ClickUp
Shares rank 3 of 8 project management software by recommenders
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.
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.
30 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 23
- approval share
- 23%
Recommended in 6 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 6 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Slow, bloated web app
“Clickup's web app is too damn slow and bloated with features and UI”
Comment from 18 Feb 2026 in “Claude Sonnet 4.6 System Card” “Super slow to load, clunky, unbelievably overcomplicated, packed with trackers and unnecessary JS”
Comment from 24 May 2026 in “Clickup Reduced Headcount by 22%” “Only place I feel it slow is on Google Meet and clickup.”
Comment from 16 Jun 2026 in “Google Chrome update will close the door on ad blockers” - Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Dobase – Your workspace, your server”
- Comment from 22 May 2026 in “22% Layoff at ClickUp”
Confusing, cluttered user interface
“its UX is so mind-bogglingly terrible”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Sorry, I'm in a meeting” “ClickUp's UI is bad enough that I would much rather not use it in preference to chat.”
Comment from 4 Aug 2026 in “Maybe software stops being the default” “Its super cumbersome to deal with all of them in the same UI.”
Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Dobase – Your workspace, your server” - Comment from 4 Aug 2026 in “Maybe software stops being the default”
- Comment from 13 Apr 2026 in “Bring Back Idiomatic Design”
Buggy and unreliable
“ClickUp is incredibly buggy and trying to be an "Everything app" while failing at basic tasks.”
Comment from 9 Oct 2026 in “Sorry, I'm in a meeting” “ClickUp is known to be extremely slow and buggy”
Comment from 27 Mar 2026 in “Dobase – Your workspace, your server” Poor search
“search in ClickUp is awful and it’s impossible to find back old cards from previous years”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis” “At one point their search was so bad that I wrote my own search”
Comment from 10 Oct 2026 in “Sorry, I'm in a meeting”
Other project management software people recommend
The four most recommended other project management software, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Projects | 9 | 9 | 50% | 7 | — | — |
| Basecamp | 8 | 8 | 50% | 6 | — | — |
| ClickUpThis page | 7 | 23 | 23% | 6 | — | — |
| OpenProject | 7 | 2 | 78% | 7 | — | — |
| Redmine | 7 | 1 | 88% | 5 | — | — |
What people said
31 of the 36 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“At one point their search was so bad that I wrote my own search”
“its UX is so mind-bogglingly terrible”
“ClickUp is incredibly buggy and trying to be an "Everything app" while failing at basic tasks.”
“it's a much faster decline since 2023-ish”
“a particularly horrible product”
“I have disgust for them thanks to their ads.”
“it's only not true when it's a bad UI (like ClickUp's)”
“ClickUp's UI is bad enough that I would much rather not use it in preference to chat.”
“complained on frictions of clickup/notion”
“Only place I feel it slow is on Google Meet and clickup.”
“Laying people off to try to hire people who already learned AI elsewhere throws away existing institutional knowledge”
“I couldn't believe how shitty ClickUp was when I was demoing project management software”
“search in ClickUp is awful and it’s impossible to find back old cards from previous years”
“As someone who is forced to use ClickUp I can tell you that it's not good software.”
“How can a company making collaboration software be worth billions in a world where fewer and fewer people have to cooperate”
“Super slow to load, clunky, unbelievably overcomplicated, packed with trackers and unnecessary JS”
“Clickup is trash tier software”
“used several gigabytes of RAM on the main page”
“I have very little confidence in their engineering ability”
“the most disastrous UI I've used in recent history”
“the basics were just not there”
“the downside is quite large UX wise”
“ClickUp is known to be extremely slow and buggy”
“Its super cumbersome to deal with all of them in the same UI.”
“allowing arbitrarily nested subtasks and easily promoting/demoting a task across levels”
“I use Clickup at work and I think it's generally fine. At least when I have used it it's less laggy and horrible than Jira.”
“whatever lousy project management tool we would use”
“while still using Clickup lets us use all the other features we can get via the web app”
“Clickup's web app is too damn slow and bloated with features and UI”
“clickup.com/ , etc that already exist”
“They have an ai button on every gosh darn ui element.”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.