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What is Coda?

Coda, from Coda Project headquartered in San Francisco, is a template-based document generation solution, supporting a variety of use cases presented by the vendor as ideal for smaller companies that might otherwise be relying on spreadsheets to maintain (for instance)…

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Small nags but very versatile

Rating: 8 out of 10
January 16, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use it for keeping track of a lot of internal documents. For example we use it for feature set lists for different products, as well as with creating territory plans. On to...
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Contributor
Coda1 year of experience

Coda the Giant

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 28, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Currently at my company we use Coda for all of our shared documents. It's essentially the "office" part of us while we're all working remote. It's a source where we keep compa...
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Chelsea Thompson
Account Manager - Customer Service
Talent Coach
Plato HQ
Coda3 years of experience

Incredible Organization & Automation for Power Users

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 1, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We're using Coda across our entire organization to sidestep the mess caused by dozens (and hundreds) of disconnected Google docs. On my team, it helps us keep all our plans f...
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Matt Woods
Employee - Product Management
Growth Product Manager
Tailwind

Driving cost-effective and meaningful impact in small-medium enterprise

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 25, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Coda is still in a developmental stage in our organization. We are still learning and discovering where it can drive impact. Right now, we currently use it for: Installation b...
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Pearl Cheah
Manager - Other
Physics & Application Manager
Transmedic Group
Coda1 year of experience

Coda's flexibility allows us to dream up workflows that were difficult to streamline before.

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 25, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Coda is being used as a multi-purpose application, an additional tool in our toolbelt (as we say). It is primarily being used for project management, team management, visibili...
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Camille Hidalgo Nussbaum, CSM®
Project Manager - Other
Project Manager, Creative Technologies
Netflix
Coda2 years of experience
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Pricing

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Free

$0.00

Cloud
per month

Pro

$10.00

Cloud
per month per doc maker; unlimited editors (paid annually)

Team

$30.00

Cloud
per month per doc maker; unlimited editors (paid annually)

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttp://coda.io/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Product Demos

Coda Beginners Guide: Creating Coda Docs [30-Minute Demo]

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Product Details

What is Coda?

Coda is a doc that brings words, data, and teams together. It starts with a blinking cursor on a blank page and can grow as big as a team's ambition. Coda comes with a set of building blocksーlike pages for infinite depth, tables that talk to each other, and buttons that take action inside or outside the docーwhich users can combine to make a doc as powerful as an app. The vendor says people have made Coda docs that do everything from launch products, to scale small businesses, to help them study for tests.

Coda Features

  • Supported: Pages: Every Coda doc starts with a page. And can grow into as many pages as desired, so users cannot outgrow the doc, no matter how big a team or idea.
  • Supported: Tables & Views: A table in Coda can be as simple as a list or as deep as a database. And it can have customizable, connected views, so everyone can work off the same data, in their own preferred way.
  • Supported: Controls: Controls—like buttons, select lists, and sliders—to make a doc feel more like an app for teams.
  • Supported: Packs: Packs connect Coda doc to apps in use—communication tools, coding tools, and design tools.
  • Supported: Formulas: Formulas can live anywhere in Codaーon the page or in a control or table. These are like the connective tissue between building blocks in Coda.
  • Supported: Automations: Automation is the building block that puts repetitive yet important tasks on autopilot.
  • Supported: Templates: Popular compositions of building blocks are offered as templates and made them available inside the doc.
  • Supported: Forms: Collect inputs and data and synthesize using Coda's building blocks to view and filter data

Coda Screenshots

Screenshot of One unified surface means ideas aren’t limited to a file type. A project doesn’t have to be split across tabs of documents, spreadsheets, and apps.Screenshot of Packs are a version of integrations or plug-ins. They connect the doc to the apps in use every day, so as to pull live data in or push updates out automatically.Screenshot of Drag-and-drop templates provide a quick-start shortcut to commonly used templates like Upvote/Downvote, To-Do List, and Team Sentiment Tracker.Screenshot of Slice, dice, and chop data using Views. A View is a mirror of data that can be tailored to unique needs, all while staying connected to the source.Screenshot of When accessing the doc from a mobile device, it should feel like an app. Doc pages become tabs, buttons become swipe actions and doc notifications become push notifications.Screenshot of The Doc Gallery contains docs self-published by the Coda community. These published docs have a webpage-like interface and have varying levels of interactivity like view, play or edit. Find and share tools, templates, tiny apps, interactive handbooks, and anything else that can be built in Coda.

Coda Videos

Meet Coda
Learn how Figma's Yuhki Yamashita uses Coda to ship product
Watch Coda CEO & Co-Founder Shishir Mehrotra transform Stripe COO Claire Hughes Johnson's fabled offsite doc into an interactive Coda doc

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Coda Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationApple iOS, Android

Frequently Asked Questions

Coda, from Coda Project headquartered in San Francisco, is a template-based document generation solution, supporting a variety of use cases presented by the vendor as ideal for smaller companies that might otherwise be relying on spreadsheets to maintain (for instance) product development, or inventory tracking. It is available free, with paid editions to support teams, automations, or for more advanced collaboration and workspace features, as well as more advanced security features.

