Coda Reviews & Product Details

For a small company, CODA is a very flexible tool for accounting and analyzing data, automating business processes. Easy enough to learn with no programming experience. With programming experience, you can do fantastic things. Of course, there are pitfalls, but the project is developing and this gives hope.

Not yet very friendly tools for printing documents or converting them to *.PDF (but they are there). At times updates break the familiar look and feel of documents without warning. Solvable, but not pleasant.

Business process automation for a small manufacturing company: accounting and management of orders, bill of materials, production cycles, sales and shipments.Without increasing management we manage more complex tasks

Coda is the most promising platform in the market for all things tracking, note-taking, project management, knowledge base and much more.

The only thing currently missing from Coda in my opinion are quick native ways to capture information, such as a fast Android widget.

Team dashboard, project management, task aggregator, knowledge base, information capture and much more.

I love that not only can you link to other pages internally, Coda works with several tools like ClickUp.

I know there aren't any intentions of creating a desktop app, the Chrome shortcut closes fully when you try to close the window. It reloads and starts from the top each time it's opened and I forget where I was.

It's helping me manage projects and our production calendar.

No matter what items are part of your docs, if it's text, graphics, links, videos, tables - there is no better platform out there at the moment to integrate it all. Plus, the Coda online app looks as if I paid a developer 100 Grand to finish it for me. Great work, Team CODA!

I wish there was a way to have the doc search function on the mobile app. That's really a drawback. Besides that, I'd consider adding the option for custom domains, and custom SEO (like the link thumbnail when posted on social media. A payment gateway for monetizing docs would also be a fantastic idea!

It's an easy way to create complex structures of pages with submenus without needing to be a programmer. The ability to connect pages via cards is very useful, all links are dynamic, so even if I change a page's name it's not messing up the link. It's those little details that make Coda great!

The ability to communicate a significant amount of information effectively using multiple formats.

It takes a bit of time for new features to come out.

The central problem is making the spreadsheet a helpful communication tool.

The formulas allow me to do just about anything I can imagine. Not just sums and averages, either. You can display information, even make your own charts from scratch, or set an item's value based on its distant parents' values.

A doc can get pretty slow if you have a lot of data plus a lot of formulas. There are ways to make your formulas more efficient, but I am not advanced enough to know that stuff.

Spreadsheets are too stiff and stale. But apps are too opinionated, unintentionally forcing a certain methodology by their very structure (eg, there are projects and tasks and that's it). But Coda allows you to make your own structure (eg, projects, tasks, questions, issues, anything you want). Other apps have a due date field. But you can make any number of date fields if you want (eg, due, start after, started on, try to get done before, hard due date, actually completed on, review again at). It's things like that that make Coda stand out. Infinite personalization is what I've needed, and Coda is the first to provide it for me.

As a NoCoder, I need to be able to create docs to share with people that contain data-rich blocks of content. But, rather than having to copy and paste static data into my docs, with Coda I can sync my incoming data from external data sources using Coda Packs. This makes building a doc more like building an app full of essential features! I have even created my own Coda Pack, so now I know how to sync data from ANY data source, even one of my own databases.

Mine is a specific use case but learning Packs has not been easy. I'd like to see more examples of simpler Pack blocks that walk through Pack features one at a time to build up my knowledge slowly. I felt like I was thrown a little bit in the deep end. Still, I got there in the end, and now I'm a Pack Builder!

Coda is more than a doc builder which is where I was struggling with Coda's competitors i.e. they are not data-aware and sophisticated enough for my needs. Coda is solving that for me by treating data as a first-class citizen and not just a table of content. This means that I can now build up detailed docs which also includes the insertion of dynamic data (think data like stock market values, for example), which I can present as a table, a chart, or in various other ways.

I love the tables and that you can create several different views.

Honestly I haven't found anything that I dislike.

It's helping me with a video editing workflow, tracking inventory, and keeping me on track to reach my goals. I'm definitely more productive.

Coda's usability and flexibility has allowed me to create solutions for just about any problem or system I've encountered. With a continuing drive for improvement, Coda is frequently adding value and features I didn't know I needed, but always find useful.

Coda lacks a few integrations that I've seen other document solutions have, and a few are behind a higher paywall than what an individual would be using. When it comes to a mobile experience, Coda is lacking functionality that I want. There is little in the way of creating new documents or pages. Editing works fine, but it's not a full solution.

