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Susan J. Sheehan
Susan J. Sheehan

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The 9 Best Ganttic Alternatives in 2026

Ganttic is a resource planning tool that many teams like, but it doesn’t solve every problem. If you have come here, you have probably run into one. The problem might be occurring due to the unavailability of the required integrations or you might want built-in time tracking or billing. Another limitation might be an unexpected rise in resource-based pricing.

So which Ganttic alternatives should you try in 2026?

It depends on the problem you face. For service-based businesses with billing, Scoro, Birdview PSA or Teamwork.com are good options. For simple team scheduling, Resource Guru is a good fit, and for teams who use Asana, Instagantt is the way to go. If you use Microsoft 365 in your business then Smartsheet or Microsoft Project is a good fit. Airtable works for teams that want to build their own system, and GanttPRO is a project management tool focused on Gantt charts.

Key takeaways:

  • This guide compares 9 Ganttic alternatives on pricing, integrations and best-fit teams.
  • Paid plans start at $5 per user per month, and Teamwork.com and Airtable also have a free plan.

Before we take a look at the alternatives, let’s have a quick recap on Ganttic’s features so the criteria used makes sense.

Ganttic: Resource Planning Tool From Tartu, Estonia

Ganttic is a tool that is built for resource planning with the Gantt chart at its core. It supports the scheduling of people, equipment, meeting rooms, vehicles and almost anything else that needs to be booked on a timeline.

Ganttic was launched in August 2010 by Ganttic OÜ, which is a company based in Tartu, Estonia. The tool’s official user count is 100,000 at present.

Ganttic’s own website highlights six different sectors which use Ganttic on a regular basis:

  • Construction: Allows users to schedule crews, cranes and permits in one view.
  • Engineering: Offers a viable solution for juggling specialists across different projects.
  • Consultancies: Helps in estimating billable hours per consultant
  • ICT: Allows for planning sprints among the available pool of developers and devices.
  • Creative Agencies: Helps with managing in-house staff, freelancers and studio equipment.
  • Environmental Services: Assists with managing rotational field-based crews and equipment across different sites.

How I Chose Alternatives to Ganttic

To make it to the list, a tool had to meet at least four of these:

  • Visual resource planning for both people and equipment.
  • An interactive Gantt chart with drag-and-drop feature and real task dependencies.
  • Portfolio-wide visibility across different projects.
  • Capacity planning and workload reporting functionality.
  • Clear and transparent pricing with a free trial for evaluating the tool.
  • Integrations with the apps that teams actually use including calendar, CRM, accounting, chat and other.

If a tool missed the mark for more than two, it wasn’t included in the list. Nine tools met the criteria.

  1. GanttPRO – This is a modern project management tool and it is focused on Gantt Charts.
  2. Birdview PSA – It is a complete PSA platform that brings together projects, resources and financials under one platform.
  3. Scoro – This tool is an all-in-one suite perfect for services businesses, combining projects, CRM, quoting, time tracking and billing.
  4. Resource Guru – It is a user-friendly tool specifically suitable for scheduling teams.
  5. Smartsheet – It is a platform focused on spreadsheets and featuring Gantt charts and dashboards.
  6. Microsoft Project – The classic scheduling tool that can be used easily in a Microsoft 365 environment.
  7. Teamwork.com – A tool built for agencies as it features billable time, retainers and client-user permissions.
  8. Instagantt – A dedicated tool used for building Gantts.
  9. Airtable – This platform provides the rare combination of a spreadsheet’s simplicity and a relational database’s power.

The 9 Ganttic Alternatives

1. GanttPRO

GanttPRO is a project-management tool built around Gantt-charts. It was launched in 2015 by DPM Solutions. The company’s head office is in Kraków, Poland. It has a massive user base of more than a million project managers.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

GanttPRO can handle almost everything that Ganttic does. It offers different features such as auto-scheduling and a real critical-path.

Optimally suited for:

  • Construction and manufacturing teams.
  • IT and software teams.
  • Marketing and consulting teams.

Pricing:

  • Core: $7 / user / month
  • Advanced: $10 / user / month
  • Business: $17 / user / month
  • Enterprise: $20 / user / month

You can get a trial version of the platform for 14 days without giving your credit card details.

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • The tool’s auto-scheduling and critical path features are built-in rather than being add-ons.
  • Its per-user pricing makes budgeting a whole lot easier for finance teams.

