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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Airtable

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AAirtable is a project management and collaboration platform designed to enable content pipelines, product management, events planning, user research, and more. It combines spreadsheet,database, calendar, and kanban functionality within one platform.

    $24

    per month per seat

    Redmine

    Score6.1 out of 10
    N/ARedmine is a project management web application written using the Ruby on Rails framework. It is cross-platform and cross-database, and free to download and use as an open source project available on the GNU 2.0 license.

    $0

    per month

    Pricing
    AirtableRedmine
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $24
    per month per user
    Business
    $54
    per month per user
    Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    AirtableRedmine
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    AirtableRedmine
    Considered Both Products
    Airtable
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    Open Source
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    96%
    Would buy again
    48 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    95%
    Delivers good value for the price
    40 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    49 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    98%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    39 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    100%
    Implementation went as expected
    40 Answers
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    Features
    AirtableRedmine
    Project Management
    Comparison of Project Management features of Airtable and Redmine
    Feature
    Airtable
    7.1
    222 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Redmine
    7.7
    12 Ratings
    1% above category average
    Task Management9.0186 Ratings9.012 Ratings
    Resource Management9.0182 Ratings7.011 Ratings
    Gantt Charts8.082 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Scheduling6.0155 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Workflow Automation9.0132 Ratings5.88 Ratings
    Team Collaboration10.0205 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Support for Agile Methodology8.0101 Ratings6.910 Ratings
    Support for Waterfall Methodology8.075 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Document Management5.0159 Ratings8.010 Ratings
    Email integration7.0107 Ratings9.19 Ratings
    Mobile Access3.0181 Ratings5.59 Ratings
    Timesheet Tracking5.089 Ratings7.510 Ratings
    Change request and Case Management5.097 Ratings8.011 Ratings
    Budget and Expense Management8.0118 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Professional Services Automation
    Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Airtable and Redmine
    Feature
    Airtable
    -
    Ratings
    Redmine
    7.5
    7 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Quotes/estimates00 Ratings7.33 Ratings
    Invoicing00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
    Project & financial reporting00 Ratings7.05 Ratings
    Integration with accounting software00 Ratings7.92 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    AirtableRedmine
    Small Businesses
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Any.do
    Score8 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    KanbanFlow
    Score7.3 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Microsoft To Do
    Score9.6 out of 10
    Microsoft To Do
    Score9.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    AirtableRedmine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.9
    (226 ratings)
    9.0
    (12 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.0
    (23 ratings)
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.2
    (29 ratings)
    6.5
    (3 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    AirtableRedmine
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Airtable
    Airtable is an ideal platform for small and growing businesses to keep track of just about EVERYTHING they need to keep things running smoothly. It's a great way to keep tasks organized, and keep everyone on the same page with progress on all things. Our company finds the kanban particularly useful, as products go through a lifecycle from ideation to retirement, it's good to keep a database of what is in production, what's working, and what we've tried before. I can see the platform being challenging with much larger businesses, but for the small to medium businesses I've used the platform with, it is ideal.
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    Open Source
    Redmine is a perfect solution for businesses that are looking for a FREE and open source solution for project management. It is great for teams that are managing numerous tasks or projects at one time. Redmine is easy to set up and is fairly self-explanatory for anyone who is semi tech-savvy.
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    Pros
    Airtable
    • I can create tables, create and customize fields
    • Airtable has capabilities commonly found in spreadsheet applications, but also has some of the features found in databases.
    • The ability to filter fields. I set up a filter on the status field, so when a project is marked, complete, on hold, or canceled, that record is hidden from my current projects table view. If it is marked complete, the record is moved to the completed projects table view. In this way I can easily access a record of past projects
    • Being able to duplicate tables and create alternate views
    • Collapse and expand records. When I collapse the rows, I can easily scan current projects, next steps, project status, and due dates. When I expand the row, or field, I can see more detailed information about that field or record very easily. I can also expand or open the entire record. This is is helpful, when I am entering a lot of information to multiple fields in that record.
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    Open Source
    • Issue Tracker - Redmine allows in-depth issue tracking complete with workflows and customization.
    • Release Tracker - Redmine allows releases to be tracked by milestones, collecting relevant issues in each milestone.
    • Agile Management - With a few free or low-cost add-ons, Redmine becomes a great tool for Agile project management
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    Cons
    Airtable
    • When records are deleted, there could be more options for what happens to associated records in other tables.
    • Multi-select fields should be sortable.
