Fibery Reviews & Product Details

Easiness of linking different types of data and creating new ones is astonishing. Simplicity of integration with other systems also helps to build in Fibery into existing software landscape.

It would be great to add the ability to create dashboards that help to reach all the apps which are needed for specific roles inside Fibery. More granular user permissions could be also beneficial.

We were organizing the management activities of the retail organization. The previous system was difficult to configure to introduce new processes. Fibery helped a lot.

What defines Fibery and sets it apart is its flexibility and the interconnection of information in different workflows that can result. This flexibility not only allows you to define a data model and workflow for nearly any process, but it also allows you to build and integrate multiple previously separate processes on a shared, interconnected data model. There is no other tool that can be quite as flexible while remaining easy to use and accessible even at the administrator-level. There are more powerful systems, or aspects of tools like e.g. Coda that can do things that Fibery can't (yet) do, but in the vast majority of cases it is more complex and difficult to set things up in those tools. Fibery does a great job of balancing flexibility with ease of use at all levels. Fibery's other great strength is its integration engine. For any natively-supported integration (an ever-growing list of apps like Github, Jira, Airtable, Notion, Intercom, etc.), you get a nearly complete mirroring of data from the source system into Fibery. Most of the integrations are one-way, read-only, which is to say Fibery can pull in the data but not make changes in the target system, so this is a notable limitation. But even still this is a remarkably powerful capability. Once the data is in Fibery, you can "enrich" it by both adding new fields as well as adding relations to connect external data to your other data and processes internally. You can also set up automations based on all this. So for example you can pull in your Hubspot contacts and tickets, associate those tickets with an internal issue tracking setup, development prioritization, etc., and then automate the creation of e.g. new dev tasks when a Ticket comes in that matches certain criteria. The possibilities are endless, and the tools to manage it are fairly intuitive and capable. Now, since this flexibility is its main strength, it is not necessarily going to compete directly with some dedicated tools in particular areas of work. If you are happy with the structure of existing tools and the connection of your data that is already available to you (or not) in other systems, then it's not going to provide you as much benefit. Setting it up to work in these kinds of "standard" ways is absolutely possible, it just takes time (there are many templates available to get you started more quickly on standard workflows though!). And even in that case, if you anticipate a likelihood of growing needs over time, you may be able to save yourself time, money, or both by creating a more "standard" workflow in Fibery that you can then expand and customize for your changing needs. If you are like me, and many other startups and other small businesses, and your needs don't seem to be covered "out of the box" by any existing tool, then you'll really find Fibery to be a breath of fresh air. I run a real estate development company, hardly what you would consider the core use case for Fibery, and yet it adapted extremely well to our needs. Imagine being able to track every aspect of a property, from financial data (buy/sell price, annual taxes, etc.), to development tasks and progress (site improvements, environmental studies, etc.), to maintenance (backflow testing, brush clearing and trash removal), and then relate that to equally comprehensive data on building construction, property sales or purchase processes, loans, contacts and companies, and more. All the data interconnects and can be segmented as much (or as little) as you want, which makes it better even than some other tools (like e.g. Airtable) that may be able to implement a similar level of detail for databases, but which are far more cumbersome and limited in terms of access to and interconnection of data. One of the dangers of flexible, "no code" platforms is that because the UI is not customized, it is easy for your own administration and setup to result in sub-par UX for the actual users of the system. In Fibery this is possible too, of course, but unlike many other tools the core UI and UX are in general much more well thought-out, which helps to minimize the chance that the flexibility and customization let you create a fundamentally frustrating UX for people. A good example of this in comparison to Notion is that Rich Text Fields in Fibery can be repositioned anywhere, and you can have as many as you want per "Entity" (what Notion calls "pages"). In Notion, even with the newer ability to hide some Properties, you *still* have all your DB properties at the top of the page, above your rich text content. For some situations this is desirable, but for many others it's not. Fibery has fields *alongside* the rich text area(s), which is much, much better UX. That's just one example of where Fibery's team clearly thought through the user experience much more than Notion did as it built out flexible features and customization. So Fibery is pretty great already. But what really ensures my ongoing enthusiasm for the team and product is their openness and especially their clearly-articulated vision for the goals of work and knowledge management, and their ideas for how to get there. No other current tool I know of is clearly thinking as deeply about not just "How do we make the best implementation of current work management?" (e.g. ClickUp, Monday, Asana), but "What would be a better way to manage work if we could implement the ideal process?". Fibery's many articles and white papers articulate a vision for the interconnection and re-use of knowledge, data, and conversation that demonstrates a vision beyond that expressed by any other tool that I'm aware of. The other thing I want to mention is that the team behind Fibery has a lot of good experience (founder Michael Dubakov helped start Target Process as well) and I think this is partly responsible for their excellent consistency in feature updates and fixes (often weekly releases, monthly at a minimum). The transparency of the dev process has also been great, with (mostly) monthly updates from Michael on the progress of the product, including setbacks, challenges, etc. This is really refreshing when compared to products like Notion which are the opposite of transparent, and where you only find out about the reason for big delays and challenges well after the fact (e.g. API, localization), if at all. In addition to this they have an active user community in their forums, where several of the team also interact fairly frequently. Again this contrasts sharply with tools like Notion where, yes sometimes you'll get an acknowledgement on e.g. Twitter, but real conversations back and forth seldom happen, and *never* with the actual devs (it's always indirect, with a support rep, etc.). I've had detailed and specific feature discussions with the Fibery team and it's incredibly satisfying to have that much input into the process. Of course not everything will be implemented exactly as I prefer, but to know my voice is being listened to is so much more satisfying than the opaque interactions with many other companies.