Cons

  • The tool is quite limited for non-human resources.
  • Portfolio and budgeting features need the Business tier.

Integrations:

  • Jira Cloud
  • Google Drive
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Trello
  • OneDrive

2. Birdview PSA

Birdview PSA is still known as Easy Projects by many users. The software was launched in 2004 and then rebranded in 2022. Its thousands of users are spread across more than 70 countries.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

Ganttic is limited to planning but Birdview goes further into finance and PSA. It has Kanban view along with resource scheduling, time tracking, financials and dashboards.

Optimally suited for:

  • IT services and software consultancies.
  • Marketing and creative agencies.
  • Healthcare consulting teams.

Pricing:

  • Lite: from $9 / user / month
  • Team: mid-tier with deeper resource planning
  • Enterprise: custom quote

You can request the team at Birdview for a free trial.

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • It has the strongest project financials function among all the tools in this list.
  • It offers the functionality of a billing software, an online Kanban board and a Gantt chart tool all in the same platform.

Cons

  • The interface seems a bit outdated.
  • Prices go up quickly after the Lite plan.

Integrations:

  • QuickBooks
  • NetSuite
  • Salesforce
  • Jira
  • HubSpot
  • Slack / Microsoft Teams

3. Scoro

Scoro is another tool from Estonia on this list. This tool was released in Tallinn in 2013. The company is now based out of London. Its customers are spread across 60-plus countries.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

Scoro is a whole services operating system rather than just a planning tool. In this tool you get a working CRM along with quoting, time tracking, invoicing and billing features.

Optimally suited for:

  • Consultancies with engagements spanning several months.
  • Agencies that have many clients on retainers.
  • Architecture, engineering and IT services firms.

Pricing:

  • Time-Billing: $17 / user / month
  • Projects and Resources: $29 / user / month
  • Quote to Cash: $29 / user / month
  • End to End: $57 / user / month

The platform offers a 14-day trial without requiring a credit card.

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • You get three or four tools in one subscription in this platform
  • Dashboards and KPI widgets are quite sleek and professional.

Cons

  • The entry price is not viable for teams below 10 seats.
  • It is quite vast and has a learning curve.

Integrations:

  • Xero / QuickBooks / Sage
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365
  • HubSpot
  • Mailchimp

4. Resource Guru

Resource Guru is a strong alternative to Ganttic especially for teams looking for simple scheduling. The tool was developed in London in 2011. It went live in May 2012 and now serves clients in more than 100 countries.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

The tool features a single-page schedule that is quite easy to use; just drag, drop and you are done. Another handy feature is the availability bar which stops overbooking beforehand.

Optimally suited for:

  • Digital and creative agencies.
  • Small consultancies and dev shops.
  • Internal ops teams scheduling shared equipment.

Pricing:

  • Grasshopper: $5 / person / month
  • Blackbelt: ~$8 / person / month
  • Master: ~$12 / person / month
  • It has a free trial.

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • This tool has the shortest learning curve on this list.
  • The UI is really pleasant.

Cons

  • Its reporting feature is really basic.
  • It is not as ambitious as Ganttic.

Integrations:

  • Google Calendar
  • Outlook Calendar
  • Apple Calendar
  • iCal feeds

5. Smartsheet

Smartsheet is quite a well-known tool on this list. It was founded in Bellevue, Washington in 2005. The tool’s version one was released in 2006. It has more than 10 million users across 100,000-plus organizations.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

It looks like a spreadsheet, which makes it easy for Ganttic users proficient in Excel to become productive. It also has a strong Gantt view, baseline tracking and dependency management.

Optimally suited for:

  • Operations teams.
  • IT, marketing teams and PMOs.
  • Enterprises already on Microsoft 365.

Pricing:

  • Pro: $9 / user / month (max 10 users)
  • Business: $19 / user / month
  • Enterprise: custom quote
  • 30-day free trial.

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Its integrations library is quite vast with 700+ integrations
  • Onboarding is really simple for a team that uses spreadsheets regularly.

Cons

  • The Pro plan is limited to 10 users.
  • Pricing climbs steeply beyond that.

Integrations:

  • Microsoft 365
  • Salesforce
  • Jira
  • Google Workspace
  • Slack

6. Microsoft Project

When it comes to project management software, Microsoft Project is the oldest and most well-established name. Its first version was released in 1984, which makes it more than 40 years old. Microsoft, which was founded in 1975, does not publish a user count for the tool.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

For those who need a strong scheduling software, Project is the way to go. With this software, teams can build critical paths, track progress against baseline and develop portfolio-level dashboards.

