n8n Reviews & Product Details

made simple and powerful integrations in one place

The community edition does not share the flows with other users.

integrate my CRM, CS tools, support tool, AI tools, development tools and my internal dashboards.

The great thing about n8n is that it keeps improving over time, and its potential is only limited by your imagination.

I needed to learn how to run my own server to fully harness the power of N8N. As someone who is not a coder, I had to delve into learning more about servers and coding to effectively utilize this powerful no-code tool.

Backend automation plays a crucial role in my daily operations. In a nutshell, it saves me hours of tasks that would have been done manually.

Self-hosted, huge library of pre-made nodes, developer-centric while very low-code, super easy to remix community solutions, seems performant, excellent debugging, incredible integration features

Organising a large collection of flows and sub-flows is tricky (using tags) Takes a little while to understand the nesting of sub-flows and how to modularise tasks/

Centralising workflows that use data and carry out tasks on multiple platforms. Greatly simplifying integration from one central point. Reducing reliance on 3rd party developers for integration tasks. Automate business processes that were manual, time-consuming and causing huge delays and customer frustration.

Incredibly flexible and powerful. It can always do things that are stuck elsewhere

N/A. It's intuitive and has great debugging when things go wrong

Workflow automations, connecting various tools, and building low and no code apps to experiment.

documentation, and availability of "nodes" for several services

there is no easy way to control the output of new items only (RSSfeed)

socialmedia integration with telegram channels, automation of some repetitive task for work

That it's open sourced and the level of support from the community specially jon

No way to import extensions/npm library easily

Automation for free

Being technical but not a coder, I was looking for a solution to automate custom actions across cloud apps without having to deal with APIs or code anything and N8N offers me exactly that! It has many connections to popular cloud apps, and its interface is easy enough to use when you get used to it.

Some of the cloud connections are a little complicated such as AirTable; if those could be made easier to understand for users like myself, then that would be excellent.

Manual tasks that would take a person an hour or so to complete each day now happen automatically in the cloud in the early morning hours, ready for the working day.

I like the way this tools works and also the fact I can use it as a self hosted solution for free. By using this tool I saved already a lot of unproductive work and invested it in more important things.

In compare to other tools there are fewer implementations of different providers. But I think it will get more with time. You are doing a great job! Thank you!

The first time ever I was able to connect all tools I use to one huge solution :)

Pricing: Free. Flexibility: Maximum. Code: Fully Available (kinda like open source, almost)

It's still not as user-friendly as major no-code tools, but improving at lightning speed.

My biggest pain point in business for the past years has been getting my different tools to work with each other and avoid silos. I spent years mastering nocode tools like zapier, make (ex integromat) and airtable, and that helped. But I was always frustrated by the limitations and thought I had to become a full-blown developer to get full flexibility as needed. Then I discovered n8n which gives you all the flexibility of full-code when you want it, but all the convenience of no-code when you need. So you get the best of both worlds. For most things you can get away using no-code, but should you need the flexibility it lets you use lo-code to get maximum power. And even super basic beginner javascript already gives you ton of power.

n8n is making automatisation super easy like no other tool before. It comes with an incredible number of integration, and the use of HTTP nodes for making HTTP request (GET/POST, webhooks...) is easy

It's not a "dislike" but if you want to get an advanced user you need to know some Javascript, it would be so great to be able to use Python for writing custom function

Automation in the CRM (Hubspot), data enrichment, alerting...

Reliability, flexibility, easy to use, intuitive, powerful, JS support, many connectors. We use a wide range of CRM, ERP and Communication services. The team is also helpful!

If it was more widely adopted, we had even more connectors at disposal.

We use n8n as a middleware when connecting API interfaces. We also use it for data aggregation and manipulation. For example syncing orders from an online shop to ERP becomes a breeze.

All the possibilities to use nodes, and if that wasn't possible you could use http request or even if you know code you can create your custom node, just for yourself or for community

Today, one think that I dislike is just the possibility to search for data in past execution. This is good when you need to debug some workflow that you maybe forgot some process.

A lot of problems like integrate Landing Pages, inbound marketing communications, CRM for my salesperson and gateway of payment

n8n essentially provides a UI on top of rest API's, with minimal abstractions. The design of the visual editor allows for incredible customizability and having access to all API endpoints provides huge amounts of power.

In some cases, using the UI to specify lots of fields can feel cumbersome. In those cases, I often use some code in a function node to more easily create an object.

Automating business processes

It is a very easy to use tool with multiple ways to apply it.

I think it could have more variant usage plans.

anything that could be automated

Creating automation on n8n is a breeze because the n8n team had developed a lot of integrations that make the automating task even easier because now I don't have to code the logic myself. It really helps in easing the process.

I personally find it the UI and UX of n8n a bit not easy to manage compared to other tools I use. But that's just a personal opinion at the end of the day n8n helps in getting work done smoothly.

Helping automation some repetitive tasks to do it more effectively like receiving updates of any task directly on Telegram, Generating timely reports from Google Analytics data.

n8n is the best backend no-code platform I have used so far in many years.

Not enough advanced examples, maybe, even though any developer can easily extend the flow with JS Code anywhere in a flow and solve most limitations if any.

Capture destinations for Uber driver.

All iPaaS have appealing offerings. I've used several, but none of them provide the On-Premise solution that 8n8 does. This feature allows you to download the tool and integrate it into your private network. I'd argue that this is one of the best features 8n8 has to offer.

Still in love with n8n, I'd want to see improvements in documentation, examples, and more tutorials to grasp its nomenclature. 8n8 offers a lot of wonderful resources, but I'd like to see more and more.

I had a local Excel file with sensitive information, so I downloaded the On-Premise version and did an integration using the HTTP Module to send a post from my Excel file to an in-house developed system, which saved a lot of time for the people who had to fill out the Excel and the department that was in charge of manually entering data from the Excel to the in-house system.

If you've ever used a system like Zapier, then you're going to love N8n. It's intuitive drag and drop interface makes creating custom automations an absolute breeze.

Because the product is still new, there are still many things that require a knowledge of JavaScript to make work. For example, if you want to generate the time and day, you need to create a custom function to do that. That is quickly changing however as the community is constantly adding new features to make the coding process easy.

Automating my companies manual processes and connecting different tools so they natively work together (for example connecting Calendly to jira so customers can submit a Calendly request that automatically creates a jira issue).

I like how easy it is to set up automated actions using n8n. You can create simple to complex workflows using the wide variety of nodes available. I also like that we can self-host it as our automation tool.

Initially, I was looking for a user management feature where multiple users can login to the app and have limited access to their own workflows. This took a while to get added as a feature but I think the most recent release already added this.

In my use case, I use n8n as an alerting tool to inform me if users have done a certain action on an internal tool we built using other cloud tools. The main benefit of this is we're able to build monitoring into our internal tools and saves us time from manually checking it ourselves regularly.