GanttProject

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Project management software for small and medium businesses

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Value for Money
4.6/5
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Ease of Use
4.1/5
Customer Support
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Sunitha
Sunitha
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  • Industry: Program Development
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

GanttProject

Reviewed on 2023/03/10

GanttProject is an excellent tool for managing projects.

GanttProject is an excellent tool for managing projects.

Pros

GanttProject is a powerful, free project scheduling and management tool that helps me stay organized and on track with my projects. I love that it allows me to break down my tasks into smaller, manageable pieces and set deadlines and milestones to ensure that I'm meeting my goals. It also helps me keep track of resources and costs, which is important when managing a budget.

Cons

I do not dislike anything about this product.

Ritesh
Ritesh
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Good Alternative for project management

Reviewed on 2023/12/01

Pros

The initial setup is very easy which is a very good aspect of it. The software is very simple and charts are easy to make. The resource management is simple which was the most i used in this software.

Cons

There are not much cons in this software, it is simple and easy to use. It would be great to have a mobile application of it.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Easy to use, but needs some GUI and other updates/features to be really good

Reviewed on 2019/09/02

I do believe this is a useful tool for visualizing project timelines. It does everything I have...

I do believe this is a useful tool for visualizing project timelines. It does everything I have needed it to do. When it comes to building timelines, like for R&D activities at work, this lets you easily determine critical aspects of a project (timeline feasibility, resource availability, etc.). I just wish it was more "presentation" capable.

Pros

I like how easy it is to use. Adding, removing, or editing tasks is easily done. The amount of detail you can attach to tasks or groups of tasks is very useful. I like how you can visualize tasks in a timeline fashion (with dates easily visible), and keep tabs on what is happening with reference to other tasks in the project (ie, parallel paths data). Adding or removing time from tasks integrates nicely with tasks that reference them, making it easy to make adjustments.

Cons

Two things I dislike about this: 1. Zooming in and scrolling on the timeline is so hard to use. If your project does not fit nicely within the couple of zoom levels, it does make it hard to visualize everything. Then, scrolling is sometimes almost impossible. Sometimes the left-right scrolling does not work, and sometimes you can't scroll enough to see your entire project. That seems like a bug that could be fixed. 2. The export features are lacking. You can print or save as a .pdf but there are no formatting options. So, your large project timeline you email to your colleagues is a several page document that simply chops up the timeline into tiles. Basically, only those with GanttProject installed can view the timeline.

Sofia
Sofia
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

One of the best project managers in local applications

Reviewed on 2018/03/28

Have a tool that allows me to organize my projects in a visual way, easier to present to clients or...

Have a tool that allows me to organize my projects in a visual way, easier to present to clients or users outside the area, with which they can better understand the times each task takes.

Pros

GanttProject is one of the best local tools for project management, it allows you to visualize your projects in a graphic way, being more pleasant for introductions to your team or clients, opting for a simple image of a complex system, helping your presentation and understanding, showing in graphical ranges how much it takes to develop each task, group that participates and more, all this of its more known tool the gantt diagram, is a very unique way to organize the projects and facilitate their understanding and progression.

Cons

One of the most important disadvantages is that the bars do not indicate the amount of work but only the time invested, this does not allow to see how many resources will participate in the task, the case can be presented where a shorter bar actually takes much more work and personnel involved which brings confusion or detracts from the diagram.

Michael
Michael
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Very good alternative to MS Project

Reviewed on 2020/09/14

I managed 8-12 inhouse as well as external consultant on 6 ERP-rollouts in 6 different countries....

I managed 8-12 inhouse as well as external consultant on 6 ERP-rollouts in 6 different countries. My objective was to plan the tasks in the WBS, sequence, ressources Vs. Capacity, Deadlines. We worked a lot with the GANNT in the meetings analysing the progress together which worked very well.

What is somewhat missing is a cost evaluation tool with ETC etc. I did not need it in that extent but I can assume that other would like that.

Eitherway, for an almost free software it is incredibly good and more than enough for most projects.

Pros

- The simplicity of the software. Fast and easy to setup. Also non-PMs understand it.
- Resource Management with conflict checks
- Sequencing of Tasks/WBS

Cons

- Printout of GANNT chart very hard and complicated. Hard to get the scaling to work

Alex (Alexandre)
Alex (Alexandre)
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

GantProject is a serious tool for Project Management

Reviewed on 2021/05/26

I began to use GanttProject as an alternative to Microsoft Project. Right in the beginning, I...