Notion, Quip, and Dropbox Paper are common alternatives for Coda.

The most common users of Coda are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Great tool to use

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 03, 2021
Verified User
General Manager in Other
Automotive Company, 10,001+ employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use Coda as a tool to update our internal users on an ongoing project. The project affects many people across different departments and we wanted to give them a space to read about what's going on at product and tech level. There are only two of us creating the content and we communicate it via email/workplace to our target audience
Pros
  • You have a variety of contect you can create
  • There are predefined templates that you can use
  • You can invite people via email domain
Cons
  • The features sometimes are not as intuitive and it can take hours to do something as you envision it
  • Often what looks great on a laptop looks bad on a mobile
  • Feature updates or improvements deployed by coda can change how your content looks and you may not be aware for a while until you stumble across it
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is great to build a place for your users to go to and see information. It is easy to navigate through and the variety of content creation is great. However, it is not always easy to create what you want and there is a lot of playing around and learning.
Coda also sometimes misses some functionality which is expected. For example, downloading a list of users that have access to the platform. Being able to send push notifications when a new page has been created etc.
Overall it is a good tool to use just be prepared to invest time!

Easy access, space for improvement for intuitive search of content

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
LG
Luisa Gomez
Family Concierge Associate
Sprout Therapy (Hospital & Health Care, 201-500 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently use Coda to collect all our SOPs for different corporate roles. I find the search engine of the program can be improved to be more intuitive. I have found myself checking multiple documents before actually finding the specific information/manual I want to access. Unless the specific keywords of the manual are typed as part of my search, I would have to ask other teams to share the actual link to access the information needed. I really enjoy having the option to expand and contract titles and subtitles in order to have a wider view of the information and expand the specific subject needed.
Pros
  • I really enjoy having the option to expand and contract titles and subtitles in order to have a wider view of the information and expand the specific subject needed.
  • Being an online tool accessible to many users.
Cons
  • Intuitive to find information through similar key words, not necessarily exact.
  • Speed when showing the contents, somethings it can lag.
Likelihood to Recommend
When trying to save and share a higher amount of information without having to use computer space.

Simple and effective solution to create a rich database of informations.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Project Manager in Engineering
Civil Engineering Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I am the main Coda developer in my company. We've used Coda for a couple of years mainly as a database.
We are an engineering company working on many projects, so a unified document lets us centralize deadlines, information, tasks, and people involved. It is very useful to search for information based on different filters. This setup lets us have a better and more organized view of future deadlines and useful exploitation of information.
Pros
  • Creating a solid and unified database of information.
  • Lots of capabilities over filtering out data and show them.
  • Responsive support team that really tries hard to help you out.
Cons
  • Better customization on calendar layout.
Likelihood to Recommend
Coda is well suited for creating a unified database that the company can use to have a better view of future deadlines or to analyze and evaluate past work. Once the database created, it is very easy to filter out and search for information. We do not use it as an everyday platform to share and exchange information.

Coda is great for creating a single source of truth with customizable views that live update in an aesthetically beautiful way

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 09, 2021
TV
Tara Vajra
Program Manager
MasterClass (E-Learning, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We started using Coda to solve the problem of teams using a variety of trackers and there not being a single source of truth. This has proved to be a powerful tool to help many cross-functional teams align on key information that is needed at every level but allowing departments, teams, and individuals to tailor their views to their specific needs.
Pros
  • Aesthetics - We have used many other programs, but Coda by far looks the best.
  • Ease of use - it is fun to build Coda documents!
  • Support - the customer support has been phenomenal.
Cons
  • Gantt - working on making improvements, but still need more.
  • Freezing Columns - would like to freeze so can see the far left column while side scrolling.
  • Infrastructure training.
Likelihood to Recommend
Very helpful for project management and creating a source of truth. Hasn't been as helpful for resourcing and gantt visuals.

Coda: What a God-send for startups!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
February 25, 2021
Verified User
Director in Customer Service
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Coda
1 year of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are currently using Coda across multiple departments to help us work cross-functionally. Our design, sales, engagement, business ops, and customer success teams use it. The only team that doesn't use it would be our development team because they currently have their own tools.

It allows us to build docs and sheets according to our needs, with full flexibility as our company evolves and scales. We really enjoy the flexibility aspect of making it our own and fitting our business needs. We are also able to use templates that are provided by the Coda team to build off of and create future templates for our team. We can design financial modeling templates, track duties and metrics on an internal basis, and task management across all teams.
Pros
  • Flexible functionality.
  • Ease of use.
  • Great affordable price-point.
Cons
  • Some of the Coda templates can be overwhelming.
  • Some of the formulas can be non-intuitive.
  • Not well known—yet!
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are a small/lean team that needs software that can scale with you, Coda will be so good for you. What's attractive is their team of support agents, affordable pricepoint, and library of templates to make your own.
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