Ora

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Collaborative project workspace & task management for teams

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Lisandro
Lisandro
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Ora has boosted our productivity!

Reviewed on 2021/02/12

Ora has definitely boosted our productivity: being able to "portray" all our ideas and organize...

Ora has definitely boosted our productivity: being able to "portray" all our ideas and organize them in beautiful cards is amazing. Everybody in the company knows what to do just by looking at their assigned tasks, cards, or checklist. The cards can be easily moved from "doing" to "done" in brief.

Pros

We have been using Ora for more than a year now. It has helped us to achieve our goals and meet our deadlines. Ora has been easy to use for everybody in the company. One of our favorite features is time tracking: we used to use different software to track the time it took to finish certain tasks but not anymore. Having a timer right there inside the cards is awesome.

Cons

One of the few things I dislike about Ora is the Projects tab organization. I got frustrated trying to take out a couple of projects that were mysteriously put inside an "Archived" folder. Moving the Projects from an Organization to another or even moving them inside the Organization itself is really frustrating. I wish it could be done by just dragging and dropping.

Philip
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

The Swiss Army Knife Of Project Management

Reviewed on 2024/04/10

These are the kinds of project management techniques that enabled me to generate revenue for my...

These are the kinds of project management techniques that enabled me to generate revenue for my clients and myself.

“Finally, they're expressed in a systematic, easy-to-understand, easy-to-use way.

Pros

As more and more projects seem to pile up all around us, an upgrade to our thinking and problem solving skills is desperately needed.

Enter Ora, the Swiss Army knife of project management techniques.

Cons

I've been using Ora- at work, and now for personal use - and it does not have any disadvantage, I'd be interested to know if it has any more advantages over other PM software

Alternatives Considered

Jira and Asana

Reasons for Switching to Ora

Ease of use, packed with wonderful features, you can put to work immediately at home or at the office.
Eric
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Exactly what I needed

Reviewed on 2019/03/15

Pros

I knew this was going to be a really good software the minute I signed up, there onboarding process was so good. It leaves you with such a good first impressions.

It's like if Asana + Trello had a baby because you get all the paid features that Asana and Trello offers.

What really sold me on this was that that I could have a proper scrum board for for me and my team in software development.

This software worked so well, I created a marketing board, software board, editorial, business canvas and then I started creating boards to manage my entire personal life.

Lastly, as an entrepreneur, there's an agenda view. This will pull all your tasks across all your boards even personal and organization into a daily task list. This is so amazing because you can manage your every day tasks all in one view.

Cons

The software is very buggy.
It's new software.
Seems like there is a lot of features for a very small team so there is sporadic UI bugs that happen all over the place.

Timothy
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  • Industry: Architecture & Planning
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Ora is great App overall

Reviewed on 2024/04/09

Experience has been great overall. Despite the fact the company I work for did not adopt it, I...

Experience has been great overall. Despite the fact the company I work for did not adopt it, I still use it for my own personal use for task tracking.

Pros

The task manager is great. I found it easy to keep track of what needs to happen and when. The feature that attracted me to Ora was the time tracker and reporting system as well.
The interface is superb. I'm glad they updated the calendar view to allow one to schedule tasks in a similar way that a calendar works.

Cons

The ability to apply templates is not as intuitive or easy to use.
It's 100% based on the internet and has no offline options. Making it dependent on internet connection all the time.
An easy way to note information and memo's (web clips and notes about an item or task) is not as intuitive or easy. Like making minutes from a meeting etc
Ability to create hierarchy of information that different people would be able to view was not possible from the limited information I knew about the software.

Koen
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Finally something that is easy

Reviewed on 2024/05/03

Pros

I tried several times to get going with ClickUp, but you need a university degree to get that going.
Ora is so easy to setup and use that you get going in mere minutes, not hours like with ClickUp

Cons

There's nothing that I don't like. It does everything I need it to do for me, my team and my clients.

