Flock vs. Ideagen Collaboration Portal

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Flock
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Flock is a collaborative business messaging application, designed to compete with Slack. The app is presented as a fast and reliable means of communication, and is available in a free edition for teams of up to twenty members.
$0
for teams of 1-20 members
Ideagen Collaboration Portal
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Ideagen Collaboration Portal , formerly Huddle is Ideagen’s tool supporting teams' work by enabling them to store, share and work on content.
$10
per user/per month
Pricing
FlockIdeagen Collaboration Portal
Editions & Modules
Starter
$0
for teams of 1-20 members
Pro
$6
per month per user (ideal for teams of 20-100 users)
Enterprise
Contact Sales
for organizations of 100+ members
Huddle
$10
per user/per month
Huddle Plus
Contact sales team
Huddle Premier
Contact sales team
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FlockIdeagen Collaboration Portal
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual pricing.
More Pricing Information
Community Pulse
FlockIdeagen Collaboration Portal
Considered Both Products
Flock
Chose Flock
Flock standsout with it's extra ordinary features such as file sharing, pinning any file in groups, customised integration with various applications, reminders across groups, creating and managing groups, file sharing with integration, notes sharing and mainly communicate …
Chose Flock
Many of the features are shared between these three programs but for us, we found the mobile application to be much easier to manage and being that we were using this a lot on the go that was a major selling point for our team and operation.
Chose Flock
In my opinion, Flock is not the best among the listed products in terms of extensive features that other products listed provides but has it's own place in the communication and team collboration domain. I think Flock works well for smaller teams and organizations looking for a …
Chose Flock
Flock stands up very well against others when used for individual and group chats. It also works well with Google Drive Integration. The best part of Flock, compared with others, is in the area of File and Document sharing. The two areas it slightly lacks are voice/ video calls …
Chose Flock
Flock stands strong with these tools in market. Although it does offer some great features but can be better in terms of integration.

We used Flock for over 10 years in our organization because it was easy to use for non technical users.
Chose Flock
I mainly prefer Asana as a task management tool, but I prefer Flock to Slack for communication. Flock bridges the gap between the two, and I find it's the best niche is for businesses or collaborators who need some integration (drive or calendar) but mostly need it for its chat …
Chose Flock
Flock as mentioned takes the best of all these apps and improves upon them. Flock's UI was exactly what we were looking for and Flock doesn't overcharge small teams for search functional or messaging. It just offers a great product at a great price combined with great …
Chose Flock
Unlike Flock which is more official, Google Hangouts are geared towards personal communication rather than business. Flock on the other hand has many features which relate to business setting
Chose Flock
I did not like Google Hangouts. Hangouts is more geared toward personal communication instead of business related communication. Flock is also a lot easier to use and has more options related to a business setting.
Chose Flock
Our creative team collaboration pathway story went like this..We started on Facebook as a secret group. We looked for better solutions and moved to Google Docs. It was a bit too robust for smaller conversations, so we moved to flock. Flock was great but proved to be too much …
Chose Flock
Flock is similar to Glip, with only two notable differences: the gifs are worse but the reactions are slightly better. Integrations are a little better, albeit a bit confusing. For example, there is a built in video conferencing feature where you can video chat with someone, …
Ideagen Collaboration Portal
Chose Ideagen Collaboration Portal
Oh slack is more expensive and Huddle gets exactly what we need done, not much to say other than they have proven themselves and we can go confidently with them knowing if there's an issue we'll get the support we need
Chose Ideagen Collaboration Portal
We liked how simple it was to use. And the feature set it offered was more in line with our needs than the alternatives we looked at.
Chose Ideagen Collaboration Portal
Sharepoint is very flexible, but very clunky and slow when all one needs is a quick document management solution.
M-Files is a great, rich document management system, but until recently focussed less on the collaboration piece.
