Microsoft Planner vs. Notion

Microsoft Planner

Notion

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Microsoft Planner	Score 7.6 out of 10	N/A	Microsoft Planner is presented as a solution to organize teamwork with intuitive, collaborative, visual task management. With it, users can create Kanban boards using task cards with files, checklists, and labels. Users can collaborate in Planner and Microsoft Teams and check visual status charts—all in the Microsoft cloud.	N/A
Notion	Score 8.7 out of 10	N/A	Notion aims to present users with an all-in-one workspace — for notes, tasks, wikis, and databases, from Notion Labs in San Francisco.	$0

Pricing

Microsoft Planner

Notion

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Free: $0
Plus: $12
per month per user
Business: $24
per month per user
Enterprise: Custom Pricing

Offerings

Pricing Offerings
Microsoft Planner	Notion
Free Trial
No	Yes
Free/Freemium Version
No	Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No	No

Entry-level Setup Fee

No setup fee

Additional Details

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A discount is offered for annual billing.

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Community Pulse
	Microsoft Planner	Notion
Considered Both Products	Microsoft Planner Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager Chose Microsoft Planner Our organization chose MS Planner because it is an included tool in the MS Suite, and since we are unfortunately replacing our current and much better project management tool due to a consolidation of the tech stack. However, it doesn't appear that any of the teams using the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner In my experience, Microsoft Planner has much less features and less effective than other project management tools. But, it's free and included as part of Microsoft 365, so senior management may think it's saving them money. However, the poor productivity and the inefficient … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner The Planner has a more straightforward and intuitive interface, making it ideal for teams that want to get started quickly without a steep learning curve. Additionally, Planner is more budget-friendly, making it a better option for smaller teams like mine. Additionally, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner We used Microsoft Planner because it was free to our organization but ended up paying for Asana for more features we needed for our team. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner stands out for its seamless integration with Microsoft 365, making collaboration with tools like Teams, Outlook, and SharePoint effortless. Its user-friendly interface, with drag-and-drop features and color-coded labels, simplifies task management. Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Matt Aldridge Learning Analytics Lead Chose Microsoft Planner Compared to the other options, we already had access to Microsoft Planner, preconfigured accounts, and support and ordination from tech internally to use it. We previously used Wrike, I wanted to use Asana, and other people in the organisation either used Microsoft Project, or … Incentivized Helpful? francesca turra Project Manager Chose Microsoft Planner The integration with Microsoft Teams is a must that other platform doesn't have. Incentivized Helpful? DA Deepika Arora Digital Marketer Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner was included in our package of Microsoft email. Thus, we [don't] have to pay anything separately. This is was the main reason. However, the functionality we required was similar. [Microsoft] Planner also gives a schedule calendar where we can add tasks as per … Incentivized Helpful? Quratulain Habib, PMP Partner / Director / Head of Projects Chose Microsoft Planner While Asana and Trello are mature products, Planner is getting there pretty quickly. Since our organization is on the Microsoft ecosystem, it helps to use SSO for most of the apps that are within the same license. It helps save money and does the work. For proper project … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner won out over Todoist due to it's ability to integrate other software and allow us to be able to do more work in one software. The project management functions were superior as well. Probably the biggest advantage was the task management. We liked how it worked … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Have moved to JIRA in my recent project. I can say Microsoft plan is a good option but JIRA is more powerful compare to this tool. The only thing is its integration and easy communication feature between teams or assigned groups stand it out while comparing with the similar … Incentivized Helpful? DS Darshil S Assistant Manager Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner has a clear cut edge over all the other project planning software of having its native and extensive capability of integrating with the Office 365 apps which everyone uses heavily. Also, it is highly accessible and usable to a large extent through PDAs and … Incentivized Helpful? Christie Carbone Digital Marketing Analyst Chose Microsoft Planner Pros: Communicating with all members of the plan is easy since it’s part of the Office 365 suite. This allows you to easily communicate via Outlook. You can quickly view all the tasks everyone is working across Boards Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner provides better integration with Microsoft products that are used across the organization as a whole. It provides better connection to SharePoint, MS Teams, MS Office products, and even in MS Outlook, which is the company's email client. Incentivized Helpful? Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Chose Microsoft Planner Many areas of the company still use Trello to organize their activities and tasks, but gradually Microsoft Planner must replace the activities. Users are often "attached" to familiar technologies, but Office 365 takes advantage of the more organized use of the tools. This year … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner I would recommend Planner for light project / team management with strong MS Teams integration. For a PMO / large project with resources/cost/gantt management, I would really recommend MS Project. Incentivized Helpful? John Bayerl Director of Teaching Excellence Chose Microsoft Planner I have not used any other products that serve a similar function to Microsoft Planner. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner, tho its user interface could be improved, was leaps and bounds better than TYA suite. Their user interface is difficult for many at our job site to use, especially the older generation. The decision to bring it in was largely a corporate decision. Individuals likely … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner I've used Asana and prefer it to Microsoft Planner. Asana has more functionalities than Planner and I think it is more user-friendly. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Trello is better as a one off product, but if you use the Microsoft suite then Planner integrates better into the rest of your day-to-day apps. The integration into team members' calendars and mail makes the ease of assigning tasks across our organization well worth using the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Project Incentivized Helpful? RH Richard (Ric) Hazel Strategy Planning Advisor Chose Microsoft Planner Microsoft Planner is far superior and doesn't require expensive training to give people access to it. It is far easier to customize and allows for people to add projects and milestones without the cumbersome interface that Agility offers. I would far rather use Microsoft … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner We tried to select software from various tools, and in the end we chose Planner both for economic reasons (it is included in the Microsoft 365 license we have in the company) and for its ease of use (we have no particular or specific needs, such as advanced scheduling or ticket … Incentivized Helpful? MC Micaella Cirilo Talent Acquisition Specialist Chose Microsoft Planner Main reason is that it is cost efficient because we're already using Microsoft 365 and it's literally part of the ecosystem. No need to purchase any other software. Microsoft is also a well known company, credible for providing business solutions and has a strong enterprise … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Microsoft Planner Planner is free and integrated with other Microsoft products that we use. We don't have a need for something more sophisticated given the price it would have cost to purchase licenses for a dedicated task/project mgmt tool. Incentivized Helpful?	Notion Juliana Guzzo Bertolini Operations Assistant Chose Notion because Notion is more comprehensive and offers greater possibilities. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion is far superior to OneNote. OneNote is unnecessarily complex and quite constrained by 'old ways' of doing things. Notion is a more simplistic interface and just 'works'. Incentivized Helpful? Anushka Garg Senior Associate Chose Notion Needed something outside of Microsoft Office for overall deal and project tracking and collating our collective knowledge and learnings from different deals. We have not evaluated against anything else. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I listed only the other tools we use. These are not necessarily competitors to Notion, nor we use them for the same things. For organising tasks and collaborative work we only use Notion. Slack is good for communication, Figma for design and development, while Miro for … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I like the Notion interface and possibilities. Incentivized Helpful? Julia Schaider Closer Chose Notion I tested Trello, which is great for visual tasks, but I missed something more complete. