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ClickUp

ClickUp

One app to replace them all

ClickUp tries to be everything — docs, whiteboards, goals, time tracking, chat — in one platform. Ambitious and feature-rich but can feel sluggish and complex.

Panel Reviews

The Builder

The Builder

Developer Perspective

Skip

Tries to do everything, does nothing exceptionally well. Performance is noticeably slower than focused alternatives.

The Skeptic

The Skeptic

Reality Check

Skip

The 'replace everything' pitch is a red flag. Teams that adopt ClickUp spend more time configuring it than using it.

The Futurist

The Futurist

Big Picture

Ship

If they can nail performance, the all-in-one approach wins long term. Less context switching beats best-of-breed.

Community Sentiment

Overall2,642 mentions
47% positive26% neutral27% negative
Hacker News398 mentions
42%28%30%

Too many features fighting for attention — feature creep has made it genuinely slow to use

Reddit812 mentions
48%24%28%

Every team uses it differently so onboarding is a nightmare — great potential, poor defaults

Twitter/X1143 mentions
45%27%28%

The AI features are okay but the base app needs performance work before adding more bells

Product Hunt289 mentions
55%25%20%

Ambitious vision of one app for everything — execution is getting better but still rough edges