tutorial videos (such as the ones on youtube) really helped understand some of the possible functionalities much better bring in further efficiencies in work management.

I use float in my daily work as a user, it helps to organize and plan work on projects in a team

The biggest disadvantage of the Float software is that it is not associated with Jira tickets

Float software solves problems with human resource planning and project and team management

It is very intuitive. With Float you are able to check your planner and compare it with others. You can create projects and add people to it, so the review is much easier. It is flexible and visually clean.

I do not like that I can't remove default bookmarks or rename them, eg. the keyword "Me" is reserved for the current user. With "Me" selected I don't see everything related to me, as when I choose my name and last name. The second thing - you can't choose the timezones if you cooperate with other countries.

It is easier to plan your work and tasks with Float. You know what types of people you have free to fill the gaps in projects, eg. if you need a project manager you can check only for available project managers.

this very simple apps for working, because user able to see the timeline project, but im very happy if have notification like alert if time line closes with the deadline

when we have more team, we must scroll down, i think float can handle it or modify the UI, then on mobile if the project have more timline we must scrroll to right, i thin developer of float can fixx this

The problem when use float is, the apps don't have like warning if time line reach the date line, and no chat or interactif for user

Float is an incredibly intuitive piece of software to use, with a simple calendar-like interface that everyone can understand. I have found that this aspect of the software is helpful in promoting its adoption within our teams. The experience is consistent across the product, which has allowed me to discover more and more features in and enrich the experience of using the product.

The performance of the software is occasionally a bit lacklustre. For example, I often find myself accidentally clicking somewhere on the screen which prompts a dialogue box to open to enter a new task. This problem is especially pronounced when using a trackpad, and isn’t something that I experience elsewhere. Additionally, the interface seems to have a strange way of ‘splitting’ tasks that occur across multiple days. I have found that it often leaves blank gaps that give the illusion that a team member is working more hours per day than they actually are. There are a few features that I would like to see when going forward. Firstly, I think it would be good if there were different options when ‘resizing’ a task. Currently, the task can be resized independently across both axes (i.e. how many hours per day, and across how many days). I think it would be good if there were an option for these to affect each other – i.e. the total number of hours allocated to the project remains the same and could be allocated fewer hours across more days, or more hours across fewer days.

My experience so far with Float has been one of trying to make it reflect reality, and encourage adoption within our organisation. I think the real advantage of using it will be one project managers are widely aware of its benefits, and proactively use it to resource projects and keep abreast of changes in the availability of our team.

How easy it is. To book resource or edit time range you only need a few clicks or drag and drop.

It will be nice to get notifications about not booked time of some resource and small tool for moving all booked resources for a given project in time.

Float is great tool that helps us in three ways: 1. Planning resources in the near future - thanks to this we can easily know what specialist and when will have free time for some short maintenance or start new project. 2. Planning time off office days 3. Get statistics about how much time was spend in which project in wide perspective and quickly check who and when was working on what milestone off the project for client reports.

Very simple and extremely fast to use interface. I picked up how to create customers, projects, tasks and to schedule them without using the help documentation or customer support. It is very intuitive.

I'd like little additional features here and there but adding features naturally increases complexity so I cant really complain. The ability to see things offline occasionally would be helpful.

We are planning design and manufacturing tasks / workload using it. It is giving us visibility of our capacity bottle necks and communicating overall plans to everyone.

How clear and simple the interface is, the visibility it gives of your teams work

Sometimes if found it to be a bit too simple for work tasks. Features such as a checklist/ways to break down into subtasks would be useful

Managing my workflow, having visibility of my teams work.

I really like how intuitive Float is. I like how you can overview many different projects at the same time and keep track of the progress on each of them. It's also very useful that you can get reports for overtime, holidays and production time spent on each job.

I think it still has a lots of areas to improve (but so fat it's going in the right direction!). I think the reports part could be improved as it includes too much information. I also think the font used on the pencils is not very easy to read. I think it would also help if we could see the details of each booking when we hoover over it with our mouse.

It's proved to be crucial to keep a daily record of what our team is doing and how much to charge for each project that we've been working on. It's helping us to be more organised and be able to accommodate bigger projects.

The colour coordination makes it easy to use

It's hard to use as a beginner but fine once you know how

We're able to plan weeks in advance

I love that it integrates with your project budget. It shows you how much you're over or under your projected target given how many hours you put into float. It's clean and looks great and is fairly easy to read (unless you zoom out and you project title gets truncated). It's easy to add and modify tasks and setup is fairy self-explanatory minus a few quirks.

I hate that you can't lock items into place and that when you move items around they don't automatically push out the schedule. I get that the method used here works for a lot of situations, but it'd be nice to add in some functionality. Right now, youre budget isn't the constraint. You can move hours around willy nilly and that number fluctuates. I'd like to see an option where you set your budgeted hours and the program rigidly holds to that, pushing the schedule out as needed to accommodate. And I like that you can see your budgeted hours as a percentage but the functionality is super light with regards to accuracy. We update our Float schedule every week and it's a pain to get accurate numbers given the "hours per day" model. If you end up spending 11.5 hours in a week on one project or task, you have to put them all in a single day to be accurate.

The biggest asset we've realized using Float is when our projects are over or under staffed (based on a contract # of hours model). If you accurately put in the number of hours you have, and then estimate how many hours per week your staff will spend through the end of the project, it spits out a percentage over or under your budget which is super helpful.

The interface is very user friendly and it does not take long to learn the features.

The ability to manage groups of projects seems limited.

Managing time among team members and coordinating items to be scheduled has became a little easier after implementing the Float tool.

Great UI and UX. Color schemes are pleasing. The functionality works how you would expect with a little bit more. It's just smart.

The comfortable row heights are a little too big in my opinion but easy adjustment. Horizontal scrolling can be a little counterintuitive.

Letting my managers and PMs know what my intended days off are. I think it makes it easier to plot and plan for teams and individuals.

We have a fast changing workload so the scheduling feature and ease of managing that is great. It is easuy to see what projects are in production, and who is working on everything. For our Head of Production there is an easy way to see our needs and allocate the team as needed. Individual team members can easily see what tasks or projects they are working on and who they are working with.

Not too many cons. It would be nice to bulk add time off and there have been some bugs that seem to be not affecting us now.

Allows us to easily resolve scheduling conflicts.

Float is simple, straightforward, easy to learn, and tells me what I need to know without wasting my time

I have no complaints about Float, though I'm not a primary user in my organization

When I need to check if my colleagues have time resourced on my projects, the answers are clear with Float

I find float really easy to use and would recommend it for easily seeing what you are booked on.

There is nothing that I have found to dislike with Float.

I am able to see when i am booked on which projects.

Float offers a great overview of all the tasks within my team. The user interface gives me a good impression of my schedule at a quick glance. Float also allows me to look at the work I've completed in the last few weeks so I can keep track of the hours spent on a certain project.

The browser interface of float doesn't work well on my mobile phone. The job titles are not readable unless I click on an item.

The ability to look at other schedules also enables me to plan meetings more efficiently. When my own planning doesn't allow for a job to be added, I can see if a colleague has time to work on it in just a few seconds.

We use Float to track holidays, competences and projects for employees, split over locations, managers etc. Float provides an elegant overview of this information that is easy to understand and navigate.

The interface has a few kinks in the drag/drop mechanics, but nothing major.

Tracking holidays and providing an overview of what people are doing in the long term.