I'm solving all my problems with Coda: As a software developer, I'm using Coda to project plan and track progress. As a dad, I'm using Coda to keep track of important information for my family. As a disc golfer, I'm using Coda to organize a team for a disc golf company. Every area in my life that needs organization, Coda is capable of handling all I need to solve.

Coda is so flexible and intuitive. We looked into so many different platforms and programs for project management, team collaboration, and CRM. Coda hits all the marks; the best part is that we can do WHATEVER we want with it. Coda is essentially a beautiful and fun toolbox. I have zero background in databases, coding, or even excel, and I have loved my experience building with it. I've learned so much, and our process has completely changed our company and workflow.

Coda is a blank slate which is fantastic — and intimidating! It takes a while to build in but once you do, you have a custom platform that can grow and evolve with you. Coda offers so much support (including a free bootcamp!) that ease that blank slate feeling.

Coda is a CRM, project managment tool, task-list, email platform, and creative document for my team. It allows us to seamlessly work together and collborate more than ever before.

Coda is very easy to use and full of functionality. I love the ease with which I can get a helpful document started. So many templates and examples.

Coda needs to implement an easy single click to get back to my base area. Hate hitting the back button or back arrows.

Been trying to use Google Docs and Teams and while they have different functionality, the formatting in Coda gets me useful documents easy to act on.

Very easy to get started, very useful at any level of expertise

Documentation could be better for people that want to use all the possibilities Coda offers, but who are not per users yet.

Coda allows me to alter my doc/app and at the same time continue to use it to run business. That is pretty unique!

you can create List of objects and link them together, you can also create formulas, it's like Excel on steroids

I wish you had more choice when formatting pages

I use Coda to centralize my personal database. My music, my movies, my tasks and many other things. Having a central web app for all that is very useful

I have convinced/forced all my colleagues to use Coda. Its a great way to combine the benefits of google docs, sheets, drive and calendar in one place. Its a great way to create internal onboarding/workplanning documents as well as external trainings and information guides. I love all the integrations, filters and meeting templates!

I wish editing documents was as seamless as google docs. Track changes would be nice. But other than that I have no complaints!

Coda is an everything in one platform. I no longer have to use google docs, asana, a calendar etc. Its a great place to add all links in one place to find for later as well

Great tools, decent pricing, loads of options to help me in my daily work.

The integration to external platforms could be better.

Organizing many data points in various ways, which helps to keep my daily task list organized, making my work more efficient.

The best thing is how flexible it is - and there are heaps of useful templates you can copy to get started. The formulas are great. But you have to learn them. I've built systems for product feedback which have been very powerful.

It can be hard to learn. The structure of docs, pages <> tables, can confuse peers using docs you have set up. BUT, you can still create report pages that are simple to use. That's the tradeoff - using the 'view only' views with buttons is simple for others to use, but if they need to edit or create their own docs, that can prove challenging.

It's letting me capture structured data, and gives me power over manipulating the data. Finally, it lets me create reporting views for other colleagues.

It empowers non coders to build very useful documents to automate workflows/business operations. I also like the fact that document editors and users are free.

For some people, it is hard to wrap their heads around it.

I can use docs(Project Management, CRMs) other users create, and I don't have to pay for the users of my docs.

Wide and deep functionality creation options. Takes a while to build a full system inside of it, but it's absolutely worth it for the customization offered.

Some simple tasks, like copying rows or even tables from Coda to Spreadsheets needs to be made easier.

It solves for information chaos and resource location chaos.

Being admit to formulate and automate tasks.

Steep learning curve makes it difficult to handover doc adjustments.

Byilding simple apps to track daily tasks, analyse databases, manage marketing.

Coda bridges the gap between words and numbers by combining documents and spreadsheets, which is very cool. Coda goes on to implement the spreadsheet as a database, with all the advantages that that brings. Add in a powerful formula language and a pinch of web publishing, and you have everything you need to manage all your dynamic, structured documentation requirements.

The formula language is not intuitive (and somewhat different to the Excel philosophy). The learning curve is somewhat steep but well worthwhile. I missed the ability to document tables, columns and formulas in situ, which would facilitate transparency.

Coda gives me hybrid, collaborative docs, allowing me to mix text and numbers with advanced formulas and automations to create wonderfully valuable applications. I love the no-nonsense approach to formatting. Text is large or small, serif or san serif. Colour highlighting is limited etc. etc. This allows me to focus on the job at hand and coda to deliver an excellent responsive experience across devices.