Free Gantt chart software with AI: the Microsoft Project alternative

Yes. Scheduling, import and export, the AI assistant and unlimited collaborators are free, with no credit card required. The service is funded by advertising, which is always displayed outside the planning area. If a paid plan is introduced, your existing projects will remain yours and fully accessible.

Yes: Microsoft Project .mpp files and .mpt templates, .mpx, Project XML (MSPDI), and Primavera .xer and PMXML. The import report lists every field that could not be mapped, so nothing is discarded silently. It also imports GanttProject .gan files and ProjectLibre .pod files (version 1.5.5 or later).

Yes. Every project can be exported to Microsoft Project XML (readable by Project Professional and by other tools that support the format), to CSV for Excel, and as a PNG image or a print-ready PDF of the Gantt chart. Your data is never locked in.

Yes. Upload an .xlsx, .csv or .tsv file into a new or existing project: Planitude recognizes the columns, rebuilds phases from the WBS, a level column or indentation, and reads dates, durations, predecessors and assignees. A preview with warnings comes before anything is saved, and a downloadable template shows the expected layout.

Yes, with the Agile (Scrum) method, which you choose instead of Waterfall when you create the project. Sprints of 1 to 4 weeks appear in the Gantt and the Calendar, with Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective already added to every sprint. Both methods have a delivery date, and you can change the method later without moving activities.

Yes. Each project, or a whole workspace, has a read-only OData feed: Power BI and Excel load projects, tasks, milestones, dependencies and assignments as tables and refresh them with the plan. Copy the URL and create the key from the Export menu.

It reads the open project and answers questions such as “Will we finish on time?” or “Who is over-allocated?”. It can also change the plan (move, add or reassign tasks): it always shows a preview first, with an AI check that flags changes worth reviewing, and applies changes only after you confirm. From a written description, it builds a complete plan with phases, tasks and links.

Invite people by email or with a link and choose their role: owner, editor or viewer. Team members comment on tasks and mention colleagues with @. People without an account can receive a read-only public link, which you can revoke at any time. Invitations also arrive in real time as a notification in the bell, with a button to join, and you are notified when they are accepted.

Yes, real-time co-editing is included at no cost. Everyone who opens the project sees who else is online and which task each person has selected, and other people’s changes appear within a second, without reloading the page. If two people change different fields of the same task, both changes are kept; if someone deletes a task you are working on, Planitude tells you who deleted it.

Yes, through the MCP server. The ChatGPT, Claude.ai and Gemini web apps connect with OAuth: enter the server address, sign in to Planitude and allow access, with no key to copy. Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, VS Code and the OpenAI API work with an API key created in your profile or with OAuth. In Gemini, Google currently offers custom apps only to personal accounts in the United States.

Yes. The owner or an admin can add up to 5 external AI agents, such as Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or Gemini CLI, to the workspace as team members. You mention them in comments and assign them tasks, which they carry out when it's their turn. In Autonomous mode they update the plan on their own, with history and restore for every change; in With approval mode changes wait for someone on the team. Agents are free and don't count as users.

Yes. Link Telegram from your Profile and ask in your own words, for example “What is late?” or “Will we finish on time?”: the Planitude AI assistant answers in the chat, about the projects you can see. The bot is read-only: changes are made in the app.

Microsoft retired the service with no extension and no read-only period, and its data is no longer accessible. If you exported an .mpp or XML copy beforehand, import it into Planitude and continue from there.

No. Planitude is a web application: no desktop client, no plug-in and no administrator rights are required.

On servers in the European Union (Germany). The project owner can permanently delete a project at any time. When you use the AI assistant, the text needed to answer your question is sent to the model provider; for AI estimates and suggestions we send only the data described in the privacy policy.