Shortcut 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Shortcut

4.6

(363)

Pricing

Starting at $8.50 per year

About Shortcut

Shortcut is a cloud-based project management platform that helps small to large enterprises manage tasks and streamline communication between team members. It enables users to create Stories that comprise of features, bugs or chores, and add attachments or descriptions in tasks.

Key features of Shortcut include customizable templates, collaboration, reporting, labeling, an activity feed and feedback management. Managers can use Kanban boards to view live updates on tasks and add new stories on the board using a drag-and-drop interface.

Shortcut has seamless integrations with various third-party applications such as Figma, Slack, GitHub, Bitbucket Cloud, Marker.io, Clockify and more. Pricing is available on monthly and annual subscriptions and support is extended via documentation, email and other online measures.

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Shortcut Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $8.50 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Free

$0.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Filters
Kanban Board
Reports
Sprints
Third-Party Integration

Team

$8.50

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Customizable Workflows
Progress Tracking
Reports
Roadmap
Third-Party Integration

Business

$12.00

per user, per year

Plan includes:

Customizable Workflows
Milestone Tracking
Multiple Workspaces
Reports
Roadmaps
Third-Party Integration

Enterprise

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Milestone Tracking
Multiple Workspaces
Progress Tracking
Roadmap
Single Sign-on

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Shortcut Features

Popular features found in Task Management
Assignment Management
Collaboration Tools
Commenting/Notes
Deadline Management
Dependency Tracking
Prioritization
Project Tracking
Resource Management
Task Editing
Time Tracking
To-Do List
Workflow Management
More features of Shortcut
Access Controls/Permissions
Activity Dashboard
Activity Tracking
Agile Methodologies
Alerts/Escalation
Alerts/Notifications
API
Audit Trail
Backlog Management
Bug/Issue Capture
Bug Tracking
Charting
Client Portal
Customizable Templates
Dashboard
Data Visualization
Drag & Drop
Email-to-Task Conversion
Feedback Management
File Sharing
Gantt/Timeline View
Idea Management
Issue Auditing
Issue Management
Issue Scheduling
Issue Tracking
Kanban Board
Knowledge Base Management
Milestone Tracking
Mobile Access
Multiple Projects
Negative Feedback Management
Percent-Complete Tracking
Portfolio Management
Predictive Analytics
Product Lifecycle Management
Product Roadmapping
Progress Tracking
Projections
Project Management
Project Planning/Scheduling
Recurring Issues
Recurring Tasks
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting/Project Tracking
Request Management
Requirements Management
Retrospectives Management
Search/Filter
Single Sign On
Spreadsheet View
Sprint Planning
Status Tracking
Sub-Task Management
Supports Scrum
Support Ticket Management
Task Board View
Task Import
Task Management
Task Progress Tracking
Task Scheduling
Task Tagging
Team Management
Template Management
Testing/QA Management
Third-Party Integrations
Ticket Management
Version Control
Visualization

Shortcut Integrations

GitHub

Integration rated 4.6 from 44 reviews

Slack

Integration rated 4.7 from 37 reviews

GitLab

Integration rated 4.3 from 10 reviews

Sentry

BugSnag

Zapier

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Shortcut User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

64%

31%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.4

Value for money

4.5

Customer support

4.6

Functionality

4.4

Tanya B.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2022

Easy to use

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Shortcut has been helpful for cross functional collaboration amongst our teams. It's helped us to track feature requests, bugs and more.

Cons:

Not a con, but I just have a hard time switching over to call it Shortcut and still call it Clubhouse all the time.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2024

A great tool for keeping your company on task and target.

Overall Shortcut has been so helpful in ensuring my team and I stay on top of our tasks. It's easy to create Story templates and to keep track of all your tasks. I love working in iterations, to ensure we stay focused on the job at hand, and avoid being distracted by too big of a workload.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Makes it really easy to keep track of your tasks and projects, specifically in relation to your company's overall goals and objectives.

Cons:

It's not as pretty as some other task management apps, but it's really not too bad.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

Trello didn't have enough planning features and was getting very slow to use.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2019

While Clubhouse can do some things well, it is lacking in many areas

My experience with Clubhouse was not great to say the least. While the UI is promising, and the price per user is much lower than others, you get what you pay for. Like too many other project management apps, there is not enough focus on the time being tracked vs a budget for the project you are working on. The project layers overlap in a way that would be good if you were working on individual projects for a larger product, but not if you are working on individual projects geared towards individual clients.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

I think the best part of Clubhouse is the robust API that can allow a dev team to add or complement to the existing platform. Clubhouse seems designed for teams focusing on a product or a small portfolio of similar products or complimentary features. It does not seem designed for a consulting or agency style development shop.

Cons:

Clubhouse is lacking in a number of areas that should be expected features in agile project management software. Completion dates are buried, no project budgeting or hourly rates, no invoicing or adding expenses, time tracking, resource management, personal task lists, custom fields, dependencies. It also seemed overwhelming to get set up and running.

Reasons for choosing Shortcut

We ultimately did not choose Clubhouse, but instead went with Jira.

Lee-ann D.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed November 2021

Shortcut (previously Clubhouse) has been a great improvement for us.

