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# Microsoft Planner User Reviews

## Reviews summary

- Overall rating: 4.3/5
- Total reviews: 298

### Secondary ratings

- Ease of use: 4.5/5
- Customer support: 4.2/5
- Value for money: 4.5/5
- Functionality: 4.2/5

### Rating distribution

- 5 stars: 158 reviews (53%)
- 4 stars: 96 reviews (32%)
- 3 stars: 34 reviews (11%)
- 2 stars: 4 reviews (1%)
- 1 star: 6 reviews (2%)

### Most mentioned pros

- The premium features make it much more useful for real project planning, especially with timelines, Gantt-style views, and dashboards.
- It's useful for simple planning and delegation of tasks and provides accessibility and visibility across a team - especially if your org is already integrated with the Microsoft ecosystem, and especially where leveraging Microsoft Teams.
- Microsoft Planner is a hidden gem, it's completely in the cloud, so you can take it anywhere and is a great tool for personal use or for businesses to keep track of things. But where it really starts to shine is with the ability to automate tasks - in conjunction with Microsoft Forms and Power Automate, you can have different teams or customers fill in a form, which then populates Planner with tasks.

### Most mentioned cons

- Overall, my experience is of inconsistency and unreliability with Planner due to the chaotic changes and releases that seem to come every few months.
- It becomes a little challenging on this especially if you want to customize certain things for your projects's workflow which you will eventually have to find a way around, but that is my concern.
- From my point of view it's a little less complete than its competitors, like Trello. When I tried it, I missed some important features that I use a lot in Trello, although probably they will be added in the future (if they haven't already been added since I finished my tests long time ago).

## Microsoft Planner customer reviews

Showing reviews 1-25 of 298 (page 1).

### Planning with Microsoft Planner

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Mai M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospitality
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Our entire company is made up of event planners, meeting planners and time management is the most important skill we all need. We truly live and die by our calendars and task management tools, so Microsoft Planner was a natural choice for us!

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

As a busy event planner, for me the best features are its ability to provide a snapshot of my daily and weekly tasks! I am constantly working on multiple programs at once, so I live and die by a helpful planner that keeps me on task!

#### Cons

It doesn't have a traditional desktop version so I thought that could be problematic. We installed it as an app and it's working just fine!

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### A solid app that integrates well for my needs

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Troy D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Health, Wellness and Fitness
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall it’s a nice planner tool. I just wish they would allow some template or copy paste features

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Easy and simple to use, interface is clean and easily move from one bucket to the next.

#### Cons

Latest update has removed some useful features such as plan templates and the ability to copy labels onto another plan

#### Reasons for switching to Microsoft Planner

Integration with microsoft products and cheaper

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### Microsoft Planner helps track Inbound orders

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Dana M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Publishing
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overall experience has been fine, we used to use a competitor and then switched over to Microsoft Planner, and the two softwares are almost identical.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 3/5
- Customer support: 2/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Microsoft Planner is a nice tool to keep track of Inbound Shipments and their statuses. We share it between multiple departments, including our warehouse team, and we can see how far along they are in their processes.

#### Cons

Microsoft Planner gives an alert as soon as you are tagged in a card, even if the person creating the card tagged you and then is on there way to add the card details. this is annoying and i wish the notification would come after the card is complete.

#### Reasons for switching to Microsoft Planner

Our company made this decision, I believe it was included in our Microsoft package.

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### Microsoft Planner Review

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Brendan C.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: February 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

My overall experience with Planner has been exceptional so far. We all love the visual aspect of the data, ongoing projects, reporting, task management and the list goes on and on. Life is a lot more easier to manage and work with a team, especially when you're all doing it remotely, this came as a tool that make it easy to manager remote teams and effectively collaborate with remote teams in real time. Leveraging the Microsoft App and tools also make it easier in terms of integration where you can easily move data within the same Microsoft product offering without having to find another way to ingest the data from other sources or to other sources.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

What I love the most about Microsoft Planner is how visually appealing it is to track any ongoing projects and basically manage our teamwork effectively. It is easier to assign and manage tasks within the team and its easier to track those tasks as well, especially in my department. It makes it easier to stay within the same family of tech stack, that way you don't have to worry about a lot of integration since you're already or might be already using Microsoft. You can easily customize the buckets for your planner and track your tasks the way you want them and the same applies for projects.

