Affinity vs monday.com comparison

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Affinity and monday.com are both solutions in the CRM category. Affinity is ranked #41, while monday.com is ranked #4 with an average rating of 8.4. Affinity holds a 0.7% mindshare in CRM, compared to monday.com’s 1.2% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Affinity users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of monday.com users who would recommend it.

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98% willing to recommend

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Jun 3, 2026

Monday.com and Affinity are competing products in project management and client relationship management, respectively. Monday.com has an upper hand in terms of ease and flexibility, while Affinity excels in customer management capabilities with a tailored approach.

Features: Monday.com offers extensive integrations, a flexible board system, and custom workflows for project visualization. Affinity provides network analysis tools, targeted communications, and specialization in visualizing client relationships.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Monday.com provides intuitive deployment with extensive support documentation and responsive service channels. Affinity's deployment is tailored to sectors benefiting from relationship management, offering personalized support requiring more initial setup.

Pricing and ROI: Monday.com provides a tiered pricing model, presenting a cost-effective initial investment with visible ROI for various projects. Affinity's pricing reflects its specialized toolset, often higher but potentially delivering greater long-term value for organizations reliant on relationship insights.

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Review summaries and opinions

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Categories and Ranking

Affinity

Ranking in CRM

41st

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

monday.com

Ranking in CRM

4th

Average Rating

9.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.3

Number of Reviews

238

Ranking in other categories

Project Portfolio Management (3rd), Project Management Software (2nd), Marketing Management (3rd), Opportunity Management (5th)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the CRM category, the mindshare of Affinity is 0.7%, down from 1.0% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of monday.com is 1.2%, down from 1.9% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

CRM Mindshare Distribution
Product	Mindshare (%)
monday.com	1.2%
Affinity	0.7%
Other	98.1%

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Featured Reviews

Marcus Quinn

Chief Information Officer at Business Growth & Software Development Consultancy

Open source, stable and capable of working with existing Adobe files

Affinity Photo needs to work more. They need to align as much as possible with the shortcuts and keystrokes of Adobe. It's just because when you learn a tool as a professional, you tend to learn all the shortcuts and keystrokes. And if they're not the same as the same type of products that you migrated from, you lose productivity because you forget how to do things. You don't know where things are on the menu. You don't know the icon for it because you just know it as, "Oh, if I press this key, I get that." You forget the user interface. You just remember the keystrokes and the shortcuts. So, if that could align as much as possible with what I'm used to from Adobe, that would be good. And there's another product I use called Pixelmator Pro. And as much as I wish Affinity Photos did everything that Photoshop did, I actually ended up using this other product, Pixelmator, more for image editing because I just find it faster and more in line with what I remember from Photoshop. So, they are good. They've designed a good product. It's just the shortcuts and keystrokes need to match what people are used to, especially coming from Adobe because, let's say, it didn't exist. Affinity is a newer product.

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Shreyans Parekh

Vice President, Finance and Operations at Fruitist

Centralized workflows have boosted cross-team collaboration and made complex projects manageable

monday.com can continue to improve their AI capabilities. When comparing monday.com to several alternatives when I was evaluating a project and project management, product road mapping, and workflow management platform for us, I looked at competitors such as Asana, ClickUp, SmartSheet, Airtable, and Notion. In my opinion, competitors such as Airtable and SmartSheet, especially followed by Asana and ClickUp, have worked on their AI and generative AI roadmap to combine database functionality with a very user-friendly interface for knowledge management and project tracking, essentially combining both worlds. Their AI is more sophisticated than what monday.com has released thus far. They provide a cleaner task-focused workflow management platform and I think that monday.com can still improve on this core piece of their technology. I think monday.com could also seek to be more process-oriented and intuitive. Other alternatives such as Asana and SmartSheet offer that approach. There is a steeper learning curve to learn monday.com in my opinion compared to Airtable, Asana, and others because I have also used those tools and platforms at other organizations. There is a bit of a learning curve with new users on monday.com because it is not as streamlined as I have experienced with competitors such as SmartSheet or Airtable. The capability sets are great, however, you may need to be hand-held via a monday.com rep when you get started within your organization or view the library of tutorials that monday.com has available. You can also view them on YouTube and that will help you get started on monday.com.

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Quotes from Members

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Pros

"For me, the most valuable feature is the fact that they work with existing Adobe files. And open and edit PDFs and web-optimized exports. It's been very good."

"The most valuable features of Affinity are the connection features it provides because you have a large database of startups."