Now of course Fibery is not perfect. They are still relatively early in development and miss a lot of features you may already depend on in other tools. One of the biggest and most important in my view is proper "notifications". There is a "Notifications" button, but the actual use of it is cumbersome and limited, and there is little "active" notification functionality. The best you can do is have all notifications sent to email, which works for letting you know of some things, but is still not ideal. You can now set up date-based notifications (or indeed notifications on nearly any criteria, with Automations), but the actual process to do this is way more complex than it should be, and the results are cumbersome in practice. I know this is something they're working on, along with many other things. And in the meantime we can live with the downsides. The other capabilities we get from the existing functionality already make it a better tool for our needs than anything else we've seen out there, and we've looked at *a lot*, from the well-knowns like Coda, Airtable, and Notion, to lesser-knowns like Infinity, Ninox, Tabidoo, and more.

I run a real estate business and using Fibery allows me to create a highly customized and interlinked database to document a huge range of varying information and entities, and relate them to each other in intuitive and functional ways. From any property I can find details about the broker who is selling it, the entity that owns it, prior transactions on the property, any maintenance needs, etc. I also track financial data, and can easily chart things like e.g. sales volume vs. sale price over time, sales by area, etc. And because of the flexibility to create unlimited Databases and connect them freely, I can segment the data so that no one "view" becomes overwhelming with information. It's all segmented yet interconnected. This saves a lot of time, energy, and frustration as there is a huge amount of information to manage in a real estate business. In addition to this, I also use and recommend Fibery for my independent Technology Consulting work, where it is used for a wide variety of purposes. Its flexibility means it can be as applicable to a small bakery's cost and recipe management, to a software development team's feedback and development management.

We have been using Fibery since 2019. The problem with current project management tools is customization. We used to use JIRA+Confluence, Asana, Trello. We had to align our process based on the available functionality of the existing tools. Fibery solved this problem. Currently, we use standard spaces from the standard library and created several custom ones. We moved general docs, HR, vacation tracking, RnD and project management to Fibery.

The pros of customization are also the cons. You need to do an overview of your organization and think about how to align departments with spaces in Fibery. In our case complexity of a setup was not a problem, but need to have it in mind. The documents feature is not as convenient as in Confluence. We use docs a lot. It's not possible to attach files to documents. Fibery provides basic formatting capabilities. Recently they announced the "blocks" feature. Hope it will make the docs feature better.

We use Fibery for: - General public documentation for employees (Confluence replacement) - HR (Confluence replacement) - Vacations (Confluence replacement) - Project management with development boards and time tracking (JIRA, Asana, Trello replacement) - Employees one-on-ones and salary reviews (Google docs replacement) - Test engine for the QA department (Zephyr replacement)

The flexibility of the processes and data you could set up on your own from scratch or using provided templates. Also, Polina is amazing! Our whole company lives in Fibery.

