Online Gantt chart maker. Easy, quick, and effortless.

Tom’s Planner offers a free Personal account that allows you to create and edit one Gantt chart. With this free account, you cannot export, print, or share Gantt charts online with others. For these features and to manage multiple Gantt charts, a paid account is required.

In a team setting, a project manager with a paid account can create a Gantt chart and share a Gantt chart with team members, who can use their free Personal accounts to view and collaborate. This setup allows the entire team to collaborate without everyone needing a paid account. You can upgrade or downgrade your account at any time.

Tom’s Planner offers two types of paid accounts: Professional and Unlimited. The key difference between free and paid accounts lies in the number of charts and the ability to share and export your work.

With the free personal account, you can create and manage one chart for personal use. However, if you need to create and share multiple charts, you’ll need a paid account. The Professional account allows up to twenty charts, while the Unlimited account lets you create an unlimited number of charts.

Paid plans also unlock powerful collaboration and sharing features. If you want to share your Gantt chart online, publish a link, or collaborate with others, these are part of the paid plans. Additionally, exporting and downloading your Gantt charts to formats like PDF, image, Excel, CSV, or MS Project is a premium feature.

For a full comparison of features, visit our pricing page.

Next to our free Gantt chart software plan we also offer a wide collection of free Gantt chart templates spanning various industries, including construction, advertising, and event planning. You can easily browse and select a free Gantt chart template that suits your needs.

Once you sign up for a free account, you can start working on your project immediately. Our Gantt chart AI assist feature is also available to help you customize the Gantt chart templates based on your specific instructions, making it easy to tailor them to your project’s requirements. Within minutes, you can have a complete Gantt chart ready for your next project.

Yes, you can download Gantt charts using our online Gantt chart software. If you want to download Gantt charts, though, you need a paid account. The unlimited account is the only account type that allows you to download a Gantt chart offline on your computer. You might want to download a Gantt chart as a backup or if you have private information in your chart. You can start the Gantt chart download by clicking the ‘offline’ option when saving a chart in our Gantt chart software.

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Creating a Gantt chart in Excel can be time-consuming and frustrating, requiring significant manual effort for setup and adjustments. Each timeline needs meticulous formatting, and making changes can be cumbersome, often leading to errors. Never mind sharing Gantt charts online with others. This means you have to upload and download a Gantt chart every time there is a new version, quickly confusing the hell out of everyone involved, and not being clear about what Gantt chart to download to get the latest version.

In contrast, the Tom’s Planner online Gantt chart maker provides a user-friendly, drag-and-drop interface that simplifies the entire process of creating a Gantt chart, allowing you to set up and modify your planning quickly. This not only saves time and reduces frustration but also saves money, as time is money.

Moreover, Tom’s Planner makes planning more enjoyable and accessible. The ease of use lowers the barriers to involving others in the planning process, making it more straightforward for team members to participate and stay engaged. Seamless online collaboration helps avoid the confusion of multiple file versions often seen in Excel. This way, you can get more value from your planning efforts, save time, and ensure everyone stays on track.

Yes, it is possible to customize the Gantt chart templates in Tom’s Planner. Our templates are designed to be flexible, allowing you to easily plan, add, adjust, or remove activities and phases to suit your needs.

With the AI-assist, you can easily customize activities and phases based on your instructions. You can also ask if anything important has been overlooked, and the AI will suggest additions to complete your plan. Additionally, you can schedule the entire Gantt chart template by entering start and end dates, allowing you to quickly and efficiently create a complete schedule.

With these functionalities, you can fully tailor a template to your specific requirements, and the AI assist can help you plan more efficiently.

Not finding what you are looking for in our collection of templates? Give our AI-assist a try. You can have it create a Gantt chart online for you in under a minute by just telling it what you would like to plan. Tom’s Planner is the first online Gantt chart maker to have integrated AI at such a deep level. And we are quite proud of the work of our engineering team on this. No other Gantt chart designer has done this yet.

Yes, you can easily share your Gantt chart with others using Tom’s Planner. You can invite people to collaborate on your plan, or publish it via a public URL, with or without a password. You can also embed your Gantt chart on a webpage or intranet. Additionally, you can export your plan as a PDF or an image for use in presentations or reports.

Because Tom’s Planner is so user-friendly, recipients are often more inclined to engage with the planning process, thanks to its accessibility and ease of use.

To share a Gantt chart, a paid account is required in Tom’s Planner. If you’re keeping your plan private, a free account is sufficient. When you share your planning, others can collaborate with you using a free account. Typically, project managers have paid accounts, while team members can use free accounts to participate.

Yes, Tom’s Planner supports exporting Gantt charts to various formats. You can export your planning as a PDF, an image file, Microsoft Project, Excel (CSV), and even JSON for developers. Please note that exporting is a paid feature in Tom’s Planner.

Getting started with Tom’s Planner is simple and intuitive. We recommend spending a few minutes exploring the tool, and you’ll likely find yourself creating your first plan in no time. With 200+ templates across various industries and project types, you can quickly find a suitable starting point by searching for keywords on our website.