#### Cons

My main concern with Planner and what I like the least if the limitations on Workflow customization. It becomes a little challenging on this especially if you want to customize certain things for your projects's workflow which you will eventually have to find a way around, but that is my concern.

#### Reasons for switching to Microsoft Planner

Its easier for us to continue playing in the Microsoft space

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### Great integration into O365 family and works well.

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Mark S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Civil Engineering
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

Overrall it is a great product to use, could use some gantt chart features for dragging and dropping tasks. Seems they want you to upgrade or pay more for slightly better version. Value isnt there for an upgrade but for a "free" version that is already grouped into your o365 license this does the trick.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 1/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

I love that it connects with Microsoft 365 products. We use Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Outlook and sharepoint. It does a good job of offering flexibility to see all your tasks and assign task.

#### Cons

I wish it allowed for EVEN more flexibility. Connectivity to "to do" lists in outlook was more seamless so you didnt feel you needed to exit planner in order to go to your flagged task emails. Also it would be nice if it was built with the realization that you will eventually have thousands of tasks completed and will live in one planner. Doesnt feel like it is set up that way.

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### Senior Director Fundraising Technology

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Damian W.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Non-Profit Organization Management
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I very useful tool for monitoring workflow/requests without being too much of a drain on time for staff using it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

Use Planner to create an effective support ticketing request system for my tech team. Has helped with project progress and being able to analyze work tasks/request for our team.

#### Cons

Doesn't offer everything in the set up we ideally desired, but was pretty close. Plus, it's the best option we have come across to date.

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### MS Planner for tasks and assignments

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Nazrin V.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: August 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

High organization and structure, being able to assign tasks to the entire team and filter them out based on assignment, date and other filters.

#### Cons

Each task has only 20 subtasks, therefore it would be helpful is that number increased. If tasks grouped themselves automatically based on the deadline, it would be great. We are currently moving them up and down manually.

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### Microsoft Planner - Gets worries away

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Manish S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

My experience with Microsoft Planner has been okay as I have always managed small projects through it. It is obviously very easy to integrate with Microsoft Teams and Outlook and it is very easy to begin working with it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

I like the visual, intuitive task management interface of Microsoft Project. Specifically the Kanban-style boards with buckets and cards. It makes planning and tracking very effortless.

#### Cons

The Microsoft planner doesn't have the capability to manage complex projects and have less features as compared to the competitor tools which can manage highly complex project workflows.

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### Super productive

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Brendan B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: November 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I have ADHD and my job requires constant multitasking, making it really easy to forget to complete tasks. MS Planner helps me keep on track by providing a daily task list linked between MS Teams and Ms Outlook.

#### Cons

I don’t have anything negative to say about this tool as it has only helped me be more productive. I only wish I had started using it sooner.

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### Microsoft planner

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Vineet S.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: January 2026
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It is an amazing software to get your work and your teammorganized and working on the same page. It hleps you track progress amongst different team members

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Customer support: 3/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I use Microsoft Planner to assign, discuss any challenges and to finally make sure tasks are acomplished within set timelines

#### Cons

It is an amazing software. No complaints at all. Although I wish i could have more options for charts and diagrams to explain difficult concepts to my team

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### Great simple tool to manage project evolution.

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Claude Real T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Graphic Design
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: October 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Even if the tool still requires some improvements, but since it is low cost and included in the Microsoft 365 package, the benefit of living with those small issues is worth it.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

In comparison to other tools I've used like JIRA, this tool is really easy to configure, to use and it works extremely well with Microsoft Teams.

#### Cons

The tool still needs improvements with statuses, notifications and scheduling. For statuses, they're not customizable and the pre-established statuses are too limited. For notifications, they are half of the time very slow to be received in mailbox, up to 30 minutes delay. For scheduling, you can only set a end date, but it is not possible to set multiple follow up dates and it is also impossible to set dates on subtasks.

