Zenkit 4+

Great concept, needs improved execution

I’ve used this app on and off and been an on/off paying subscriber for years. I think the concept is great and really want to love the app (both phone and desktop apps I’m referring to), but find them slow and clunky.

Years later, the apps remain mostly the same. The *function* is great but the UX is sluggish, with lacking keyboard shortcuts (there are not enough). Because this is the case technology that the company wants to build with, they need to work on really improving the performance and usage of it before doing other products. Fire up Trello and Notion in browser tabs and Zenkit in the next tab. Use your arrow keys to navigate through your kanban cards - even just a simple operation as navigation with arrow keys will demonstrate the performance difference with its competitors.

There are some other issues with ux that involve too many taps and clicks, say to open a record and type a note, but some can be forgiven due to the flexible, generalised nature of the product.

I write because I really wish the issues were addressed. It’s a wonderful product but I find it unusable in daily life where I move fast from meeting to meeting on the go. So I move to other tools. I hope they can really focus and improve the core platform, before embarking on another product (hypernotes, another chat messenger, …) as it appears their newer products will benefit from any performance improvements they make too.

Developer Response ,

Thank you very much for taking the time to share your detailed and candid feedback, we really appreciate it. Our team have been informed and we hope to be able to implement some of your suggestions, such as broadening the scope of keyboard shortcuts. We do aim to make improvements to all apps in the suite each time a new app is produced, including but not limited to design, features, and speed. However you're right that each of these areas could use some dedicated focus. Thanks again!

So far love it but some bugs

I love it so far! But some bugs and lags are happening. For example list is not deleted eventhough I clicked ‘delete list’ several times. Love the UI and very easy to use

modern db

Has many ways to view data, fast data entry, easy customisation, aggregation fields, many-to-many fields, easy sharing. Limited import/export, lacks wysiwyg form view, lacks chart and map views, node view limited to one collection (table) type, no apparent way to script things like button events. Great for phone, better alternatives for ipad.