Wrike Reviews: 4.2/5 — Solid Choice

- Nice options for task status tracking - Great notifications for email and Slack - Ability to easily comment, watch and react to tags within tasks - Blueprints for repetitive project management

- Inability to integrate new apps at the user level rather than the account level - Difficult to drill out of tasks nested within larger projects/folders/etc. - Lack of flexibility to move the "My To Do" section into dashboards/home screen as a widget -

Organizing and enabling cross-collaborative projects across our internal teams. Unfortunately, my immediate team is not able to say we're more productive because we also work out of a more technical project management system and as mentioned in the dislike section, we're not able to connect those at the user level to build a better automation.

The user interface is easy to handle. I also enjoy looking at the different views depending on what I need to accomplish. The feature where I can change multiple tasks at the same time is very useful

I dislike how the search feature works. When I search a project and see different tasks, I cannot go to the overall project folder. There is no way to find the "location" of what I searched.

It helps with schedulings. Being able to keep track of multiple different styles at the same time is useful. There is also a feature where our capacity is reported which helps with management.

single place to share line items/tasks for a group

lack of integration with Jira, doesn't support scrum ceremonies

project management, single place to list tasks

Dashboards are helpful to view what needs to be done at a glance

Not very user friendly, reoccurring tasks don't seem to work the way they should and sub-tasks are hidden. Takes more time than other platforms to create tasks. Cannot hyperlink in comments

I use wrike for task tracking mainly to make sure I'm completing what needs to be done. Dashboards have been beneficial to see everything that needs to be done.

Wrike makes sense from a starting point. It is easy to use on a small scale. The tool isn't hard to understand, and the platform offers a customization tool to change the UI from user to user. Honestly a great program to start on. Offer a good amount of features some that are less obvious to new users as well.

However, the problem comes once it scales up. When a company grows, the organizational aspect can start to fall apart. My main issue is navigating and searching for the proper task. When you are searching for a specific task or project using the search bar, it doesn't allow the an advance search to my knowledge or have a seperate page. Just a show more button. It doesn't take long to look at older completed job to see how clustered it could be. I would like to see more advance features for companies of larger amount of projects.

It is a great tool to work collaboratively and to store a lot of information and workflow. Great way to keep track of things. I have only worked on this business after wrike was implemented. So I knowledge of working with work managment software is finite to only wrike.

The personal task management within your own board is clean and simple

Managing wrike tasks within a team can feel rather cumbersome and more difficult to manage than within JIRA.

Wrike helps me better track personal tasks, and keep on top of my day-to-day with my manager.

It has good functionality and options- most of what much more expensive competitors feature.

It's not intuitive - it's cumbersome in setting up systems - if you don't thoroughly think through your data structure, it could be a giant mess. We always have pushback from new employees when training them on it.

We have a complicated business that involves many clients and vendors, staff and independent contractors. We utilize wrike to help us organize complex project timelines and calendars.

Clean UX for project detail; I like that you can also favorite projects.

The search capabilities are awful - I have never been able to search for an older project using the search bar easily.

Project management within different business units.

It does what they claim it does. The tool works really well provided staff invest the time to learn and optomize it.

Getting pushed into a 50% price increase for integration with sharepoint that was previously included and was never placed behind a paywall when Wrike wasnt owned by Citrix.

We are automating a lot of things that were loosely tracked in email before. Accountability is also getting better

I like the inbox. It's clear who has messaged you and what task it's related to.

The subtasks and gantt chart are very complicated. It's not intuitive. There are a lot of capabilities but it's almost too much. I think simple is better.

I'm a campaign manager that works cross-functionally with a lot of teams and stakeholders. We ware using Wrike to streamline the process and create project visibility.

I like the organization of things and projects and the notification system.

I cannot stand the UI now after the change. Not because I don't like the look, It's just now so difficult to find projects that are not immediately assigned to you or in another department. I used to be able to jump from one project to one that wasn't assigned to me when I had permissions very quickly. Now I have to jump through like three hoops just to get to those other projects in the other departments if I'm not directly assigned; it takes me like an extra 30-40 seconds now when I want to get somewhere. Doing that day by day adds up... Please bring back the old navigation menu!!!! For this reason alone, I wouldn't want to recommend this system. Before the change, it was excellent and so quick to navigate! The form template thing is very weird and not straightforward. When I want to apply a questionaire template to onboarding a new client it seems like half the time it gives them the form to fill out, and the other half it just creates the shell in the project without showing the form.

We are working with clients for onboarding; being able to easily receive documents and data. It's very beneficial to have everything all in the same place.

Easy to submit tickets to various stakeholders for project creation

Challenging to use from a project management perspective. Not very intuitive.

Project management and organization

I like the display of open tasks to view quickly

I do not like the extra steps to mark as complete.

We have switched to Jira

There's not much I LIKE about Wrike. I like it has a desktop app. and a mobile app.

It's complicated. Steep learning curve. Too many ways to use it. Doesn't align well with Agile-based teams. Things end up getting lost? I don't know where to find or keep track of anything since every team in our org uses it differently.

None. I would rather write down lists manually and check them off that way.

A large array of options in how to track projects and tasks in your organization.

