Love the concept, love desktop, mobile app needs work – Flow: Plan. Organize. Track. Review

I’ve been using this app for a few days and really trying to understand its functionality before I bring the rest of my team over. Overall, this software is designed so well on desktop and the Mac app. It’s fully featured and offers all the necessary functions to organize our business. The iPhone app on the other hand is not really finished for prime time. It lacks a lot of basic functionality that the Mac app has. 1) 90% of the projects we make are duplicates of existing ones (we are a pop up restaraunt and catering business so we’re just making projects for each event with tasks that need to be done the month of, week of, day of, shopping list, and overview). So the to dos we need are already created we just need to duplicate it to add the date of the next event. On the computer it works great, but my business partner and I are ALWAYS working from our phones and are constantly responding to emails that come in and add info directly to the project on the fly. If a new project comes in we want to duplicate an existing project and change the title. I cannot do that on iPhone. 2) There is no way to reorder tasks on iPhone. Again, this is basic functionality for any to do app on the iPhone and was literally left out of the functionality. The only way to sort on iPhone is by due date or by title. Makes no sense. Again, this is something that works amazingly on desktop by the way. But just left out completely on iPhone. 3) Moving tasks between projects. There’s no way to move a bunch of tasks at once to a different project. I don’t know why they make us jump through so many hoops when we could simply drag and drop the items between them (Apple enabled the drag and drop API last year). Especially since they’re in the same list layout. I would say look to Things app for similar functionality. The problem with things is there’s no collaboration, so i will gladly pay the $6/month/user to integrate this with my team, but I just can’t do it unless it’s on the computer. 4) They tout markdown support on the Mac when working with the description of a project. This is amazing and helps with organization for the team to understand the context of a project. Unfortunately markdown, again, is only supported on the Mac. Seems like an oversight? I don’t know. I think maybe the developers had a date to launch and just decided not to support the iPhone app the way the desktop app is supported. Literally when I look at the info that has markdown code in it, it’s just the raw code. No formatting or anything. Why even enable this as a feature if it’s not supported? Overall, I’m going to stick with this app for now because it’s significantly cheaper than Basecamp and overall works really well with our business. But my team does 90% of their work on their phones and I have to double up all the work by checking on the computer to make sure it’s all organized correctly. Until the flow team gives us an outline on some of these basic functionality fixes, my rating will remain at 2 stars.
Review by nathanielperales on Flow: Plan. Organize. Track..