Quick verdict: These two tools solve different problems. Unito is a two-way sync platform that keeps work items consistent across 60+ business tools – Jira, Asana, Salesforce, GitHub, ServiceNow, and more. The Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com brings SharePoint file storage, document generation, Excel dashboards, and OneDrive access inside monday.com. Unito connects to Microsoft Excel, Outlook, and Dynamics 365, but has no SharePoint or OneDrive integration. If your need is Microsoft 365 file access inside monday.com, Unito is the wrong tool.
At a Glance
| Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com | Unito | |
|---|---|---|
| Primary purpose | Microsoft 365 & SharePoint inside monday.com | Two-way sync across 60+ business tools |
| SharePoint file browser in monday.com | ✅ | ❌ No SharePoint support |
| OneDrive for Business access | ✅ | ❌ |
| Generate Word docs & PDFs from monday.com data | ✅ | ❌ |
| Embed Excel charts in monday.com dashboards | ✅ | ❌ |
| SharePoint automation (folders, documents) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Microsoft Excel integration | ✅ Full import/export | ✅ As a sync source |
| Microsoft Dynamics 365 integration | ❌ | ✅ |
| Two-way item sync with Jira / Asana / Salesforce | ❌ | ✅ Core use case |
| Lives inside monday.com | ✅ Native marketplace app | ❌ External platform |
| Free tier | ✅ Up to 2 seats, no card required | ❌ Free trial only |
| Paid plans from | $10/month | $99/month |
| SOC 2 / ISO 27001 / HIPAA / GDPR | ✅ All four | ⚠️ Verify on your required plan |
| Hosted by monday.com | ✅ monday code infrastructure | ❌ Unito servers |
| monday.com Partner of the Year | ✅ 2025 | – |
Pricing as of May 2026. Verify current rates at each vendor's website.
What Each Tool Actually Does
Microsoft 365 SharePoint integration for monday.com
The Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com is a native monday.com marketplace app built by David Simpson Apps – the monday.com Community Partner of the Year 2025. It installs directly into your monday.com account and adds Microsoft 365 capabilities inside your boards, item views, and dashboards. Your team never leaves monday.com to work with SharePoint files.
What it does:
- Browse SharePoint and OneDrive for Business files inside monday.com – files appear in item sidebars, respecting every permission already configured in Microsoft 365. Open and edit files in Office Online without switching tabs.
- Generate documents from monday.com data – create Word documents, PDFs, HTML emails, and Excel spreadsheets from monday.com column values using templates stored in SharePoint. One status change can trigger a complete document package.
- Embed live Excel charts and cells in monday.com dashboards – your SharePoint-hosted spreadsheets display as live, interactive widgets alongside your boards.
- Import and export Excel spreadsheets – pull rows from SharePoint Excel files into monday.com as items on a schedule, and push board data back to Excel automatically.
- Automate SharePoint workflows – trigger folder creation, document generation, and file organisation from monday.com item events, using monday.com's native automation recipe builder.
Used by 40 million+ users across 240 countries, including NBCUniversal, AT&T, IBM, and Roche. Hosted on monday.com's own monday code infrastructure – SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA certified.
Unito
Unito is a no-code two-way sync platform. Its core proposition is keeping work items – tasks, issues, tickets, records – consistent across the different tools your teams use independently. When a developer updates an issue in Jira, Unito reflects the change in monday.com automatically, and vice versa. No one has to copy-paste between systems or reconcile diverged records.
Unito connects monday.com with 60+ tools across project management, development, CRM, HR, and data platforms:
Project management & dev: Jira, Azure DevOps, Asana, Trello, ClickUp, Wrike, GitHub, GitLab, Basecamp, Linear, MeisterTask, Smartsheet, Airtable
CRM & sales: Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive, Dynamics 365, Zendesk, Intercom
Data & analytics: Google Sheets, Snowflake, BigQuery, PostgreSQL
HR & operations: BambooHR, ServiceNow, Freshservice
Microsoft products Unito connects with: Excel, Outlook, Dynamics 365
What Unito syncs for monday.com items: name, description, status, assignee, due date, custom fields, labels, attachments, comments, sub-items and checklists (Pro and above)
What Unito does not do:
Unito does not integrate with SharePoint or OneDrive for Business. Despite connecting with several Microsoft products, it has no access to SharePoint document libraries, the SharePoint permissions model, or Microsoft 365 file storage. It cannot generate Word or PDF documents. It cannot embed Excel charts in monday.com dashboards. Its Excel integration treats spreadsheets as data sync sources – not as documents to be generated, embedded, or managed within a SharePoint context.
Unito's strength is item data sync across platforms – not file access or document workflows.
Feature Comparison: Where Each Tool Wins
Microsoft 365 file access and document workflows
Winner: Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com – Unito has no SharePoint support
The Microsoft 365 integration embeds SharePoint and OneDrive for Business directly inside monday.com item views. Permissions from Microsoft 365 are honoured throughout: users see only what their Microsoft 365 account allows. Open a Word document from a SharePoint library, edit it in Office Online, save – without leaving monday.com.
