Compare HourStack и PlanIT

Benefits:

I love the way HourStack displays your time entries. It's by far the most intuitive (to me, at least) program to throw tasks from various programs ... Read more

I love the way HourStack displays your time entries. It's by far the most intuitive (to me, at least) program to throw tasks from various programs (tons of connected task managers) and just get to work. Seeing visually what you've done and have to do is very easy and it makes it super simple to see where you've spent your day.

Drawbacks:

The pricing is quite steep for the enterprise plan and even for the team plan. The enterprise version is more than full-featured project management... Read more

The pricing is quite steep for the enterprise plan and even for the team plan. The enterprise version is more than full-featured project management programs, some of which have their own time tracking built- in!

Summary:

Excellent overall and I'm happy with it, but I'm glad I don't have to pay for the highest pricing tiers.

Benefits:

- Let's me plan out my entire week - both meetings and tasks - to ensure I accomplish important tasks - Integrations with Todoist and Google Calen... Read more

- Let's me plan out my entire week - both meetings and tasks - to ensure I accomplish important tasks - Integrations with Todoist and Google Calendar are very good. - In particular with Todoist, imported tasks carry both the project and label making it easy for me to import tasks and have them automatically organized. - Having both calendar and task import allows me to set up all of my activities for each working day - Being able to drag only the calendar events and tasks that I want to allocate to a day is very useful - It is really important to me to be able to not only track time for tasks, but also the estimate the time in advance so I can allocate important tasks to my plan for each day. I feel this feature sets hourstack apart from other similar time tracking applications which is one of the most important reasons that I chose to use this software every day. - The reporting feature is really easy to use and provide useful daily and weekly review information - In reports, I really like seeing planned vs actual times - it helps me improved my estimations. - Usability overall is really good. The ability to set up events and tasks on a day is very easy as is using the timer functions.

Drawbacks:

- The cost for getting the reports feature is pretty high for me (but I paid it anyway because it is useful) - I wish there were more integrations... Read more

- The cost for getting the reports feature is pretty high for me (but I paid it anyway because it is useful) - I wish there were more integrations available

Summary:

Planning my time for each day - allocating time for each meeting and task and then tracking it as the day goes by. This lets me ensure I get impor... Read more

Planning my time for each day - allocating time for each meeting and task and then tracking it as the day goes by. This lets me ensure I get important tasks done because they are prioritized and visible. It also lets me see how I use my time each day and each week - to make productivity improvements and see how good my estimates are. I use the integrations to Google calendar and Todoist to provide the source of my events and tasks. Because the integration is really good with Todoist in particular, it saves me a lot of setup and processing time each week.

Benefits:

I like that it can use different sources for the tasks, so one can combine e.g. Asana tasks and Outlook appointments.

Drawbacks:

It can be more visually appealing (have different colours and sections for different type of tasks, so it's more intuitive.

Summary:

Benefits:

We used this in combination with Asana, so it would pull tasks into HourStack from Asana. We then drag them into our week and track time on them, w... Read more

We used this in combination with Asana, so it would pull tasks into HourStack from Asana. We then drag them into our week and track time on them, which made weekly planning really handy and is something I miss about the software we move to after Hourstack.

Drawbacks:

We made the switch away from Hourstack for a couple reasons. There were bugs every once in a while or the server/app would just crash. Also, there ... Read more

We made the switch away from Hourstack for a couple reasons. There were bugs every once in a while or the server/app would just crash. Also, there wasn't a public API we could access to build out our own software for reporting.

Summary:

It has just about everything we needed until we decided to go outside the box and build our own software requiring API access. Definitely a very us... Read more

It has just about everything we needed until we decided to go outside the box and build our own software requiring API access. Definitely a very useful tool.