There is no mobile app yet. Also, there is a steep learning curve in the very beginning. And sometimes very basic features are missing. And you have to take into account that there is a risk of relying heavily on a service created by a startup.

We use Fibery for product, development, culinary, finance, HR, and so on. It helps us to keep all collaboration in one place. But you need a set of champions who will take ownership of different apps.

I was forced to learn how to organize things and processes through the creation of custom apps and structuring the data using Fibery. I managed to set up CRM, Product sprints and Milestones and a bunch of other processes that I've never thought of before. I see now that things and our team communication are going smoother using Fibery and that we've managed to reduce the number of tools for our PM cycle. I was personally inspired by Fibery support team and their dedication.

Fibery is a little bit complex for new users and it requires some dive-in. It's continuously developing and the user experience regarding some apps and features inside Fibery might be a bit painful. Like writing docs or working with tables or copying the passwords to paste in some input (***) that are copied with the space at first symbol (if you are getting stuck with your password, you keep in your fibery docs, just refer to this review). But it's small compared to the benefits Fibery provides.

- CRM setup and customization - get rid of Jira - improve communications within the engineering team - slight automatization of some document workflows

The ability to have a full lineage of user feedback -> ideas -> product features -> development tasks is truly giving our work an unprecedently clear flow. Though it takes some time to learn, the patience is well worth it!

The tool is clearly freshly baked and is missing pieces here and there. One thing that I dislike is how basic whiteboarding is, without being able to bend arrows connecting objects. Not a dealbreaker, but would be nice to have more flexibility in the tool that's intended to be the flexible one! Also would be good to have a Zenhub integration, which sits on top of Github - seems like some of the issues created via ZH are not sinking with Fibery correctly through the default integration

- Information lineage in product development - The team is clear as to where ideas and features come from - I don't have to use 5 tools to manage information

Simplicity and easiness of adjustment to company and people's needs

Rarely, it is slow. Once a month in my case.

Task tracking, project and sprint planning. Job's done on time, scope and budget

It is super flexible, fast, minimal and allows me to create the workflows that I want instead of fitting to someone else's workflow.

Some "comfort" features are missing. Sometimes I have to hack the tool a little to match my needs. Some important integrations are missing. But the team is always very responsive and that keeps me with the tool

Organizing our development workflows, tracking knowledge, day planning

Customizing the data, views, cards, and how I can interconnect documents with each other and with the data. We also use the API to connect Fibery with our communication tool and the built-in synchronization with Github.

Since the product is a bit young there are still a few missing or raw features like the whiteboard and there are a few moments where the server gets slow.

Tracking the product's development, writing and organizing documents, planning and connecting everything seamlessly. With this level of interconnection, we've found that people in the team get more organized because they can have all the info they need within reach using the double linking feature. Also, the customization of the cards and views allows us to quickly show the team what's needed for each specific situation.

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It is having a combination of document, task management and diagramming tools that have guaranteed the best results, connects structured data with unstructured data to always keep it in context and has optimized workflow increasing efficiency.

When trying to have a conversation with support it is difficult because they do not respond to messages quickly and I have had to wait up to two days to resolve concerns

gives flexibility to automate certain processes that could be repetitive and thus increases efficiency and reduces workflow

Skill fantastic tool.it helps the small companies its helps to manage the technologies

Only for small companies helpful.mid sized companies

It helps to manage the technologies

Fibery is flexible and I was able to assemble my own workflow with automated visual reports. I absolutely love that the customer success team is doing a mind-blowing job while helping me with my tasks. I also like the look and feel of the product.

The learning curve is pretty steep, but once you get it, it's an amazing tool.

Fibery helps me to operate with the community communication process.

The data model allows a lot of freedom to customize Fibery to all your business needs

The UI could be a bit nicer looking and elegant.

Not faced any real problems up to now. We used Fibery for our Software development.

Next-level Notion for businesses and startups

Quite difficult to onboard all team because of how complex Fibery is

Fibery is great where there are many databases that need to be connected and updated easily across teams and functions. There are lots of other tools too