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Coda Overview

What is Coda?

Coda is the all-in-one digital workspace that blends the flexibility of docs, the structure of spreadsheets, the power of applications, and the intelligence of AI—built for the Enterprise. Coda starts with a blinking cursor on a blank page and can grow as big as your team's ambition. And it comes with a set of building blocksーlike pages for infinite depth, tables that talk to each other, and buttons that take action inside or outside your docーso anyone can make a doc as powerful as an app. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products to scale businesses. What will you Coda?

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Coda is a new doc that grows with your ideas. People have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Businesses have run on docs, sheets, and presentations for decades without much innovation. Coda aims to change that.

With Coda, you don’t have to decide on a form factor before getting started. You can have text, tables and visuals on a single page.

While Coda is often compared to “out of the box” vertical solutions for team needs like project management, knowledge hubs, or databases, Coda provides the flexibility to scale down to a team’s simplest cases (like quickly taking notes), and scale up to handle every team’s unique workflows and practices.

With connectivity to third-party apps your team uses every day via Coda Packs and the Coda API, Coda is the “all-in-one doc” for all your rituals—from strategic planning and meeting cadence, to team and individual productivity.


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Coda
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Year Founded
2014
HQ Location
San Francisco, California
Twitter
@coda_hq
22,165 Twitter followers
LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
290 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Coda started in
014 with a simple observation: In a world full of pre-built tools and applications, why do documents and spreadsheets seem to run the world? The founding Coda team crossed paths at Google, YouTube, and Microsoft, where they saw their teams stretch the limits of what spreadsheets and documents can do. Then in
014, they banded together to build the doc they always wanted. One that erased the boundaries between words and data. And where everyone could work together, in their own way, off the same data. Coda. It's a new day for docs. Learn more at https://coda.io.


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What do you like best about Coda?

You can combine text documents and tables in one space. No need to open separate documents. You can use various combinations of views and options and formulas to virtually create any kinds of documents from simple text to project management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

There are still some rooms to improve at the UI and UX part. It would be nice if users can navigate documents like they navigate files and folders using a file explorer. And for first-time users, there is a bit of learning curve to be able to use Coda optimally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Coda:

If you are tired of using many apps to do and manage your job, try Coda. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Instead of opening many applications, now I can work (almost) solely using Coda. From managing a daily to-do list to managing student's scores and attendance to planning classes to preparing teaching materials. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MB
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What do you like best about Coda?

I've been able thanks to coda to fully develop a complex nutritional app with many many features.

Developing the same project using the average path would have take me at least 50.000$ of developers, designers, marketers, ecc.

In some month i've builded the entire app by myself and in the next year i've made it the most versatile and one of the most complete nutritional app for pets in the market, creating innovation from nothing nearly free.

This innovation will follow my project in all his aspect, to give an example, it's from day one mobile friendly, so if coda update my app is updated in the same time!

And coda team is really open to listen to all different user cases in the community or by support chat Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

What i do not like about coda is that they are a little bit too much business-oriented app-maker.

What do i mean is that because of this initial first phase out of the beta coda needed paying people, they have started preparing special features intended for those category of users, that in my opinion greatly limits the makers (who that makes app on coda) who are not managing their business but instead that have created their business in coda, giving them less update and less focused on the real app-building and more on integrations with various service to better manage your company (that it's surely nice for many people but not for pet's nutritionist) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Coda:

Try coda, the first few weeks can be a little "harder" because of the learning curve but then you'll really feel empowered whatever type of data you have! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Thanks to coda i have been finally able to meet my dream-goal of creating a complex but modern applicative to put pet's nutrition into the hand of their parents again, helping those people to verify and manage effortless all the technical data of their pets.

I've searched every possible alternative solution before choosing coda, and no other "app maker" or "no-code software creator" have a comparable incredibly modern approach in their development philosophy, and this aspect is finally reflected in my app, so yeah that's an important one!

From the technical point of view coda allowed me to manage 3 complete big dataset of nutritional values of many many rows and columns, and to elaborate those into recipes to have full insight into foods and all of his nutrients, allowing users to save those in their profile (who is completed with notifications, social actions between users, all their pets and recipes and personal ingredients ecc)

Then i've generated really complex (and dynamic) reports from those datas that can be used also by professionals on the field

This is an important point because i was not only able to finally replace the spreadsheet by also to create a better tool for professionals!

Least but no last all of those magic things are completely editable by anyone, actually creating the possibility for everyone to improve this app without any experience in coding or developing, way easier than what they would have done on excel.

For me coda is that irreplaceable, giving me this amazing opportunity to create a business opportunity all by myself, in no other way i could reach the same goals, so yeah, try coda and in a certain moment you'll realize that you are thinking "in coda terms" wherever you see datas (form your library to your favourite breakfast, passing from your music library and your friends, personally i've also helped every people i've introduced coda to, and all of them agreed that it's a game changer, to be more precise i've use coda also to plan an innovative 3000+ people music festival in nearly all of his aspect and to manage an alternative eco-friendly community of artists in all of their works (just to say, people managing, event attendences, analytics of people flow, managing of the greeny in the vegetable garden)

Possibilities are limitless with coda and you will never-ever-ever use excel anymore if not to prepare your data to get them on coda, your friends will like it too! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MT
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What do you like best about Coda?