#### Reasons for choosing Microsoft Planner

The Zoho Sprints tool was very complicated to configure and not very fluid in its use. Jira was my #1 choice, but the price of it was too high. In searching for alternatives in the tool of my Microsoft 365 platform, I've discovered Planner and after a few trials I adopted it.

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### The sweet spot between accessibility and complete features

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Tulio B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Entertainment
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

I have been pushing everyone to use it for Project Planning. Getting others to use it has not been painful, which is saying quite a lot.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I love how quickly I can get other team member using all the features they need with Planner. It holds a lot of information and is much better than a static "To Do" list, but not as complex as most Project Planner software out there.

#### Cons

Little things like selecting a card and adding another person are not quite as effortless as they could be. Adding the option to "repeat" tasks is a game-changer as now I can make a detailed Planner for an annual event and not have to clone it.

#### Reasons for choosing Microsoft Planner

Part of the bundle included with Teams

#### Reasons for switching to Microsoft Planner

I love Trello but we are Microsoft org and honestly Planner does all the basics of Trello in terms of a Kanban board.

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### Microsoft Planner

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Riaan L.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Insurance
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It is easy to use and create tasks. the tracking is simple, and the tagging makes it easy identifiable. A lot of interaction with the team members and tole players makes it easy to track and understand certain processes.

#### Cons

It takes time to setup but it is not a bad thing all the time. Although is takes time in the beginning the ease of mind after is great.

#### Reasons for choosing Microsoft Planner

Rather have all programs interlink with Microsoft as we are only using Microsoft applications

#### Reasons for switching to Microsoft Planner

Rather have all programs interlink with Microsoft

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### Effective Task Management Tool

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Verified Reviewer
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

Ease of use. Integration with Outlook, To-Do and Sharepoint with mobile and web accessibility.

#### Cons

Limited features like Gantt Charts and customizable workflows.

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### Great for team collaboration and assigning tasks

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Emily K.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Banking
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: June 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

I like that I can assign tasks to my team and categorize them in different buckets. I also like the color coordinated labels.

#### Cons

The Planner version in Microsoft teams isn't as easy to navigate especially when differentiating between my personal plan and shared plans.

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### Easy tool for planning

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Fabrizio A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Online Media
- Company size: 2-10 employees
- Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: March 2025
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

I am using the tool for quick planning of not so much complex software

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 3/5

#### Pros

An easy business planner friendly for user without a deep experience

#### Cons

To light for complex project plan, there still things to improve vs other tool

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### Microsoft planner review!

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Blake D.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Services
- Company size: Self-Employed
- Product usage: Used monthly for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: April 2025
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

I absolutely love Microsoft Planner! Everybody needs a good planner for day to day activities and this does the job!

#### Cons

No cons as of now other than maybe frequent updates based on customer feedback

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### Microsoft Planner - A Planner for All

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Nick T.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Real Estate
- Company size: 51-200 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: December 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

It was very good and well put together. It helped me keep track of my daily and weekly list of tasks at work, and it was a fairly cheap cost for the help that it provided.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It's user friendliness. It's very clean and organized and you are able to schedule Todo's for certain times, so you don't get overwhelmed by a big list.

#### Cons

You are required to pay to access all of the benefits of the software. For instance, you can't access the scheduling of your Todo's until you start a subscription.

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### Planning and Organizing made EASY

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Kendall M.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months
- Reviewed: November 2024
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

My colleagues and I use it daily to keep track of projects and the tasks related to them. It is a game changer.

#### Cons

I think would be great if it was integrated into Outlook.

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### microsoft planner review by pany

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Prince A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Information Technology and Services
- Company size: 11-50 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years
- Reviewed: December 2022
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Planner is helping me track personal tasks as well as organizational tasks. This helps me remember what i need to do and the days left to be done

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 4/5
- Functionality: 4/5

#### Pros

The notification feature really excites me, all other features including status changes, visualization are very helpful. Planner was very easy to be adapted and easy to use.

