Coda Reviews

I love this app for web, but the iPad app has become completely unusable for me in the last 6-12 months. I keep hoping there will be an update to fix it, but when I log in, it cannot load my documents. Before that, it would load my documents list but the document contents would not load. AND EVEN BEFORE THAT, when Coda *did* work, the functionality is very limited on mobile, as others have said. Overall, very disappointing for a product that I have been ride-or-die for for years.

this app should be embarrassed at their mobile app. It’s simply impossible to do the majority of tasks, even when those features and tasks have been requested by users for years (seriously, you can find posts on their message board from 2021 complaining about features that still aren’t there in 2025). There’s no calendar view at all and tables are a joke. All I want to do is add a row to a table and it is literally impossible from my mobile device. I seriously have to bust out my laptop or go to my desktop computer? This is why we’re planning on converting our entire this app workspace to Notion.

I’ve spent a year with this app… its features were more appealing to me than Notion’s and Coda gradually became engrained in my work flow. I still love everything about the web-based application, but I’ll probably switch to another platform because the iPhone app is so terrible. Try copying and pasting text. It doesn’t behave like you’d expect on an iPhone… it’ll take you 5 minutes to copy a few paragraphs if you have to scroll. Every time I open Coda , it takes me to the beginning and I’ll spend 2 minutes waiting for the menus to load as I seek through my menus to find the document I was working on 5 minutes ago. Editing a doc is so clunky. Seriously, Apple’s Notes app is about 10x more usable than Coda. It’s just such a shame, since the web based app offers so much functionality. But it’s 2025. I need to use work apps like this at work, on planes, during travel, or even in bed in the middle of the night.

this app is amazing. The idea for Coda to turn docs into “mini apps” is absolutely a fantastic design implementation. However, there are significant issues that disrupt user joy.

1.) slowness of Coda to load
2.) it says it works offline, but because it works so slowly, I don’t trust that it works offline

Slack’s app had this problem in the early days as well. The background app refresh often cause drafts to disappear and Coda would reload causing you to lose your place. Incredibly frustrating because on mobile, you are constantly switching from one app to the next in order to get the information into its appropriate place.

The only feature this this app app needs is to load instantly to the last place you Had Coda open.

Get rid of that stressful loading circle. Omg. If it works offline, then everything about this loading circle tells me that it doesn’t. I’ve never opened Coda and seen the ring around less than 4 times. That means I’m literally counting to four. It’s 2020. Kill me.

Developers— please find pride in getting your screen changes to happen in less than 200ms.

Also the “going back to home” interaction. Takes a stressfully long amount of time to switch between this app docs.

That being said — I love the service. You are legends. Keep it up!

this app > Notion Web … but just about anything beats this app via the mobile app. I don’t leave reviews, and I feel compelled to do so. I find it almost unusable. I have some big documents and it won’t even read it. Error Message “We can’t load your document. It seems too large for your phone. Please try low memory mode.”

If you’re gonna have an app, then I should be able to use it with some version of functionality as the web.

I am a heavy user on the web, and I thought since the Grammarly acquisition, your app would improve faster, it hasn’t.

I’m as big of a this app fan as you can find but the fact that it runs so poorly on mobile and iPad makes it really hard to use for personal use when it comes to things like task lists, collaborative shopping lists, and anything really once it comes to using tables. When I’m on my desktop, the functionality is a breeze, but the entire workflow feels crippled via the apps.

I still recommend this app to anyone, but I’m disappointed in the Mobile experience.

Coda is honestly a big reason I turned my company away from this app and to notion. Coda is essentially an interactive viewer of your this app pages. You can interact with certain things but page edits are limited to text. No blocks or databases. Notion’s app isn’t perfect but I have many of the apps functions on my iPhone which is powerful. It’s why I switched to it from other note apps for personal use, and why I have it at my company now. I’d imagine many of us would like editing functionality. I get there’s a use case for simple interactions for general users of Coda , but editors are generally the ones who are part of the purchase process for apps like this and I’m not even sure if it’s meant for personal use. Pretty sure it’s limited unlike notion.

Developers, please consider creating a way for the iPad Pro to access the full desktop version for editing. Many people like myself who have the latest iPad Pro no longer use their desktop computer because it does everything (except this) that we need! Eventually everything is going to be mobile in the tech world, so you might as well start creating a software that no longer requires desktop. I love this app besides this one thing. I will definitely update my review to 5 stars once this has changed!

This could hardly be considered an iPad app. It’s just the iPhone layouts with extra horizontal space. None of the rich features from the web version of here.

If you need to make small edits to your pre-existing docs, this is fine I guess, but otherwise, it’s a pretty lazy app.

This is made even more frustrating by the fact that the website is not optimized for touch. For example you constantly have to tap twice to open things because the first tap only triggers the hover behavior.