Alain
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Student review

Reviewed on 2019/05/06

Great

Great

Pros

This a good alternative to Jira, and like it way more than Trello

Cons

It is not rare to have a few problems like null pointers or stuff like that in the code and jeopardize the work.
Also, the time tracking system is create, but the view to add an entry is T E R R I B L E, sorry for that :P but as the Mac calendar for example, it would be better to let the user and the values before changing the others back and forth and just give a feedback if the "form" is valid and also, if you want to fix something, usually, the end of the tracking time should be right now as we will enter a task we just completed (Like when changing the time with the slider).

Alternatives Considered

Jira and YouTrack

Reasons for Switching to Ora

School wasn't ok with Jira (as the head "teacher" estimated it was too much, even when they offered it for free for educational purpose) and for YouTrack, didn't have a good idea of the tool and its interface is also way less "friendly/sexy" as Ora
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

This is the best PM tool I've used!!

Reviewed on 2019/07/23

Pros

It allows me to sync tasks to my calendar. There are lots of different settings and features that I can turn on like time tracking and creating milestones that are super helpful. It keeps me organized and I LOVE IT!

Cons

I think the only thing I could consider a con is that they don't have a mobile app available yet, but it's in the works.

Ivan
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  • Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Ivans Ora-pinion on Ora

Reviewed on 2024/04/04

Amazing, makes life so much easier for tracking work hours and projects.

Amazing, makes life so much easier for tracking work hours and projects.

Pros

The fact that it is very intuitive, and super organized.

Cons

a little bit of the layout, took a second to get used to. but after that its really nice.

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

The best project management, collaboration, and communication app!

Reviewed on 2024/04/16

Pros

I like the flexibility in customizing the layout, ease of access to various parts of the app including group chat, task creation and assignment, time tracking, scheduling and reporting. It's like having zoom, band camp, trello, slack, Monday, and others all wrapped into one powerful app.

Cons

There was a commitment to adding invoicing functionality that has not yet been realized.

Elden Jean
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

My honest review

Reviewed on 2024/04/04

Pros

It is pretty easy to navigate. The interface is quite nice.

Cons

I guess it's not fully developed yet.There has been several bugs this past few months. I has been causing problems with our work.

Joshua
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  • Industry: Accounting
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Long Time User!

Reviewed on 2024/04/11

Pros

I've been a user of Ora since 2018 and have tried nearly every project management tool on the market. Ora's pricing, feature set and customization is the best, bar none.

Cons

While Ora devs have been great at releasing stable and robust features for Web and Desktop, the mobile applications are lacking. Two-way calendar synchronization with Outlook and time blocking capabilities are also another area that Ora is lacking.

Lucas
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  • Industry: Alternative Medicine
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Or a largely serves as our procedure manual and project management

Reviewed on 2024/04/17

Pros

Ability to slide tasks or items to different columns, and customize what happens when completed items are checked

Cons

When the column get very full, it becomes more difficult to scroll across the screen to see columns that are not visible. This became much easier when we learned how to subsection everything appropriately.

Imran
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Veey pleased

Reviewed on 2024/04/09

Pros

Simple to use - easy to assign tasks to members

Cons

none really - very pleased with it so no complaints

ZhiMin
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Good tracking tools

Reviewed on 2024/03/04

One of my friends strongly recommend me to use Ora for project management.
It works well as a team...

One of my friends strongly recommend me to use Ora for project management.
It works well as a team working on one project.
However, it doesn't work well with my personal project.
While I'm planning my project, it helps me mentally organizing my tasks, but in real life, I use rarely to track the progress of my work. I use mostly ical to plan my task. So if the app link to ical, it'll be prefect.

Pros

1. Organize project
2. Help setting up the goal and reminder
3. Help tracking the progress
4. document all progress including the finished task, you can always go back to read your notes.

