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What do you like best about HowNow?

All the helpful implementation support, price per ID, stylish and user friendly interface, easy to use and manage, very quick to add the additional ID's, smooth system functionarities Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

Japanese translations are not up to the Japanese standard, need improvement for the type of the assessment (test) to be created, more graphical and easy to use analytical functions to enhance the access of the participants Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

How to categorize and hierarchization of the courses, how to categorize the learners (with group), the importance to check and see the access rate of the learners Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

HowNow Overview

What is HowNow?

HowNow is one of the fastest-growing learning platforms in Europe, trusted by 10,000+ teams, including UK Government, Trainline, Checkout.com, Investec, Depop, and Mercer. Our mission? To make meaningful learning a seamless part of everyday work.   With HowNow, you can create, discover, track, and manage all your learning and skills in one, smart platform. Feels like magic but it's powered by AI. Pull scattered knowledge with one search, close skills gaps with AI-powered insights, and seamlessly integrate with your existing tech stack. Everything you need to empower your workforce, in the flow of work. Your one home for learning and skills. Level up your content game with HowNow+. A world-class subscription of 10,000+ learning resources, from 40+ different specialise providers in a single subscription, built into HowNow.

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Catalan, Welsh, Danish, German, Greek, English, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)
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HowNow is a smart learning and knowledge sharing platform that empowers teams to have the knowledge they need when they need it.


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Year Founded
2016
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The learning experience platform that helps fast-growing companies engage employees with personalised and collaborative learning, everywhere they work. Smart, fast and beautifully simple. It’s how people learn now.


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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great LMS with practical functionality"
Very user friendly, good spectrum of functionality, continually evolving roadmap with improvements. Customer service is brilliant!
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Alberto G.Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Easy to use and great customer service"
The options available. I really enjoy have the HowNow+ catalogue it helps with the curations of content. And the customers service is very responsive
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
3.5 out of 5
"User friendly tool and great customer service"
The look and feel is nice withouth being tiring and over the top, the tool is simple enough to use as an admin and the customer service from accoun...
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HowNow Media

HowNow Demo - One home for all your learning
Give your people everything they need to learn and grow under one virtual roof. No more “it’s too hard to find” excuses.
HowNow Demo - Create like a boss
No more tedious courses or bland pathways - Mix and match text, images, videos, GIFs, code snippets, quizzes, and SCORM files, and leave your learners wanting more!
HowNow Demo - Level up your content game.
Get world-class learning content from trusted providers, all in one place. No more juggling multiple providers or invoices.
HowNow Demo - Grow with the flow.
Deliver relevant learning to every employee when they’re most likely to apply it - in the apps where they work. More engagement, less context-switching.
HowNow Demo - With great power comes great insights.
Say goodbye to report-running fatigue and hello to our one-stop shop for all your L&D data needs.
HowNow Demo - Map and Measure Skills
HowNow AI will give you the jumpstart to create a rich and detailed Skills Profile for every single employee, and then map those skills back to all your learning resources.
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What do you like best about HowNow?

The options available. I really enjoy have the HowNow+ catalogue it helps with the curations of content. And the customers service is very responsive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

I would like to see an update to the pathways. Make it more streamlined. Being able to add badges/certificates to pathwyas would be nice for gamification.

I would also like to see an update to the assessments. To be able to add other question types like mix and match or likert scale type of questions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is providing an opportunity for our employees to develop and upskill. We have been using the platform to assist with manager development as part of our first pathways.

We plan to use the platform for new hire onboarding to assist us with the 30-60-90 day plans. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Angela T.
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Senior Learning and Development Business Partner
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What do you like best about HowNow?

We've had a fantastic account team who have helped us implement HowNow into the business. Our cusotmer experience manager is fantastic and nothing is too much trouble. She's able to understand our business issues and provide solutions that help adapt the platform to our needs. We've just recently launched the platform and the system is easy to use and works great for most of our colleagues. HowNow works amazingly with Bob and has therefore been easy to implement. I love how I can assign learning via our internal groups and departments. They have an awesome team to help with issues and the response time is incredible. Everyone at HowNow is absolutely brilliant and focused on cusotmer satsifaction and improving learning in our organisation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

Some of the HowNow+ content isnt suitable (i.e. tone/style/ different culture/ inappropriate humour etc) and sometimes there are loading issues but these do generally get resolved quickly and no platfomr is fault free :). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are now providing accessible, relevant developmental content to all of our colleasgues who have only ever had 'mandatory' boring elearning to do. HowNow opens this up to a whole world of learning that really allows the colleague to be in the driving seat of what they want to learn/develop.

It allows us to keep our learning in one place and meets lots of needs.

We have channels to section off the differnet needs of the business which is fantastic. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Charlotte F.
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Learning Business Partner
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What do you like best about HowNow?

The team at HowNow have been amazing to partner with. They've made what was quite a daunting, high profile project land effortlessly.

The platform itself is intuitive, easy to use and offers a number of incredible features that help truly personalise learning for the end user without leaving them feeling overwhelemed. The ability to bring learning to the learner in the flow of work is game changing, and supports the evolution of how we learn now ;-)

The Customer Support team have been incredible to work with, adding huge amounts of value to the project. They really do go above and beyond to ensure you have the support you need to deliver. The team have also dealt with any queries or challenges amazingly, responding to issues in no time at all. Their change runway is really exciting to see and is built all around feedback from the end user making the enhancements to the platform relevant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

There are some enhancements that could be made around organisation of content and data and reporting but they already have this on their runway. And anything that hasn't been thought of they are happy to review and provide a portal for how customers can make suggestions for improvements.

