
What is Microsoft Planner?
Take the chaos out of teamwork and get more done! Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you鈥檙e working on, and get updates on progress.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
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95 Plan to Renew
86 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+90 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Microsoft Planner?
Pros
- Reliable
- Client Friendly Policies
- Acts with Integrity
- Trustworthy
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Feature Ratings
Task Assignment
Task Status
Task Categorization
List Tasks
Due Dates
Task Prioritization
Drag and Drop Prioritization
Dependencies
Notifications
Add Notes
Shared Task List
Vendor Capability Ratings
Ease of Implementation
Ease of IT Administration
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Ease of Customization
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Breadth of Features
Microsoft Planner Reviews

Shubham S.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2021
Best friendly tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
I honestly love love love this tool for assigning and managing tasks. This platform allows you to to send requests that include the deadline and details around what the task requested is. You can add in who the request is to, who it is coming from, details on the item, and what overall task it stems from, the overall deliverable or goal.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I like that it can be integrated into MS Teams, which makes it all the more easier for teams/groups to share inputs about what's needed to be done. Also, the color-coded labels makes it easier to categorically filter tasks and plans.
What do you dislike most about this product?
S Planner doesn't have as much functionality as other dedicated tools like Monday, Asana, AirTable, etc. Although there are updates to MS Planner, there aren't as many innovative or groundbreaking changes like the main Office 365 products like Word, Excel, and Powerpoint
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
For effective task and projects planning and management,I strongly recommend the use of this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
Donald T.
- Role: Industry Specific Role
- Industry: Energy
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Sep 2021
Super to manage single tasks
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
It lets you create plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, communicate with colleagues, and get updates on your team's progress.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Friendly and intuitive interface.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Takes time to set up initially, to learn features, how to first use and to integrate with other software.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It saves time as it allows others to easily see progress and any comments.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Enables Productivity
Vinay P.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Technology
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Aug 2021
Perfect Project & Task Management Tool
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Microsoft Planner from other similar products?
The advantages we have encountered include the capacity to keep up with the work, the supporting details of given duties, an email ping, or altering the task of teammates. This keeps the crew on the job and on time. Microsoft Planner is a wonderful tool for maximizing task involvement. Microsoft Planner allows project users to evaluate graphically the progress of their projects, the individuals involved in particular activities, and the time limits to beat.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
I think it is wonderful because everything is in one place, all you have to do and the steps you can take to achieve the objective of even uploading papers and tagging other employees in the organization. It provides a framework for tasks creation and scheduled tasks assignment. The program features a memory email function and a simple dashboard. Connectivity with the MS suite is a huge benefit - and they appear to grow it at a decent speed - especially for teamwork, power automats, and sharing points.
What do you dislike most about this product?
In this technology, there are certain core features lacking. The planner offers several features from Wrike, separating Microsoft's clients. Moreover, non-team members cannot engage in this software. In this Planner, there are also limitations on word-for-task inputs. I'd love to have a little planner training resource. There would have been an adequate modest active teaching platform.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Make sure this interacts with your business, business essentials, or business accounts of Office 365. Otherwise, it won't function. Microsoft Planner is indeed suitable for you if you are in project planning and evaluation that lack so much complexity and intricacy. The main feature is the integration with another MS program. There are different applications, however, the one account is very straightforward to access. That's why I highly recommend using Microsoft Planner for your business and make your business task & project management easier.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity