best project management software with gantt charts

monday.com

A brightly designed work platform that teams usually adopt for its boards and then discover the timeline underneath. Gantt is not in the entry tier: monday puts timeline and Gantt views on Standard and above, so the advertised starting price is not the price of a schedule. The free tier caps you at two seats, which makes it a taster rather than a workable team plan, and the trial monday offers is of the higher Pro tier rather than the one you would actually buy.

Asana

Asana sells itself as work management for cross-functional teams, and its scheduling comes in two flavours: a simplified Timeline and a fuller Gantt with task hierarchy and progress tracking. Both arrive together on Starter, the first paid tier. The free Personal plan is capped at two collaborators and gives you list, board and calendar views only, so anyone who came specifically for a timeline is paying from the first day.

ClickUp

ClickUp packs an unusual number of views into one product and does not charge for seats on its free tier, which takes unlimited members. Gantt is the catch. On the free plan it is marked as a trial rather than an included view, and unlimited Gantt charts only begin on the Unlimited plan. That plan is also the cheapest paid per-seat price among the general-purpose tools here, so the upgrade is a small one if you were staying anyway.

Wrike

Wrike is a work management platform aimed at larger, more process-heavy teams, and its Gantt is interactive rather than a read-only picture of a schedule. The free tier is real but limited to project, task and board work, so the timeline arrives with the Team plan, which itself is sold for 2 to 15 users before you move up again. Every tier including the free one ships web, desktop and mobile apps, which is not true of the open source options.

Smartsheet

Smartsheet starts from a spreadsheet rather than a board, which is why it lands well with people already running projects in Excel. Gantt is not an upsell here: grid, Gantt, board and calendar views all come with the cheapest Pro plan. There is no free tier any more, only a 30-day trial, and the plans separate Members who build and edit from Contributors who do not, so the per-seat price applies to a smaller group than your headcount.

Jira

Jira is Atlassian's tool for software teams, and it calls its Gantt a timeline. Unusually for this list the timeline sits in the free plan, which runs to ten users, so it is the cheapest honest way to get a dependency-aware schedule if your work is already tracked as issues and sprints. It is a poor fit if your projects are not software: the vocabulary is backlogs, boards and epics the whole way down, and non-engineers tend to bounce off it.

Trello

Trello is the board-first tool most people already know, and its Timeline is one of the extra views unlocked on Premium rather than something the product is built around. The free plan is generous on people, ten collaborators per workspace, but gives you cards and lists only. Treat the Timeline as a light scheduling layer over a kanban board rather than a full project scheduler, and it is a reasonable step up for a team that already lives in Trello.

Teamwork.com

Teamwork.com is built around client work: billable time, projects organised by client and profitability tracking sit at the centre rather than being bolted on. Its free plan is one of the few here that includes the Gantt view outright, for up to five people and five projects, which makes it a genuinely usable starting point for a small agency. Paid plans begin with Basics and add intake forms, capacity planning and reporting as you climb.

GanttPRO

GanttPRO is a Gantt tool first and a project manager second, which shows in how quickly you can build and rearrange a schedule without fighting the interface. There is no free tier at all: you get a 14-day trial and then pay from the Core plan, which already includes the Gantt chart, project calendar and auto-scheduling. The per-user price falls as the team grows, so it reads expensive for one or two people and reasonable for twenty.

TeamGantt

TeamGantt has narrowed hard toward construction scheduling in recent years, and the comparisons on its own site are against Procore and Buildertrend rather than Asana. The free Personal plan really does include a working Gantt with dependencies and drag-and-drop, but only for one person, one project and forty tasks, so it suits a solo planner rather than a team. Paid plans are priced by the number of projects rather than per user, so it does not compare on a per-seat basis with the rest of this market.

OpenProject

OpenProject is the open source option: a full project management suite you install on your own servers, with Gantt charts and timelines in the free Community edition and no cap on users or projects. That freedom costs installation and maintenance time, which is the real price of the free tier. Hosted plans and Enterprise add-ons exist if you want support or extras like PDF export of the Gantt, and those start at a 25-user minimum, so the paid path suits mid-sized organisations rather than small teams.