I'd also like to see more content in a variety of different languages. Identifying this through the content catalogue can be quite tricky. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We are a small team within a global business so implementing HowNow is helping us scale our learning solutions. It's also enabling learers to access learning at the moments that matter to them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harriet P.
HP
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What do you like best about HowNow?

HowNow is a real joy to partner with. Their customer-centricity is outstanding and they are responsive to feedback - their "Canny" feedback site allows you to suggest/upvote product improvements which they interact with regularly and they also provide great transparency on their roadmap.

They regularly innovate and it's exciting to partner with such a modern, agile organisation. The release of their learning pathways is a recent favourite.

HowNow really "get" learning - e.g. they take the learning to where the *learners* are with integrations with the browswer, or Slack etc. - it makes access to upskilling far more seamless. Their nuggets (short, bitesized content) are great, too, as they allow for microlearning. The site is simple to use, so it's really easy for our colleagues to create upskilling on it, even if they're not specialists. The channels are helpful and it's fun, modern and fresh.

Their smart, authentic team constantly impress and they will also go the extra mile to build great relationships and continuously add value, providing high-quality insights into L&D best practice with their podcast, L&D Disrupt, and learning events like HowNow Hacks.

This modern, responsive LXP is a world apart from our old LMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

Unsurprisingly, the team is 'on it' with addressing downsides in their roadmap. The biggest one that they are addressing for us is getting better data analysis capability. They're also finessing channels (which we need to be more organised). I'm sure soon they'll give L&D teams "super admin" rights to be able to edit another's content and hopefully they'll also look into UI a little more (e.g. we do need a better way for learners to distinguish between content types - it would be helpful to be able to visually signpost that something is a podcast versus article versus workshop for instance). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Frictionless access to varied, modern and exciting learning experiences in a single place. Ease of our many subject matter experts creating and sharing content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HowNow?

Our end users love the interface and ease of use in HowNow, as well as all the tools and reporting options. We have had such a great overall experience since we started using the system. And from an internal/adm,in perspective, the support and guidance we have recieved from Lulu, Alfie and James has been phenomenal. They are alwasy there when we need them, not only supporting us from a technical perspective, but from an L&D strategy perspective as well. They communicate in a timely manner, which is important to us, and they always keep us up to date with new features and functionality. HowNow takes feedback from their customers and actions it. Their roadmap is awesome. A+ to HowNow in every respoect, thanks! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

Their are certain features that we needed but did not have, like Pathways, but now the functionality exists. The roadblocks we encounter and minor, so nothing really to dislike about HowNow Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

How now is helping us solve compliance learning issues and tracking, and it benfits us by passing our yearly compliance audits. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

LC
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What do you like best about HowNow?

HowNow is an incredibly intuitive platform. We implemented around 1 year ago and recently had our first mandatory training administrated through HowNow. We had very few queries from users about access. The customer success team are amazing. They are helpful, quick to respond, flexible and really friendly. They understand what we are trying to achieve as an organisation and work with us to set meaningful goals. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

There are some additional features that would be helpful, but HowNow has their roadmap where customers can see what is in the pipeline and we have direct influence on the things that are most useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Bringing learning together in one place. Helping communication within the organisation. This is benefiting the organisation through shared understanding and building a learning culture. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Alfie from HowNow Gardner of HowNow

Hi Louise, thank you so much for your lovely review!

I'm so pleased to hear that HowNow has been instrumental in building a learning culture within your organization and that we're helping you to improve communication and bring learning together under one roof.

I also really value your input on features, and we're committed to incorporating customer feedback into our product roadmap as you know!

CC
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What do you like best about HowNow?

The support from the HowNow team has been amazing, they are super responsive and helpful throughout all of our interactions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

We have HowNow+, one of the downsides, is the fact that we have to upload the content to our LMS for our employees to have access to, versus the employees just having upfront access to all of the content right away. This is different than how other content platforms have functioned, like Coursera and LinkedIn Learning where employees can just search for content to learn about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The problem was that our employees needed an outlet for learning and development, and HowNow benefits us by providing content that are employees can use to further their skillset and knowledge. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Anny Erfjord L.
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Employee Engagement Officer
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What do you like best about HowNow?

Thanks to the HowNow team for professional and personal support provided. The platform is very userfriendly and a easy to use platform to make own learning content and source content from a range of differnet e-learning providers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

It would be good to have a support call function as the support chat is not always as convenient as actully talking to someone. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use HowNow to both build or company training, in addtion to more general e-learning content on wellbeing or report writing. It is easy to enable professional learning experiences for employees, and follow up on reminders og report on completion. Managers and technical team members can get access to set up their own training which is also very useful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Pharmaceuticals
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What do you like best about HowNow?

Very user friendly, good spectrum of functionality, continually evolving roadmap with improvements. Customer service is brilliant! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

The content authoring is still in its infancy but confident that improvements are on the horiozon! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Having all our L&D content in one place in an easy to use platform for all employees. It has a great course catalogue of e-learning material which means we dont need to use third parties too. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ellie M.
EM
Human Resources Advisor
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about HowNow?

I like how easy it is to upload, categorise and organise learning topics in bite-size modules Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about HowNow?

It can be a bit awkward to navigate as an admin and interface could be more snazzy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Our learning resources were were disorganised before and now we have a central space where staff can find resources quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.