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Pin Drop and Smartsheet

Smartsheet is a widely trusted work and project management platform, used by the majority of Fortune 500 companies to plan, automate and report on work at scale. Pin Drop starts from place instead of row, giving every site its own pin with territory, visit history and coverage built in.

Smartsheet is one of the most established names in work management. Over 85% of Fortune 500 companies use it, and its spreadsheet-style grid makes it an easy platform for teams to adopt without much retraining.

Beyond the grid, Smartsheet covers a wide span of project and portfolio management: task lists, dependencies, Gantt and timeline views, resource and workload tracking, dashboards and conditional automation for recurring work.

Plans run Pro, Business, Advanced Work Management and Enterprise. Smartsheet prices per Member rather than per user, with Contributors free and unlimited. Pro is $9 per Member a month billed yearly but caps at ten Members, so it stops being an option as soon as the team grows past that. Business is $19 per Member a month billed yearly with a three-Member floor, making three seats its real entry point. Advanced Work Management sits alongside Enterprise, both quoted directly by Smartsheet. Figures change, so check Smartsheet's own pricing page for the current numbers.

It runs on web, desktop and mobile apps for iOS and Android, and connects into most major work tools through its integration library.

Where it gets harder is geography. Many field teams end up tracking sites, stops or properties as rows in a sheet, with an address typed into a cell and little else tying the record to a real place.

Pin Drop takes the same kind of record and puts it on a map instead. Each site becomes a pin holding its own visit history, notes, photos and pipeline stage, sitting inside a territory with a named owner.

The two are not really competing for the same job. Smartsheet stays the system for planning and portfolio work, while the map handles what happens on the ground, and either can start from an existing spreadsheet or CSV export on day one.

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Territories drawn by hand, not rows in a sheet.

Map out patches with named owners so coverage and overlap are visible at a glance.

Automatic check-in and check-out.

Notes and photos land against the pin the moment a visit starts and ends.

Pipelines that move with the place.

Sites step through stages with timing attached to the pin, not a spreadsheet row.

Routes that account for traffic.

Plan multi-stop days and hand off to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze.

How it works

From a task list to a map of where the work happens.

01

Import what you already have

Bring locations across from a spreadsheet, CSV or export. Every place maps instantly, no rebuild.

02

Shape it around how you work

Tag, group and add the custom fields your team uses, so the map matches your operation, not a generic template.

03

Put it in the team's hands

Everyone works from the same live map on the phone they carry. Work logged in the field shows up for the office without an update being sent.

Trusted at scale

Used by 10,500+ organisations.

10,000+

Verified organisations

613

At $1B+ revenue

360

10,000+ employees

17+

Sectors represented

Amazon

Nike

Adobe

Oracle

Pfizer

Nestlé

PepsiCo

Mars

Walmart

Whole Foods

M&S

Mastercard

Capital One

Barclays

AT&T

Toyota

Volvo

Bosch

Bayer

BASF

Philips

UPS

Kuehne+Nagel

BT Group

NHS

Abbott

ADP

Cargill

Veolia

Paramount

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How Pin Drop compares with Smartsheet

The capabilities that matter when you move your map across.

Capability

Pin Drop

Smartsheet

Best suited for
Pin Drop
Field teams managing places, visits and territories on the ground
Smartsheet
Teams managing projects, programmes and cross-functional work
Core philosophy
Pin Drop
Place first: every site is a pin holding its own history
Smartsheet
Row first: every task is a line in a sheet
Task management
Pin Drop
Location-based pipelines move sites through stages with stage timing
Smartsheet
Rich task lists, dependencies, Gantt charts and automation rules
Territory management
Pin Drop
Hand-drawn territories on the map with named owners and coverage
Smartsheet
No native territory or geographic coverage mapping
Visit tracking
Pin Drop
Automatic check-in and check-out capture notes and media at the pin
Smartsheet
No native site visit or check-in capture
Multi-site visibility
Pin Drop
Every site plotted as a pin on one live map
Smartsheet
Rows and dashboards, no native map view of sites
Routing
Pin Drop
Traffic-aware multi-stop routes handed to Apple Maps, Google Maps or Waze
Smartsheet
No native routing or multi-stop planning between sites

How we wrote this.

We build Pin Drop, so read this as a competitor's comparison. Every page under Compare follows the same rules: we name where the other tool is better, we check competitor prices and claims at source and print the date we checked, and we only quote a customer outcome where there is a published story behind it.

FAQS

Questions you might have

How is Pin Drop different from Smartsheet?

Smartsheet runs your projects, tasks and workflows in a spreadsheet-style workspace. Pin Drop adds the place dimension, the sites, assets and locations behind the work, captured as a shared map.

Can I use Pin Drop alongside Smartsheet?

Yes. Plan and track the work in Smartsheet, keep the places in Pin Drop. The map of sites and assets sits beside your project sheets.

Can I import my locations into Pin Drop?

Yes. Bring your locations in, organise them into shared maps and add notes, photos and visits against each pin, on mobile and desktop.

Is Pin Drop a good companion for Smartsheet users?

Yes. If your team needs a shared map of the sites behind the work that a project tool does not hold, Pin Drop fills that gap.

How much does Pin Drop cost?

Pin Drop is billed per seat, with a 14 day trial that takes no card. The free plan is for personal use, so business use starts on the trial or a paid plan. See the pricing page for current plans. Smartsheet pricing is separate and changes over time, so check their site.