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Overview

Product Information on Hive

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Hive?

Hive is a project management software designed to streamline collaboration and workflow for teams of various sizes. The software offers features such as task tracking, project planning, time management, file sharing, and communication tools within a centralized platform. It integrates with email, calendar, and popular third-party applications to facilitate seamless coordination and real-time updates. Hive provides customizable dashboards and analytics to help organizations monitor progress, allocate resources, and manage deadlines. The software aims to simplify complex project workflows and enhance transparency, allowing businesses to address challenges related to productivity and team alignment.

Hive Pricing

Hive software utilizes a subscription-based pricing model with multiple plans distinguished by feature availability and user limits. The core structure includes monthly or annual payments per user, with varying tiers that offer additional functionalities such as integrations, analytics and automation tools. A free trial option is typically available, allowing users to evaluate the software before committing to a paid plan.

Overall experience with Hive

Marketing Associate
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Powerful Platform for managing campaigns and Team collaboration”

4.0
Apr 15, 2026
My overall experience with Hive as a marketer has been positive. It has made it much easier to plan, execute and track marketing campaigns in one place. I especially like the the project views in kanban and calendar, which helped me to manage content schedules, campaign timelines and team deliverables efficiently. It has improved collaboration between our internal teams like designers, content writers and stakeholders. Being able to communicate within tasks and keep all campaign related updates in one platform made our work easier. During onboarding it was a bit confusing with all the features but we got used it.
Marketing Strategy Manager
<50M USD, Retail
CRITICAL

“Inefficient Search Function and Clunky Interface: Hive User Challenges”

3.0
Jan 27, 2025
There is a very long learning curve with Hive - it took me a full year to feel somewhat comfortable using it because it's just not intuitive (at least, not to me). It has many quirks that take time to learn - I am still discovering new ones after 4 years of using.

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Market Presence: Product Roadmapping Tools for Software Engineering, Collaborative Work Management

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Company Description

Updated 7th December 2023

Hive is a productivity tool designed to enhance team collaboration and accelerate work processes. The tool facilitates comprehensive project management, integration of multiple tools, resource allocation, time tracking, proofing and approvals, note taking, task management, and report generation and analysis. It aims to streamline team operations, minimize the need for multiple browser tabs, and complete the projects efficiently. Get straight to work with Hive.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2016
Head office location
New York, United States
Number of employees
11 - 50
Website
https://hive.com

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Hive Likes & Dislikes

Like

Like I said, overall experience, the project views in Kanban and Calendar, which helped us manage work across teams and the collaboration feature that made it easier to assign tasks, share updates and communicate directly within projects helped everyone to be on the same page and avoid confusion. Last one is Visibility. Having a clear overview of ongoing campaigns and deadlines helped us to stay ahead of time to complete the task.

Like

It is customizable and sufficiently manages workflow between marketing and design teams. It also is an effective way to record work volume, ie. to measure if we are making more requests MoM or YoY.

Like

Out Of the Box functionality is sufficient for the broad majority of use cases. It's extremely user-friendly and takes minimal training to onboard new teams. Setup is very quick. The Hive support teams are extremely responsive and work hard to drive increased adoption and enablement.

Dislike

When we were getting used to the tool, it was confusing. There were so many advanced features and customization options so it was overwhelming at first. At times, the interface can seem cluttered, especially when managing multiple projects or campaigns, and there are also some minor performance lags when working on larger projects.That's it.

Dislike

The user interface is clunky at best. It is very difficult to find what you need, and the search function has not been usable for quite some time, which is frustrating to say the least.

Dislike

Integration options are somewhat limited, although the support teams are extremely helpful and reduce our LOE.

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  • Marketing Associate
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Powerful Platform for managing campaigns and Team collaboration

    4.0
    Apr 15, 2026
    My overall experience with Hive as a marketer has been positive. It has made it much easier to plan, execute and track marketing campaigns in one place. I especially like the the project views in kanban and calendar, which helped me to manage content schedules, campaign timelines and team deliverables efficiently. It has improved collaboration between our internal teams like designers, content writers and stakeholders. Being able to communicate within tasks and keep all campaign related updates in one platform made our work easier. During onboarding it was a bit confusing with all the features but we got used it.
  • Senior Product Manager
    10B+ USD
    Telecommunication
    Review Source

    Responsive Support and Smooth Interface Provided Despite Constrained Integration Options

    4.0
    Mar 18, 2026
    Hive very much cares about UX and heavily invests into things like smooth UI and quick loading times. It doesn't integrate very well with outside systems but as a self-contained tool it's remarkably customizable and, in our company, we find we don't need to customize it very much.
  • Social Media Marketing Specialist
    50M-1B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Hive Connects Job Site Content With Social Posting Through Streamlined Approval Workflow

    5.0
    Apr 29, 2026
    Hive is the best tool for social marketers to use for construction because it gives them one place to coordinate with PMs, designers, and the field. Overall it is the best for turning production systems.
  • Chief Executive Officer
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Driving Flexibility and Real-Time Collaboration in Luxury Marketing Teams.

    5.0
    May 5, 2026
    Hive acts as a flexible work management platform to coordinate marketing activities while keeping speed, creativity and collaboration balanced.
  • Customer Care Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Miscellaneous
    Review Source

    Pushing Productivity To The Limit With Hive

    5.0
    Jan 12, 2026
    Hive has been great in centralizing team communications, collaboration, task and project management, and it also makes resource allocation easy. With the tool in place, teams work collaboratively towards a common goal which leads to better productivity. In addition, Hive comes with automation features that save time which would have otherwise be used on repetitive tasks.
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4.4

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Rating Distribution

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4 Star
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3 Star
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4.6

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4.5

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4.6

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