Float

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Resource planning for agencies, studios and firms.

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Stren
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great platform for staffing and management

Reviewed on 31/08/2023

A good platform to manage: who, what and when. Float has maintained the visual people focus I love...

A good platform to manage: who, what and when. Float has maintained the visual people focus I love about the original product. Integrates well with our data compliance and avoids budget/client confidential data which will need to stay on our intranet. Presentation mode and time split functions are areas to grow functionality.

Pros

Intuitive and easy to use, focus on work schedule not project budget.

Cons

Updates are not always realtime forced page reloads required which can be troublesome for the team.

Alternatives Considered

LiquidPlanner, monday.com, and Evernote Teams

Reasons for Switching to Float

Price, easy of use, data compliance.
Antony
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  • Industry: Environmental Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

FLOAT - EI

Reviewed on 10/05/2024

Pros

minimalistic style makes it easy to identify different tasks and task blocks

Cons

It's a bit basic in terms of what you can do with scheduling, could be more autonomous when assigning tasks in terms of setting your own colour permanently

Gauthier
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

Useful software but seems old fashioned

Reviewed on 24/02/2024

Pros

Easy to use. Easy to export data.
We used it during several years but we decided to switch to a more up to date software.

Cons

You can’t lock the hours, so every time a user is changing something you can’t justify your invoicing and reporting anymore.
Looks a bit old fashioned.

Varsha
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Float is in the air

Reviewed on 14/06/2024

Pros

Float has a fantastic UI and extremely easy to use
It also caters to specific team types like consulting while recognizing the work we do for external clients

Cons

It could have a better project search functionality. It is a bit glitchy

François
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  • Industry: Human Resources Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Need a full integration to be useful

Reviewed on 09/04/2024

Pros

The possibilities with float are very high, we could have done so much more to get the most of that software.

Cons

The redundance of the tasks, but it's more due to the use we do of the software than the software itself.

Agata
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great tool for planning of a numerous team

Reviewed on 16/04/2024

Pros

It gives the possibility to use it with a low or high level of detail of scheduling. A lot of possibilities and very flexible tool.

Cons

I don't have any issue with the product. What I like least about using Float is that not every member of the team is committed in using it so we can have some misunderstandings because for instance the colleague schedule some time-off on Google calendar but then forget to report it also in Float.

Tim
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  • Industry: Sports
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

overall it good

Reviewed on 10/07/2024

Pros

the features you'd expect are all at the finger tips, keeping track and scheduling all simple and work as you'd want it to, or expect

Cons

for my use i didnt have many complaints to delve into, signing in on the mobile app can be a bit frustrating but not worth getting upset about or worrying about.

Annika
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Used float in my previous position

Reviewed on 12/06/2024

Pros

I used float at my previous workplace and the ability to integrate with other apps such as Teamwork was brilliant and its easy to use and amend.

Cons

There wasn't anything that stood out for me

Émilie-Jade
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  • Industry: Architecture & Planning
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Love Float !

Reviewed on 16/04/2024

Pros

Time management. Collegues and managers can know when i'm available and what bandwith i have.

Cons

Nothing that i can think of. I like every aspect

Marylet
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Own opinion

Reviewed on 05/06/2024

Pros

Resource management software that assists groups in tracking project budgets, allocating resources effectively, and visualizing workloads.

Cons

Compared to other all-inclusive solutions, it could not have as many advanced project management features as those, task dependencies or time monitoring.

Angel
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  • Industry: Architecture & Planning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great Software for Project Managers

Reviewed on 30/08/2023

Great tool overall to track hours and availability of teammates over multiple projects

Great tool overall to track hours and availability of teammates over multiple projects

Pros

overall it is easy to use and has a lot of great quality of life features for our firm. It would be great to have the ability to integrate it with our financial software, but still a great tool for scheduling out projects and teammates.

Cons

It would be great to have more integration options to make it more efficient for expense tracking.

Agata
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  • Industry: Financial Services Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Float - good tool for capacity planning

Reviewed on 22/08/2023

Overall, it's a very convenient & reliable tool from a project manager's perspective. Some changes...

Overall, it's a very convenient & reliable tool from a project manager's perspective. Some changes would be helpful, but in general it is a massive help in resource planning and I can't imagine working without it.

Pros

It is a great tool to be integrated with jira - it works well for our team, it's a seamless, smooth integration that helps us estimate time & choose the right resource for any jira tasks. It is also easy to follow by the users who are marking tasks "complete", adding comments, mark bookings as tentative. All very clear and transparent.

Cons

The integration with google calendar doesn't work that well. Some of the bookings are wrong / outdated / are not being updated / duplicated / not being displayed in a correct project or are missing. Luckily, the support team is open to help with this kind of issues. Also, the annoying feature is that the "View in jira" link doesn't work for duplicated bookings. It doesn't work well for our team as more people use the same tasks on jira in different time. It's impossible to search using the jira ticket number (you have to know the ticket name). Also, ticket numbers are not displayed in the “Task” field- that causes some confusion because we work with tasks with similar names.

Mackenzie
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  • Industry: Public Relations & Communications
  • Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Great employee scheduling/management tool

Reviewed on 30/08/2023

Pros

I like that float allows me to track what my team is working on and when, as well as schedule them on new tasks easily and quickly as needed. It is also a great tool for ensuring your team isn't overburdened on any given day.

