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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.

Josh C.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Took of our Trade

One spot for all teams to work together for client success is always going to be a win for a team.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Shortcut does a great job allowing us to manage all facets of our product and being multiple teams together for what is most important, client and end user satisfaction. It follows standard agile flow but allows flexibility where engineers and non-engineers can use it alike. We also utilize their API for templates epics and stories and it is great to work with. Support team and client success managers have been a pleasure to work with when we’ve had conversations. They always are able to handle a situation or get us in touch with someone who can. Lastly the product is always evolving and they are very transparent through their website and slack channel of what is coming next to make your life better!

Cons:

Some things were less flexible such as naming conventions and required fields on stories/epics, but these are getting worked out over time (for ex projects are not required any more)

Reasons for choosing Shortcut

Most flexible and best bang for your buck.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

Wanted one tool with more power and better price.

Kirsty G.

Verified reviewer

E-Learning

201-500 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Reviewed November 2021

Short may be an overstatement for shortcut

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

This is an adequate task management/tracking software. It has a fantastic Zendesk integration and multiple customizable fields. It also boasts decent search and filtering functions but it isn't particularly user-friendly and filling out all the fields that make it function well takes a great deal of time (hence the title of this review).

Cons:

There are no AI/smart suggestions for related epic/team fields so every time you make a new ticket you have to search through them by scratch. They also don't offer a great tag database or tag definitions so you have to create naming conventions separately offline. You also can't use rich text in story descriptions.

De Ville W.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Clubhouse is all the software project management you need without the clutter and noise

Clubhouse has been a game-changer for us since we migrated from JIRA. We looked for something that was more lightweight, but still afforded us all the features we need to track our software projects. This is exactly what Clubhouse delivered, and more. I love the fact that Clubhouse gives you everything you need to track a project from the granularity of a sub-task, all the way up to milestones. This makes it easy to distinguish the forest from the trees, and present the relevant story to stakeholders at different levels. We haven't regretted the move to Clubhouse for a single moment, and we're always delighted with the new features that are regularly released. Simply put, Clubhouse gets out of your way very quickly and lets you get on with your actual goal: creating great software.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

- Clean user interface - Fast search - Continuously adding of new, useful features - Great integrations - Free for teams of up to 10 users

Cons:

- This is mostly me nitpicking, but I'd say reporting. It has been improving over time though. - It would also be great if there was a tool for simplifying backlog grooming

Reasons for choosing Shortcut

The other tools we evaluated were either too simple for our needs (lack of features) or lacked in usability. We often underplay the importance of the joy of using a certain software product. I continually found that I had to beg people to keep other tools updated with the current state of affairs, wherewith Clubhouse they simply opted to do it themselves. The other options just didn't compare to Clubhouse.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

JIRA felt feels like an oil tanker, where most companies we need a tugboat, i.e. lean, powerful and agile. JIRA also gives you infinite customizability options, which often leads to over-complication and analysis paralysis.

Thomas L.

Verified reviewer

Automotive

51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Shortcut (formerly Clubhouse) is a great task management tool for development teams

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Before switching to Shortcut, we used Jira. While Jira has plenty of features, we found it a bit cumbersome and the performance of the interface was atrocious (everything single task was incredibly slow, even the most basic activities had a noticeable delay). The first major benefit we saw with Shortcut was the speed of interaction - instead of waiting for the interface to catch up, we could just log in and get things done. The integrations with various source control platforms (we use the Gitlab integration) also helps keep task statuses up to date without even having to open the web interface. Overall the speed of the interface and the available integrations lead to a feeling that Shortcut never "gets in our way".

Cons:

We started out paying for Shortcut (when it was still called Clubhouse), but were soon switched to a free plan without even having to ask. Although this was a nice gesture on their part, they then released a beta of their new product called Write. This beta is only available for paying users, which is understandable, but having been moved to a free plan meant we couldn't access it. This isn't a major issue, but starting our subscription back up would require going through the approval process with our accounting department again so we've just stayed on the free plan without access to Write so far.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

Jira was incredibly slow and a bit clunky, while Shortcut surpasses performance expectations and just works how we want it to.

Fredrik H.

Verified reviewer

Marketing and Advertising

11-50 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2023

Shortcut the Jira killer

Easy to get started with. Easy to use. Nice diagrams and overviews.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

It is extremely easy to use. Quick to setup and understand. VERY cost effective! The team behind Shortcut delivers new and exciting functionality often that really makes a difference.

Cons:

I have not idea to be honest. There are really no bad parts of Shortcut for what it is doing! Nice integrations and easy to use, not really something you can dislike.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

In comparison Jira is overcomplicated while still not delivering any more value.

Freddie C.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Shortcut is a great tool for small companies!

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Many of the features of this software are useful to our company. Our team has come to heavily rely on the roadmap view and reporting tools. These features have kept our company on track and increased our velocity in immeasurable ways.

Cons:

A few of the features our team feels are missing from Shortcut are custom fields and release management. If our team was able to have a reliable release management system, it would be very impactful to our team and customers.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

This software simplified the product management pipeline and offered the best toolsets for our light touch pipeline.

Cindy C.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Reviewed November 2022

Simple to use and provides enough features to run and manage sprints for a small team

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

- Simple to learn and navigate so the team could quickly start using the product after switching- Love the dark mode and the colour coding of different story types i.e bug, feature or chore so it's easy to see things at the high level- Easy to create sprints and I like the summaries provided on the story points

Cons:

- You can only write stories in markdown text. Not a big issue since I've become really good at it! But it'd be good if there was a text editor instead- Sometimes when I create a story and I accidentally click out of it, I lose the progress. It'd be good if they had a draft functionality where the stories get created as a draft straight away

Reasons for choosing Shortcut

JIRA has a quite suite of features however it was too complex for what we were looking for. We need something to track our sprints and features and shortcut was perfect for that.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

We needed something that was more focused on sprint management

John D.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Solid Product with Curated Agile Experience

A solid 8.5/10. Would recommend to others, would use again and keep using, but could stand to improve a few features that would bring it up to a 10.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

This software is a curated experience that intentionally limits setup and flows compared with other products like JIRA which are less "bounded." I think this is better for most teams which do not care to install extra plugins and fight with non-intuitive workflow items.

Cons:

There are some quirks in group selection and application, filtering, and sorting that do not always let me cross-cut the data the ways I want.

Reasons for choosing Shortcut

Was here when I got here and curated experience. May shift to Gitlab eventually since we do our code there and features set is similar (even if it does not look as nice) to save on the monthly cost. The price point is completely fair, but just an extra expense not worth it for a few features missing as we migrate.

Nick D.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Reviewed November 2021

Perfect Tool for Startups

We have used the product for a long time, since the Clubhouse days. We love the tool and leverage it for all of our product management and agile software delivery workflows. It integrates perfectly with our git and error tracking providers.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The ability to plan and curate our product backlog and create customized filtered views of our stories.

Cons:

The product does not have a great way to document individual requirements or acceptance cases.

Reasons for switching to Shortcut

We found Jira overly complex for what we used it for and too expensive.

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