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Airtable vs Bordio - Comparison 2025

Airtable vs. Bordio

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Reviewed by Camin McCluskey

Stackfix Co-Founder & CTO

CM

Bordio and Airtable serve distinctly different needs in the project management space. Bordio excels as a lightweight, extremely user-friendly tool with strong time-tracking and internal documentation features, making it ideal for small teams prioritizing simplicity and quick adoption.

Airtable, conversely, is a powerful, highly customizable platform with extensive automation and integration capabilities, better suited for organizations needing complex workflow management and data organization. While Bordio wins on immediate usability and basic task management, Airtable is the clear choice for teams requiring advanced features and extensive customization options.

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Advantages of Airtable

Airtable provides superior project portfolio management
Airtable excels at providing comprehensive project portfolio management with multiple view options (Grid, calendar, gallery, Kanban, timeline, list and Gantt) and the ability to track progress across projects. Unlike Bordio, it allows teams to connect tasks to company goals and OKRs, making it better suited for strategic project alignment.
Airtable has vastly superior integration capabilities
Airtable offers 36 native integrations with major platforms like Jira, Github, and Slack, plus API access for custom integrations. This makes Airtable much more suitable for teams using multiple tools in their workflow, compared to alternatives like Bordio, which only offers Google Calendar integration.
Airtable offers superior workflow automation
We provide robust workflow automation capabilities, including email triggers, Slack notifications, and weekly digest generation, making us much more efficient for teams looking to streamline their processes. Bordio lacks automation features beyond basic recurring tasks."
Airtable is significantly more customizable
We offer extensive customization options that others lack. We found strong workflow automations with conditional logic, highly customizable forms with multiple answer types, and customizable reports. This makes us particularly valuable for teams needing to adapt their project management tool to specific workflows. "
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Advantages of Bordio

Bordio is significantly easier to use than Airtable
Bordio offers a virtually non-existent learning curve compared to Airtable's more complex interface. We found that new users can start using Bordio effectively immediately, making it ideal for teams that need to get up and running quickly. Bordio requires little to no training, whereas Airtable requires about half a day of training for proficiency. Bordio is exceptionally easy to use, making it a great choice for teams that want to hit the ground running.
Bordio has superior time tracking capabilities
Bordio includes built-in time tracking features that Airtable lacks entirely. Users can track time spent on tasks using both manual entry and a timer function, with records maintained at the task level. This is particularly valuable for teams that need to monitor productivity or bill for time.
Bordio offers better internal documentation features
Unlike Airtable, Bordio provides a dedicated notes section for creating and managing internal documentation. Users can create editable documents with images, links, and checklists, making it more suitable for teams needing to maintain internal knowledge bases. Airtable lacks this built-in documentation capability.

Airtable is best for

  • Businesses with a moderate number of active projects (5-10 projects at a time).
  • Businesses that need extensive data organization and visualization capabilities with highly customizable forms and fields.
  • Teams who want strong workflow automation and project-goal alignment for strategic planning.

Bordio is best for

  • Businesses with a low number of active projects (3-5 projects at a time)
  • Who need basic task tracking with time management capabilities and want an extremely easy-to-use interface
  • And/or who want collaborative document creation through notes and need minimal integrations beyond Google Calendar

Airtable is less good for

  • Businesses with a high number of active projects (10+ projects at a time) who need streamlined task management and quick project setup
  • Who need real-time team collaboration and built-in documentation capabilities
  • And/or who need integrated time tracking and approval workflows for project billing.

Bordio is less good for

  • Businesses with a moderate number of active projects (5-10 projects at a time) who need portfolio management capabilities and advanced project tracking
  • Who need extensive workflow automation and custom integrations beyond basic Google Calendar sync
  • And/or who need advanced project visualization tools like Gantt charts, timelines, and customizable dashboards for reporting

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Stackfix Verdict
Functionality
7

Functionality

7/10

<p>Airtable offers most of the functionality that companies will need but lacks a few useful features. Users will benefit from strong workflow automations, dependencies, the ability to link tasks, projects, key metrics and company goals, forms which auto populate spreadsheets with responses and more. However, Airtable lacks in-real-time collaboration, the ability to create internal documents and some strong time-tracking features.</p>
5