"I like that it's completely automated. It's a very robust system. You are not going to have faults in it."

"The most valuable features of Affinity are the connection features it provides because you have a large database of startups. The people who worked in the companies and founded them are displayed in Affinity. It can show if they are using some special intelligence feature and that you may know this person, of your connections. For example, if they know the person. It works similar to the way LinkedIn does when you seek a connection. Additionally, Affinity shows how close this person is and how often they contact each other."

"We are using Affinity as a very robust contact list."

"It helps to go completely digital and avoids the use of pen and paper, which helps declutter work life."

"In my opinion, the best features monday.com offers are the AI, then automation and the workflow, which helps business processes to be seamless."

"I like the update feature. It's almost like you can replace email with it. You can communicate on a particular item within monday.com, and then you can see the history of who commented, when they commented, what they said, and the reply to what they said. It's much easier to follow up on a particular item than have a thousand emails going back and forth. In a big project, you can usually have a ton of emails. If you use monday.com as a communication tool, you can almost eliminate email and have better tracking on what was done, when it was done, and what was said about the items. That's probably my favorite feature."

"The many different ways to organize boards, either for the whole team or just for me, have been a very efficient way to keep track of work, as well as a centralized place for team communication."

"After we started using Monday.com, the benefits were clear."

"The solution offers the simplicity of use with no need for 'experts' to build a suitable product for us (like Salesforce does, for example)."

"Monday allows clear communication by task, project, and department and makes it easy for us since we are all in different time zones."

"Monday.com has improved the organizational efficiency of our advertising agency."

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Cons

"It would be better if it were pay-per-user instead of pay-per-account."

"To get people to migrate, Affinity needs to somehow give them an incentive to change. The key is to make it as similar as possible. Shortcuts and keystrokes would be my biggest learning curve. So, to scale, you're going to have to convince people to relearn their workflow, and everybody's too busy to do that. Scalability is kind of mid because you face adoption resistance if you're pushing out to a studio or staff that are used to Adobe. Many products don't think beyond Microsoft and Adobe. If it's not Microsoft, then they don't understand. So, scalability is a challenge."

"It would be better if it were "pay-per-user" instead of "pay-per-account." For example, I'm Siddharth Mallya, and I have two email accounts. Each of those accounts is a separate payable account for me. For instance, I have created a network using my personal email ID, and now I have moved to my company email ID. It'll choose any one of those accounts, and that will become my paid account. For example, if I put in my personal email ID, then that's the account that I pay for. But I'm no longer using it, and it's not going to get updated. If I put in my work email ID, then that's an entirely separate account that I have to pay for."

"Affinity could improve by adding more features. It has been a while since I have used it, but when I did, the features could improve."

"The documentation must be available in French."

"Better integration with Outlook would be awesome."

"We've tried to use the marketing analytics and some of the integrations to pull outside data in, but they've never worked well."

"There are some days when Monday does have technical difficulties and it really throws us off our game."

"The exporting function could be improved to offer more raw data instead of being formatted like the online view."

"Technical support is not bad."

"Having more pre-defined formats and/or templates or having the ability to make public some formats/templates (not the information on them) would be useful."

"Though it offers full customizability, the table is an area where the product's performance is not quite up to the mark."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Affinity follows a pay-per-account model, and I think there will be a monthly or a yearly paid subscription. I have heard that it was expensive."

"Affinity is an expensive solution. However, they over a free version trial. The solution is expensive but the people that have used it say it is worth the money."

"Though I am unsure about the product's pricing plan, there is a need to make monthly payments towards the licensing costs attached to the solution, and it operates on a per-user plan."

"It's quite expensive when it goes to the enterprise license. Other tools like Jira cost 5 a month, and then their enterprise license is 38 a month, which is quite expensive for what we can do. It's £500 for a tool on a large enterprise. I'd have hoped that enterprise costs go down, not up. The pro license is £14, and then everything else is much more expensive, which is another barrier for us to adopt because other comparable tools are much more affordable when you have such a high multiplier as well."

"monday.com's pricing is fair compared to its competitors, although it is a bit more expensive than most of them. It's more expensive than Jira, Zoho, ClickUp, and Trello. But it is fairly priced when you compare the kinds of features and the capabilities that you get and the ROI."

"We tell others it's about $2200 for a ten-person plan and it can be adjusted; it's easy to scale."

"There are features that they're putting in the Enterprise plan that you have to pay for the Enterprise plan to use those features. The Enterprise plan is probably double or triple the Pro plan price, or it may be two and a half times. From a business standpoint, I don't like the fact that I have to pay two and a half times more to use a particular feature."