Unito has no SharePoint connector. It works with task-level data fields – not files, document libraries, or the Microsoft 365 file ecosystem. You cannot use Unito to browse a SharePoint folder, open a Word document, or display a SharePoint-hosted Excel chart in a monday.com dashboard.
Document generation from monday.com data
Winner: Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com – Unito cannot do this
The Microsoft 365 integration creates Word documents, PDFs, and HTML emails from monday.com board data using templates stored in SharePoint – comparable to mail merge, but triggered by monday.com automation. A legal team generates a contract from a deal item. An HR team auto-produces an onboarding pack when a new hire is added. A project manager exports a board view to a branded PDF report in one click.
Unito has no document generation capability at any plan level. It syncs item data between tools but cannot create new files.
Two-way sync across business tools
Winner: Unito – the Microsoft 365 integration does not offer cross-tool sync
Unito's strength is keeping work items consistent between the tools different teams use. If your software team works in Jira and your project office uses monday.com, Unito eliminates the need for either team to update both systems. The same applies for Salesforce↔monday.com, GitHub↔monday.com, ServiceNow↔monday.com, and 60+ other combinations.
The Microsoft 365 integration does not sync monday.com items with any external tool. It is not a sync platform – it is a Microsoft 365 file integration. If cross-tool item synchronisation is your primary requirement, Unito is the right category of product.
Breadth of Microsoft tool coverage
This is where the comparison becomes specific. Both tools connect monday.com to some part of the Microsoft ecosystem, but they cover completely different parts of it:
| Microsoft product | Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com | Unito |
|---|---|---|
| SharePoint | ✅ Full file and folder access | ❌ |
| OneDrive for Business | ✅ | ❌ |
| Word (document generation) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Excel (dashboards) | ✅ Embedded charts and cells | ⚠️ Data sync only |
| Excel (import/export) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Outlook (email generation) | ✅ HTML email from templates | ✅ Events only |
| Dynamics 365 | ❌ | ✅ |
If your Microsoft dependency is SharePoint, OneDrive, or Word – the DSApps integration is the right tool. If your Microsoft dependency is Dynamics 365 as a CRM synced with monday.com – Unito covers that and the DSApps integration does not.
Pricing predictability
Winner: Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com
The Microsoft 365 integration charges a flat monthly fee per seat count. A team of 20 pays $40/month every month, regardless of automation volume or document output.
Unito charges by items held in sync. As boards grow and projects accumulate, item counts climb and plans upgrade automatically at the next billing cycle. A team that starts on the $99/month Basic plan (up to 2,000 items) may move to the $299/month Pro plan as they scale – without a deliberate decision to do so.
For teams whose primary need is Microsoft 365 file integration, per-seat pricing is more predictable and, at most team sizes, significantly cheaper.
Compliance and hosting
Winner: Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com
The Microsoft 365 integration runs on monday code – monday.com's own SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, and HIPAA-certified hosting infrastructure. Data does not leave the monday.com platform boundary.
Unito is hosted on Unito's own servers. Compliance coverage varies by plan. Teams in regulated industries should verify Unito's certifications directly before committing – particularly for healthcare (HIPAA) and finance use cases.
Pricing comparison
Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com
| Seats | Monthly | Annual |
|---|---|---|
| Up to 2 | $0 | $0 |
| Up to 5 | $10 | $108 |
| Up to 10 | $20 | $216 |
| Up to 20 | $40 | $432 |
| Up to 50 | $80 | $864 |
| Up to 100 | $120 | $1,296 |
| Up to 200 | $200 | $2,160 |
| Up to 400 | $400 | $4,320 |
| Up to 600 | $600 | $6,480 |
| Up to 800 | $800 | $8,640 |
| Up to 1,000 | $1,000 | $10,800 |
| 1,000+ | $1,400 | $15,120 |
All paid plans include unlimited automations. Permanent free plan for up to 2 seats – no card required.
Unito
| Plan | Monthly | Items in sync | Sync frequency | Notable inclusions |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Basic | $99 | 1,250–2,000 | 15 minutes | 1 hub tool, basic fields |
| Pro | $299 | 2,500–15,000 | 15 minutes | Custom fields, sub-items, checklists |
| Business | $769 | 6,000–100,000 | Real-time | Unlimited tool combinations, workspace permissions |
| Enterprise | Custom | Custom | Real-time | Dedicated CSM, custom SLAs |
No permanent free tier – free trial available. Item count drives automatic plan upgrades. Pricing verified May 2026 at capterra.com – verify current rates at unito.io/pricing.
Bottom line: For a 20-person team needing Microsoft 365 file integration in monday.com, the DSApps app costs $40/month. Unito starts at $99/month, does not include SharePoint integration at any price, and costs scale with item volume rather than team size.