Functionality

5/10

<p>Bordio is a minimalist project management tool. In line with this it doesn't offer a large suit of functionality. It lacks task dependencies and some basic automation which we would expect from this kind of tool. However, the time-tracking, internal documents and task management tools are all strong.</p>
Ease of Use
6

Ease of Use

6/10

<p>Airtable is generally easy to use. We estimate that an average start-up employee would require around half a day and some guidance to proficiently use all key functionalities of the platform. The notable exceptions to this are the extensions required to make custom reports and creating subtask in table view.</p><p><br></p><p>Airtables key processes are easy to find and do not require many clicks to reach. Some more complex processes like customizing the UI itself can be more hidden.</p>
9

Ease of Use

9/10

<p>There really isn't a learning curve with Bordio - it is exceptionally easy to use. We imagine any person could start using this tool effectively right from the word go!</p><p><br></p><p>All key processes are easy and intuitive to locate.</p>
Look and feel
8

Look and feel

8/10

<p>Airtable has a more customizable UI than most. You can alter colour and some layout features vai their interface designer. However, inevitably, UIs will not differ so much from one user to the next. They could all still have more sleep designs and more colour.</p><p><br></p><p>Loading times are fast (1 second per page).</p>
8

Look and feel

8/10

<p>Bordio has a simple but attractive view. It nicely utilises colour coding of each task depending of the 'type' of task it is (e.g. all hiring-related tasks are appear with a green background).</p>
Customisability
8

Customisability

8/10

<p>Airtable has strong customizability. Automations integrate with third parties and offer a decent selection of action/ trigger functions, as well as, conditional logic. Highly customizable forms also allow for conditional logic, many answer types and cosmetic customizations like banners, logos and colours. Out-of-the-box reporting extensions also allow for customizable reports.</p>
2

Customisability

2/10

<p>Bordio lacks any more complex customisations. There are no automations to customise and no custom reports. However, there are some more simple, but useful customisations. These include colour-coding different types of tasks and adding custom fields and tags to each task. When creating internal documents you can also add checklists, links and add pictures from your device.</p>
Ease of Setup
8

Ease of Setup

8/10

<p>Offers a self-serve free trial and allows purchase without needing to talk to sales. Getting started and setting up a few tasks and subtasks should take 20-30 minutes, because it has a very rich library of templates. Full setup should take less than a day.</p>
9

Ease of Setup

9/10

<p>Bordio is fantastically easy to set up. It doesn't require talking to sales and full setup will likely take less than 30 minutes.</p>
Customer Support
7

Customer Support

7/10

<p>An in-app chatbot is useful for filtering through self-serve material, but if you want to talk to a real human you need to do this via email (not that forms can be submitted via email) and agents will reply within 48 hours - but usually in less than 12 hours.</p><p><br></p><p>Airtable's self-serve materials are excellent. Articles, videos and seminars all have excellent depth and quality. These can all be access in app.</p>
4

Customer Support

4/10

<p>There is personalised email support which are friendly and helpful. Replies usually take less than a day. You will also receive an email when you first get the platform asking if you have an questions or wish to schedule an onboarding meeting.</p><p><br></p><p>Self-serve materials are thin and not of great quality. This being said, it is unlikely that any such materials will be needed given the simplicity of the platform.</p>
Integratability
8

Integratability

8/10

<p>Airtable only offers 36 native integrations which pails in comparison to other project management software - like Clickup or Asana. However, most of the big names are covered - like Jira, Github, Slack etc. Some integrations also include automations - e,g. sending messages in slack or creating a weekly digest in google documents.</p><p><br></p><p>Airtable also offer an API allowing users to build integrations where necessary.</p>
1

Integratability

1/10

<p>There is one integration with google calendar and google meet and that is it. Bordio is seriously lacking in this department.</p>
Ease of Migration
8

Ease of Migration

8/10

<p>Exports of key and custom data and reports are available self-serve via a CSV file.</p>
1

Ease of Migration

1/10

<p>There are no exports available.</p>
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