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion brought the two together with features from each that we liked being put into one place. Incentivized Helpful? Janesia Dcosta 🗓️ Freelancer Chose Notion I like Notion more than Trello and Google Sheets because it has the best parts of both. Trello is good for making lists of tasks, but it can’t do much else. Google Sheets is great for organizing data, but it can get messy. I chose Notion because I can make lists, tables, and … Incentivized Helpful? Larissa Bravim Furlan Operations Analist Chose Notion The first major difference is the ability to create formulas using other columns and even using other formulas. This increases the possibility of customization to another level. I couldn't do the same things using these other tools. The second is the infinite number of things … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I think Miro also has it's downsides but in general there is more options to illustrate one's creative ideas and workflows etc. Notion is slightly more limiting in that sense. And due to two facor authentification I also tend to work more in google sheets and google docs and … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion pretty much combines all the capabilities each one of these platforms have and just takes the most important ideas and concentrates on making them stand out. I can create a "Trello" type of timeline, and use a more traditional "Jira" or "Asana" type of waterfall view. … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion goes beyond file storage, which are what the two selected above primarily offer. Also I have used Notion for personal use cases and projects and have found it to have a really amazing user experience and UI. Microsoft products tend to fail at having a good UX. Also, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion The company uses both Notion and Trello within the company. Notion is more for North America employees while Trello is used between Operation team overseas and in North America. Sometimes it's a preference of how the tools look like for project management. I would say both … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Jira is a great tool, that is probably more robust than Notion and more scalable. But for a small company (under 50 people) the investment is hard to swallow without a significant revenue stream justifying it. Notion is a perfect low cost option that meets 80% of the … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion We found Notion to be a lot easier to use than ClickUp. They offer a similar feature set, but ClickUp was a lot less user-friendly in my opinion. We also tried Trello and Todoist, but found they were just lacking the features we needed. We still use Trello for some internal … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion's flexibility and extensive customization options make it the perfect tool for my personal organization. I appreciate not being confined to a single format, and I find that the process of personalizing my workspace sparks creativity, which is a great asset for managing … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion is the most in depth of all of the above applications. You can make a simple to-do list and share it with other people, or dive deep into formulas and page linking. I appreciate that it does not take a large time to set up like Monday.com, but it still offers a huge … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion Notion has a powerful feature, and it is their templates within databases. They allow our operation to flow seamlessly and create new tasks with defined subtasks in seconds. Incentivized Helpful? Sebastian Paredes Smith Researcher Chose Notion not nearly as useful, it is just a file organiser tool but Notion has the functionality of creating many thing in one page, allowing to include more pages and link with other spaces. such as Miro, google drive, calendar, etc Integration is part of what makes Notion the best … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion A lot more features for collaboration and sharing information. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I think that Notion adds a better user experience which is more customisable. Some of these apps are really rigid and dont give youthe flexability that Notion does. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I found that Notion offered the most versatility. In particular it allowed me to super easily format and reformat information depending on how I was using it. This has proven incredibly useful. And has allowed me to store various types of information all in the same place. Incentivized Helpful? Long Nguyen Vu Research Engineer Chose Notion Notion is less complicated than ClickUp and more user friendly, especially for those who prefer simplicity. I am aware that ClickUp does offer simple template and let us scale it but Notion is one step ahead because of the UI design is easier to use. I like Confluence at work … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion I've used Evernote in the past and currently use Asana alongside Notion, so I can compare them based on my experience. Notion is much more flexible than Evernote. While Evernote is great for basic note-taking, Notion allows me to structure my notes with nested pages, databases, … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Anonymous Chose Notion We were using Nation for the whole company and it's amazing, however, for the CS team with the tech/ops we are using Trello. As a CS & Operation manager, the reminders/alarms/notifications are the most important for handling time and minimizing the SLAs, so I created automation … Incentivized Helpful?

