Favro

I use Favro for personal planning, since I am able to stack timelines of varying length to allow me to easily plan from long-term to weekly tasks. I mostly use the browser version , which has a great user interface and looks great in NightEye’s dark mode in Chrome. That being said, the inability to touch the timeline and create a new task is frustrating. I have to pre-stage blank tasks, and if I forget to do that, I am writing things down and adding them to the timeline later. Additionally, would be great to see it have its own native dark mode, so that I can use all the colors for my timelines, and the text doesn’t get washed out.

The Favro website is good. Overall I find the Favro service too complex. Trello is much more straight forward. Jira and MS Teams are more feature rich. Coda and Monday have similar services and better mobile apps. The main features I find missing are personal dashboards and custom personal views of Boards and Backlogs. Specifically the mobile apps are busted, unorganized, and poorly maintained. If you’re in a meeting you’ll need a laptop to triage. Right now there is a bug where menus don’t close. You need to force quit the app to regain control. I’ve been checking back on the mobile apps for over a year and there have been changes but no improvements.

I love Favro for organizing work and personal tasks, but the mobile app is abysmal. It takes forever to load and there’s been no improvement in that area over several updates. Viewing on a mobile browser is a better (not by much) experience.