Localist vs Toggl Plan

We looked at many different event software solutions before deciding on Localist. It's a great product, and the customer service is unparalleled.

- Nicky E. Associate Director of Digital Media

I'm very familiar with Localist after having used it for a few years so I'm reluctant to change to a different email merge system but I do find it to be user-friendly and easy to introduce people to.

- Raymond R. Web Designer

In our particular application, there just isn't very much traffic. The idea of a dedicated event calendar can feel like too much when everyone already uses their own CRM or email lists to communicate about events. More flexible integrations would be a nice feature, like if Localist could pull in events automatically from third-party CRMs. Customizeable reminder messages and follow-up messaging would also add value.

- Craig B. Assistant Director

“What I like about Toggl Plan is that you don't have to jump in and be fully committed, it's a tool that can grow with you.”

- Jim Walton Managing Director of Ascend Studio

“Managing team workloads in spreadsheets was a nightmare. Toggl Plan makes it easy to see everyone's schedule in one place.”

- Piers Tincknell Cofounder of Atomic Smash

I give Toggl Plan a four out of five stars. We were looking at ways to get Gantt charts and do our planning and project management software was something we looked at, but it was overly complex and spreadsheets were overly limited. The primary reason where we chose Toggl was simplicity and ease of use, because I did not want something complicated that other team members were going to resist taking onboard. So I wanted something simple, straightforward, and not too many features that we didn't need, and Toggl provided that. Toggl Plan was easy to integrate because it is fairly free-standing and we could start using it out of the box. So it worked well. It was easy to get up to speed with it and most of the integrations simply happen through email reminders and connectivity with Google products. So if you're considering using Toggl Plan, I would say, keep in mind that you'll need to invest for the paid version if you're going to use it at high level of management and go all in and use a lot of different plans. If you're going to use the free version, you're going to have to use it as an independent operator for your own plan. So keep that in mind as you evaluate it. You're also going to want to use it, if you want that simple solution, which cuts through all the complexity of a project management software and just gives you a nice Gantt chart with color coding and the basic features that you need to get work in and collaborating as a team, it does that.

- Tulio B.