What are our customers and the press
saying about Backpack?

Backpack has been mentioned in the following magazines and newspapers

“A cool organization tool. How very cool.”

-David Pogue, The New York Times

Tens of thousands of small businesses, agencies, and entrepreneurs worldwide depend on Backpack to organize their businesses.

PC Magazine Editor’s Choice
“Backpack is an incredibly easy-to-use Web-based organizational service. This app provides straightforward, intuitive, and versatile functionality you can use to organize a wildly varying array of projects.”

-Errol Pierre-Louis, PC Magazine

Best of the Web
“Editor’s Choice and Reader’s Choice.”

-BusinessWeek

Hot site
“Hot site of the day.”

-USA Today

The best example is a new service called Backpack, which has been drawing attention among bloggers who focus on productivity tips.
-Thomas Weber, The Wall Street Journal
We recommend Backpack more than ever
“We recommend Backpack more than ever for anyone from casual users who need a simple web-based locker for storing bits and pieces of their daily adventures, to power users with a serious case of GTD or project management on their back.”

-Download Squad

The Backpack New Year’s Resolution
“If getting your shi*t together is high on your resolution list and you live online, Backpack — a free-form notes, to-do and calendar webapp &mdash is the place to do it”

-Lifehacker

Extremely simple...and flexible
“Extremely simple, very clever and flexible — if you give it a chance, you’ll learn tons of ways to keep things online that keep you productive for work, school or life.”

-Jackson Free Press

Coolest thing I’ve used on the web
“This is the coolest thing I’ve used on the web ever.”

-Ideas that work

All the fun without any of the learning curve
“It’s all the fun of a wiki without any of the learning curve plus todo-lists, reminders, file storage and mobile access all rolled into one.”

-LifeHacker

Holy crap this is cool
“My first impressions? Holy crap this is cool.”

-Simply Geeky

I love it!
“I love it! I can see myself using this daily. I can see my mum using this daily! Go 37signals! Such a tight little application that is so open you can pretty much do what you want with it.”

-Darren Wood

Worth every penny
“Take a peek at this great Web-based tool... It’s worth every penny.”

-St. Petersberg Times

Emphatic usefulness
“Emphatic usefulness! It’s perhaps the most convincing Web answer yet to the power, flexibility and simplicity of a spiral-bound notebook.”

-Khoi Vinh, Subtraction

Overflowing with real-life usefulness
“Overflowing with real-life usefulness and smooth interfacing.... Backpack is so flexible that describing exactly what it does is impossible, and that’s not a bad thing.”

-BusinessLogs.com

Anyone could find a use for Backpack
“Absolutely anyone could find a use for Backpack”

-Justin French

Two thumbs up!
“Two thumbs up!”

-Marketing Shift

Really, really easy to use
“It’s really, really easy to use. The interface is uncluttered and the features are intuitive. Why didn’t someone think of this sooner?”

-Colleen Typepad

Usefulness perfected. I love it.
“Backpack is the one application that I absolutely love with my whole heart. I want a stronger synonym for "useful" to describe Backpack, but for now that’s how I’ll describe it: Usefulness perfected. I love it.”

-Dave Caolo

Absolutely beautiful and intuitive interface
“As usual, 37signals blends an absolutely beautiful and intuitive interface with pertinent functionality... Everything you used to scribble down on sheets of paper can be replaced by Backpack’s functionality, combining weblogging, to-do lists, and calendars all into one simple-to-use interface. ”

-Wholesome Goodness

Super cool
“Super cool.”

-Brian Moseley

Really comes close to being a true web-based brain
“A lot of applications have claimed to be online organizers, but Backpack is the first web app that really comes close to being a true web-based brain.”

-Emily Chang, Being EDU

Better and better
“Backpack just gets better and better. It’s infinitely useful and easy. Unlike many other sites that use Ajax to be flashy, Backpack is simply useful. I love it.”

-Dave Caolo

Pretty impressed
“I’m pretty impressed.”

-Jeroen’s Repository

Backpack is executed brilliantly
“Backpack is executed brilliantly... Backpack is a web-based personal information manager. It loads faster than iCal launches, has more features than Stickies, and a full year’s basic subscription is one-quarter the price of a PDA. It manages to replace all of these while being almost, but not quite, entirely unlike any of them.”

-Assorted Geekery

37signals have released yet another totally kickass web app
“Fricken A! The guys at 37signals have released yet another totally kickass web application called Backpack.”

-WillisBros

Freakin’ awesome!
“Freakin’ awesome!”

-Micro Persuasion

You must check out Backpack
“You must check out Backpack, an online personal organizer with a slicker-than-snot AJAX UI that has some seriously great functionality.”

-Slapjack

Backpack is brilliantly original
“It frigin’ rocks! Backpack is a complete original. Backpack is brilliantly original in fact! 37 Signals actually hit the nail on the head with Backpack’s usability, accessibility and placement of the product! In short they met a need I never knew I had. That’s impressive.”

-Michael Meiser

Backpack encourages collaboration
“Backpack’s ease of use encourages collaboration from all of our employees.”

Basetwo Media

This is impossible to live without. This is by far the best web application I’ve ever used.
-Robert Hoekman, Jr.
Very much worth checking out
“It’s very much worth checking out.”

-Marc Hedlund

Mighty useful
“Looks really good and mighty useful.”

-Blue Flavor

Ridiculously simple and awesome
“Ridiculously simple and awesome... You wouldn’t think that a little web service would be able to steal my attention away from a fresh installation of Tiger ("The Widgets! They’re everywhere!"), but I’m really sold on this too.”

-Tangentialism

Flexible, fast, and fun
“Very flexible, fast, and fun to use. Unlike some other similar tools that I have seen, I really appreciate the clean minimalist design of Backpack. You won’t be embarrassed to have this up on your computer at work.”

-Unigami (via StumbleUpon)

It’s incredible
“...it’s very fast. It’s incredible and appears to be exactly what I’ve been looking for...”

-Mom At Home