Ora vs. Nifty [Asana & Trello Alternatives 2021]

Project Permissions

Both Ora and Nifty have private and public projects.

However, their meaning and use-cases are completely different.

Nifty:

A public project is visible to all members inside a project portfolio.

Project portfolios group projects into a single dashboard,

Where you track progress of all projects.

Neat feature for managing client projects.

You can add your client to the portfolio

And they'll have public access to view and comment all projects inside.

Another use-case,

Create a project portfolio for each department (marketing, engineering, etc.)

To track department performance in separate dashboards.

Private projects are limited only to added team members.

Ora:

Public projects can be viewed by anyone.

You can also give public permission for commenting on tasks

And for creating tasks (into a specific stage of the pipeline).

The use-case for this is to create public roadmaps.

Anyone can view the roadmap,

Add feature requests,

Comment and upvote features.

Private projects are visible to anyone within the organization.

Secret projects are visible only to members you add.

Project Structure

Both are project management tools, but they are structured for entirely different workflows.

In Nifty each project has:

• Overview dashboard
• Milestones
• One Task List
• Discussions
• Docs
• Files

Ora takes a more minimalistic approach,

They only have task lists.

But you can create multiple task lists within a single project.

Both in Nifty and Ora task lists can be boards,

It depends on the view you choose.

Overall there's a trade-off here,

Ora gives minimalistic boards like Trello.

While Nifty gives powerful project management like Asana.

Milestones

In Ora you can assign tasks to a milestone

And you can view milestone progress on a timeline.

Nifty gives a bit more features for timelines:

You can create a milestone from a task list,

Or set dependency between milestones.

Then they have something called "Swimlane" view.

Which is like "board" view,

Except the tasks are also grouped by milestone.

Pretty unique feature from Nifty.

Tasks

Both Ora and Nifty have:

• Recurring tasks
• Task relationships
• Subtasks
• Mentions
• Comments
• File attachments

Two exclusive features from Ora:

• Add a comment to a task via email
• Task templates

Task templates come in pretty handy.

Both Nifty and Ora have project templates.

But what if you don't want to be always creating new projects?

Use-case example,

Every time you launch a new funnel you have specific tasks to do:

• Test tracking
• Test purchase
• Test email automation
• Etc.

All these items can go into the task as sub-tasks.

And you (or your VA) will never forget to go through the checklist.

Integrations

Ora has deep integration with Git tools,

• Github
• Bitbucket
• Gitlab

You can auto-close tasks with a git commit.

This is a pretty unique feature from Ora.

The use-case is to fix and track issues.

You could implement the following workflow:

• Customer support receives email about an issue
• Forward to Ora's email
• New task is opened
• Software developed solves issue and pushes to git
• Ora's integration auto-closes the task

With this workflow issue tracking goes on auto-pilot.

Really good feature for SaaS companies.

Nifty only allows you to see changes from Git.

Another plus on Ora,

It has a two way sync for Calendar integrations

And Nifty has one way sync.

(They do mention "two way sync coming soon")

Also Nifty mentions "Open API" on their website,

But I have not found it anywhere.

Ora definitely has API, although I have not tried it.

Features score

It's pretty balanced.

Nifty has some really good features.

My favourite part was project portfolios and milestones.

Ora on the other hand has deep Git integrations.

And you can create a public roadmap.

Which is great versus using a separate product,

You won't have to update it in two places

Every time you release a new feature.

Ora - 7/10

Nifty - 8/10 (Winner)