Planview LeanKit Reviews in July 2026: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

MIGRATED TO Planview AdaptiveWork

Use LeanKit everyday and it's great

What do you like best? I like the Kanban veiw of cards and backlogged items. What do you dislike? It can get very crowded and confusing with all the cards. Recommendations to others considering the product: Make sure there is a business owner or gatekeeper managing all the cards or it can get very confusing. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Biggest benefit is managing backlog of work.

LeanKit has been a wonderful tool to help organize and visualize our work in progress.

What do you like best? I love the ability to assign cards to users and that data can be directly created while in LeanKit. What do you dislike? I do wish the type of data pulls available were more customizable. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We are able to work using the Agile method and run Sprints successfully and visually appealing with the LeanKit tool.

Great tool for Daily Management Planning!

What do you like best? Very user friendly and accessible by multiple users. What do you dislike? There is nothing I do not like about this tool. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? LeanKit allows our business to keep a pulse of current projects and activities. It helps us to see where bottlenecks exist and how we can manage that.

Lean and Planned

What do you like best? Being able to manage different types of tasks through cards and boards. Adding comments and being able to upload documents for a card is another great functionality provided by LeanKit. The support to define child cards along with being able to see the history of a card is an added advantage. What do you dislike? Not being able to mark a card as duplicate as in if two cards have been created for the same purpose there should be a straightforward way to mark a ...

LeanKit Rocks

What do you like best? I like the fact that you can plan your big ideas and are then able to drill down by using child cards. I also love that their is an attachment tab to allow you to save would findings or work completed. What do you dislike? the limitations that are given depending on your role or authority level access. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Automation process of our mundane/tedious level of work in our ...

Excellent company organization

What do you like best? Allows remote working to successfully occur within a company and allows each user to know what everyone else is currently working on What do you dislike? I would like to have larger attachments within each card or a download feature for convenience of file aharing What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Assigning users to each card avoids most problems

plan management and iteration implement

What do you like best? we can learn the current stage of a project, easily creat small task cards and review them with our team, manage all issue cards with different priority, pay more attention to solve urgent thing What do you dislike? a lot of invaild message send to the user if someone changes the card. If someone block a card, i want the total time for this card don't take this status into account. Recommendations to others considering the product: It is convenient ...

Clinical Engineer 4

What do you like best? LeanKit is a great way to organize team projects. We love the fact that you can color code and create cards straight form e-mail. The new changes to the Board Layout editor make it easy to create and clone swimlanes. What do you dislike? I wish you could lock a row across multiple column so that they always lined up no matter how many cards were in each. Signing up for E-mail subscriptions to boards or cards is not intuitive. Also, we should get e-mail ...

Works great, easy to use

What do you like best? Drag and drop functionality is easy. Layout is easy to use. I like being able to collapse the boards. What do you dislike? Attaching files/pictures to stories would be nice What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? Scrum planning

Fast and Easy

What do you like best? Leankit makes our Agile environment more... agile! It's a great way to get our projects recorded, prioritized, and worked. What do you dislike? Licensing cost is high and may result in competition at a later date. What problems are you solving with the product? What benefits have you realized? We utilize Leankit to drive our projects. When new project ideas come up, we place them immediately in Leankit for future prioritization. During biweekly ...