I built a whole independent contractor system with client facing forms, internal project/task/expense management tables, and sales tracking tables with relation logic. Also built some crazy reports. It’s just a PITA to navigate back and forth and configure but once you get it down it’s amazing. It’s everything I wish Microsoft loop was. Only problems I have is no native push notification customization, automations break and don’t make any sense, & editing settings and navigation can be a bit finicky especially on mobile. There’s definitely a learning curve and patience is required. I hope this app takes time to improve this platform because it’s insane what it can do. I tried almost every app and this got me the closest for business and personal.

The limited functionality for iPad really deters me from using Coda . I stick to making docs on my browser, which is an excellent experience for the most part.

Coda gives you an idea of what this app can do, but it’s really limited in my opinion. I almost gave up on this app altogether thinking it wasn’t that great til I tried the browser version.

We work between a lot of different people on each doc and sometimes things get deleted by accident. I am constantly on the move and hate that I can't view edit history/version history on mobile to see who made the error and when.

The mobile functionality is otherwise fine, but it's definitely meant to be used on Desktop. I do find it better to use mobile than Excel/Sheets though.

Update: upon further investigation Coda only works fully in the Chrome browser. Hopefully that will change in the future. I’ve updated my rating from 2 stars to 4.
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There are a lot of good reviews here. I will offer a realistic one. Coda simply does not work good. It is iPhone only - no iPad version. Additionally, there is no “+” button on the screen to add a table or any other elements, as the tutorials claim there to be. There is only a text format bar when you start typing. Can’t do much with that and basically makes Coda useless. That “+” button simply isn’t there.
Maybe that is a paid feature, but they’re website says everything is free. The website itself is also not easy to use on an iPad. Touching elements doesn’t always work and the site header disappears sometimes when I am typing. Rating this 2 stars because it looks nice, but shouldn’t even be that high.
Even on the website there are screenshots of apps like the Project Tacker and there is no sidebar on the iPad like there is on the screenshots they show on the website.

When I first learned how to use spreadsheet formulas, I thought it was magic. I’d hack a spreadsheet or a google doc for almost everything in life and work (trip planning, project tracking, notes... the list goes on). Now I use this app for everything AND I DON’T EVEN NEED TO HACK IT. I made a CRM for my apartment search when I moved to Seattle. I planned a trip to Iceland with my mom so we could share our itinerary, expenses, reservations, and emergency info all in one place. I moved my family recipe database from a huge Drive folder to a single this app doc with cute icons for every section. On a project tracker with my team at work, I made my own view for my tasks that still updates the main tracker when I change a status. Now with Coda , I can pull up my recipes on my phone, use buttons to make status updates when I’m not at my desk, or get reminders from my habit tracker doc as push notifications. 🙏🏼 All I can say is YAS.

This product changed my work life! It’s allowed me to expand my business by using their automations that are built in and a couple that Zapier brings to the mix!

At first I was at a standstill learning their formulas but between the community and a couple helpful this app Employees they got me through it and now I’m all about data structures!

Give this a shot! It’s better than Notion and unlike Notion, this app won’t have issues with their domain.

While you only have about 50% functionality from the web experience, it does what it needs to do for a mobile app. I just want to be able to view/search all my Docs and make a quick text edit if needed. Why would anyone want to build automation and table and buttons on a mobile phone?! That makes Coda clunky (one of the things I hate about the Notion app).

5 stars. You can access all your docs with ease . No complaints.

Ever since I got a taste of the this app web app, I could not put it down and I almost ditched Google Word and Google Sheet, but they had the advantage of having mobile apps. this app is the easiest, most beautiful, and smart doc-creating piece of technology I have ever used and quitely, I think everyone should at least try once in their life. It's probably the most innovative tool I've have come across that was created in the last couple of years. It's so much so, that now that THERE'S AN APP that I can't even think of any other app right now that has been more life-changing than this one. THANK YOU this app GODS FOR BRINGING THIS BABY TO LIFE AND NOW TO MY PHONE.

Coda is fantastic! I’ve been using this app for a while to do things like automating my emails and tracking my fitness goals because I’m not a huge fan of other apps on the market that let me do that. With this mobile app, I can update my doc in real time so I don’t forget when I get home!

As more integrations come out, this could be the only app anyone ever needs

I’ve been a beta user of this app for nearly a year now. It has elevated almost every aspect of my team’s operations. Every workflow, every process, every project my team owns is now running on this app. I can’t say enough about the power that this app puts at your fingertips. Being able to take a blank sheet and build a near fully functional application-like document in the span of a day is revolutionary. I have almost zero technical experience. With the things I’ve been able to build with this app, I could have you fooled.

Also, the team at this app are extremely helpful. You really get the feeling that they care about you and that they want to solve problems right along with you.

I’m so excited for the launch of this app 1.0 today!

This software has become the operative system for how we run our company since we were 5. Now we are 12 and one of the reasons why I’m so excited about this app is it’s flexible design since it will be a great fit even when we are 1000.

We are doing so much with this app, from setting goals, to tracking user feedback and linking it to product features, to onboarding new clients.

The last releases (Packs, Layouts, Automation, iPhone App) have put this product way ahead of all other tools I know of in this space.