Because it's so big with so many options, implementing it can be difficult. There is a steep learning curve to the system. If your organization takes on this tool, either create a team dedicated to implementing Standard Operating Procedures on how to use it or take up a consultant who can help you decide how to implement the tool.

Helps us keep track of work completed across the organization. Helps us make sure that we are in compliance.

Being able to search all of the organizations write tasks has come in handy multiple times

Time tracking isn't the most tech savy feature

Things get lost sometimes with the amount of info stored in write.

Allows multiple people to collaborate on the same project at the same time. Very efficient.

Can be difficult to see what tasks are assigned to you.

Much more efficient when working on a project.

I like the ability to tag people within a post, upload files, and switch task statuses.

It’s so customizable that if one PM doesn’t do exactly what the others do, you’ll never find what you’re looking for. Plus, once you mark a task complete it disappears and it’s terrible to try and find it again. The desk app also crashes my computer regularly for no particular reason.

The absolute to mark specific statuses of tasks and mark items as road blocked is a game changer. I also like the email updates

That you can track your different projects so that you don’t forget about them

I don’t like the fact that you can’t use your personal email instead of your business emai.

I am using it to solve an issue with a recent project I have done

Wrike has lots of features and easily allows collaboration on projects. Wrike customer service was always helpful and quick to respond.

It's easy for Wrike to become overwhelming due to the folder structure. Staying organized comes at the disadvantage of having files and projects buried within a hierarchical folder structure.

Wrike allowed many team members to collaborate on projects. Notifications sent when changes were made helped everyone stay up-to-date on the status of each project.

Easy dashboards and workflows for multiple different service lines.

Hard to see what is coming into your queue and can get confusing on who is owning the project.

Project management solution. Everyone working in one platform.

Love the Inbox and Stream features, as they help give you a real-time view of recent projects and conversations.

The navigation throughout the site is one of the most difficult of any project management tool I've used. This causes us to frequently post comments and file uploads to the wrong project, which results in those things being overlooked. I'm not sure if it's how our agency has set up the account and projects, but it definitely could be easier to get to where you need to go.

We use Wrike to collaborate with our advertising agency on paid advertising campaigns. We can review and approve our keyword lists, upload landing page URLs, and discuss any issues with the group. The main benefit of Wrike is that it keeps our conversations all in one place. However, the difficulties we've had in communicating via the tool have led us to look for other options.

I like that you can set a complete list of tasks for a certain project and add deadlines to them. Then, if a deadline shifts, you can change one deadline and it moves back deadlines for the rest of the project in one shot. I also like that you can easily assign tasks to people.

The notifications system infuriates me. It either sends way too many notifications or not nearly enough. If someone adds an update on a project, I have to manually check that project to see what's new. The only time I would get a notification is if somebody tagged me specifically. This leads to overlooked updates and miscommunications. I'm also not a fan of the layouts. I want a clean view that shows exactly what's on my plate, regardless of deadline. I have to click around to all the different tabs, which all seem relatively similar to me, before I find one that's close to what I want (never exactly what I want).

We use it as a project management tool.

I like that you can see what you have to do today in a list form quickly. I think there is a way that it could be used properly if the entire team is on board with the processes to use within the program.

I dislike the lack of prioritization, and how many ways there are to get to things that it seems as though things get lost ALL THE TIME. The dashboards can be set up in an organized way, but when looking at "my work" it seems to be in a crazy order and cause panic and confusion.

Project management, working on a lot of projects at once and keeping them organized in a specific place.

This was a pretty decent project management software. I was using the freeware version. So while I didn't have all the bells and whistles one could see it gave you timelines, critical paths etc. Was relatively intuitive, and easy to use.

I stopped using it for three major reasons. 1. It isn't really graphical (like Trello, which isn't really a project management tool) 2, It's very difficult to get people to use PM tools, and my partners weren't using it. 3. The cost to move to the full version wasn't worth the dollars (based on 1 and 2).

starting a project and manage all the pieces. We stopped using it because of lack of buy-in.

Creates a paper trail of work as assigned.

Difficult to track longterm projects to completion.

Keeping track of ongoing work

Fairly easy to consume the data inputted. Capabilities to import from other systems including Microsoft Project.

Limited amount of users led to team members having to share log-ins. Lack of functionality surrounding amounts of time IE everything had to be submitted in number of days up to 7 or weeks instead of days up to any amount IE 13 instead of 2 weeks.

Project management for new projects and client services.

Collaboration in Wrike is effortless. It's easy to see when someone mentions you.

The learning curve is massive. Others have too much control over projects they're not involved in.

Communication is much easier. It forces teams to adhere to the process.

I love the Gantt chart and list views and reporting capabilities.

The mobile app is a big pain point for me. It doesn't seem to function the same way as the desktop app and it's a huge hindrance for me that I can't start or edit file approvals from the mobile app. Wrike Lightspeed also now forces me to click more buttons than before to complete my work, making the process less efficient. I also wish the approval queue feature was consistent in dashboards. On a daily basis, I find that my colleagues either see approvals that don't exist, or cannot see approvals that were assigned to them in their dashboard approval queue.

Wrike solves the problem of intaking requests and easily scheduling them out. I like the markup feature for commenting on files.

It's loaded with many features and allows for time tracking.

It seemed less intuitive, I had the feeling it had many more features than I was using.

It allows me to track time and project plans.