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Float Pros and Cons: Top 5 Advantages and Disadvantages

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Users admire the user-friendly interface of Float, which simplifies scheduling and enhances overall productivity. (257 mentions)
Users appreciate the clear and easy-to-follow user interface of Float, enhancing their overall experience. (122 mentions)
Users praise Float's intuitive design and user-friendly interface, making scheduling and integration a seamless experience. (116 mentions)
Users appreciate the fast and intuitive time tracking capabilities of Float, making logging hours effortless. (116 mentions)
Users love the ease of use and intuitive design of Float, making daily task management efficient and straightforward. (94 mentions)
Users find Float's limited features frustrating, as essential tools and integrations are often missing or insufficient. (48 mentions)
Users face integration issues with Float, particularly with Jira and Google Calendar, complicating their overall experience. (36 mentions)
Users find Float lacking essential features like sorting tasks and intuitive functionality, impacting overall user experience. (33 mentions)
Users experience slowness and inefficiency in task management, especially with validation and task assignment issues. (33 mentions)
Users note a steep learning curve with Float's complex interface, requiring time to navigate effectively. (30 mentions)

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4.3 out of 5
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Float Pros and Cons

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Boston H.
BH
Content Creator
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Simple Schedule and Project manager"
What do you like best about Float?

My company tried using Asana for about a year and found it too complicated to get everyone on the same page.

Then we went fully manual, by switching to spreadsheets for schedule and project management.

Float finds a nice middle ground of simplicity and interactive UI. It's great that managers can view everything from a project view and makers and creatives can look at just their own schedule. Plus the option to subscribe to an actual calendar format makes it easy to view our schedules on the go from our phones and personal devices. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

I haven't found a way to specify what TIME of day things need to happen. When viewing from a subscribed calendar, every event is an "all day event" Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ryan E.
RE
Senior Software Engineer
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy to use"
What do you like best about Float?

Float is straightforward from a user perspective. Compared with some other time-tracking solutions, time tracking is simpler because administrators can pre-fill time slots. I have yet to have any issues with it. Slack integration is especially nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

I do wish there was better feature parity between mobile and web, but otherwise, I have no major complaints with Float. Float allows me to easily input my time tracking. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good for visibility"
What do you like best about Float?

Easy to use and it's simple to scroll backwards to check your historical or upcoming bookings. As a user it does all I need it to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

I've previously used Synergist which was great for production resources as all the bookings automatically pre-populated timesheets ready to add hours and submit. I'm not sure if Float has this functionality but our organisation uses separate systems for both, and I find it does add a little more effort to time logging. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Civil Engineering
UC
Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
"Float for Workload Management"
What do you like best about Float?

Ability to manage workload and float between tasks for a large group of people.

Ability to use same tasks across the organization and assign to people.

Ability to create recurring tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

it takes a while to change color for tasks.

It is hard to see float for a group of people that have the same tasks.

It is hard to create groups of people for non admins. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Peter S.
PS
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Good Ressource Planning Tool"
What do you like best about Float?

Float is a good tool for resource planning. It enables us to allocate our personnel effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

The missing sum function in the daily planning is annoying. Especially with many parallel running projects the schedule view can become confusing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jun K.
JK
Senior Motion Design Animator
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Easy and convenient to use"
What do you like best about Float?

Simple user interface makes it very easy and convenient to use it daily. Does not require too much time spent to update. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

Would be nice to have a better integration with Airtable or other project management tools that company use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very easy to use"
What do you like best about Float?

Very easy to see my time spread out across the day Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

Not much I dislike since I use the app for very basic time management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Excellent Product"
What do you like best about Float?

Extremely clear and functional user interface.. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

I wish they had a mobile app to handle more on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Great resource management tool, not customizable though."
What do you like best about Float?

User friendly, visually appealing, effective resource management tool, cheaper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

Not customizable, doesn't integrate with other programs, cannot tweak API or make suggestions to correct. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Does what it's supposed to"
What do you like best about Float?

- Simple to use and learn

- Simple to get a full picture of a team's scheduled vs capacity percentage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Float?

- Lacks customization options and functionality, such as how tasks are added and repeating at certain intervals

- Adding resourcing tasks is manual, very little options to automize as interval-usage is not as robust as I'd like Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Float Features
Ease of Completing Timesheets
Tracking Time to Project/Task
Billable Time Rate Management
Time Tracking
Business Tool Integration
Automated Reminders
User, Role, and Access Management
Reporting
Performance and Reliability
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