Lumiqa vs Monday.com: project management for video editors
Monday.com is a household name in project management. Colourful boards, automations, dashboards and integrations with everything from Slack to Salesforce. It is the right call for general project management at scale — engineering teams, sales operations, HR pipelines. The question for creative agencies is more specific: does Monday.com actually help when the daily work is shooting, editing and shipping client video?
Honest answer: Monday gets you 70% there with status columns, Gantt views and timeline gymnastics — but native video review is not on the menu. To get timecode comments on a cut, your editors paste a Frame.io or Vimeo link into a Monday card and hope clients click through. The "video review" extensions in the Monday marketplace are mostly basic embed widgets, not frame-accurate review. So you end up running two tools.
Lumiqa is built specifically for the creative production case. The board is shaped for content (brief → cut → review → schedule → deliver), every cut has a native review player with timecode comments, every editor sees their own queue, and every client gets a public share link. You give up Monday's general-purpose flexibility (it can't track your sales pipeline) and you get something that is great at video.
This page compares both honestly. Monday is more powerful as a generalist PM. Lumiqa is more useful when "creative production" describes 80% of your daily work.
Quick verdict
Choose Monday.com if you need general PM across multiple departments (sales + ops + creative + dev), you have technical staff to configure boards and automations, and you don't mind bolting on a separate review tool.
Choose Lumiqa if your team is editors and content producers shipping video for clients, and you want native video review, content calendar and editor queue without per-seat pricing or marketplace add-ons.
Feature-by-feature comparison
| Feature | Lumiqa | Monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | Free 1ws/2 seats. Starter €29 (5 seats). Pro €79 (15 seats). Agency €179 (40 seats). Flat team pricing. | $9–19/user/mo across Basic/Standard/Pro tiers. Per-seat with 3-seat minimum. Cost climbs fast on bigger teams. |
| Video review with timestamps | Native — frame-accurate timecode comments, drawings, threaded replies, public share links. | Not native. Requires marketplace extensions or external tools (Frame.io, Vimeo, Loom). No timecode comments inside Monday. |
| Content calendar | Editorial calendar built in. Drag-to-reschedule, brand filter, status tags. | Calendar view yes, but you build the data structure yourself. |
| Editor queue | Personal queue per editor, sorted by deadline. Native. | Possible with filtered views and "My Work" page. Setup required. |
| Multi-brand workspaces | Native multi-workspace. Up to 10 brands on Agency. Per-brand permissions. | Workspaces yes, but creative-agency-specific structure (brands, clients, deliverables) is not pre-built. |
| Public share links | Magic links per project, password optional, no client login. | Shareable boards exist. Per-project review link without login: limited. |
| Approval workflow | Built-in approval states tied to the production board. | Possible via automations and custom statuses. Setup required. |
| Built for creative production | Yes — designed for editors, agencies and studios end-to-end. | General-purpose. Adapted to anything from CRM to product roadmaps. |
| Free trial | 14-day trial, no credit card. Free tier forever. | 14-day trial available. Free tier limited to 2 seats. |
When to choose each tool
When to choose Lumiqa
- Your team is editors, producers and creative directors, not engineers
- You need native video review without paying for two tools
- You manage multiple client brands with separate calendars
- You want flat team pricing instead of per-seat math
- You don't have a Monday admin to configure custom boards
When Monday.com is the better choice
- You need PM across multiple departments (creative + sales + ops + dev)
- You have power users who enjoy building boards and automations
- You already use Monday and creative is a sub-team
- You need huge integrations ecosystem (Salesforce, Jira, HubSpot, etc.)
- Compliance/permissions are enterprise-grade requirements
The honest takeaway
Monday is a great generalist PM. If your business needs PM in many shapes, it's a strong choice. But for a creative agency, the daily friction is in the missing video review and the per-seat pricing — both of which compound with team size. Lumiqa solves both directly, at the cost of being narrower (you won't run a CRM in it).
Try Lumiqa free for 14 days. If your daily work is video, the difference is felt in the first week. Otherwise, Monday.com is a solid general PM and worth a trial.
More reading: Lumiqa homepage · Production workflow blog