Chose Ideagen Collaboration Portal
Huddle is quite different from Tibbr. They serve different purposes for the most part. However, they both allow colleagues to improve their communication with one another, minimize email inbox clutter, and improve processes. We use both of these in our organization. Huddle has …
Features
FlockIdeagen Collaboration Portal
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Flock
7.6
Ratings
2% below category average
Ideagen Collaboration Portal
7.2
Ratings
7% below category average
Task Management8.30 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Scheduling9.30 Ratings4.50 Ratings
Workflow Automation7.70 Ratings4.50 Ratings
Mobile Access8.30 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Search7.30 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Visual planning tools4.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Communication
Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
Flock
8.0
Ratings
1% above category average
Ideagen Collaboration Portal
8.8
Ratings
10% above category average
Chat9.70 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Notifications9.30 Ratings4.50 Ratings
Discussions8.30 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Surveys8.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase5.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integrates with GoToMeeting10.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts8.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook6.00 Ratings9.00 Ratings
File Sharing & Management
Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
Flock
6.4
Ratings
21% below category average
Ideagen Collaboration Portal
7.6
Ratings
4% below category average
Versioning7.50 Ratings9.10 Ratings
Video files7.00 Ratings7.30 Ratings
Audio files7.00 Ratings6.40 Ratings
Document collaboration7.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Access control4.00 Ratings6.50 Ratings
Advanced security features4.00 Ratings10.00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive7.00 Ratings8.00 Ratings
Device sync7.50 Ratings7.30 Ratings
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User Ratings
FlockIdeagen Collaboration Portal
Likelihood to Recommend
9.1
(0 ratings)
9.1
(0 ratings)
Usability
9.3
(0 ratings)
8.2
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(0 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
FlockIdeagen Collaboration Portal
Likelihood to Recommend
Flock is a great communication tool. However, it's in a very competitive space. It offers seamless app integration (i.e., google calendar and drive) to allow for easy use across the platform. It's a great communication tool. However, if you don't need an overloaded app, there are other options out there. And for work purposes, it only covers some of what you need.
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If you must simultaneously edit documents on a project, Huddle is not a good option. Also, if your team is not technically savvy, the learning curve can be challenging. Finally, if you need hundreds or thousands of people working on a project, Huddle might not be the right choice. I think it is better for teams under 100 people.
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Pros
  • Networked phones are a thing of past now. We don’t have to stop what we are doing to receive phone calls currently because Flock can do that
  • It is now easy to send messages to many people at the same time, all we need to do is to add all the contants in the chat and select all to send a message
  • This software has an in-built to-do-list which allows us to assign tasks to different people or users and then supervise each independently
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  • Usability is excellent.
  • Makes it easy to track who has worked on what.
  • Makes older versions of your files available.
  • Sharing documents is super simple.
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Cons
  • A tool is only good if people use it. Some of the artists I work with found it too complex (though I don't think they really gave it a good shot).
  • We used it heavily for about six months and it didn't hit too many other big negative points.
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  • The desktop app is occasionally unreliable and it is never easy to get to the bottom of it with the tech support people...
  • Tasks are virtually useless as they have no context. We want tasks to be against documents so we can make our workflow more formal but they are not, so we don't use them. A reimplementation of to do and calendar facilities with files/documents as the context would make a huge difference to us.
  • The Huddle Office plugins are a great idea, but they cause us far too many Word and Excel crashes so we have to turn them off.
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Likelihood to Renew
We would likely to renew use of Flock for our organization since it meets most of the requirements of team collboration and communication for a small group like us. Most of our Flock users like it's features and use it extensively for day-to-day work. We are quite optimistic about it's future updates.
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Usability
It is good to give what an app deserves, Flock is very efficient and effective app to manage the all day to day activities and communicate across all team members, create groups, share files, send reminders schedule reminders for each group or persons and share notes.Pin files and search any messages from anyone with advanced filters. It's a great app.
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Huddle is very easy to use whether you are a new user or you have used it for years, it is an incredibly intuitive system that is so simple to teach to new users, the lock feature prevents important documents from being edited accidentally, while the edit features allow for true collaborative working
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Support Rating
We've only needed customer support a few times with Flock (mainly concerning app integration and security), and they've always been timely and helpful, which are the only things I truly need from support. The response rate was still rapid, and there's plenty of support available online as well for Flock.
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Alternatives Considered
Flock stands up very well against others when used for individual and group chats. It also works well with Google Drive Integration. The best part of Flock, compared with others, is in the area of File and Document sharing. The two areas it slightly lacks are voice/ video calls and search.
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Oh Slack is more expensive and Huddle gets exactly what we need done, not much to say other than they have proven themselves and we can go confidently with them knowing if there's an issue we'll get the support we need
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Return on Investment
  • Organizing notes manually has been drastically reduced. Flock folders and chats are perfect for keeping each file separate.
  • We have not missed one calendar event with Flocks integration of our Google Calendar.
  • Being able to cut out or $99/month case management software has saved a ton of money each month.
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  • This has made it a lot easier for remote workers to access important documents without needing to use the VPN at home (which does not always work).
  • It clearly shows who updated the last document and when so it is clear who you need to ask if you have questions or something.
  • We have used it in client settings, so this saves money as we do not need to request a separate client laptop or VPN token.
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