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Allo

Score8.4 out of 10

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What is Allo?

Allo is a remote workspace made for asynchronous communication and remote teams. With interactive and visual spaces, teams are able to collaborate around, strategy, design, proposals, initiatives, and processes. This is done with Allo's interactive spaces.

Allo includes:

  • Creating interactive documents consisting of images, graphics, diagrams, text, and video
  • Previewing documents and PDF's
  • Previewing Microsoft Office documents
  • Editing Google Suite documents
  • Previewing iWork documents
  • @ mentioning your colleagues and text chatting in-context
  • Managing multiple workspaces (Keep your private projects, private)
  • Inviting guests for one time engagements

Categories & Use Cases

Key Features

Learn about the best (and worst!) features Allo has to offer, as determined by TrustRadius' reviewers.
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Top Performing Features

  • Mobile Access

    Mobile access is the ability to access the software from a smartphone or tablet.

    Category average: 8.2

  • Audio files

    Supports audio file types, such as .mp3, .mp4, and .wav

    Category average: 7.8

  • Document collaboration

    Users can edit files and attach comments to files.

    Category average: 7.7

Areas for Improvement

  • Search

    Users can search for related materials across files, discussions threads, schedules, etc. using project keywords or tags.

    Category average: 7.4

  • Advanced security features

    Includes advanced security features such as file encryption or remote data wipe.

    Category average: 8

  • Notifications

    Users can follow other users and/or join specific projects, electing to receive notifications when there are changes and updates.

    Category average: 8.2

Reviews

What users are saying about Allo.
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Beautiful whiteboard for teams

Incentivized
Michał A. NowakowskiView profile
Dyrektor in Professional Services at Centrum Języków Obcych EFFEKT (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We needed a simple yet powerful tool to bring all of our teachers on the same page. I took interest in Allo when I saw its Daily Standup template and I thought it is a great solution for our online Weekly Huddle meetings. Some of our teachers are experts at using modern technology but some just get by. However, all of them understand one thing: the whiteboard. Allo enables us to use the familiarity of this centerpiece of the classroom to present ideas, challenges, and problems in an intuitive and digital way.

Pros

  • team's report at Weekly Huddle
  • designing new teaching aids
  • collaboration on writing textbooks

Cons

  • more views for projects
  • more templates
  • task management options inside a canvas (deadlines, recurring etc)

Return on Investment

  • it improved clarity regarding our teams goals

Alternatives Considered

Infinity and Miro

Other Software Used

Infinity, Google Calendar, Readdle Spark, Zoom, 1Password, Apple Keynote

A visually appealing and helpful visual collaboration tool!

Incentivized
Christopher F. ArnoldView profile
President & Founder at NAMI TENTOU (1-10 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are constantly sharing documents on Slack and it's becoming a huge issue to keep it all organized per project. We make use of Allo to make boards for each project now and then upload all of our documents there. It keeps things organized and clean and much easier to pull out what we need at a moment's notice.

Pros

  • Ease of us
  • Visually appealing
  • Clean design

Cons

  • A lower cost
  • Customizations for companies
  • Easier management of multiple users

Return on Investment

  • Helped organize our team
  • Still easy to navigate documents after 1000s have been uploaded
  • Relaxing to work with

Great tool for team collaboration

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The use of visual tools like diagrams and drawings make it easy to create a context-rich collaboration environment that can overcome distance and cross-team collaboration problems. A great tool to use in today's ever growing remote workplace

Pros

  • The user interface is very user friendly
  • The features provided allow for a wide variety of ways for teams to collaborate on projects together.
  • customer support is incredibly responsive and fast to address any questions or concerns.

Cons

  • could introduce more features down the line to improve the service
  • offer more templates for a user to be able to use
  • offline functionality could be improved. Tends to be slow.

Return on Investment

  • helps improve and maintain productivity
  • The windows app keeps the cpu very busy so can slow other application
  • team collaboration has been improved since using this program

Alternatives Considered

Miro

Other Software Used

Lucidchart, monday.com, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

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