Project Management Software for Mac – Free & Paid Version

Quick Overview

Are you looking for good Mac project management software to help you for dealing with project planning, resource scheduling and allocation, cost control and budget management, collaboration, documentation management? If you answer is yes, this page is right for you whether you are individual user or a project manager. Several days ago, I wrote about project management software for Windows platform. Now it is time for Mac. Just like Windows users, there are many project management programs (both free and paid solution) available for Macintosh to choose as well as download and use for free.

Now forget about Windows and let talk about Mac PM Software solutions. In the following, you will find both paid (like Merlin, OmniPlan, iTaskX, Projector, SharedPlan, PlanningForce, FastTrack Schedule, RationalPlan) and free (such as OpenProj for Mac, GanttProject) project management programs available for Mac operating system. You can see reviews, ratings as well as voting and find out what is the favorite Mac PM software by other users in the following:

Mac Project Management Ratings (Paid Version)

I also encourage everyone (including you) who ever have experience of using Project Management Software for Mac before, please share your experience and make it useful, helpful for other by doing the following rating.

Please Note: to make this rating more useful and helpful information, please rate only the software you ever experience, for the Project Management program which you never use please do not rate it.

Software Name	User Rating
Merlin	(29 votes)  Loading ...
OmniPlan	(14 votes)  Loading ...
iTaskX	(10 votes)  Loading ...
Projector	(8 votes)  Loading ...
SharedPlan	(9 votes)  Loading ...
PlanningForce	(11 votes)  Loading ...
FastTrack Schedule	(11 votes)  Loading ...
RationalPlan	(12 votes)  Loading ...

Voting for Your Most Favorite Mac Project Management Software

These are the top Project Management Software programs for Mac available on the market today.  And as an experienced user, what is your favorite Mac Project Management Software? You can tell the world through the following poll. The reasons I design this voting is to solve the problem which many other users have in choosing Project Management Software by finding out which is the most popular and the best one. To achieve this goal, user involvement and participation (including you) is very important, necessary and need. I encourage the users which have experience with the software to vote the following poll:

Please Note:

1. You can only vote for one time.
2. After voting, you will see the result of what you have voted and other people voting immediately. (You also can see result without voting by just click on View Result link below Vote button)
3. The voting result will continue showing and change based on number voting from time to time. Therefore do not forget to check result sometime.

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Free Project Management Software For Mac

There are several free Project Management Software available for you to download and use for free. Let find out in the following table:

Software Name	User Rating
OpenProj	(7 votes)  Loading ...
GanttProject	(6 votes)  Loading ...

Read Review and Share Your Value Experience

You can read reviews on Project Management Software as well as sharing your experiences with each program you have ever used in following:

Merlin

Merlin is one of popular Mac project management software on the market today. It is a product of ProjectWizards GmbH. It is a simple and effective project management tool for project manager. You can easily create a project planning with Marlin. Start from template or blank project. There are various good template available in both English and German for you to use including: Audit Preparation Process, Budget-Tracking, Client-Website, Critical Path, Effort Based Project Forecasting, Engineering, Strategic Plan and ToDo List.

OmniPlan

OmniPlan is a simple yet easy to use program developed by The Omni Group. It is designed to provides project planning and management solution. With OmniPlan, you can create logical, manageable project plans with Gantt charts, schedules, summaries, milestones, and critical paths. Break down the tasks needed to make your project a success, optimize resources, and streamline budgets.

iTaskX

iTaskX is a simple and easy to use Mac project management software developed by Techno Grafik with Zisser GmbH ­ Software Engineering. View Project in various modes including Gantt Chart, Tracking Gantt, Calendar, Network Diagram, Task Sheet, Task Usage, Resource Sheet, and Resource Usage. iTaskX offers a high degree of compatibility which allow you to exchange your documents over standard formats like MS Project MPP, MS Project XML or MS Project MPX. You can also save or open OPML files, text files as well as iCal, PDF, JPG, EPS, PNG and TIF.

Projector

Projector is modern design PM software for Mac user. It provides all essential tools for professional project management. It is well designed tool which is easy to use and will help you organize, administer and monitor your tasks allowing you more time to manage your projects and less time to learn. You can view project in both Gantt Chart and Resource Calendar View by day, week, month, year and project. The software have nice and easy to use interface indeed.

SharedPlan

SharedPlan is a project planning software from SharedPlan Software, Inc. It provides useful project planning and management tools. The program is available for both Windows and Mac platform. There are two versions of SharePlan, Pro and Personal. Pro edition is designed for users with higher needs which can access to private server and share plans with those you choose within a secure, private environment. It also has higher price than personal edition.

PlanningForce

PlanningForce is a cross platform project management software program which is available for both Windows and Mac OS X. It is a product of Intelligent Software Company. The software provides wide range of project planning, scheduling and resource management features including Project portfolio, Role constrained, Resource constrained, Templates, Duration and load, Dependencies, Calendars, Incomes and costs, Coefficients, WBS Gantt, Input diagnostics, Hours vs Days, Recurring tasks, Resource portfolio, Roles and Skills, Efficiency levels, Income and costs, Capacity curves, Working hours and more.

FastTrack Schedule

FastTrack Schedule is the solution by AEC Software, Inc. The program is designed for both first-time and experience project manager for planning, tracking, and reporting project goals. The program contains over 30 pre-designed templates and examples such as Business Expansion, Business Startup, College Schedule, Commercial Construction, Conference Room, Deployment, Education Publications, Engineering Project and more. You can quickly start project planning from scratch using the examples.

RationalPlan

RationalPlan is developed by Stand By Soft Ltd. It is a cross platform project management program which is available for three popular operating systems including Mac, Windows and Linux. There are two editions of RationalPlan: RationalPlan Multi Project and RationalPlan Single Project. Multi Project version is designed for users who want to keep in one hand projects with shared resources or dependencies between tasks that do not belong to the same project. And the single project edition is designed for users who have the projects that are completely independent – no shared resources, no inter-dependencies.

Free Editions

OpenProj

f you looking for free Mac PM software, OpenProj is one of them and also the good one with simple and easy to use interface. It is a free and open source project management software program by Serena Software Incorporated. The developer claims that OpenProj is a replacement of Microsoft Project and other commercial project solutions. And it has been download more than 1,250,000 times in the few months since launch and is being used in over 142 countries. Yes, it does. Even it is not equal to MS Project, but this program provides various useful features for project planning, scheduling and management. And it is worth to download and have a look.

GanttProject

Are you looking for free tool to help you in project scheduling and management in Mac computer? GanttProject is one of them, a simple and easy to use one by GanttProject Team. The program is straightforward. It provides various useful features for project scheduling and management such as Gantt chart, PERT chart. Gantt chart feature: allow you to create work breakdown structure, draw dependencies, define milestones, set begin and end date, priority, predecessors, duration and coordinator. Resources feature: you can assign human resources to work on tasks, see their allocation on the resource load chart. PERT chart: you can generate PERT chart from Gantt chart.

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