projectplan.net

Projectplan.net is a simple, Open Source, and cross-platform desktop application for designing and creating project plans. It is built to automate many of the tasks necessary for good project design, as detailed in Righting Software. However, it can be also used as a free and simple desktop alternative to Microsoft Project for basic planning and tracking.

You can download projectplan.net from the following locations:

• Signed Edition (paid)
  • Version: v0.9.1
  • Release date: 21 April 2025
  • Download: Microsoft App Store
• Unsigned Edition (free)
  • Version: v0.9.1
  • Release date: 21 April 2025
  • Download: GitHub

Key features include:

• Fully cross-platform for Windows, Linux and MacOS
• Activity management
  • Critical Path analysis
  • Automatic resource dependency calculation
  • Automatic free float/slack calculation
  • Minimum and maximum date constraints
  • Implicit or explicit transitive reduction
• Resource management
  • Targeting of specific tasks to named resources
  • Direct and indirect resource allocations
  • Dynamic resource disabling for quick experimentation
  • AND/OR logic when assigning tasks to resources
• Charting
  • Activity-on-Arrow network diagram
  • Color-coded Gantt chart
  • Color-coded resourcing schedule
  • Earned-Value chart and projections
  • Export to XLSX, JPEG, PNG, PDF, SVG, GraphML, and GraphViz formats
• Metrics
  • Risk metrics based on available float/slack
  • Cost and effort calculations
  • Cyclomatic complexity calculations for project network
• Separate effort and progress tracking
• MPP (MS Project) file imports
• Precise error messages
• Light and Dark themes
• Accompanying CLI tool for commandline processing

You are welcome to browse the source code and licence.

Documentation

User documentation for projectplan.net is available on the project wiki.

Report Issues

Issues, bugs, or feature requests can be submitted here.

Attributions

Application icon using Project management icons created by Flat Icons - Flaticon.

Donate

You can donate to the project here.

You should only spend money on projectplan.net if you can afford to and if you want to support ongoing development.

Contact Us

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