What are the best apps for product managers?

Question

What are your go-to tools for managing product development, feature ideas, analytics, etc?

Winston · Accepted Answer

productboard is the product management solution of choice at renowned companies like Zendesk, Invision, and Envoy. Consolidate user inputs, prioritize what to build next, validate feature ideas with users, and rally everyone around your roadmap. It integrates with your existing customer touchpoints like Zendesk, Intercom, and email, as well as dev tools like JIRA, GitHub, Trello, and Pivotal.

Pedro Lopes · Answer

I'm using winio.io and so far I've been very impressed with their simplistic design. I've been using Winio every day to manage the things I need to do across several different projects and it has helped my team to stick around one tool.

Jessica Ludwig · Answer

With Zenkit you can organize almost everything. We use it for all departments because of the many customization features we are able to create collections, tables, boards and so on like we really need it to work effectively with our team. Use different views for different stages of your product development, set up a database, implement a roadmap....

Rajesh Pandurangan · Answer

This is a great tool for a product manager. This has to-do, voice, video calls, integrated with drives, their interface is different than that of their competitor and tried to cover as much as possible to make it more productive tool.

Julie Chabin · Answer

A good organization is the key to building a good product. (Or so I've been told)

Jeroen Corthout ☕ · Answer

Awesome product! Beautiful and easy to use. Love it. Had coffee with the founder recently too: https://blog.salesflare.com/hubert-palan-productboard-1a8e72f3b339

Tejas Kinger · Answer

I personally use Basecamp to help my team members stay on the same page, list down to-dos, collaborate on tasks.

Filipa Nascimento · Answer

Outplanr was designed to makes manager life’s easier. By turning a to do list into a work plan, it’s easier to manage people time and balance their work-life.

Ariel Long · Answer

Keep all your product related files in one place and share with your colleagues with no hassle.

bazingagag · Answer

Mobile security is more and more important nowadays, that’s why I think no matter who you are, what you do. You will need an app to protect your phone!

I am using this app called ‘AppLock’, which is amazing because it can lock all of my apps, images even videos. This app is always on my list when it comes to app recommendation.

The one thing that I like the most about this app is that it can take photos of the person who’s trying to unlock your phone! This feature is really funny because I always got the intruder selfie notification from my kids. They are trying really hard to unlock my phone for video games.

If you are a cautious people, you really do need one of this app.

Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia · Answer

Slack is awesome, and Product Managers love it! As evidence, we have 30,000 PMS actively exchanging ideas and tips on our Slack group here: https://www.productschool.com/slack-community/

Jill Scott · Answer

My company uses this for communication within the team, it really help, also has specific function such as search...

Tejas Kinger · Answer

Slack for communication within the team, create specific threads for specific topics.

Shiv Kapoor · Answer

By combining the core phases of product planning and management with automated progress reporting, Nifty is the all-in-one workspace for product managers.

Tejas Kinger · Answer

Aha! seems to be the top pick for product roadmap planning tools.

Peter Nelson · Answer

An essential tool for product managers to keep tracking of employees working activity

Matt Warcholinski · Answer

To get the heatmaps of the websites

Carlos Gonzalez de Villaumbrosia · Answer

Very handy tool!

Sam Rye · Answer

I'm really impressed with how craft has been developing.

My favourite feature is the Storymap view. It gives a high level view of a Product, or sub-Product, which you can rapidly sketch out a series of high levels activities in a product. Under these you can add specific features or user stories, building up a grid view of your whole product.

The kicker is that you can go from this strategic overview and those activities become epics and building blocks become user stories, which you can then use to execute and evolve the vision.

Esmeralda Martinez · Answer

Indicative is a robust behavioral analytics platform that is specifically designed for product managers to understand customer behavior and optimize customer engagement, conversion, and retention.  It allows business users to analyze a single view of customer behavior across all their digital touchpoints, including web, app, email automation, support systems, databases and data warehouses, without requiring any involvement from BI specialists or engineers.

Indicative also released a really helpful blog post on the 87 most essential tools for data-driven product management that they have used or explored internally: https://www.indicative.com/essential-tools-product-managers/

Matt Warcholinski · Answer

Record GIFs/Videos is easy like taking screenshots on your mac. It automatically generate a link with the GIF to send it.

John Ababseh · Answer

This a great product for organizing different docs and tasks amongst cross functional teams.

A_Sky · Answer

We have been using it for 2-3 years now and reduced email by 60% at least. Friendly interface but powerful features...