Collaborative project workspace & task management for teams
4.5/5 (68 reviews)Ora is a collaborative, all-in-one project workspace and task management app for teams, with kanban, time tracking, chat, reporting, and third party integration.
Ora is a task management solution for teams of any size looking to track tasks or time on projects. Tasks can be created and assigned to team members for completion, with progress tracked on a timeline. Ora's feature set makes it a popular tool with software/product development teams, marketing teams, design teams, editorial teams, freelancers, and startups. Tasks and projects can be customized to users' needs, and viewed in Ora in a variety of ways. Features can be toggled on and off depending on the simplicity or complexity of the project or users' needs.
Ora is well integrated with a number of third party applications including Slack, JIRA, Asana, Basecamp, and Trello. Desktop and mobile apps are under development.
Pros
It has plenty of features and continuous updates to keep it stable, making it suitable for a number of applications. The UI is really nice, several reports are available and you can track the time spent on each card
Cons
Sometimes I experienced an unexpected behaviour on Microsoft Edge, so I switched to another browser
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).
Organization and time tracking!
Pros
I signed up for ora before it was released because I was trying to find something to keep me organized, keep track of time working on the various projects I have going on, and eventually collaborate with others on certain projects. I have used a lot of todo, time tracking, project management etc and some are great, some are horrible, and some are really good but are missing a piece. Basecamp for example is great. I love it for keeping everyone on the same page but it doesn't do the time tracking I wanted.
The people at Ora seem to have gone through all the software I did and came to the same conclusion, close but not quite there. I started using it for a single project and am very happy with the deceptively simple platform. At first glance it looks like a clone of Trello, but hey, whats that on the end of this task? A time tracking button! What happens when you double click the list item? Notes, due dates, estimated completion time/goal, an audit trail of every interaction with the task and by whom, and several other useful options.
While it may lack a little polish in the looks department at the moment, its pretty close and I'm very happy with it so far. Can't wait to see the polished up version!
Cons
The appearance could use a little more work. I love minimalism but it just needs a little more work with typography and overall look. Not being able to pick a custom background color without having a premium account is a little lame...
Haven't really noticed any cons besides that.
I have a small business with a lot of projects and it's difficult to be able to manage them and don't feel overwhelmed. On top of that, it's also difficult to know how much time every one of us spent on tasks and compare that with an estimate. We've tried so far Trello, Asana, Clickup, Freedcamp (premium), Timelinr and GitScrum.
The free tier of Asana was the best for us out of all apps mentioned above, but it lacked the time tracking, the timeline feature and you just can't plan your day or week in Asana when you have many projects with a lot of tasks. We could have time tracking and timelines in Asana if we would pay for the Premium tier, but they just don't offer subscriptions for teams with less than 5 people.
So when I've started testing Ora, suddenly I've got the impression that almost all my dreams about a project management tool became true. It's got almost everything I need, works very well, and I can afford the cost of using it.
Pros
It's easy to create projects and tasks
Interchangeable List and Kanban view
Timeline view
The time estimating and tracking are awesomely implemented, it's a breeze to use them
You can plan your week or day using the Agenda feature
The interface is clean and nice
The app works smooth
There are apps for Mac and Windows
Cons
The speed of creating multiple tasks by pasting from a document in good, but could be better
I would like to have to ability to apply multiple filters on the list of tasks in Agenda view and Reports
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.
Ora Basic (up to 3 users): Free
A 50% discount is offered to educational institutions and non-profit organizations.
Ora provides one, unified solution for task management and team communication. It has kanban, list view, time tracking and many more features.
Below are some frequently asked questions for Ora.
Ora offers the following pricing plans:
Starting from: USD 6.00/month
Pricing model: Free, Subscription
Free Trial: Available
Ora Basic (up to 3 users): Free
A 50% discount is offered to educational institutions and non-profit organizations.
Ora offers the following features:
Ora has the following typical customers:
Freelancers, Mid Size Business, Non Profit, Small Business
Ora supports the following languages:
English
Ora has the following pricing plans:
Free, Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices Ora supports
Ora integrates with the following applications:
Asana, Basecamp, GitHub, JIRA Software, Slack, Trello
Ora offers the following support options:
Online Support, Phone Support
We use ora as a Kanban board to monitor our processes and also as a mean to measure the time spent for specific tasks.