What is Zenkit?
Zenkit is an award-winning German software company, which offers a suite for productivity & collaboration. The products in the Zenkit Suite include Projects, Base, To Do, Zenchat, Hypernotes, Zenforms, and many more to come. Our main product, Projects, is a cloud solution that lets you organize multi-projects with agile and classical project management. We are a startup with a very dynamic team under the parent company of an established software developer, Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH. Axonic Informationssysteme GmbH is an innovative company focusing on information, communication, and recognition technologies. The company is based in Karlsruhe, Germany and was founded in 2003. We have been successfully developing software in the field of knowledge acquisition, information extraction, and artificial intelligence for more than 15 years and have many years of experience in corporate management, conception, and realization of software projects. More than one million users in more than 130 countries already benefit from our software solutions. Privacy: https://zenkit.com/privacy Legal: https://zenkit.com/legal-notice.html
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Zenkit Reviews (11)
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Review Summary
Generated using AI from real user reviews
Zenkit receives unanimous praise from users, with all 11 reviews giving it a five-star rating. Users consistently highlight its versatility and customization as major strengths, particularly its ability to display information in multiple views and support relational data structures that rival traditional databases. The intuitive interface is frequently mentioned alongside powerful features for task and project management, with several reviewers noting it compares favorably to competitors like Trello and Asana by offering greater flexibility without forcing teams to restructure their processes.
Common reasons for switching to Zenkit include frustration with more limited tools and the desire for better organization of nested and cross-related items. Users praise its suitability for both individual long-term planning and team collaboration, offline functionality, and the seamless ability to customize boards to match team workflows. One reviewer suggested adding a team-wide tagging feature in comments, and another noted the mindmap view differs from typical mindmapping software, though these are minor notes in otherwise glowing feedback.
The only substantive criticism across all reviews is minimalβessentially one feature requestβand no user reported significant pain points or limitations that deterred them from continued use. The consistency and depth of positive sentiment suggests strong user satisfaction, though the sample is small.
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Thursday, July 1, 2021
βThe most versatile app for backlog management I have everβ¦β
The most versatile app for backlog management I have ever seen. Truly unique with the ability to provide different views and tools to manage my backlog.
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Thursday, July 1, 2021
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Thursday, July 1, 2021
βI prefer this over Trello because it has many featuresβ¦β
I prefer this over Trello because it has many features that is suited to my needs that Trello does not provide. Honestly, if Trello has what Zenkit has, I would have stayed with Trello. I use both Zenkit and Trello now. But, I moved all my work from Trello to Zenkit. Zenkit is used for all the progress for my projects. Whilst Trello is used for showing people "to-do" list of bugs fixed, in progress, or complete. So both have their own upsides which I'm glad to be using ??
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Monday, June 14, 2021
βZenkit has very intuitive interface, easy to use, and yetβ¦β
Zenkit has very intuitive interface, easy to use, and yet very powerful to help your team and organization to managing your projects, agile teams, and many others like chat and contents. It is NOT a heavy tool that you have to change your process to fit the tool, instead this tool will make your process and teams more efficient. Highly recommended for any teams and organization to give it a try.
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Saturday, May 22, 2021
βThis is best app for an ambitious individual who hasβ¦β
This is best app for an ambitious individual who has a five year plan in mind. I have so much to accomplish in the next five years and this is the place where I keep all my thoughts and actions and everything. It gives me a very good bird eye view and I can also monitor my progress with this. Simply an amazing app.
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Thursday, April 15, 2021
βexcellent thanks to production team. great app . love itβ
excellent thanks to production team. great app . love it
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Wednesday, February 17, 2021
βZenkit is hands down the best tool I have foundβ¦β
Zenkit is hands down the best tool I have found for keeping track of projects and tasks. It is full of features that help keep track of what needs to be done, when they need to be done, costs, revenue and what ever else you want. You have the ability to work online or offline on any device seamlessly and flawlessly. The ability to view all you information in a variety of ways helps greatly. I recommend Zenkit to anyone who wants to keep themselves organized and on target.
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Friday, September 4, 2020
β- Overall experience: fantastic. I've been using it as myβ¦β
- Overall experience: fantastic. I've been using it as my primary platform for organizing/managing projects for a couple of years now. Haven't found anything that good yet. - Pros: Zenkit interface is highly configurable, which makes it ideal to collaborate with team members with different technical backgrounds. One of the most amazing characteristics though is that any data can be relational - pretty much like in a RDB - and you can create your own data structures to organize yourself as you prefer. - Cons: The mindmap representation is a bit different of what one's used to find in mindmapping-related software, but this seems to be mostly due to web components limitations. - Alternatives Considered: Asana, Taiga and monday.com - Reasons for Choosing Zenkit: Best customization overall. - Switched From: Trello - Reasons for Switching to Zenkit: Trello was too restricted in terms of organization (especially nested and cross-related project items)
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Wednesday, July 1, 2020
βIt's an incredible tool to manage and organize tasks, projects,β¦β
It's an incredible tool to manage and organize tasks, projects, individual and team work. Its design is intuitive and the features it offers are totally useful for increasing productivity. I love using Zenkit to keep my thoughts and tasks on point!
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
βI've used Zenkit extensively over the last 6 months toβ¦β
I've used Zenkit extensively over the last 6 months to organize the collaboration of my team. I found it quite intuitive to use and liked to possibility to customize the different boards. We quickly found "our" look of the card system, which helped us keep an overview. If I were to suggest something to step your game up to the next level: Add a function to address your entire team at once in a comment (ex. @team or @board). This would help a lot.