I began to use GanttProject as an alternative to Microsoft Project. Right in the beginning, I became confident in the tool to manage two projects. An international project to implement a whole operation of a franchise in the Dominican Republic working remotely from Brazil, and another project to expand sales team involving infrastructure, hiring, telecom, computers, network, etc. Both were critical could not accept any delay, having various teams from different areas involved, with many tasks and interdependences. The GanttProject allowed all of us to follow up easily, facilitated negotiations and adjustments throughout the projects, as well as each member, had a clear overview of the whole project and each task. Also, those who had never used GanttProject learned to use it quickly.

Pros

You can have GanttProject for free or low price, and it is very easy to use, export and import projects, print a Gantt or Pert, and in addition to Project Management, we can manage resources and estimate costs.

Cons

When we have to move a task from a future date to a near date, the tasks connected to this task, by precedence connector, are not moved back automatically, which requires us to move those tasks too, manually. In these cases, we are using the task's properties called "earliest begin" to choose one date earlier.

Also, I'd like to have GanttProject running on iOS and Android devices.

Francisco
Francisco
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  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

One of the best local apps for project management

Reviewed on 2018/03/16

Organize and record the duration of a project, locally, quickly and with a familiar tool for all...

Organize and record the duration of a project, locally, quickly and with a familiar tool for all coworkers.

Pros

This very complete application for project management, has one of the most familiar diagrams in the computer world, focused on seeing the duration times of each task and which task precedes another, excellent for organizing projects and always having the application without depending on a connection, is open source and free.

Cons

Currently, there is a lack of improvements and the addition of tools and functionalities with which other applications for project management count, so to stay in the market fight they must improve.

Agenor
Agenor
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Do well and free of charge, what you need more

Reviewed on 2019/02/04

Corporate users are always asking for a project management software license only to open a project...

Corporate users are always asking for a project management software license only to open a project plan, look for an appointment or a resource allocation, and print it.

The Project Managers should change their mind and focus in collaboration and team performance rather than complex and high featured tools that most of the time are not fully used.

GanttProject is what most of the project teams need to control their activities and goals.

Pros

GanttProject is not a simplified project management tool. It is a powerful tool because it offers all you need to control activities, resources and deliverables.

It has a simple interface, use a few computer resources and it's free of charge for any purpose.

It offers good resources to work with external people, sharing the project plan in the network, and importing/exporting content (as possible) to traditional commercial products.

Cons

Collaboration resources are still weak and are in need of improvement.

It is not ready for new agile initiatives reducing the scope of its use.

Meredith
Meredith
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Powerful Tool, needs refining

Reviewed on 2021/06/10

My team of undergraduate students working to build a small satellite are able to use GanttCloud to...

My team of undergraduate students working to build a small satellite are able to use GanttCloud to add tasks whichever sub-system they are leading. I can then go in and create tasks that flow down from those to look at the overall project, schedule reviews, etc.

Pros

GanttCloud is extremely beneficial to my team. It is reasonably priced and allows many people to edit tasks from separate locations and even at the same time (merging).

Another key feature is the ability to have "parent" tasks which creates a flow-down structure. When 4 tasks all rely on getting lab access, they all adjust as a person adjusts the date in which they received lab access.

Cons

There is no handbook. Some features are clunky. Dates of events sometimes will not accurately reflect the constraints of parent events (it is hard to figure out why).

Michael
Michael
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  • Used Monthly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

BEST GANTT SOFTWARE AVAILABLE!

Reviewed on 2018/04/24

I'm a longtime user and I'm so proud to see this freeware still available to people to use....

I'm a longtime user and I'm so proud to see this freeware still available to people to use.

9/10!!

Pros

Honestly, I've been using this freeware program for MANY years and has helped me prepare gantt charts for many things, including but not limited to, detailed production schedules for film projects. I've also used it to create a development schedule for a mobile app I'm involved with. It's pretty easy to use once you understand the basics of gantt charts and you'll never use another program again. The best part is I've been using this software for a long time and have never had to pay a cent to use it. Can you say that about other similar products out there that have the same features? SIMPLY AMAZING. I'm so happy to see this company still up and running and wish them nothing but the best as we move further into 2018. Give it a shot, you have nothing to loose, literally. 9/10!