Cons

1. lacking of flexibilities
2. wish the app can link to ical or google calendar or notification for reminding

Jefferson
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  • Industry: Security & Investigations
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Goof for me

Reviewed on 2024/04/18

Pros

Efficient management based on task governanceManagement eficciently from governance of tasks

Cons

a little difficult to manage the tasks that go to the archived

Miguel
Miguel
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  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A nice project management platform with an entire communication hub inside.

Reviewed on 2022/10/17

I have used Ora for very specific projects, but the team involved found it not so intuitive at the...

I have used Ora for very specific projects, but the team involved found it not so intuitive at the beginning and it has been hard to get keep them logging on to the platform. I used other platforms for different projects with more complex requirements. However, teams looking to manage simple projects could totally take advantage of Ora

Pros

-Videocalls and audio and audio recordings with one click from any task.
-Annotations on files or videos, this is incredibly useful if you are doing something related to marketing, web design, graphic design, and work where you need clients commenting and giving feedback on specific sections.
-The colors and the design.

Cons

-Learning curve
-It has been buggy several times (issues with the tasks)

Rodrigo
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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 10.0 /10

A project manager that does what you need and does it well

Reviewed on 2020/06/09

Ora is an outstanding Project Management product. Far from being a multi-tool solution, it focuses...

Ora is an outstanding Project Management product. Far from being a multi-tool solution, it focuses on a small set of futures and performs extremely well. Its snappy and minimal interface stays out of the way letting teams get work done. There’s even a desktop app for Mac, Windows and Linux. I highly recommend giving it a try.

Pros

A beautiful, clean-looking app. Focused on doing the crucial duty of a project management system with a lot of competence and very little of those bloating unproductive features.

You start at Ora by creating your first project. While most applications will lock you on a specific framework — like Kanban boards or task lists — Ora offers a whole set of templates, pre-adjusted for diverse scenarios. Those could be an event, an issue tracker, a full-fledged Scrum layout, a simple to-do list and more. Advanced users may start with a blank canvas and design their perfect environment.

Cons

Comments inside tasks are sorted from the oldest to the newest. Some threads can get long end scrolling down to what you need to see ends up taking more time than necessary. The ability to reverse that and have the sorting as a personal preference would be wonderful.

Ora doesn’t have an iOS app yet. The app has been on the company’s roadmap for a while and a beta is already out there. This doesn’t affect me much since most of my work is done while I am on my main computer, but I am sure lots of people out there could benefit from the mobile experience.

I don’t mind using the mobile web version of anything when the functionality is not compromised. It’s not the case here. Ora on the mobile browser does not provide the same seamless experience you get on the desktop version.

Iliyan
Iliyan
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Intuitive Trello on steroids - powerful as Jira simple to use as Trello

Reviewed on 2019/11/30

Flawless, intuitive and the best value for money in the market. I've used to work with Jira and...

Flawless, intuitive and the best value for money in the market. I've used to work with Jira and Trello in the past but our team was totally reborned after switching to Ora!

Pros

The design and UX are flawless while combining everything a software & product development team needs for a managing own projects and working with clients. What I love most about is the simple Time-Tracking (play/pause) and the detail reports that you can deliver to clients in minutes...

Cons

There's some functionality that I don't use but still can access from the board - the Agenda Scheduling & Time-line. It may be good for handling longer projects and resource manager but I personally don't need it.

Lincoln
Lincoln
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  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

We use Ora to keep tracking on what we work on. We charge clients based on it, so its very...

Reviewed on 2018/06/11

Organization and time tracking is the main function of Ora.
Jobs and tasks can be organized in...

Organization and time tracking is the main function of Ora.
Jobs and tasks can be organized in Kanban cards for teams, is perfect! The basic functionality already worth the tool, but there are much more, like checklists, milestones, etc.

Pros

Ora has a beautiful interface and the team keep updating this tool always! Sometimes I can see an alert telling me about somenthing new! Kanban/cards organization is really useful and helps to keep the project flow. I love the 'checklist' option inside one task, it helps a lot!

