About Float
Float is the world's leading resource management software for agencies, studios, and firms. Since 2012, Float has helped the world’s best teams (including Metalab, Deloitte, and Buzzfeed) plan their projects, schedule their team’s time and deliver over 10million tasks in more than 150 countries.
With an easy-to-use and intuitive interface, drag-and-drop functionality, and powerful editing tools, Float makes planning your projects and scheduling your team's time visual and straightforward. Manage your team’s availability by setting individual work hours, scheduling time off, and assigning location-based public holidays. Search your schedule for practically anything and track your team's utilization with powerful reporting tools. Forecast your budget spend and plan ahead based on your team's real capacity and resources.
Add Time Tracking to your schedule and get the full picture of your project’s progress. Compare your estimated hours with actual time worked to see whether your projects are on, under, or over budget. Log hours in a single-click against scheduled tasks, or quickly adjust your estimates and submit your actual hours worked.
Integrate your Float schedule with other applications like Teamwork, Slack, Google Calendar, Outlook, and 1,000+ of your favorite apps via Zapier. Access and update your schedule from anywhere or log hours on the go with a mobile app for iOS and Android.
By providing a single view of your real resource capacity and a shared calendar of who's working on what, Float makes team resource scheduling across multiple projects faster, easier, and more efficient.
Pricing starting from:
US$7,50/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Key benefits of Float
One shared resource schedule, always in sync - Visualize your team’s workload in one place. Drag and drop to assign tasks with ease and edit tasks on the fly with handy shortcuts. Add unassigned roles to plan ahead for future hires, and store tasks while you’re waiting to confirm resources.
Multi-project Planning - With a single view of all your resources, you can plan your team’s time across multiple projects on the go. Set budgets and target milestones to keep your projects on track and reallocate resources before it’s too late!
Team Availability - Manage your team’s availability with set work hours, public holidays, and scheduled time off. See who’s free, who’s overbooked, and who’s kicking back on vacation—all at a glance.
Forecasting & reports - Powerful reporting features so you can monitor your team’s utilization. Set project budgets based on hours or dollars and forecast your capacity to plan ahead accurately.
Time Tracking - Add time tracking to your schedule so your team can log hours in a single-click against scheduled tasks, or quickly adjust their estimates and submit their actual hours worked. It’s the fastest way to compare your estimates vs. actuals and monitor whether your projects are on, under, or over budget
Apps and integrations - Float has a mobile app for iOS and Android and integrates with Slack, Google Calendar, Outlook, Zapier, and more.
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Supported Languages
English
Pricing starting from:
US$7,50/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of Float: 114
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- Industry: Pharmaceuticals
- Company size: 1 001–5 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Unbeatable task and team manager
Reviewed on 2019/07/30
Pros
Easy, Easy, Easy! Uncluttered and extremely intuitive user interface. Basically no learning curve, even for unexperienced users. Despite its clean and tidy interface, Float is still ideal for enterprise use. It sports a very powerful team manager platform, perfect to assign and follow tasks, instantly spreading any update with team members. Automatic reports allow to keep under control time consumption.
Cons
Float run in cloud, there's no possibility to implement a self hosted solution.
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Zoho ProjectsReasons for Switching to Float
User interface cleaner and easier.- Industry: Mechanical or Industrial Engineering
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
You might manage without it, but you really shouldn't
Reviewed on 2022/06/17
Good, really helps to smooth things out by communicating the schedule to everyone concerned, easy...
Good, really helps to smooth things out by communicating the schedule to everyone concerned, easy to learn and use, support is fast and friendly.
Pros
Zapier integration, user interface/layout, ability for others to view the schedule without being a billed user, flexibility, detailed reporting function, contstant improvements and updates.
Cons
I'd like to have employee birthdays displayed on the schedule somehow, other calendars use suitable icons e.g. cake with candles. There's really nothing else important I'd ask for.
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Toggl PlanReasons for Switching to Float
Better layout and interface, does it's job of resource management very well without becoming a bloated jack of all trades master of none, easy to use, per user pricing was acceptable.Response from Float
Thanks for your review, Lewis! Great to hear that Float is keeping everyone in your team in the loop.
- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Easy Employee Management
Reviewed on 2020/02/05
Overall I quite like Float. Integration with Google has made it very easy to login which is a major...
Overall I quite like Float. Integration with Google has made it very easy to login which is a major plus compared to some competitors in this space. The simplistic nature and search, as well as the addition of new records, make it quick and easy to use.
Pros
The software provides an easy overview of all employee's day-to-day activities across the business for all locations.
This becomes especially important as our business has on-shore and off-shore resources with teams that need to work collaboratively and at capacity.
Cons
Some aspects of the software can be clunky. Despite being given access, it required a refresh on my user permissions before it worked as expected.
Simple additions like the ability to duplicate/copy events created would make it more efficient.
- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 5 001–10 000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10
Good
Reviewed on 2022/11/27
Pros
I am very satisfied to work with float . It is really programmer friendly.
Cons
I think it is enough to work with but may can also add some new features
- Industry: Design
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Great tool!
Reviewed on 2022/06/15
Overall we love to use float. We especially like the time logging features.
Overall we love to use float. We especially like the time logging features.
Pros
The interface has a great overview. Adding projects and tasks is intuitive and the colours make every tasks and project stand out. Logging time is really easy. We were not interested in a "log-per-minute" type of application but rather one where you can just log bigger blocks. Float helped us plan and log our time better.
Cons
Planning a project is not super extensive. Float has some tools but the tools are a bit limited. The time tracking feature is the feature we use the most, it is a shame that is not available separately.
Response from Float
Thanks for your review, Martijn! Excellent that Float is helping you plan and track your time better. We have some exciting new time tracking features coming soon, stay tuned!
Float FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Float.Q. What type of pricing plans does Float offer?
Float offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$7,50/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Only $6 per active user when billed annually. Guest, archived users, and projects are all unlimited!
Q. Who are the typical users of Float?
Float has the following typical customers:
11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1 000, 1 001–5 000
Q. What languages does Float support?
Float supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Float support mobile devices?
Float supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Float integrate with?
Float integrates with the following applications:
Asana, Google Calendar, Jira, Microsoft Outlook, Okta, OneLogin, QuickBooks, Slack, Teamwork, Trello, WorkflowMax, Zapier
Q. What level of support does Float offer?
Float offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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