Features

Microsoft Planner

Notion

Project Management

Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Planner - Ratings	Notion 9.9 Ratings 25% above category average
Task Management	00 Ratings	9.50 Ratings
Gantt Charts	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Scheduling	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Workflow Automation	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Mobile Access	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Search	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Visual planning tools	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

Communication

Comparison of Communication features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Planner - Ratings	Notion 9.6 Ratings 19% above category average
Chat	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Notifications	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Discussions	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Surveys	00 Ratings	9.30 Ratings
Internal knowledgebase	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Integrates with Gmail and Google Hangouts	00 Ratings	8.90 Ratings
Integrates with Outlook	00 Ratings	9.00 Ratings

File Sharing & Management

Comparison of File Sharing & Management features of Product A and Product B
	Microsoft Planner - Ratings	Notion 9.9 Ratings 23% above category average
Versioning	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Video files	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Audio files	00 Ratings	9.90 Ratings
Document collaboration	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Access control	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Advanced security features	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings
Integrates with Google Drive	00 Ratings	9.20 Ratings
Device sync	00 Ratings	10.00 Ratings

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User Ratings
	Microsoft Planner	Notion
Likelihood to Recommend	7.5 (0 ratings)	8.3 (0 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	3.0 (0 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Usability	7.8 (0 ratings)	10.0 (0 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Microsoft Planner	Notion
Likelihood to Recommend	Microsoft Planner is a user-friendly visual tool for organizing tasks and workflows. It’s great for team collaboration, integrates seamlessly with Microsoft 365 tools like Teams and Outlook, and offers flexibility for projects of all sizes. Additionally, it provides mobile and web access for seamless productivity on the go. That’s a big plus right there. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	At the company I work for, we use Notion as an organizational base for all sectors and projects. For example, we use it for the marketing team, customer support team, among others. And for each one, we can create pipelines, tasks, due dates, execution time, tags with different colors. It's something very versatile that helps with everything around here. We've even created a sales funnel in Notion. Incentivized Larissa Bravim Furlan Operations Analist Read full review
Pros	I love the ability to tag and untag others as needed I love the ability to customize the tag labels and that there are so many options I love the ability to add comments and it notifies the others tagged in the task I love that the task description can be changed as needed without notification to others assigned to the task Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	I love that you can create nested pages, allowing for separate sections to organize information as needed. I appreciate the convenience of effortlessly uploading images to any section. I appreciate that when adding links, you can embed them so the website displays directly on the page. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	Does not allow you to view all tasks and sub-tasks (checklist) in a nested view. Comments have character limits that can make it harder for teams to communicate exactly what they want to share. There is no way to mention a teammate in a comment and share files and documents in the conversation (collaborative tool???). Fernanda Ministerio Especialista de Desenvolvimento Industrial Read full review	I use Notion on my personal tablet, and unlike on the computer, I have a lot of difficulty editing backgrounds, GIFs, and page dividers. It's not as user-friendly, and often the elements end up cut off or misaligned, which is frustrating. While the current calendar feature is helpful, I'd love to see more customization options. The Google Calendar style isn't always ideal, especially for tasks without specific times or for ongoing projects that require daily maintenance. It would be fantastic to have more flexibility in customizing Notion pages. For example, I'd love to create planners with the freedom to add illustration boxes, stickers, or GIFs without being restricted to a fixed layout. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Likelihood to Renew	It is a very useful tool that brings teams in sync with one another. The integration with other Microsoft products makes it an obvious choice because you don't have to purchase a license for a completely different tool that doesn't have cross-functional capabilities with the software you already use on a daily basis. Incentivized Richard (Ric) Hazel Strategy Planning Advisor Read full review	We're too settled in the ecosystem and we have no major complaints with it. No reason to move unless you have a burning pain point Incentivized Mantra Manan Saraswat Product Manager Read full review
Usability	The tool is easy to use, but it is just as easy to set up. No specific skills are required, but its usefulness in our work is immediately apparent. Colors are very helpful in creating a clear interface and providing a very precise overview of the tasks to be performed. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review	Notion addresses most of our needs and help teams to organize their tasks, track their progresses and then archive for future reference. The company uses Notion to share announcement, holiday schedules, employee contact information and organizational structures. Everyone finds it useful and helpful. The notifications are instant. Reminders are on time. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Our organization chose MS Planner because it is an included tool in the MS Suite, and since we are unfortunately replacing our current and much better project management tool due to a consolidation of the tech stack. However, it doesn't appear that any of the teams using the current program intend to use MS Planner due to its poor functionality. We will likely be pivoting to Jira instead. Incentivized Brandon Stokes Global Revenue Enablement Manager Read full review	Notion is much more robust than Google Tasks, which I find very limited. Notion is far more customizable and affordable than Asana, which is more of a turnkey solution for teams that want to work within a pre-defined structure. Notion and ClickUp are comparable, in my opinion, in terms of task management and affordability, however Notion is the more customizable and expansive option whereas ClickUp is mostly just for task management. Incentivized April Jordan CMO Read full review
Return on Investment	Saved over $1000 each year by not having to purchase a third party tool for our content planning Not sure that I can provide a hard number to this, but having the oversight to see when something is coming due and making sure everything gets executed in time Incentivized Christie Carbone Digital Marketing Analyst Read full review	It has streamlined our processes across various teams to all work from a signle source of truth Maintaining this source of truth is a full time job It has reduced our overall tool set by completely eliminating two other softwares we were paying for Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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