Hive Review - why 4.5 stars?

• Projects and tasks: This feature allows for simple workflows for complex approvals, effective proofing, and annotation tools. Use project and action templates for repeatable steps to cut down your work in half.
• Teamwork: Keep track of how the customer team is doing with timesheets and tracking on the project homepage. Track timesheets and time, team resourcing, and workflows.
• Integrations: Forget toggling between six different tools to gather the information needed. Customers can now utilize over 1,000 integrations to bring data into one centralized dashboard for maximum efficiency with this feature.
• Action Plan for Meetings: Turn meetings into engaging, interactive sessions and always leave clear next steps with Hive Notes for Meetings.

• Creating and assigning tasks in Hive is easy and fast
• Hive connects all the pieces needed for a project in one place
• Well-designed layout with ease of navigation
• Its Kanban-style status view allows users to track project progress, change deadlines and loads, and also, enable project tasks to be programmed in the Gantt chart

• The mobile app has significantly reduced functionality compared to desktop
• The secondary calculation menu of this software is the same as the parent

• Functionalities: Hive features Project Management, Time Management, Team Collaboration, and Integrations. Compared to its alternatives, Asana and monday.com have Budget Management, Client Portal, Collaboration Tools, Cost-to-Completion Tracking, Customizable Templates, Gantt/Timeline View, Idea Management, Kanban Board, Milestone Tracking, Portfolio Management, Resource Management, Time & Expense Tracking. Hive is missing out on the Cost-to-Completion Tracking features.
• Customer/Industries: Hive targets Agencies Marketing, Operations, Project Management, Education, and Startups. Compared to its alternatives, Monday.com targets the Marketing and creative, Sales and CRM, IT, Software development, HR, and Operations departments. Slack targets IT, Engineering, Sales, Service, Marketing, Operations, and Communications.
• Cost: Hive is currently cost rated at 4.5 out of 5 (where 1 is low-cost and 5 is high-cost), indicating that Hive is high-cost compared to its alternatives. However, unlike some of its competitors, Hive does not offer a free trial; it only provides a free version to users.
• Cloud-Based/On-premise: Hive and all of these four competitors are cloud-based.
• Popularity: Hive is a private and independent company with over 60 employees. Compared with its alternatives, Basecamp has over 120,000 registered users. Asana has over 15,000 organizations using their software, as well as 140,000+ teams. monday.com has over 128,000 users, while Slack has over 12 million users.
• Support: Basecamp has five support channels, missing out on Phone Support. Hive does not have FAQs/Forum channels. While Asana and Slack have four missing out Phone Support, and 24/7 (Live Rep).

• Hive Solo: For individuals and small teams that are getting started with project management and collaboration. The company charges $0 as this plan is free.
• Hive Teams: For teams that run multiple projects and programs looking to streamline work. This plan costs $12 per user per month.
• Hive Enterprise: For teams and companies of all sizes that require custom project management features and extra support. The pricing cost for this plan is not made public.

What is the REAL total cost of implementation? on top of the total cost of licenses which is easy to calculate you need to add the cost of training, customization, data migration, and other "hidden cost". ITQlick pricing score is 2 out of 10 (10 is most expensive). You can fine here the REAL total cost breakdown for Hive. You can also find here pricing information from Hive's website.