About Hive

We help teams move faster. Hive is the world's first democratic project management platform. That means that our product is built by users, for users, via feedback on our Forum. With flexible project layouts, native email, resourcing, group messaging, and file sharing, Hive connects all aspects of your work. Join thousands of companies moving faster with Hive’s powerful project and process management software.
Hive Software - Hive Kanban project view. Hive lets you view projects in flexible layouts, including Kanban, Gantt, Calendar, Table, Label and List views. Toggle between these views with just one click.
Hive Software - Hive Action card. Detailed action cards keep track of everything related to a task. Here you can leave comments, tag other users, proof & approve documents and much more.
Hive Software - Hive Notes. Collaborate in real-time and turn text into next steps. Create meeting agendas and share them with other participants. From there everyone can type notes, assign tasks, and get to work during the meeting itself.
Hive Software - Hive Time Tracking & Resourcing. Consolidate all of your team resourcing, time tracking, timesheets, and team planning into one app. Manage team utilization across specific projects or clients by accurately allocating current and future resources.
Hive Software - Hive Goals. Set goals, visualize progress, and keep everyone aligned in one centralized dashboard.
Hive Software - Hive Workflows and Automations. Speed up your team’s repetitive, every day tasks. Build recipes to connect Hive to your most used tools across your tech stack.
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Hive Software - Hive Kanban project view. Hive lets you view projects in flexible layouts, including Kanban, Gantt, Calendar, Table, Label and List views. Toggle between these views with just one click. - thumbnail
Hive Software - Hive Action card. Detailed action cards keep track of everything related to a task. Here you can leave comments, tag other users, proof & approve documents and much more. - thumbnail
Hive Software - Hive Notes. Collaborate in real-time and turn text into next steps. Create meeting agendas and share them with other participants. From there everyone can type notes, assign tasks, and get to work during the meeting itself. - thumbnail
Hive Software - Hive Time Tracking & Resourcing. Consolidate all of your team resourcing, time tracking, timesheets, and team planning into one app. Manage team utilization across specific projects or clients by accurately allocating current and future resources. - thumbnail
Hive Software - Hive Goals. Set goals, visualize progress, and keep everyone aligned in one centralized dashboard. - thumbnail

Hive pricing

Hive has a free version and offers a free trial. Hive paid version starts at US$1.50/month.

Starting Price:
US$1.50/month
Free Version:
Yes
Free trial:
Yes

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Hive Reviews

Feature rating

Value for Money
4.4
Functionality
4.3
Ease of Use
4.4
Customer Support
4.5
5 reviews of 204 View all reviews
Frank X.
Frank X.
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
4
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
4

5
Reviewed on 28/8/2019

Truly Insightful Project Management for Agencies

Pros

The multiple team and dashboard views are a difference maker for our team, as well as the agency view which helps us anticipate and overcome potential bottlenecks.

Cons

The mobile app is not nearly as robust as the desktop version.

Alternatives Considered

Microsoft Teams and Asana

Reasons for Choosing Hive

Kept Workamajig for finance, switched to Hive for for PM.

Switched From

Workamajig

Reasons for Switching to Hive

User-experience, flexibility, & customer service.
Stephen Brent
Stephen Brent
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
4
Features
5
Ease of Use
4
Customer Support
4

4
Reviewed on 19/3/2020

The project management product we were looking for

Pros

We looked at and tested several project management options and had used several in the past. Hive was never on our radar and unfortunately isn't as well known, but we discovered it through the WeWork employee portal and gave it a try. The set up was simple, it offered flexibility in terms of how you view and sort projects. It also allowed us to add external users without paying for a seat. This was extremely important because we want our clients to have access to our project boards, but we don't need full functionality for them.

While it wasn't available when we first started using it, the addition of time tracking was a huge bonus for us as an agency, and Hive continues to impress us by adding additional features and functionality. When it comes to support, they are extremely responsive and in the rare times we have had to utilize support, issues have been resolved to satusfaction.

Cons

I wish there was a native integration with HubSpot, but we're able to get around that with Zapier.

Alternatives Considered

monday.com

Reasons for Choosing Hive

Asana did not offer pricing for less than 5 users and at the time, we only needed 2-3. We needed the additional functionality that came with the paid version but couldn't justify paying for seats that were going to go unused for an undetermined amount of time.

Switched From

Asana

Reasons for Switching to Hive

Part of the reason was that they offered a discount to companies that worked at a WeWork location, but it was also easy to set up and use during the trial period.
Matt
  • Industry: Design
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
1
Features
4
Ease of Use
1
Customer Support
5

2
Reviewed on 29/6/2024

A potentially powerful tool crippled by poor and inconsistent UI

An unmitigated horror story of misery and despair. Completely unsuitable for managing multiple complex jobs with many moving parts. A very poor piece of software for granular time management. It has lots of potentially good features but they are all so badly and confusingly designed. It could potentially be very useful and powerful but they need to completely revamp their UI design philosophy to make it easy and consistent. It feels very outdated and not well joined up.

Pros

They have a very good support team and the project gantt charts are useful.

Cons

The UI is unbelievably poorly designed with lots of inconsistencies and everything takes more clicks and time than it should. It is incredibly inaccessible for the neurodiverse because of it's poor design. It takes a long time to learn and is quite glitchy. I frequently encounter problems and it is difficult to work out whether each problem is due to a Hive glitch or a user error because of the poor UI. It's a total time sink and makes me want to quit my job.

Genshakah
  • Industry: Broadcast Media
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 13/5/2024

Quality Project Management Tool

It life changing because it has simplified tasks for me.

Pros

It has made assigning of tasks easy and management tasks simple. It has simplified our office duties.

Cons

Their is no kind of dislike that I found.

Sadie
  • Industry: Marketing & Advertising
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
  • Review Source
Value for Money
5
Features
5
Ease of Use
5
Customer Support
5

5
Reviewed on 4/9/2019

Thank you Hive for making our business run seamlessly!

Hive has made communication between our company's team easy. Now, we don't have to constantly call each other, have follow-up meetings, and walk into each other's offices. We can simply log into Hive and see who is doing what. We know when things are due and what needs to be done next. Because of Hive communication is easy so we can focus on getting jobs done for clients and getting them done on time.

Pros

Hive is ridiculously user friendly. I like most how our team can collaborate on different tasks and we all know who is doing what and when. We also know when everything is due and what is to be done next. It makes communication and completing tasks practically effortless. Now we can focus less on the lists and to-do's because of Hive; now, we have more time to focus on actually completing the tasks themselves. Because of Hive, we can get jobs completed for customers on time. I also really like the time clock feature, where we can log our hours for different tasks and clients. Plus, anytime I have questions or troubles, the Hive customer support team is right there, ready to help. I can't rave about Hive enough.

Cons

I honestly have nothing that I least like about this software. It's an amazing product that myself and our company uses every day.

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