For large enterprises where Unito's item-sync ROI is proven – Unito's own case studies cite $218K–$595K in annual savings for customers syncing Jira↔Asana or Salesforce↔Jira – the investment can be justified. But that ROI calculation applies to cross-tool item sync, not Microsoft 365 file workflows.
What customers say about the Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com
"The app has resulted in a 50% reduction in administrative workload. Support has been phenomenal, accelerating and complementing monday.com as a platform." – Christopher Thompson, Managing Director, Chadley Group
"Due to its benefits, low cost, and continuous delivery of new features, we continue to find Microsoft 365 SharePoint • Automate & Embed to be baseline configuration across all of our PMO solutions." – Juan Pyco, Managing Director and Founder, SAVVY
"His apps help fill in the gaps between the inconvenience silos created between monday.com and Microsoft. This enables us as a company to reduce capacity issues and better develop the flow of data by simple automations." – Michael Ball, Digital Transformation and Data Manager, Just Ideas
When to choose the Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com
Choose the DSApps Microsoft 365 SharePoint integration if:
- Your team stores files in SharePoint or OneDrive for Business and wants them accessible inside monday.com item views without switching apps
- You generate documents – proposals, contracts, reports, invoices, HTML emails – directly from monday.com board data
- You use Excel for reporting and want charts or cells from SharePoint-hosted spreadsheets embedded in monday.com dashboards
- Your organisation has compliance requirements – SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, or GDPR – and needs certified hosting infrastructure
- You want a permanent free plan with no commitment to start
- You need predictable, seat-based pricing unaffected by automation volume
When Unito may fit better
Consider Unito if:
- You need monday.com boards to stay in sync with Jira, Asana, Salesforce, GitHub, or ServiceNow – different teams using different tools, both needing a current view
- Your Microsoft dependency is Dynamics 365 as a CRM synced bidirectionally with monday.com items
- Cross-tool item duplication is your core problem – records being created manually in two systems, diverging over time
- Microsoft 365 file access is not part of your requirement – you have no SharePoint or OneDrive dependency
A note on overlap
These tools have minimal functional overlap. The comparison is less "which is better" and more "which problem does each solve."
- Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com: "Our team works in monday.com and stores files in SharePoint – bring Microsoft 365 inside monday.com."
- Unito: "Our developers use Jira, our project managers use monday.com, and our sales team uses Salesforce – keep all three in sync automatically."
Some organisations use both without conflict. A team might use Unito to sync engineering issues between Jira and monday.com, while using the Microsoft 365 integration to generate client-facing project documentation from those same monday.com boards into SharePoint. The two tools operate independently on different data layers.
If you arrived here searching for a Microsoft 365 or SharePoint integration for monday.com, Unito will not meet that need at any plan level. The closest direct alternatives to evaluate are Zapier, Make.com, and Power Automate.
Quick comparison: Setup experience
Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com
- Find the app in the monday.com Marketplace
- Click Install
- A Microsoft 365 admin grants tenant-level OAuth consent (one click, under 5 minutes)
- Each user authenticates with their own Microsoft 365 credentials
- Add the Microsoft 365 column or widget to your board – SharePoint files appear
Typical setup time: Under 5 minutes for the admin step. Boards are ready immediately after.
Unito
- Create a Unito account and start a free trial
- Connect monday.com – authorise via OAuth
- Connect the second tool (e.g. Jira, Salesforce) – authorise separately
- Define which boards, projects, or records to sync
- Map fields between the two tools – name, status, assignee, custom fields
- Configure sync rules and filters (what creates, what updates, what's excluded)
- Test the flow and activate
- Repeat from step 3 for each additional tool combination
Typical setup time: 30–90 minutes per sync flow for experienced users; longer for complex field mappings or custom rules. Each new tool pair is configured independently.
The verdict
For teams whose goal is bringing Microsoft 365 file storage – SharePoint, OneDrive, Word templates, Excel dashboards – inside monday.com, the Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com is the right tool. Unito has no SharePoint or OneDrive connector and cannot produce or manage Microsoft 365 files in any form.
For teams whose goal is keeping work items in sync across the tools different teams use – monday.com alongside Jira, Salesforce, GitHub, Dynamics 365, or ServiceNow – Unito is purpose-built for that and the Microsoft 365 integration is not.
The two tools are not competitors. They solve different workflow problems and can run alongside each other without conflict in organisations that need both.
If you arrived here comparing monday.com integration options for Microsoft 365 file workflows, the relevant comparisons are vs Zapier, vs Make.com, and vs Power Automate.
Try the Microsoft 365 integration for monday.com free
The Microsoft 365 SharePoint integration for monday.com includes a permanent free plan for teams up to 2 seats – no credit card required. Paid plans start at $10/month.
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David Simpson Apps is the publisher of the Microsoft 365 SharePoint integration for monday.com. This comparison is written from our perspective as the app developer. Unito feature and pricing information sourced from unito.io/connectors/monday-com/ and capterra.com. Pricing verified May 2026 – check each vendor's website for current rates.