Optimally suited for:

  • Construction, aerospace, and defence projects.
  • Government and public-sector programmes.
  • Enterprise PMOs running multi-year project portfolios.

Pricing:

  • Project Professional 2024: $1129.99 (One time purchase)
  • Project Standard 2024: $679.99 (One time purchase)

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • It has the strongest scheduling feature on this list.
  • The integration with other Microsoft products is seamless.

Cons

  • The software is not very simple and straightforward.
  • Collaboration is limited in the desktop version.

Integrations:

  • Microsoft Teams
  • Outlook
  • SharePoint
  • Power BI
  • Power Automate

7. Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com is based out of Cork, Ireland. It was started in 2007. At present, Teamwork.com serves more than 20,000 customers.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

Teams that work in client services can definitely explore Teamwork.com as an alternative to Ganttic. In other words, users get scheduling and billing in one place by using this tool.

Optimally suited for:

  • Marketing, PR and creative agencies.
  • Software development teams as well as design studios.
  • IT services firms that have retainer-based work.

Pricing:

  • Free Forever: $0/user/month
  • Basics: $9.99 /user/monthly billed yearly
  • Accelerate: $24.99 / user / month
  • Scale / Enterprise: custom quote

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Billable time, retainers and invoicing are built-in
  • The limits of the free-tier are quite generous as the tier allows up to 5 users as well as 5 projects.

Cons

  • Resource planning is not its core, unlike Ganttic.
  • Advanced reporting is not part of the entry plans.

Integrations:

  • HubSpot
  • Slack / Microsoft Teams
  • Google Workspace
  • QuickBooks / Xero
  • Harvest

8. Instagantt

Instagantt was built in May 2013. It was meant to be a visual Gantt layer especially for Asana users. Its user base has grown to more than 500,000 people.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

It is a solid Ganttic alternative for users who need a two-way Asana integration. With this tool, they can edit a task in Asana and it is updated here.

Optimally suited for:

  • Marketing teams which work on campaign calendars.
  • Product teams that regularly visualize sprints and launches.
  • Freelancers and small agencies, who are regular Asana users

Pricing:

  • Individual: $10 / month (standalone)
  • Team: $20 / month (3 collaborators included)
  • Free tier for Asana users, up to 3 projects

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • It provides two-way integration with Asana, which is not quite common
  • You can easily share updates with clients with public snapshot links.

Cons

  • Native integrations beyond Asana are limited.
  • It is not as strong as Ganttic for resource planning.

Integrations:

  • Asana (bidirectional)
  • Google Drive
  • Dropbox
  • CSV / Excel export

9. Airtable

Airtable is quite different from other tools on this list because it is a relational database. It was founded in San Francisco in the year 2012. More than 500,000 organizations use it.

Why this tool is an alternative to Ganttic:

As a relational database, it offers several functionalities of a spreadsheet. It provides several views such as Gantt view, timeline view, Kanban view, calendar view and custom view.

Optimally suited for:

  • Marketing teams managing content calendars.
  • Product teams that track product roadmaps.
  • Operations teams that run custom workflow systems.

Pricing:

  • Free: for small teams getting started
  • Team: $20 / user / month
  • Business: $45 / user / month
  • Enterprise Scale: custom quote

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Its flexibility is unmatched as its interface designer lets you build custom front ends
  • Including Zapier, it offers more than 1000 integrations.

Cons

  • It has no ready-made resource planner, so you build it yourself.
  • The Gantt view is not its core.

Integrations:

  • Slack
  • Google Workspace
  • Microsoft 365
  • Salesforce
  • GitHub

So which Ganttic alternative is the best fit for you?

It would be difficult to try all 9 tools. If you want the whole operating system for services business in just one tool, go for Scoro. If you want a clean resource planning and team scheduling tool, Resource Guru is your best bet. If you are a Microsoft user, go for Smartsheet.
GanttPRO is the best alternative overall as it meets nearly every criterion. The tool provides a proper Gantt showing dependencies as well as critical path visualization. GanttPRO also offers different useful features such as portfolio visibility, workload reporting and native integrations for its users. With all these advantages, it is no wonder that GanttPRO is trusted by a million project managers.
So, if you are short of time and can only try out one tool, then choose GanttPRO.

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Great review!