LoadSpring vs. Wrike

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
LoadSpring
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
LoadSpring is a project management solution built specifically for IT teams.N/A
Wrike
Score 8.3 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
Wrike is a project management and collaboration software. This solution connects tasks, discussions, and emails to the user’s project plan. Wrike is optimized for agile workflows and aims to help resolve data silos, poor visibility into work status, and missed deadlines and project failures.
$0
per month per user
Pricing
LoadSpringWrike
Editions & Modules
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Wrike Free
$0
per month per user
Wrike Team
$10
per month (billed annually) per user (2-15 users)
Wrike Business
$25
per month (billed annually) per user (5-200 users)
Wrike Enterprise
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per month per user
Pinnacle
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per month per user
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LoadSpringWrike
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsEvery premium plan begins with a 14-day trial period.
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Community Pulse
LoadSpringWrike
Features
LoadSpringWrike
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
LoadSpring
7.4
Ratings
3% below category average
Wrike
8.0
Ratings
4% above category average
Task Management8.00 Ratings8.90 Ratings
Resource Management8.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Scheduling9.00 Ratings8.10 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Team Collaboration8.00 Ratings8.70 Ratings
Document Management6.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Email integration6.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Mobile Access6.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking7.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.00 Ratings7.70 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings7.40 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings8.40 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
LoadSpring
7.5
Ratings
1% below category average
Wrike
7.8
Ratings
3% above category average
Quotes/estimates8.00 Ratings8.20 Ratings
Invoicing7.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.00 Ratings7.50 Ratings
Integration with accounting software7.00 Ratings8.30 Ratings
User Ratings
LoadSpringWrike
Likelihood to Recommend
8.0
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8.7
(0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
-
(0 ratings)
8.3
(0 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.4
(0 ratings)
Availability
-
(0 ratings)
7.9
(0 ratings)
Performance
-
(0 ratings)
7.5
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(0 ratings)
7.0
(0 ratings)
In-Person Training
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Online Training
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
-
(0 ratings)
7.6
(0 ratings)
Configurability
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(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
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6.9
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
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7.8
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
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5.9
(0 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
-
(0 ratings)
9.0
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
LoadSpringWrike
Likelihood to Recommend
LoadSpring is great for managing licenses so that a user who hasn't been utilizing the software can be placed inactive so the license isn't being occupied. Managing services and applications is great. You can easily change access through the management portion of the service. Uptime is also very good.
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Negotiations often involve long timelines and multiple rounds of discussion. Wrike allows us to assign clear ownership, track due dates, and monitor progress so that nothing stalls or gets lost. Redlines, proposals, and finalized agreements can be stored and shared within Wrike, reducing reliance on scattered email chains and ensuring everyone is working from the most current version.
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Pros
  • Management of sessions.
  • Account/license management.
  • Reliability.
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  • different views to accommodate different users workflow
  • predecessors and successors to tie tasks together and adjust dates as a group
  • Being able to see other people's workloads so when I am planning my projects for the upcoming quarter, I can set a project delivery date that is better suited to workload and is more realistic
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Cons
  • Self-service account reactivation.
  • Integration of instructions on a per application level.
  • Built in linked help for companies using the software.
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  • Templating.
  • For example, let's say we are onboarding a new client. There are certain tasks that need to be done. It would be great to be able to create a new project and have certain tasks preloaded.
  • Importing.
  • Importing may seem easy, but there is so much nuance to it. The fact that you need to make sure the parent task comes before child tasks is very difficult to do without the help of AI. Also, I am not sure it is possible if you have a thousand tasks to import, to make sure that you have a folder structure and parent/child tasks.
  • I also find that the documentation is lacking and the 2 import methods lacking as well.
  • Customize my inbox. When I log into Wrike, my Inbox is the first thing I see, but this doesn't show the full picture of what I want it.
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Likelihood to Renew
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I wish that Wrike had more drag and drop functionality that would be connected to assignee and also I wish that the finish date of a task would update to the date where you checked completed. It does not do that. Also finishing a task doesn't move the start date of the next task it "protects your time in that way", but our management team wants us to quickly see what we have down the pipeline rather than having to scroll down the list of upcoming tasks.
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Usability
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I love the way task management is designed within Wrike. The full overview, followed by sequential updates, really works for us - this way, we don't need to go into individual people's work subtasks to find what's happening with a project. That's very useful from a project management perspective. The to-do feature also lets everyone access info in one place.
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Reliability and Availability
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Over two years of (almost) daily usage without outages. Don't remember any errors. I give it 9 only because some Wrike plugins (for online document edit) are based on NPAPI architecture. These types of plugins are being phased out in new browsers, and NPAPI plugins are disabled by default in recent versions of Chrome so you have to do some browser adjustments when you switch browsers or move to another computer.
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Performance
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Wrike tasks loads fine, but I hate clicking files and wait for a bit of time since it is powerpoint or word, Wrike assumes I want to open those on Wrike. My suggestion is to link it to office 365 so we do not need Wrike based decoder for PPTX and DOCX
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Support Rating
LoadSpring support is very quick to respond. They have self-service for support which is great for quick fixes on the end-user side of things. They will respond with a good solution and if they need further assistance from an administrator, and they email them so they can assist the end-user with their issue.
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We've had so many questions during the establishment of Wrike for our team, and the Wrike support team has exceeded our expectations. Our team is naturally curious, and the Wrike support team has always been willing to hold conversations about how we can make an idea work, to show us hidden features that delight us, and to help us plan ways to build out projects efficiently. They meet our questions with multiple solutions and best practices
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In-Person Training
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We had staff in person provide some training
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Online Training
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I love the Wrike training options. Wrike Discover has tons of courses, learning plans, certifications, etc. This is an area where Wrike definitely shines! I wish these resources were more in your face for new people, because it seems like a lot of coworkers didn't know all of this training was available to them.
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Implementation Rating
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There are a lot of bells and whistles in Wrike, and not all of it is easy or intuitive to understand once it's plopped in your lap. It's easier when there are a few choice people who understand Wrike as a platform and articulate it in such a way where it makes it easy to pass it along to others in the group
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Alternatives Considered
LoadSpring has a great up-time compared to our old hosting service. We haven't had many outages and very few issues while running our concurrent sessions. Automated license management has been great so our active licenses stay very low. I wasn't involved with the purchase and migration but I feel this was the better option.
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Jira did not at all help us get our work done as content creators. I think that was because Jira wasn't quite right for our uses. Wrike fits our needs so much better. I can't tell you enough the relief I felt when we adopted Wrike and I never had to use Jira again.
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Scalability
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Wrike has significantly enhanced our workflow and productivity, ensuring accuracy and efficiency meet high standards. Our work now reflects professionalism and top quality. Other departments have taken notice of how organized we are thanks to Wrike, and we take great pride in our work—all made possible by this platform
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Return on Investment
  • Great license manager.
  • Has great up-time for hosting our application.
  • Self service account management is non-existent.
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  • Wrike has improved our resource management significantly.
  • Wrike has improved the request intake process for us.
  • One negative impact of using Wrike is that we had to include Workato for some customised automations, which were not supported by Unito, but this can be on a need-to basis.
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