liftOS

Before going into details, I have to emphasize that the reason I decided to write this review is the openness of Arif and Ege in recognizing the current shortfalls and their executable plan to resolve them. In the two months of using it, liftOS has already delivered significant features such as multi-workspaces, a built-in Whiteboard, and a desktop app (originally not planned).

I stopped leaving reviews a while back after losing faith in AppSumo's fairness. So it means a lot when I write one now. I do hope that liftOS continues to strengthen after the AppSumo campaign and doesn't follow the path of many others that just stopped and looked to exit.

The way I would describe liftOS is that it becomes a central hub for all data and information you may need to collaborate on successfully delivering a project. No, it doesn't have every project management feature you can think of, and doing so would make it cumbersome. Instead, it provides a foundation (and growing) with necessities such as notes and to-dos (in Kanban, calendar, and Gantt views) incorporated with AI search, plus the freedom of linking external apps into the team workspace. This way, everyone on your team knows where the files, data, and information are and can focus on making results instead of wasting time working out data between different apps.

This is huge in the post-Web 2.0 world where we are all drowning in data from all sorts of apps just to complete one task. Often, we get lost and forget where things are, not to mention when a team needs to work on these apps together and can't remember where the latest powerpoint version is in someone's Google Drive or OneDrive. If you feel liftOS lacks something, a lot of times you can bring your own tool by linking it in the workspace, or you could suggest to Arif or Ege to make it built-in. Then you get to organize the workspace with minimal features that are only relevant to this particular project. We become more focused, and there is no more data, information, or app overflow.