IFTTT Information Reviews & Insights

Score6.7 out of 10

54 Reviews and Ratings

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TrustRadius Insights for IFTTT are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.

Business Problems Solved

IFTTT has proven to be a valuable tool for many users, helping them streamline routine processes and automate tasks to improve efficiency and save time. Users from various sectors, including youth ministry, nonprofit organizations, and businesses, have found it particularly useful for coordinating multiple apps and automating posts between different social media platforms. By connecting social media with off-site platforms, IFTTT enables automated publishing of content, making it easier for organizations to reach their target audience effectively.

Individuals within organizations also benefit from IFTTT by using it for personal tasks such as tracking work hours and syncing social media platforms for marketing campaigns. Marketers find IFTTT helpful in maximizing social media impact through automation, social listening, competitive intelligence, reminders, and updates. It allows them to manage social marketing campaigns across multiple platforms seamlessly.

Clients have reported increased productivity with the help of IFTTT, using it to natively post on multiple social channels and back up posts. With features like tracking worked hours and setting up automated reminders and alerts, users can stay organized and ensure important tasks are not overlooked.

Furthermore, IFTTT proves its value in improving efficiency by automating data input into other systems, reducing the need for manual cross-referencing. It also facilitates communication between automation and IoT devices, providing a flexible foundation for integration.

Users appreciate IFTTT's library of integrated systems that allow them to connect different platforms and fill in gaps in their existing software solutions. With its automation capabilities, IFTTT becomes an excellent tool to orchestrate workflows across different SaaS products while maintaining a user-friendly experience.

Social media strategists utilize IFTTT for social media automation purposes such as automatically posting Instagram content to platforms like Pinterest or Tumblr. Monitoring website changes is another use case where users rely on IFTTT to promptly notify clients about any modifications made.

Overall, whether it's automating routine tasks or connecting various systems together, IFTTT offers an array of use cases that cater to different user needs. The ability to leverage existing recipes and build custom solutions makes IFTTT a valuable tool for enhancing productivity and efficiency.

IFTTT Reviews

5 Reviews

InformationComputer Software3Publishing1Online Media1

Automates your life

Rating: 9 out of 10

Incentivized

November 17, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IFTTT is used by our marketing department to automate certain marketing and business processes. For example, every time a live webinar concludes and the recording is available to be posted, a reminder is sent to the person whose job it is to post the recording in our membership area. Other uses include posting new blog posts automatically to several social media channels when appropriate.

Pros

Once you set it up you can pretty much forget about it. If there is an issue with one of the rules, they will send you an email to let you know.
IFTTT connects pretty much all the apps that you need connected.
Whenever I come across a step that should need no human action, I try to set it up with IFTTT first.

Cons

At first it is hard to learn the "language" of IFTTT but once you get the concept, it is easy to set up rules that will automate your business.
There are many superfluous sample rules that are show cased that will make you wonder, Why would anybody want that? But the idea is to give you a picture of endless possibilities.

Likelihood to Recommend

Any situation that is well defined, IFTTT is well suited for. The more time you put into the setup and design of the rule, the better off you will be in the end. You can easily cause chaos by setting up a rule that somewhat duplicates another already existing rule.

Atilla Vekony

Vice President in Marketing at Wheatmark, Inc. (Publishing, 1-10 employees)

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5 years of experience

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IFTTT is great, but married to Buffer, is an ideal match.

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 16, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use IFTTT and manage its use by my clients, mostly as a secondary level of Social Media publication automation. It is used by clients' marketing/media/content departments, but as a whole by myself. The business problems it addresses are how to connect Social Media and other off-site platforms to mainly trigger as a result of content published otherwise by Buffer app. Not all of Buffer, especially its free version, provides the reach a brand can achieve by simply using a single platform (I usually use Twitter) to trigger other relevant platforms with automated, scheduled publishing.

Pros

It connects/triggers non-Buffer platforms such as Diigo, Blogger, Medium, Digg and Tumblr.
From a Social Media standpoint, this is a strength as it mitigates the time and energy otherwise spent manually publishing to each.