Additionally, the AI assist feature allows you to type in what you want to plan or provide a list of activities, and it will generate a complete Gantt chart for you. You can even set start and end dates, and the AI will plan everything out.

Our support page offers a collection of short instructional videos, each under three minutes, covering all aspects of Tom’s Planner in detail. Additionally, there’s a comprehensive in-tool guide for more in-depth help. As you start working, you’ll occasionally receive tips through pop-ups at the bottom right of the screen to guide you along the way. This combination of hands-on exploration and available resources makes it easy to get up and running quickly.

With our Gantt chart designer download-free approach, there’s no need to install anything—everything works seamlessly online and in your browser.

You can use our Gantt chart tool online anywhere, anytime, and on any device as long as you have a browser installed on your device. During a meeting, on your business trip, on the construction site, or during the event you are managing, you name it, our online Gantt chart software allows you to create a Gantt chart online and share it with your team members worldwide at any time.

You can download a Gantt chart in our free Gantt chart software by clicking on the ‘offline’ option when saving your chart. This will download a Gantt chart locally on your computer. You might want to download a Gantt chart as a backup, or maybe you have confidential information that you don’t want to save online. The Gantt chart download option is available for all users with a paid account.

Tom’s Planner is compatible with mobile devices, tablets, and smartphones and works directly in any browser without the need to install a separate app.

To open Tom’s Planner on a mobile device, just open your browser, visit our homepage, and click the login button to get started.

We recommend, though, to use smartphones only for quick viewing and referencing due to their small screen sizes. If you want to create a Gantt chart from scratch or want to make detailed changes to a plan, we recommend you use a tablet, laptop, or desktop computer due to their bigger screen size and more comfortable experience.

It’s a question we often get asked, and yes, everyone selling Gantt chart software like ours will claim it’s suitable for all situations and company types to attract as many customers as possible. But in the case of Tom’s Planner, it’s genuinely true. Tom’s Planner is used by an extremely wide range of businesses and individuals, from freelancers to Fortune 500 companies. We see our users use Tom’s Planner, from planning a simple kitchen renovation to coordinating large-scale construction projects and organizing one persons day-to-day workload to managing a team with 50+ members. Tom likes to say as long as you’re not planning a mission to Mars, you probably can do it with Tom’s Planner.

If we had to set ourselves apart from the competition, Tom’s Planner stands out as the most user-friendly, focused, and accessible option in the industry. We are pretty confident in claiming that we have the shortest learning curve and the highest adoption rates when it comes to involving team members in the planning process.

One user described us as “Gantt charts for the rest of us,” while another compared us to “the Google Docs version of Microsoft Project.” Both descriptions perfectly capture our essence.

While our competitors may offer more features and cater to a broader range of functionalities, this often makes their tools bloated, harder to use, and more expensive. At Tom’s Planner, we focus on what matters most: simplicity, efficiency, and ease of collaboration. If that’s appealing to you should definitely give it a try.

We know Gantt charts work best when everyone pitches in. So, on top of being easy for everyone to use, it's free for everyone to collaborate and view the Gantt charts of others as well. The only people who need a paid plan are the ones creating and sharing Gantt charts online. Everyone else can collaborate and view charts using our free Gantt chart tool, making teamwork seamless and accessible.

Typically, in a team, the project managers have paid accounts, and for everyone else, a free account suffices.

Looking for a Gantt chart designer download? Then the answer is twofold. Yes, you can download the Gantt charts themselves to your computer. The Gantt chart designer itself is online software and works in your browser. So, for a Gantt chart designer download, you are at the right place as long as you intend to download the Gantt charts themselves. To use our Gantt chart designer itself a browser suffices to get started.

We accept lots of payment methods. It depends a bit on your location. We accept credit cards, PayPal, and bank transfers from anywhere in the world and we also support some local payment methods like, for instance, iDEAL, AliPay, Carte Bleue, and eCheck/ACH. If you have any questions or special requests, email us at support@tomsplanner.com.

At Tom’s Planner, we’re here to help! If you have questions, you can always reach out to us via email at support@tomsplanner.com. Ask us anything as often as you need—we’re happy to assist. During business days, we respond within two hours, so you’re never left waiting long.

We also provide a detailed manual and a support page with short instructional videos. Each video is under three minutes, making it quick and easy to find the help you need.

That said, we encourage you to simply dive in and explore! Many users find that spending just a few minutes playing around with Tom’s Planner is enough to start creating their first plan. It’s that intuitive!

Yes, our Gantt chart software is available in English, French, German, Spanish, and Dutch.

Yes, we occasionally offer discounts for educational and nonprofit organizations for our online Gantt chart software. However, to maintain our position of neutrality, we do not provide discounts to organizations with religious or political affiliations.

If you’d like to inquire about a discount or our free Gantt chart software account offering, feel free to contact us at support@tomsplanner.com, and we’ll be happy to review your request!