The 24 Best Product Management Tools

Aha!

It is a visual roadmap planning tool, which has proved to be very useful for today’s Product Managers. Outlining the product strategy has never been simpler. Aha! makes adding new ideas and prioritising features a cakewalk.

Typeform lets you create forms for surveys on any device, all in a matter of seconds.

This is for slightly more sophisticated surveys, with over 200 templates to your aid.

You can capture the physical interactions of your users with your app screens with the help of UXCam, to learn where they are struggling and make the user experience better.

User Testing is unique in the sense it lets you get videos of your users using your product and letting their thoughts out loud. You can set specific tasks for your users and get results in an hour. The users also get incentivised as they get $10 for every 20 minutes spent on these tasks.

Balsamiq is one of the most widely used wireframing tools available to a Product Manager. Wireframes can be made very easily and rapidly with it.

Sketch is another great tool for wireframing, so as to communicate to both internal teams and external clients how your product should function.

Dunnnk is great for high-resolution mockups. All you have to do is upload your design and you can download good-looking mockups for any device.

Invision lets you turn your designs for both web and mobile into interactive mockups and prototypes. Unlike other mockup/prototyping tools, you can incorporate gestures and transitions in the mockups through it. You can even collaborate with Invision’s real-time collaborating and whiteboarding tool, LiveShare.

JIRA is an agile project management tool. It lets you take care of all the planning, tracking and managing of your projects. You can keep track of bugs and issues and also know the status of various projects.

Trello lets you visualise your projects. You can manage teams to events on it and even invite people to collaborate on it. It is like a virtual bulletin board, where you can upload documents and participate in discussions with others.

Asana is also a project management application but is web-based and thus lets you work on the go. You can keep track of your team’s work and also manage conversations and tasks on it, instead of searching your mailbox.

Google Docs

Google Docs is your all-weather friend for your documentation needs. It is great for creating, editing and letting people collaborate on documents. Sharing is quite simple too.

Optimizely

Optimizely lets you improve your website/app by experimenting with its various elements through A/B and multivariate testing. It is one of the most widely used tools for this purpose.

Mixpanel

Mixpanel is meant for enterprise mobile analytics. If you want to analyse the user behaviour and measure the engagement on your mobile site, look no further.

Kissmetrics

Kissmetrics makes it very simple to analyse and optimise your digital marketing campaigns on web and mobile. You can track user behaviour, individually and group-wise and decide where users are leaving and how to segment your traffic.

Geckoboard

Geckoboard shows you real-time data from over 80 sources to help you track your performance.

CrazyEgg

CrazyEgg is a heat map tool which takes screenshots from a particular URL to show you where your users click and scroll and why they leave. You can even compare mobile and desktop heat maps.

UXArchive

You can compare your design with that of other apps, thanks to UXArchive literally being an archive of user experiences for apps.

Pttrns

Pttrns is what you get when you have tons of mobile design patterns for all sorts of user experience

GoodUI

GoodUI helps you develop good UI with high conversion rates. They have a running list of great UI ideas which they keep on actively testing. It is a great site to know what works and what does not for users as far as UI is concerned.

Flaticon

Flaticon is great if you need vector icons for your user interface, as it has more than 700,000 of them. You can even directly insert the icons into your design.

MailChimp

MailChimp is the most popular email marketing tool in the market. It has millions of users and you can track results of your efforts very easily. You can analyse the open rates, click-through rates etc., automate send-times, manage contacts, check subscriber profiles and much more on MailChimp.

Canva

We understand you are not a graphic designer and as a Product Manager, you are not supposed to be a pro at design but if Product Marketing is something you have to take care of, it is nice to be able to make some image graphics quickly for your marketing and product-testing needs. With a visual content creation tool like Canva, even a novice can create good-looking graphics relatively easily and inexpensively for blogs and social media. It has a huge library of stock images and pre-designed templates for easily creating graphics.

Unbounce

With Unbounce, you no longer have to worry about A/B testing and lead generation as it lets you build, publish and test your landing pages quite smoothly.