Cons

The functionality of adding extra time is a little bit confused and buggy, but I guess it's already on their roadmap! :)

Raul
Raul
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  • Industry: Retail
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

The first Project Management Tool that I do really use (and enjoy using)

Reviewed on 2019/05/20

Over the past 5 years I have tried around 7 different project management tools. Both for me and for...

Over the past 5 years I have tried around 7 different project management tools. Both for me and for the team. But none did really work of us. Sometimes where difficult to use open source solutions, other times they were expensive for the value that they gave us, and only with trello and asana had good results. but they end up forgotten. I think this time the time tracking and the beautiful design has helped.

Pros

I like the design of the tool, how user friendly it is and the many features that it has for example the time tracking, reports, team chat, etc and the one that are being developed. It is very easy to use, there are already done easy templates. I personally like the dark mode that has, also it ads sound and animation to the time tracking when changing the cards from column to column. That makes that the project becomes more like a game.

Cons

Of course, what I like the less it is that it is a paid app. I mean, trello and asana have free versions. Anycase if it is tool that you use daily to handle a project or your complete work, the cost is quite reasonable.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: E-Learning
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Ora - Project & task management made simple!

Reviewed on 2020/02/26

A pleasant experience. Setting up different team members was a breeze and required minimal...

A pleasant experience. Setting up different team members was a breeze and required minimal workarounds.

Pros

Ora removes all the things you hate about project management and task management. Regardless of your team size and their different roles, Ora makes management a breeze. Setup and remove tasks easily, change who is assigned what and more with just mere clicks!

Cons

Wish it had a mobile app like other tools in this field. So you can use it on the go.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

A good product but...

Reviewed on 2022/08/22

Overall, I would say this is an excellent product, but I think it still needs a little tuning! The...

Overall, I would say this is an excellent product, but I think it still needs a little tuning! The reason that made me stop using it was that I found another app with more features that I needed, but I would still recommend Ora!

Pros

It's super easy to use and to understand while setting it up. The software look clean and was fun to use every day!

Cons

I used it every day to help me manage my daily task, but there were a couple of times when I couldn't use the software because it wouldn't charge, nothing work.. that was enough for me to start using another app.

Alternatives Considered

Plutio, Nifty and Asana
Harry
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  • Industry: Management Consulting
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best Project Management Software and getting better

Reviewed on 2019/10/01

This is a continual learning process for me. Prior to this, I used to-do programs for project tasks...

This is a continual learning process for me. Prior to this, I used to-do programs for project tasks and it wasn't effective at all. Ora brings it all together is a project management tool, versus just to-do lists. There's a lot to learn and I need to spend the time to learn all of its features. I still use Microsoft project for Work Breakdown Structures (Gantt chart) but that's about it. Otherwise, I'm using Ora to manage my projects.

Pros

this software has all the features and functionality needed for project management. They recently added a timeline feature which is helpful. The best feature for me is the time tracking. I can track time easily for each task and project. It has many configurations and I'm in the process of creating templates to reuse for similar projects which will be extremely helpful.

Cons

Navigation or ease of use. It's not exactly intuitive to use. I spent a bit of time learning how to find the functionality that I need. It's there, I just have to search for it.

Axel
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  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Ora "All you need"

Reviewed on 2021/02/11

Pros

Super easy, fully adoptable, intuitive design, sooooo helpful to organize all our projects

Cons

the missing app which is now avialble!!!

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

ORA, easy task & project management

Reviewed on 2022/06/17

So far we are happy with our choice. When we have questions it is appreciated that we can drop them...

So far we are happy with our choice. When we have questions it is appreciated that we can drop them from within the software.

Pros

I was lucky to find ORA on appsumo for a one-time fee. I was using Trello

Cons

Not really unhappy about anything, maybe the design/ view of the project folders.