    • The per-user pricing model can be cumbersome when you need to share bases with third parties but can't use a publicly accessible URL.
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    Open Source
    • The design and user-interface are a little outdated. It looks like a product that was designed ten years ago and doesn't have a polished look and feel like newer apps have.
    • It's not particularly designed to support agile-based project management methodologies such as Scrum.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Airtable
    We will 10/10 renew the use of Airtable because it has brought great value to our team. Not only is Airtable affordable, but it's also user-friendly and helps our team be efficient. We no longer need to rely on Excel spreadsheets being passed from person to person via email. Furthermore, we aren't dealing with corrupt Excel spreadsheets and the need to salvage data when a file is accidentally altered.
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    Open Source
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    Usability
    Airtable
    IMO the usability of this product is its greatest asset. The UI is clean and the menus are intuitive to the point where I'd feel confident having a non-spreadsheety colleague take on building an Airtable for the first time with next to no training. I can't say that about every table-like software product that I've used such as Notion.
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    Open Source
    Redmine is a great product to have in an organization. It's extremely flexible, costs much less to maintain than other alternatives, and as a tool, it is relatively fast to get experienced with. The primary advantages of working with Redmine are: flexible platform, API, open-source and highly configurable, stability.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Airtable
    I have rarely experience downtime, compared to other tools, and given how much time we spend on the tool. Even if there were to be, their updates on it are very timely, and our support team are able to provide any questions regarding
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    Open Source
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    Performance
    Airtable
    I never had any issues with load time, even with the integrations that we use today (google sheets) However, I'm curious if adding additional layers of integrations would slow down performance. We do carry quite a bit of data in Airtable, but, again, no impact on overall performance
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    Open Source
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    Support Rating
    Airtable
    Airtable has great support. They have a variety of support features to answer any questions. They have great self teaching instructions for templates and product tours. They also have support for teams and project management. They also have a fantastic customer help line. They are able and willing to answer customer questions and never have customers waiting long
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    Open Source
    Redmine is free, easy to use and it's everything you could want in a free project management program. The fact that it has wiki integration and that it can track on such a granular level is amazing. Assigning tasks to other users, such as our development team, is fantastic and ensures we are always up-to-date on where we are what - on what projects.
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    In-Person Training
    Airtable
    This training was done in-house, but the Airtable team provided resources and how to guides to ensure that we covered all components of the system
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    Open Source
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    Online Training
    Airtable
    Recorded trainings were provided by the Airtable team. Great as an evergreen resources to new team members and for anyone that wants to refresh their Airtable knowledge
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    Implementation Rating
    Airtable
    Training all users was an important part of the implementation, which did take considerable time and effort. At first glance without training, the content calendar can be overwhelming because of the amount of data. The features within Airtable seem to be endless but our team was able to identify the most important to be successful.
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    Open Source
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    Alternatives Considered
    Airtable
    Airtable was a really good fit for this specific use case as it provided a huge number of collaboration features in an intuitive and pleasant-to-use interface. The free tier worked initially with our work, and the upgrade pathway was fair and made sense for us.
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    Open Source
    Jira is a great project management tool for software product life cycle management for an agile environment based on agile methodologies. Jira is an intuitive and modernized user interface design compared with Redmine but Redmine is a lightweight and affordable project management and task tracking solution with its essential features and functionalities.
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    Contract Terms and Pricing Model
    Airtable
    I did not help purchase the product, but Airtable's per user pricing structure is inconvenient when some users only need occasional or read-only use.
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    Open Source
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    Scalability
    Airtable
    There are TONS of opportunity to scale, but I think it's a matter if you have the time and resources to do so because the initial setup can be fairly time consuming and prioritized dedication
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    Open Source
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    Return on Investment
    Airtable
    • It gives us a real-time experience of working.
    • Through this platform, I always have the idea bout which of my team member is working on which particular part of the project, I can easily track their progress, and also I can easily correct them where it is required by adding sticky notes, by sending the attachments and URLs.
    • Quality services.
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    Open Source
    • Customers receive updates on all progress made for their issues -- this results in an informed customer who is being given transparency on all steps of our process.
    • Customers have responded well from being able to not have to track down emails and instead come to a central place for requests.
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