#### Cons

The fact that it doesn’t allow you to input time range spent on a task or estimated time to completion the task was worrying. This feature will be useful when its added

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### A useful tool for corporate teams which fully integrates with Teams and Outlook

- Overall rating: 4/5
- Reviewer: Alvaro G.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Government Administration
- Company size: 1001-5000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: October 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall, my experience with Microsoft Planner has been very positive, as it has helped my team share tasks and establish procedures to follow. It fully integrates with other Microsoft tools, such as Outlook and Teams.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 4/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

The most interesting feature for me is how well this integrates with Microsoft Teams. My team can easily share tasks and set up milestones.

#### Cons

It is difficult for the team to be familiar with all the features of Microsoft Planner. Task reminders should be more prominently featured to ensure they can be followed up on accordingly.

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### The best task management collaboration tool

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Alessandro F.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Consumer Goods
- Company size: 5001-10000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: February 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

The toll is fantastic and can be use in all areas, my team is using it and the participation in broad since the integration with teams is perfect

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 4/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

Easy to setup, perfect integration with Microsoft tools works perfectly combined with forms and power automate.

#### Cons

Integration with power bi is not that simple, I would like a power automate action that refresh an entire table instead of adding columns and updating completed task

#### Reasons for choosing Microsoft Planner

Microsoft ecosystem integration

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### MS Planner for Task Management

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Turan A.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Automotive
- Company size: 501-1000 employees
- Product usage: Used daily for less than 6 months
- Reviewed: June 2023
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Most MS products are simple and practical thanks to the user interface. Thanks to its integration with other MS products, it can provide fast and easy solutions. It has a simple and easy distribution platform. Fast and easy integration into the system is also preferred.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Customer support: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

It is a business management software offered under MS Office 365. As with all MS products, this software was very easy to deploy and manage cloud-based. Like every MS product, this product is very functional as it integrates with other MS products and can work together. Managing existing teams is at a simple, practical and easy-to-manage level for business planning and task distribution. It has a user-friendly interface thanks to its task assignment, support for different languages, and simple interface.

#### Cons

For those who have not used the Office 365 Platform before, it may seem difficult to use. However, you can quickly adapt to the system after experiencing it for a few days.

#### Reasons for choosing Microsoft Planner

First of all, it is perfect to have a cloud-based and easy management like all other MS products. It has an easy and manageable structure in all businesses working as a team. Its flexible and reviseable structure, multi-language support, integration with other MS products, authorization and permission restrictions are among its most facilitating features. Thanks to its integration with MS Teams and Kanban structure, a more functional management style emerges. It provides the opportunity to work in a location-independent hybrid structure. It provides the ability to control many more teams, many more tasks under a single platform.

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### Some basic tool which is ok for the individuals, but a nightmare for the managers.

- Overall rating: 3/5
- Reviewer: Yurii O.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 201-500 employees
- Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: May 2024
- Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

Overall it is a suboptimal experience. The planner is perfectly fine for executing and prioritizing tasks, but when it comes to tasks that must be fulfilled by multiple people on different projects then it is true headache for any manager. The best way to overcome it is working on a single kanban style board, but it also has some sort of limitations.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Functionality: 2/5

#### Pros

It is simple and reliable. Scheduling is easy, prioritization is easy since one can use colour labels and customize it in any way. If the Planner is used as a kanban board by one team for one project then it is fine.

#### Cons

Progress tracking and visualization are just unacceptable. It is not possible to see who is working on what task under which project. One needs to go and click through multiple teams and keep all the information in mind.

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### Useful easy to use tool for all project planning

- Overall rating: 5/5
- Reviewer: Kerri B.
- Verified reviewer: Yes
- Industry: Newspapers
- Company size: 10000+ employees
- Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years
- Reviewed: November 2023
- Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

an easy to use task planner that shows status, provides notifications and keeps a lot of balls in the air at once.

#### Ratings breakdown

- Ease of use: 5/5
- Value for money: 5/5
- Functionality: 5/5

#### Pros

ease of set up and ability to "see" the tasks in multiple views

#### Cons

some steps are more manual than I would like

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