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Bordio vs Wrike - Comparison 2025

Bordio vs. Wrike

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Reviewed by Camin McCluskey

Stackfix Co-Founder & CTO

CM

Bordio and Wrike serve distinctly different segments of the project management market. Bordio excels as a lightweight, user-friendly tool perfect for small teams and simple projects, with its standout ease of use (10/10) and attractive interface.

Wrike, conversely, is a robust platform better suited for larger organizations managing complex projects, offering extensive customization (8/10), comprehensive task management (8/10), and rich template libraries (9/10). Choose Bordio for immediate productivity with minimal learning curve, or Wrike for scalable, feature-rich project management despite its steeper learning curve.

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Advantages of Bordio

Bordio is significantly easier to use than Wrike

Bordio offers an almost non-existent learning curve compared to Wrike's more complex interface. We found that new users can start using Bordio effectively immediately, while Wrike typically requires 1-2 days of learning. This makes Bordio particularly valuable for small teams needing quick project management implementation.

Bordio has superior look and feel compared to Wrike
Bordio's interface is notably more attractive and intuitive than Wrike's, particularly in its color-coding system for different task types. While Wrike's interface is functional, Bordio's design creates a more pleasant user experience, especially important for teams spending significant time in the platform.
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Advantages of Wrike

Wrike is significantly more customizable
Wrike offers extensive customization options including custom fields, workflows, automation, reports, and templates, while Bordio's customization is limited to basic color-coding and task fields. This makes Wrike better suited for teams needing to tailor their project management tool to specific workflows.
Wrike has superior project templates
Wrike provides an extensive library of business-specific templates and custom project types, while Bordio lacks any template functionality. This makes Wrike particularly valuable for teams that frequently start similar types of projects.
Wrike offers more comprehensive task management
Wrike provides advanced task management features including dependencies, priorities, and complex workflow automation, whereas Bordio lacks these capabilities. This makes Wrike more suitable for complex project management needs.
Wrike has better integration capabilities
Wrike supports multiple key integrations including Slack, JIRA, and both Google and Outlook suites, while Bordio only offers Google Calendar integration. This makes Wrike more suitable for teams using multiple tools in their workflow.

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

Wrike is best for

  • Businesses with a high number of active projects (10+ projects at a time)
  • Who need sophisticated workflow automation and extensive project templates
  • And/or who want deep task management customisation

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

Wrike is less good for

  • Businesses with a low number of active projects (3-5 projects at a time)
  • Who need built-in chat functionality for quick communication
  • And/or who want a simple learning curve with minimal setup time for workflow automation

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Stackfix Verdict
Functionality
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>
8

Functionality

8/10

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Wrike has most of the sought after features and is deeply customisable, offering customisable templates, automated workflows and types. It also supports OKR/goal setting and has additional features which act as a cherry on top like AI work creation and effort management.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">However, it lacks a few things which may be useful for real time collaboration like a realtime chat between team members or any sort of messaging service. Also, although it allows files to be added to tasks, it doesn't offer a shared space for docs and files or any way to create a company wide wiki which is important for larger companies.</span></p>
Ease of Use
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>
5

Ease of Use

5/10

<p>Overall, Wrike has a generally well planned UI which makes it <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">intuitive to use overall. </span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">It falls short on a few aspects though, some of the language used to relate tasks is quite complex and it's difficult to build a complex workflow in the beginning. We estimate that an average startup employee would take around 1-2 days to get their hands on this tool and be able to leverage its functionality efficiently.</span></p>
Look and feel
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>
7

Look and feel

7/10

<p>The software is visually appealing generally and has a simplistic UI which makes it easier to understand what's happening on a page. The load times for any page are quite fast and has an overall attractive look and feel, except the gantt chart which looks slightly blocky/shaky.</p>
Customisability
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>
8

Customisability

8/10

<p>Can customise quite a bit of the product, including custom fields, workflows, automation, reports, templates and types. However it's not open source which means that it may not offer the same amount of customisability as a tool which you can actually go ahead and tweak.</p>
Ease of Setup
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>
6

Ease of Setup

6/10

<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 good sample project space, but it lacks a rich library of templates. Full setup should take a day or two at most.</p>
Customer Support
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>
5

Customer Support

5/10

<p>Has tried to build a chat service but you can't actually ask many questions on it, since you normally just get template responses that a bot provides. It does however have an extensive set of FAQs and a project management guide which should help users get started.</p>
Integratability
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>
5

Integratability

5/10

<p>Supports a few integrations like Google, Outlook, Slack, JIRA and a host of other mobile applications. However, it doesn't support a few key integrations natively like Github, Zapier, Freshdesk and Zendesk which other tools do.</p>
Ease of Migration
1

Ease of Migration

1/10

<p>There are no exports available.</p>
5

Ease of Migration

5/10

<p>Has robust options to make self-serve exports of data in excel, csv or pdf and also gives API access. However it doesn't have the same number of pre-built native integrations which other tools may offer</p>
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