Cons

Nothing. It's free. It's simple. It's awesome. OK... if I had to get "picky", I'd maybe say the one thing that could make this better would be if they had an online version where you can access your gantt charts anywhere on-the-go. Other than that though, nothing to complain about!

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Construction
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Top Tier Open Source

Reviewed on 2023/01/27

Pros

GanttProject is a free, open-source project management software that allows users to create and manage Gantt charts for their projects. The software is easy to use and offers a variety of features such as task dependencies, resource management, and team collaboration. It also allows users to export their charts in a variety of formats, including PDF and PNG. Overall, GanttProject is a great option for individuals and small teams looking for a simple and effective project management tool.

Cons

GanttProject may not be as feature-rich as some paid alternatives.

Andrew
Andrew
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  • Industry: Nonprofit Organization Management
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Basic Gantt Chart Program for Project Management

Reviewed on 2019/04/15

Being a free, open source project management software, it's perfect for me and the size projects I...

Being a free, open source project management software, it's perfect for me and the size projects I manage with my team. I would say that it's perfect for small to medium sized projects but would be unsuitable for something much larger such as a management solution for large building construction, etc.

Pros

I'm a relatively new user to Gantt Project. I began looking for a good Gantt Chart application several months ago to help organize AV technical installations in a detailed, organized fashion and found Gantt Project through my Avixa training course. I love that's it's freeware! It's a great, powerful tool for creating and organizing basic projects and tracking/planning your progress along the way. There are a few different way to view and edit your data but overall it was very intuitive to get up and running quickly. It also supports different operating systems.

Cons

It isn't cloud based for collaboration with a team in real time...so for my team we will keep the files on cloud based storage and can work on them one at a time. Using the software on a Mac I discovered a glitch...when scrolling the calendar from left to right or vice versa using two-finger scroll, it seems to malfunction and only want to move forward in time. You can get back to an earlier date by manually clicking and dragging.

Carlo
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  • Industry: Medical Devices
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

R&D project management in a startup

Reviewed on 2021/02/15

Pros

This product is extremely easy to install and use. It has all the relevant features needed for the job

Cons

The graphical aspect of the Gantt is hard to customize (task line width and colors);

Samanta
Samanta
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  • Industry: Animation
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Monthly for Free Trial
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  • Likelihood to recommend 4.0 /10

Great concept, old interface design

Reviewed on 2018/11/20

I used it with team school projects and GanttProject was a great way to understand how much time...

I used it with team school projects and GanttProject was a great way to understand how much time each part of the team will take.
It actually help me relax when I could see that we had time for each part of the process, as long as everyone was aware of what was left to do.

Pros

GanttProject is good option for project management since it helps you to visualice yours and all your team workflow. I like it how you can have subtasks ad how yo can project them on a timeline with exact dates.

Understanding Gantt charts will help you have more control over your time, and it is specially usefull when dealing with tight deadlines. This app will help you to see the big picture and realize what you need to do faster but also, what kind of tasks can be done at the same time.

Cons

What I don't like about this software it's the design. It looks old and it is not as intuitive as it could be. That's why it will work with you only if you have some previous information on how to manage and incorporate Gantt technique on your project managment. Otherwise, it will only appear as something complicated that wil take you more time of your workflow. If they could improve the visual design of the interface, i bet it could be more user friendly and actually make you believe it is helping you to make your workflow easier and faster.

Response from GanttProject

For the record, there is no such thing as "free trial". GanttProject is free, without any trials, demos or whatever.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Consumer Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

my first choice when I start to plan a new project

Reviewed on 2020/12/23

I always picked Gantt Project to make the planning of my project and the follow up of them: it's...

I always picked Gantt Project to make the planning of my project and the follow up of them: it's easy, simple and super practical!! I recommend it for sure

Pros

The best features of this software is the dependance option that adapts the following tasks when one needs to be moved, we can also directly set up manually a dependance by a number of day when we do not work certain days which is very useful!

Cons

When you want to export the planning; if it's a big one it is hard to have it readable on one page sometimes

H. Alexander
H. Alexander
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  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Mac Project Manager

Reviewed on 2019/02/19

I'm a Mac user and test several apps, but I use Gantt Project from 2015 to all my projects, great...

I'm a Mac user and test several apps, but I use Gantt Project from 2015 to all my projects, great software.