Overall our experience has been great. Less has been falling through the cracks, and we're able to actively manage & prioritize our development with ease. The application is enjoyed by both the development team & the management team, so everyone is benefitting from our switch to Shortcut.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

1. The app is very easy to configure & set up. 2. The user experience is seamless & functionality is very self-explanatory. 3. There are multiple ways to configure each component, so you can set up the app according to what works best for you & your company. (No "one size fits all" model.) 4. The ability to set up different workflows for different departments has been a huge help for us.

Cons:

1. It's a little hard to envision how each of the components should be set up for your organization when you're first getting in there (i.e., projects, workflows, milestones, epics, stories), so we ended up changing the setup as we went along after the initial configuration. This wasn't necessarily a bad thing, as it allowed us to improve the way we currently did things. 2. The biggest issue we have now, after using the app for a while, is that stories do not populate into the Gantt charts, only epics. This means if we have one-off tasks that are added as stories, those do not pull into the report we'd like. For that reason, we have to set up an entire epic just to set up a single story, for reporting purposes. I think it would be great if you had the option to pull the Gantt reports at the epic or story-level.

Reasons for choosing Shortcut

N/A - Shortcut was the only application we looked at, based on a recommendation from one of our developers. (He had used it previously for a personal project.)

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

While Teamwork was great at managing individuals' tasks, looking at overall projects, and the current status & priority of each of the tasks within those projects, was not quite as user-friendly. Overall this was a great tool for the development team but not for those managing those folks.

Benjamin B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Effective Project Management for Small to Large Software Teams

I really enjoy using shortcut and it has given us the ability to manage complex projects. I highly recommend it.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Whether you’re part of a small software team or you’re integrated into a collection of agile teams at an enterprise software shop - Shortcut makes it easy and intuitive to manage the many integrated software projects of todays micro services oriented development style. We’ve found that Shortcut grew with us from 2 devs to 10 and we expect it to grow with us as we grow to 50.

Cons:

Story management sometimes feels like a full time job, but at least Shortcut makes it a joy. For our open source projects we have a hard time integrating with issues on GitHub where public issues are generated, but for our private projects, the GitHub integration is lightweight and effective.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

Frustration with the other project management solutions.

Justin M.

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Scaled for the complexity of JIRA, but with the best UX possible & no sysadmins needed

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Every org grows out of Github Issues, Trello, and Asana when they realize a) stories need relationships such as blocking/blocked; b) stories need task checklists; c) different groups have different workflows; d) stories are often mini-project briefs and need to read as such. However, once you find yourself in JIRA, which you've been told is the mature platform for mature orgs, you're operating a nuclear submarine, you need 3 sysadmins, nobody can find anything, and you want to throw your computer out the window. SC has the infrastructure but with the user-friendliness of everyday software. Think of how Mixpanel took what Omniture was doing and made it accessible to the everyday marketer. That's what Shortcut does for eng/prod teams. No sysadmin needed, everyone gets it. Their API is well-documented and incredible. We do tons with Zapier because of how much they expose. Their CS team is spectacular, inquisitive, friendly, helpful. They want their customers to succeed. They have a one-click signup link which has made our onboarding process much faster They have templated stories and checklists which we use across the org for everything from product launches through onboarding/offboarding hires.

Cons:

very few dislikes. it's amazing. if i have to force criticism: - If you work cross-departmentally, avoid multiple workflows, or you'll be having to look at multiple kanban boards daily - the "dashboard" (home) isn't as useful as it seems like it should be so we all either use iterations or stories view for our daily lens - shortcut and productboard both boast integration, but it's not great, and i think this is the fault of productboard but really these criticisms represent like 5% negative compared to 95% enthusiastic positive

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

A friend told me that Clubhouse was effectively "JIRA but with a designer cofounder" and that's accurate.

Verified

Reviewer

Research

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed November 2021

shortcut lover!!

totally changed my day to day for the best

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

best project management software ive ever used, works for technical engineers and nontechnical marketing chaps like myself.

Cons:

wish there was a REALLY simple version for mobile that showed me a minimalistic view of my cards or something really creative to change my life there, if anyone could create the perfect on the go project management view, it would be you guys!

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

hated the card format of trello and my team found it hard to collaborate on

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2023

Powerful project planning

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Shortcut is easy to use but very powerful, and has a clean, intuitive interface. It offers a wide range of features, including project planning, task management, and collaboration tools. The software integrates well with other tools, such as Slack.

Cons:

The per-user price is a bit steep if you need access to all of Shortcut's features.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

Shortcut is definitely more powerful than GitHub's projects - but it comes at a price.

Ezra S.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2020

A visually pleasant alternative to Pivotal Tracker

Overall my experience with Clubhouse has been great. It's got a nice UI and is intuitive.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The biggest win for me personally in the switch to Clubhouse was simply having a nice user interface to look at when dealing with tickets.

Cons:

The only issue I've had so far has been that I'm not always aware when a ticket has been reviewed. As a customer success manager, I file ticket reports and sometimes they get closed without my being alerted. We've attempted to solve this with a slack integration but I'm not sure that it's working as expected. Also, it would be nice if they didn't use markdown when you uploaded an image to a ticket comment.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

Our developers made the switch for their own reasons. As a CSM it didn't make much of a difference to me.

Kévin C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Does its job!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Great tool for managing the team's tasks and it's especially good for teams working with Scrum. It offers a lot of customizability, thus, you can change it to tailor your needs.

Cons:

The learning curve for someone who never worked with it can be steep at the beginning. But after learning the basics it gets easy.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

The company I previously worked on used JIRA.

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