Kintone is a customizable project planning platform used by teams from Volvo Trucks North America, Japan Airlines, Shiseido and more than 23,000 organizations worldwide. Their unique approach to project and task management allows you to create many customizable “apps” from scratch using templates or existing spreadsheets to manage data, business processes and workflows. Kintone applications can be customized for project management, CRM sales, customer databases, expense reports, general to-do lists, equipment management, product reviews and more.

Applications can be created either from scratch using templates or from existing spreadsheets to manage data, business processes and workflows. Kintone applications can be customized for project management, CRM sales, customer databases, expense reports, general to-do lists, equipment management, product recalls, and more.

Kintone allows you to create flexible project management applications by dragging and dropping the elements you want to see on the page: formatted text fields, date fields, drop-down menus, numeric fields with embedded calculations, attachment spaces, user or group selections. menus, linked data from other applications, tables, etc. Your flexible project management solution can look and work the way you want it to.

What makes Kintone particularly useful for agile project management is that it allows project managers to track all aspects of their project, from individual tasks and project data to workflows and communications, and then use the results to quickly improve their processes as they go. Because end users are also application developers, feedback loops are instant, continuous and actionable.

There are so many ways to set up Kintone that it can be hard to know where to start. Read the starter blog ” What can you build with Kintone? “or check out “Building an App from the Ground Up” to see how the drag and drop builder works.

Kintone allows you to expand with both free native plugins created by the Kintone team and integration with other tools like Slack, Gmail, Google Calendar, Outlook, Tableau, Dropbox, Salesforce, HubSpot, Eventbrite, WordPress, QuickBooks, MailChimp, and many more through a paid plan with Zapier or through API integration.

Kintone costs $24 per user per month with a minimum requirement of 5 users. They offer a 30-day free trial (no credit card required) and discounts for nonprofits and educators. The Kintone team also offers a free custom build of the app as part of the free trial.