Cons

I find scheduling different hours on the same project in a week (or longer) can be tedious so I usually just end up splitting the hours equally across the week (or longer). So it's a rough outline of what projects I/my team are working on, but it isn't exact.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Float - planning reviw

Reviewed on 28/08/2023

I am using Float for 5 years now. I will never change it fo any other planning program.

I am using Float for 5 years now. I will never change it fo any other planning program.

Pros

Easy to use, friendly interface, easy to follow by all departments

Cons

I would love for our timesheet tool to have an API so we can integrate Float, but unfortunately it is not yet possible.

Yevhenii
Yevhenii
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great tool to manage your team

Reviewed on 22/08/2023

It helps manage my team's work

It helps manage my team's work

Pros

UI is excellent. I like it very much. I am very comfortable managing a team's work as well as my own

Cons

In the past, I said that the logging button is hard to find on the navbar. Now this button is clearly visible. I'm grateful to Float for listening to customers

Erkan
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  • Industry: Oil & Energy
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

An easy to use resource management tool

Reviewed on 05/09/2023

It gives a good helicopter view for me and my team of the ongoing projects, up and coming projects...

It gives a good helicopter view for me and my team of the ongoing projects, up and coming projects as well as the capacity of each individual team member. Using the different colours also gives a good overview of the types of work that is going on.

Pros

I like the idea of being able to colour code tasks, assign tasks to an email and define time requirements as well as project details within a task. I also really enjoy the reporting side of things.

Cons

I would like it if Float offered the ability to change the title of some of the input box titles. For example, where it says "Project" I would like to be able to edit that to my own title.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Cool managment tool

Reviewed on 22/08/2023

Convenient platform, pleasant interface, available buttons for various purposes

Convenient platform, pleasant interface, available buttons for various purposes

Pros

The ability to conveniently plan hours on projects and set milestones, the ability to create sub-departments

Cons

That you need to separate the schedules in order to mix the number of hours on a specific daySometimes the information is not displayed immediately when you check the reportsYou can improve the system with data exports, namely, convert the CSV file into an Excel file

Jose Manuel
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  • Industry: Paper & Forest Products
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

My Review

Reviewed on 01/09/2023

Overall using float was easy to adapt too and have help me visualize the audits and resources...

Overall using float was easy to adapt too and have help me visualize the audits and resources allocations in a dynamic way, with all the team members able to share without issues in the interactions.

Pros

The views that allows to see what the teammates are working on and help with allocation of resources in a dynamic environment.

Cons

The notifications for changes in the schedule is not clear on what was change.

Gabriela
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  • Industry: Public Relations & Communications
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great tool for Resource Managers

Reviewed on 24/08/2023

Float is very intuitive, so easy to implement and teach people on the team how to use it.

Float is very intuitive, so easy to implement and teach people on the team how to use it.

Pros

It was a great upgrade in terms of quickly visualizing the team's capacity and modifying tasks in real time.I also like the possibility of creating a project template because it saves me time when I add new projects.

Cons

I would like the possibility of de-zooming (or making the density more compact), because as I have a big team that would allow me to visualize the big picture of the workload of the team altogether.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A must have for all manager

Reviewed on 30/08/2023

very positive

very positive

Pros

Float makes managing a team's workload easier. I would be lost without it.

Cons

I don't have any issues with Float. Perhaps I need to explore the functionality further as currently I only use it for scheduling.

Nathan
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

An amazing overview for the whole team!

Reviewed on 23/08/2023

Pros

It's 'straight to the point' approach with giving a clear overview of how projects are performing within the agency and to give employees that overview of what they'll be working on.

Cons

A lack of a running timer for time tracking puts it at a disadvantage compared to other tools like Clockify.

Dylan
Dylan
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great for capacity management

Reviewed on 24/08/2023

Pros

Super useful for planning and capacity resource prediction and management across multiple projects and clients!

Cons

The integrations with Trello and Xero Projects leave a lot to be desired to be honest - there is no way to link existing Float projects to projects in these services

Ahmad Farhad
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Schedule Your Team at Float!

Reviewed on 13/11/2023

I really like Float, it helps me to schedule daily and weekly work for the team. I easily assign...

I really like Float, it helps me to schedule daily and weekly work for the team. I easily assign and modify tasks anywhere and anytime for both teams in-office and remote. It's a great software.

Pros

I like how easy and convenient it is to schedule work for my team, assign tasks with details and deadlines, and manage my clients' appointments.

Cons

I use it for scheduling work and appointments. So, I like the way it is.

Rose
Rose
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  • Industry: Accounting Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Makes planning ahead and setting daily tasks so easy

Reviewed on 31/08/2023

We use it daily in the office, it's easy to extend, move, or delete tasks. Anyone can use it, we...

We use it daily in the office, it's easy to extend, move, or delete tasks. Anyone can use it, we plan a month ahead with it

Pros

I like how easy it is to use and all the customization

Cons

Can't think of any downsides! It's a great software for the workplace

Patrick
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Minimal approach to project management

Reviewed on 22/08/2023

Pros

I enjoy how simple it is. Software these days can feel bloated and overwhelming and in a digital age, Float has the right balance of features and lack of, to simplify the project management process.

Cons

I wish that float had a project management feature like asana built in so we wouldn't have to use both. I prefer float!