Planview LeanKit Reviews in January 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

MIGRATED TO Planview AdaptiveWork

Pretty happy overall

What do you like best? Ability to customize columns, collapse them, assign users, create headers on cards What do you dislike? The horizontal scrolling can be annoying but is kind of unavoidable. Sometimes it freezes up when I try to add cards, and it could be faster. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Organization/project management

Helpful tool with upgrade opportunities

What do you like best? vertical and horizontal swimlanes, easy to read and layout, ability to add tags What do you dislike? Exporting and reporting capabilities, no way to assign tasks and track dates on cards, does not link to calendar or other COF tools Recommendations to others considering the product: lay out your needs and boards before building, create demo boards to ensure it operates as needed What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have ...

Very useful to see where the project is up to

What do you like best? We all have multiple projects so it's essential for keeping track of who is doing what What do you dislike? Sometimes a bit awkward to navigate to other boards. Maybe a visual way of doing this, like a playlist swipe thing? Recommendations to others considering the product: Great visual aid What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We have multiple projects, so it makes it easy to see who is doing what ...

Easy to use

What do you like best? I like using LeanKit because it is a clean layout and it helps keep information organized. What do you dislike? I don't like child-card creation its a bit convoluted, I would like for it to be a bit more clear to create parent/child cards. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Organization and planning is so much easier. I realized we are more efficient and don't miss process-steps that we may have overlooked ...

The experience is great and simple.

What do you like best? The simplicity of the tool and the way it look. What do you dislike? The lack of client field and the possibility to personnalise the field of a card. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We can follow the flow of the work and see the bottle neck in production.

Good experience

What do you like best? The boards can be customizable, you can filter the views, create tasks, activities, assign people ... A lot of what aq board view should be What do you dislike? An integration with Git could be an improvement. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are using Leankit mainly to monitor our tasks and to communicate wht we do in the team. So far, this has helped us.

Good. Can't think of unique features

What do you like best? Simple to use. Works sometimes. Plus 8 more characters What do you dislike? Doesn't seem to integrate well with other things. Goes down sometimes, like when I tried to take a screenshot What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Keeping track of work in progress and on deck

This is a nice product so far.

What do you like best? The features let us to enter data independently of time. We don't live for the software data entry. We live to produce relevant output. What do you dislike? At this point, there is no so many points. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are planning development & support of our business analytics databases.

Overall, a nice, easy to use product that needs some refinement around the edges.

What do you like best? We migrated to LeanKit from Jira. LeanKit is a simplified version of Jira, which is probably what I like best. What do you dislike? It has some fairly blatant bugs/inconsistencies that need to be resolved. For example, the use of the "@" sign to mention/tag people doesn't always work smoothly; it can be finicky when backspacing a person's name you're trying to find/tag and when pasting text in a comment when someone is mentioned with the "@" sign. What ...

LeanKit works well and is easy to use

What do you like best? I like the ability to move cards in between Kanban lanes. It creates a nice visual. LeanKit is very useful for cross-team collaboration, especially when approvals are involved. We use it a lot for our onboarding process. It's fairly intuitive. What do you dislike? I felt like it's easy to get lost in the different "layers" at times. There are cards, then tasks within the cards. Comments at different levels can get lost in the shuffle. Overall, it's not too ...