"I am using its free version."

"The product is not expensive."

"The pricing is totally fair. I don't have any issues with it."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Construction Company

16%

Comms Service Provider

12%

Manufacturing Company

11%

University

Outsourcing Company

12%

Construction Company

11%

Manufacturing Company

Financial Services Firm

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	182
Midsize Enterprise	28
Large Enterprise	32

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Do you recommend Monday.com?

Monday.com is one of the best project management softwares available on the market. It lets you create and customize the tools you need to run every aspect of your work. I particularly favor it bec...

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What needs improvement with monday.com?

I think monday.com can be improved by having more integration to other applications. Integration is needed because some of our clients want to have a native integration in their monday.com and exis...

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What is your primary use case for monday.com?

My main use case for monday.com is CRM and people management. Most of what we use is as a CRM. One specific example of how I use monday.com for CRM and people management is that one of our clients ...

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Overview

Affinity empowers businesses with intelligent relationship management, using AI to transform data into actionable insights for decision-making. It's ideal for industries requiring sophisticated network management and data integration.

Affinity is designed to streamline relationship management with cutting-edge AI and ML capabilities. It provides users a comprehensive view of their networks, centralizing data and offering insights into professional connections. With its ability to foster relationship-driven growth, Affinity helps businesses enhance their approach to networking and data-driven strategies. Its rich analytics tools allow for an intuitive understanding of complex relationships, making it essential for professionals who rely on data-driven decision-making.

What key features make Affinity stand out?

AI-Powered Insights: Leverages AI to provide actionable insights and relationship intelligence.
Relationship Intelligence: Centralizes contact information to analyze and visualize networks.
Pipeline Management: Streamlines project management with AI-driven suggestions to improve efficiency.
CRM Integration: Seamlessly integrates with existing CRM systems to ensure consistent data flow.

What benefits and ROI should you expect?

Increased Efficiency: Saves time on manual data entry, allowing focus on strategic tasks.
Improved Decision-Making: Offers data-driven insights for informed decisions.
Enhanced Networking: Strengthens professional connections and identifies new opportunities.
Cost-Effective Relationship Management: Reduces costs related to maintaining disparate information systems.

In VC and private equity, Affinity is crucial for uncovering hidden connections and driving strategic investments. Real estate professionals benefit from improved client management, while consulting firms utilize the AI insights to gain competitive advantage. These industry-specific applications showcase Affinity's adaptability and effectiveness in fostering growth and innovation.

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Monday.com enhances project management with automation, customization, and a user-friendly design, featuring Gantt charts, real-time updates, and extensive tool integrations.

Monday.com offers automation, customization, and user-friendly interfaces to improve project management capabilities. Its features, including Gantt charts, real-time updates, and integrations with tools like Slack and Google Suite, help teams streamline workflows. Users benefit from color coding, task assignments, subitems, and dashboards for a comprehensive project overview. Notifications, file-sharing, and forms increase collaboration, while templates simplify processes. However, it requires enhancements in user experience, speed, and mobile features. Challenges include limited boards, excessive notifications, and integration issues with Google Calendar and QuickBooks. Businesses use Monday.com for CRM tasks, sales tracking, marketing, and creative projects across fields like architecture, biotech, and nonprofits.

What are the key features of Monday.com?

Automation: Automate repetitive tasks to focus on more strategic activities.
Customization: Tailor workflows with adaptable templates and settings.
Integrations: Seamlessly connect with popular tools for enhanced functionality.
Gantt Charts: Visualize project timelines and dependencies with ease.
Real-Time Updates: Receive instant updates to stay informed and agile.

What benefits or ROI should users expect?

Enhanced Efficiency: Streamlined workflows lead to better time management.
Improved Collaboration: Active communication and file-sharing reduce email dependencies.
Adaptability: Customization options cater to diverse project needs.
Comprehensive Overview: Dashboards offer clear insights into project progress.
Resource Management: Efficient scheduling and task allocation optimize resources.

In industries like architecture, biotech, and nonprofit, Monday.com facilitates communication, task tracking, and collaboration for remote teams. It is commonly utilized for CRM, sales tracking, marketing, and creative project management, ensuring workflow organization and client management are streamlined.

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Sample Customers

T3 Advisors, Cushman & Wakefield,

Raw Digital, Wix, Discovery, Frost & Sullivan, Adidas, Asos, Uber

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