Cons

The biggest hurdle is how the "recipes" occasionally fail. Sometimes they don't trigger for days or weeks, so you have to monitor all recipes, checking them to make sure they're active still. Otherwise, you have to check the platforms themselves, which is a good idea, regardless, but for the purpose of automation, when a recipe stops or even pauses, your content is not published, nor are you notified.
I believe a lot of this issue stems from the fact that users create so many recipes. I would recommend IFTTT vet all recipes, like Google Play vets apps, to assure any solutions users might employ will always work as advertised.

Likelihood to Recommend

I know how IFTTT is MUCH more than Social Media, specifically how it addresses IoT devices, etc. I have yet to begin using it for such, and will, but I wonder if considering my experience with recipes failing, do they also for IoT and if so, I can imagine how non-techies would potentially be frustrated when they do fail.

Jerry Janes

Digital Media Specialist in Marketing at Janes Consulting (U.S.) (Online Media, 1-10 employees)

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5 years of experience

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IFTTT is the automation tool of choice!

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

November 7, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IFTTT is a tool that works behind the scenes to help us automate some of the work in the office. We use it to connect Twitter to our Google accounts, which automate tweets we schedule on our calendar. We use IFTTT to help share information between systems, including emails, notifications, and data being sent to Slack. It is so easy to use and set up, it has saved us money and a huge amount of time.

Pros

Automate tweets using Google Calendar. You can use a spreadsheet to import a tweet schedule to your calendar, then IFTTT will watch for your keywords and tweet for you. This has replaced the need for a social media automation tool.
Information gets pushed to Slack. When we get an email, or something happens in another system we use, notifications can be customized and sent to a particular Slack channel, keeping our teams up-to-date on important information.
We've used IFTTT to connect to "smart" lights. When there is a sale on the sales floor, the light changes colors for a visual display of congratulations.

Cons

It would be nice if there were more business software platforms on IFTTT, but I think that will come with time.
I wish the site had an area to search pre-built integrations based on category or need.
There really aren't too many cons to using IFTTT, the service gets better all the time and continues to grow almost daily.

Likelihood to Recommend

IFTTT is perfect for automating the sharing of data between systems. It works very well with Google products and social media. It would be nice if there were more business app (SaaS products) that had built into the IFTTT platform as it is so much easier to use than Zapier. I think that we will see more of those apps join the platform over time.

Verified User

Manager in Sales (Computer Software company, 11-50 employees)

Vetted Review

1 year of experience

Can't- live-without kind of tool

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

April 24, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a marketer, I use IFTTT religiously! There are many things you can use IFTTT for, and you can get very creative! Some of my use cases: social media marketing automation; social listening (I know what my target is talking about on Twitter); competitive intelligence (I know what my competitors are talking about); updates; - reminders etc.

Pros

Easy to use
Has lots of recipes
FREE!
Has helpful tips along the way

Cons

I'd to see a newsletter featuring user cases involving specific recipes.

Likelihood to Recommend

Social media automation! Example: Set up the tool to track down specific keywords or queries to be added to a spreadsheet on Google Drive. Then export and bulk upload - voila!

Ksenia Newton

Digital Marketing Manager in Marketing at CrossCap (Computer Software, 51-200 employees)

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6 years of experience

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IFTTT - Do you need it or do you need it?

Rating: 10 out of 10

Incentivized

January 31, 2018

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

IFTTT is the most fantastic app that lots of our clients (and I myself) use it for practically hundreds of use cases that require almost next to no level of configuration and it's free! I will however mention couple of ways our client have maximised their productivity with IFTTT
1. To natively post contents on multiple social channels
2. To back up every post ever made on any social channel
3. To keep track of worked hours
4. Automated reminders and alerts
5. Add mailing campaigns to Google calendar and so on
6. Keep track of mentions and hashtag about you or your company on twitter!

Pros

Automatically and natively posting content on multiple social channels
Taking backup of content to your preferred cloud services
Anything and everything that relies on automated action based on multiple triggers over hundreds of channels

Cons

More enterprise applications could be added (but this is not IFTTT issue, it's the enterprise applications extending their support)
There are no disadvantages really. It had tons of triggers and actions and it's free!

Likelihood to Recommend

From an individual to a company, there is no one who cannot benefit from IFTTT's great, not to mention free, services.

Mudassir Malik

Oracle Certified HCM Cloud Consultant in Professional Services at Evosys (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees)

Vetted Review

5 years of experience

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