Pros

Intuitive, easy to use, the perfect Mac Project Manager, compatible whit Ms Project.

Cons

The graphic environment is a little heavy and poor.

Giuseppe
Giuseppe
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  • Industry: Executive Office
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Just Gantt but Gantt

Reviewed on 2019/02/14

Pros

The software is fully concentrated on the Gantt diagram and a task must have a start date and end date.
Other kinds of tasks are not included.

Cons

There are other project softwarres more completed

Sean T.
Sean T.
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  • Industry: Hospital & Health Care
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

A step up in functionality from Excel.

Reviewed on 2019/02/05

Overall, I liked the software's features offered beyond spreadsheets. However, I found the ease of...

Overall, I liked the software's features offered beyond spreadsheets. However, I found the ease of use lacking and have reverted back to Excel.

Pros

The specific function the software brings to creating and managing a Gantt chart adds value over using a spreadsheet. Dependent tasks and stacking timelines are much easier than in Excel.

Cons

Dragging sub-tasks to move their parent is clunky and bug ridden. This occasionally results in a task being duplicated.

Luis Raul
Luis Raul
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Used Daily for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

A good alternative to working with a Gantt

Reviewed on 2018/05/30

I planned in its moment a project, so of this way, we had more control over all task and its time.

I planned in its moment a project, so of this way, we had more control over all task and its time.

Pros

Despite the product is few know, it has a basic functionality as schedule tasks, link all task, create a critical path, export information. this product achieves its functionality as well.

Cons

Sincerely the first thing that I saw was the poor user interface, the product would be more attractive for the users.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: Self Employed
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Perfect software to make your Gantt diagrams

Reviewed on 2019/07/25

Pros

It allows you to perform your Gantt diagrams, ordering your tasks quickly and easily, allowing you to calculate the critical path

Cons

In my opinion this program has no problem

Herman
Herman
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Great product and easy to use.

Reviewed on 2018/05/30

This product has made my life very easy. I had to plan a project and this software gave me clarity...

This product has made my life very easy. I had to plan a project and this software gave me clarity and focus to ensure success.

Pros

At a basic level it provides everything you need to get a project planned and to execute it well. It is very easy to open and use and easy to make adjustments on the fly. The interface is easy to read and understand and the GANTT chart is very clear and easy to follow.

Cons

More functionality would be nice, but the base product is great. It would be good to have some control over the look and feel of some features such as to lock the zoom level on the GANTT chart or to customise the task list view to display information you'd like to see.

ROSA YURAIMA
ROSA YURAIMA
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  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 5.0 /10

An app for projects and other things for free

Reviewed on 2018/05/02

Pros

Use Gantt Project is very easy, because this app includes a basis menu to add the task, manage the calendars and set specific features to your projects, but the most important of all, is the Resource Chart option, where you can manage Human Resources, Assign Resources, and Monitor the task assignments, you can find all that things in this free app.

Cons

In some aspects the app is very basis, the interphase is a little ugly, and the way the app manage the data is a little gross, and only uses basis elements of a project leaving behind important aspects, like a milestones or red routes.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used for 6-12 months
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Use for Work to Create Project Timelines

Reviewed on 2018/05/15

Pros

Great to get a basic timeline up for a project. Can input different steps and due dates of each step in the project.

Cons

Can not put the fine details of each project step in order to better understand how the project is going.

Dilraj
Dilraj
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Awesome tool for project management

Reviewed on 2020/06/22

Overall its a great management tool and helps you in organising your projects and making sure you...

Overall its a great management tool and helps you in organising your projects and making sure you meet all the deadlines.

Pros

GanttProject helps in efficiently organising your projects and all the documents related to these projects. Support is available for wide variety of formats. You can load them up and get started with keeping track of your project's progress.

Cons

UI/UX can be improved when compared with some of the other project management products available in the market.

Cesar A
Cesar A
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  • Used Monthly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10

An option for people who works with projects

Reviewed on 2018/04/05

It is a free option, but not the best one.

It is a free option, but not the best one.

Pros

It is very light its does not weight to much, it is available in iOS, Linux and Windows, and it is free for everybody to use without any cost, come with basic tools and you can use anywhere you want.

Cons

It is very basic and simple, you only a Gantt Chart with no other options to put information on your project so it is very limitated, I think they have to improve a lot this app.