Useful task management tool with mediocre chat and barebones time tracking
What do you like best?
Task management visualization is a breeze. Switching between task list views like swimlane, kanban, and calendar are very smooth. The ability to drag and drop projects on a calendar view makes task management very visual and easy to use.
What do you dislike?
Private chat is clunky. It's fixed positioning on the screen makes it hard to use. On project discussion pages, read receipts are unreliable (and create a high pressure work environment).
The real problem however is the timekeeping. Even admins cannot log time retroactively. Time logs don't have note/comment sections. It's simply not possible to annotate/meaningfully edit time logs.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If price is a consideration, Nifty is a serious contender to any industry leader out there. It's very affordable with loads of features, and integrates nearly everything we would expect from a project management tool. While some of the features are clunkier (like chat) or sometimes seriously underdeveloped (timekeeping), we have not found a single feature Nifty is entirely missing that we expected it to cover.
What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized?
We are a marketing agency and we were looking for a one-stop-shop to combine team chat-project management-timekeeping, and reduce screen clutter along with SaaS cost. We moved away from one of the industry leaders in PM management, especially because Nifty's chat feature looked more appealing and the previous tool had failed at replacing our separate team chat service.
After an initial test period, the chat feature failed to stick. Still, the task management portion has been very helpful, and a clean start helped reorganize all our projects with the useful features of Nifty.