# ClickUp

7 Hacker News commenters recommended ClickUp and 23 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** A few people find it generally fine at work and less laggy than Jira, but many critics call the web app slow, bloated and hard to use.

## What people warn about

- Slow, bloated web app (5 comments): "Clickup's web app is too damn slow and bloated with features and UI" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47061839)) "Super slow to load, clunky, unbelievably overcomplicated, packed with trackers and unnecessary JS" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48257447)) "Only place I feel it slow is on Google Meet and clickup." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48556471))
- Confusing, cluttered user interface (5 comments): "its UX is so mind-bogglingly terrible" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50031864)) "ClickUp's UI is bad enough that I would much rather not use it in preference to chat." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49172153)) "Its super cumbersome to deal with all of them in the same UI." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47538197))
- Buggy and unreliable (2 comments): "ClickUp is incredibly buggy and trying to be an "Everything app" while failing at basic tasks." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024297)) "ClickUp is known to be extremely slow and buggy" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47539473))
- Poor search (2 comments): "search in ClickUp is awful and it’s impossible to find back old cards from previous years" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299628)) "At one point their search was so bad that I wrote my own search" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50034488))

## Alternatives hackers recommend

- [Basecamp](https://hackerapproved.com/p/basecamp.md): 8 recommend
- [OpenProject](https://hackerapproved.com/p/openproject.md): 7 recommend
- [Asana](https://hackerapproved.com/p/asana.md): 6 recommend
- [Pivotal Tracker](https://hackerapproved.com/p/pivotal-tracker.md): 5 recommend
- [Plane](https://hackerapproved.com/p/plane.md): 5 recommend

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://clickup.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "ClickUp", https://hackerapproved.com/p/clickup/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).