monday or click up these are two of the biggest project management applications in today's video
we're putting them head to head in terms of features diving into the companies and also
exploring what and who i'd recommend these best for before we begin we are affiliated so if you do
want to use the discounts below to both of these services or buy the software through us you can
find that below and we regularly work with both of these but we like to stay impartial when it
comes to helping you choose the best productivity software so this is all some of my own personal
experience and from the community as well as with research that we found together if you are looking
for alternative productivity tools in specifically project managers we've got two videos which will
link below which outline a few others on the market so i wanted to start this video with a bit
of an outline of where these companies are and a little bit about the background because sometimes
it's really useful to know i guess a little bit more about the company themselves first up
click up are actually based over in san diego and they started in 2016 from the founder zeb evans
they claim to have 800 000 teams using the likes of click up and they've entered their series c
funding round which was a pretty big one they have a lovely mission statement with save people time
by making the world more productive now monday.com are based out in tel aviv in israel the team
actually invited me out a few years ago and it's amazing place and they seem like fantastic folk
they're actually now publicly traded on the nasdaq as a publicly listed company and they state they
have 152 000 teams using monday.com obviously both of these figures are slightly out because
they could be measuring it by how many staff members are using it in each of the companies
or by the actual company themselves using it so i don't know how they measure their metrics
so let's take a look at major features for click up and monday and i just want to say largely these
are pretty similar they're probably one of the closest softwares on the market although they
very much look different and act differently so let's dive into click up first so click up really
helps you focus much more on views they have over 15 different types of views that you can use
inside of your click up account obviously some of these are locked under different pavement plans
and pricing plans but the 15 views give you more expansive different ways to view your information
in click up and you can convert them into different views at any time click up also has more
personal productivity management so for example if you want to start a timer on each of your tasks
that's something you can do from just switching it on insider settings and for many people that
like managing their own productivity there's also estimates too if you look over at monday they have
a very different model they actually have recently changed it to more of a component basis experience
so they have about five or six different options you could use it for work management marketer
sales crm and even the likes of dev and projects they always have these like packages where you can
basically install them or products they call them and essentially when you get started it's really
tailored for you around some of the ways that that best works for example if you chose their monday
os marketer option it would allow you to plan everything from your marketing plan and connect
that to things like your content plan and much more and it's quite a nice way of working in
my opinion although they have the majority of the other views now the likes of click up does
i quite like the way that they approach this um you know out of the box experience whereas click
up is very much more flexible on its setup whilst they do have some templates it's really much more
optional in how you set things up so both of these applications have my work areas allowing
you to organize your own work as a team obviously it's good to see everything else what you they're
working on but a zoom in on what you're working on is pretty important also both of these have
some great abilities with creative briefings allowing you and your team to comment on feedback
on something you've uploaded as a team if you're working on something visual and they also both
have launched features with documents so they're trying to take you away from apps and wikis like
notion allowing you to do that inside of monday and click up both tandem so obviously which
features are best i want to talk about some of my personal favorites in both of these applications
things i think that separate them from each other the first i said monday's new approach with the
way that they've designed their framework i think is really nice if you're somebody that is looking
just to get started with a project management application then this framework's really nice
because they pretty much pre-build your experience based on a wide i guess 80 scenario so for example
if you were someone that's starting or managing a sales team and you're looking to get a sales
serum set up their product for that allows you to pretty much get it started with a full
video guide and a framework on suggested structure which is something a lot of productivity apps tend
to fail on they sort of send you out into the wild and expect you to do the research and set things
up yourself but i think this is really nice in terms of a dynamic especially for those who just
want to jump into the work or potentially want a framework to work from click up have a feature
called whiteboards i believe monday.com doesn't have this feature and it's really nice in terms
of how it works and how you and your team can visually collaborate as well this is something
that definitely sets it apart from the likes of monday monday.com does have some really gorgeous
dashboards click up does have dashboards but i think some of the integrations and optimizations
that monday.com have and so if you're looking for something dashboard wise especially if
you're projecting them around the offices i think mondays does beat click up in my opinion
and finally both of these do automations pretty well although i have spotted that click up has a
really neat process for doing that monday.com does have a neat process but i just find the
click up experience to be much better so score and summary both of these applications are so similar
in nature it's like having two very similar competitors in the market and you're looking to
choose which one do i go with um very very tricky click up i would say is slightly harder to learn
in terms of setup it is so flexible and it has so much inside the application there's sometimes
that can be a little bit of a barrier to entry for beginners but if you're looking for more advanced
setups and you and your team are willing to learn and optimize it then it's going to take you a lot
further than monday in my opinion i would say this is better for solo and growth use in particular
if you're a team that's growing quite rapidly i would say click up is really nice for that
but if you're a more established team i'd probably say monday might be more suitable for you click up
as i said is more of the flexible options so it's going to be really popular with startups but ones
that are potentially bigger than 20 because i think the power of click up comes alive
after you've added more and more users to it all in all it's actually not as good when it comes to
using the template side of stuff as much as the likes of monday but i think if you and your team
are looking for a flexible advanced way to set up your project management this is a super option
so monday i think better understood when you get started especially with this new framework stuff
kicking things off and the way that they built the frameworks and templates is pretty impressive
as you get started it is slightly more expensive i did some of the pricing calculations and it does
come up a little bit further we'll touch on pricing nearer the end but i think the thing that
lets monday down is in comparison with click up it's definitely a lot less attractive monday.com
whilst starting out as a project management application and one that was setting trends when
it got started i don't think it's got that visual appeal as it used to have in the past whereas
click up definitely looks like something you want to open every morning with you and your team let's
take a look at the business plan for click up and the pro plan for monday the business plan
would click up is priced at 19 per month which is fairly reasonable monday.com's pro pricing is 18
per month so probably working out closer to 20 to 23 per user per month so monday a little
bit more expensive but in my opinion in the way that they've set up their product and framework
i think it definitely has some advantages for those who are starting new so all in all
both of these are strong applications for project management and they've been growing in the market
these are some really high-tech companies that are running these so as you can imagine they could
well be at the forefront of the ai revolution with project management so do stay tuned for
them both although i would say monday is a better option for out of the box experience click up has
a lot more flexible options which i think is better for those who want full customization
i'm gonna give both of these a b plus thank you very much folks for stopping by as i said if you
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