I never learned to code seriously and since life is hectic and I am always pressed for time, I thought that the world of programming and app making would always be out of reach. I took a dip in Coda when it was still in beta and since then I am amazed at all the things I have managed to do.

I feel like I have a full stack developer working in the background making things work, connecting databases, services, doing magical things that I may never understand. All the while, I can create powerful little apps that meet my goals in very little time. Everything works surprisingly smoothly. And I still can't code outside of Coda.

To sum up, I think my favourite things are: speed and efficiency of developing new apps, ease of using and connecting multiple databases. This includes internal databases and external sources, e.g. Shopify, Gmail. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

Sometimes very complex databases and calculations can slow down a doc. But things have been getting faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Coda:

Making multiple views of tables is a joy. Create temporary views to achieve specific goals while you code, then delete them, so zen. With filter() and lookup() you can do magic. Then play with FormulaMap() and you feel like you are levitating. :) I'm not a programmer, so all these has felt like I have super powers now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

There's two broad categories of apps I have made for my team: data management and automation of repetitive tasks.

We have a bunch of apps to better manage internal data and organise, e.g. a database of all our products, a calendar to manage holiday leave, an app to manage customer returns (that connects with a Google form), some specific apps for developing and managing marketing material. These are persistent apps that keep evolving. Some, like the product database, used to be a collection of spreadsheets where we collected SKUs, barcodes, etc before we could input them in our ecommerce and so on. Now the product database is a vibrant app full of functionality and little quality of life features. It's connected with Shopify, can auto-generate SKUs, auto-asign barcodes and generate vector art for them, all sorts of fun stuff. Essentially, we have patched all the little functionality holes that our ecommerce and inventory control software had.

The other category of automation apps revolves around processing data, usually CSVs that are passed on to us by partner companies (e.g. fulfilment centre) and data exports and processing for bookkeeping (e.g. importing data into our tax software). We used to have to process CSVs in Libre Office, nothing else to do when all we had was a CSV. Now in Coda, we copy the data in an app and press a button. Data is processed exactly as we want it and we can save it to a CSV if we need to to pass into other software. We are saving tens of hours every month while keeping sane.

On a side note, I also use Coda a lot for personal uses: a journal, a movie list, lots of apps to support my pen and paper RPG hobby (where I have spent too much time making a monster app that keeps track of too many things! great fun and upped my coding skill). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RM
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What do you like best about Coda?

What I like most about Coda is the rare combination of power and ease of use. Coda tables can do everything spreadsheets can do, but they hold your hand the whole way through and streamline the creation process. It's actually very difficult to make a mistake as you create. And for advanced users, Coda's formula language combined with controls on the canvas and data in your tables will not stop you from any custom solution you can think of. It is far more powerful than Notion, Coda's lookalike. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

Coda is pretty plain to look at. Most views of your data will be skinny grey separator lines, and the "details" view could use a makeover. There is little you can do to customize the look of it beyond changing a few colours (unless you are willing to get into the CSS).

Secondly, the app is simply a wrapper around the mobile web-app, which could definitely use some improvement for usability.

Thirdly, although Coda allows "locking" at the page-level (on Team subscription and upward), there is no easy way to set granular user permissions in a given doc. Only "view" or "edit". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Coda:

Coda is the best at what it does. If you are looking to build custom workflows and/or empower non-technical users to build custom workflows with structured data, Coda is the way to go.

However, if you need a spiffy mobile app, Coda is limited there (at the time of writing). You should look for custom-app-making solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coda is so flexible, powerful, and easy to use that I have started using to to track just about everything that fits into a relational database.

I am using Coda for:

* Personal Task Manager

* CRM

* HR Dashboard

* Company Knowledge Base

* Interactive Training Manual

* Book a meeting with me

In each of these diverse cases, I am able to get Coda to do exactly what I want it to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Non-Profit Organization Management
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What do you like best about Coda?

That i could contact people to help me and they would answer right away! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

I dont have a comparison, of course coding stuff was a bit clumsy in the beginning but i am sure this was on me :D Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

I could code a random image selector that is super helpful to prototype a new product (and i will continue working on it) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Coda?

Coda centralizes the project management for projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

Most engineers are used to and enjoy the functionality in google drive so adoption on the team has been slow for some. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coda helps centralize notes, planning, etc. Docs can easily get lost within Google Drive and links can become overwhelming. Structuring within coda enables the team to jump to the section and content needed much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Coda?

The ability to create workflows and connect/deliver information from/to multiple apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

page scrolling performance and minor UX buginess Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Central store of information, ability to create simple databases Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Real Estate
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What do you like best about Coda?

love the ability to add different types of pages, tables, etc Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

harder to use tables like excel or google sheets Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

team collaboration and organization Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Relations
UG
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Coda?

The platform offers a degree of personalization and connectivity that are essential for my daily work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

Sometimes the platform gets a little slow, but we have already received tips and guidance from the Coda support team on how to improve our document and navigability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

We centralize documents and information, horizontalizing the organization's knowledge in a single space. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SV
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Coda?

The flexibility and ability to share content with different stakeholders in ways useful to them. It's easy to get people started by sharing a document you have been working on then your team is able to quickly pick it up and start creating things on their own. The next evolution of google sheets for our team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Coda?

Its a little pricey so you have to sell the rest of your team on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Coda:

Its totally worth the early leaning curve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Coda solving and how is that benefiting you?

Access to various forms of documentation related to health care in ways that each stakeholder can use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.