Top 7 Gantt Chart Templates

It’d be hard to find a viable project management software platform that doesn’t come with a Gantt chart in its most basic offerings. Gantt charts are a crucial element for almost any project management process, so it’s important to get the right one for your team.

For those who may be unaware, a Gantt chart is a calendar-based chart through which users can easily assess the amount of work done, as well as the amount of work left to do. This is highly useful for long-term projects, where deadlines and budgets can slip away from you if you’re not careful.

Backed up by our own market and product research, below are seven of the best Gantt chart templates offered by different project management software platforms:

The Top 7 Gantt Chart Templates

As we mentioned earlier, a Gantt chart is an incredibly useful tool for any project team with a variety of ongoing tasks. A good Gantt chart can help you manage deadlines, budgets, and an overall view of how the project is progressing.

Here are seven of the best Gantt charts on the market, each coming with their own pros and cons. Unless otherwise specified, Gantt charts are available on all plans.

ClickUp – From $5 Per Member, Per Month – Free Plan

Best Free Gantt Chart

ClickUp is Expert Market’s favorite project management platform. It’s affordable, has a free tier, is ranked as very usable, and is an overall, well-scoring platform when it comes to user satisfaction. Free project management software can sometimes be limiting but ClickUp’s free tier included a 100 Gantt chart uses.

Its Gantt chart is very usable. It comes in two forms, one being a standard, fully-featured Gantt chart, and the other is a simple, watered-down chart that can help newer users get to grips with the concept.

ClickUp Gantt chart

monday.com – From $9 Per Member, Per Year

Best for Customer Service

monday.com is tied first for our favorite project management platform. Having the best customer score of all the platforms we looked at, and coming with a very modest price tag, monday really is a great choice.

monday’s main perk is its versatility and customization, and this spills over into its Gantt chart offering. Its smooth interface, enticing colors, and overall ease of use encourages you to play with the software to find what works best for you and your team.

monday.com Gantt chart

Smartsheet – From $7 Per Member, Per Year

Best for Ease of Use

Smartsheet, as the name might suggest, is less like a project management software and more like a piece of spreadsheet software (think Excel or Google Sheets). In our research, it’s the highest scoring platform when it comes to usability, which makes sense because it’d be the most familiar platform to anyone just starting out with project management.

As such, their Gantt chart isn’t the easiest on the eyes. It’s quite utilitarian, but in both the positive and negative connotations of that word. It’s somewhat colorless, but it also gets the job done. If you’re looking for a simple platform with few frills, this is the choice for you.

Smartsheet Gantt chart

Wrike – From $9.80 Per Member, Per Month

Best for Small Teams with Experience

Wrike is one of the pricier platforms on the market. It has one of our best usability scores, and customers rate it quite highly as a product. It’s not the best for collaboration or customer service but, for a small team that knows what they’re doing, Wrike does the job well.

As for its Gantt chart offerings, they’re nice and snappy, auto-populating Gantt chart tasks with information entered elsewhere in the project management software. However, Gantt charts and dependencies aren’t offered on the free tier, which is a shame because of how basic a feature it is.

Wrike Gantt chart

Asana – From $10.99 Per Member, Per Year

Best for Customization

Asana is one of the more popular project management platforms, scoring well across the board during our research. Some of its best features include a bustling app marketplace, and a great array of team communication functionalities.

As far as its Gantt charts are concerned, Asana has some of the best visual customization out there. It can be easily switched to timeline views, and the interface is very nice to look at and use. Unfortunately, it can be a bit rigid. A lot of the time with Gantt charts, you can reverse engineer a fix for a specific problem you’re having, but Asana isn’t too conducive when it comes to this approach.

Asana Gantt chart

Zoho Projects – From $4 Per Member, Per Year – Free Plan

Best for Integration with other Zoho Software

If the word “Zoho” sounds familiar, don’t worry! Zoho makes all kinds of business software under the Zoho One umbrella, which you may even use yourself. If this is the case, then that’s some extra incentive to use Zoho because most of its software can integrate with other Zoho software. And it’s obviously very affordable.

When it comes to its Gantt chart, it’s one of our favorites. It allows for all of the classic Gantt chart functionalities, like dependencies, as well as some very helpful functions, like task notes, easy resizing, and the ability to export into various formats.

Zoho Gantt chart

Teamwork – From $10 Per Member, Per Year – Free Plan

Best for Collaboration

Finally, we have Teamwork, which, true to its name, has some of the smoothest collaboration features on the project management market. It also scores well for customer service, and its customer satisfaction rating is quite high too.

Their Gantt chart offerings are solid, don’t get us wrong, but it’s nothing amazing. This does mean, however, if you just want a basic Gantt chart (albeit with a selection of above-average collaboration features), then this is a great pick for you.

Teamwork Gantt chart

Why Do You Need a Gantt Chart Maker?

A Gantt chart is the bread and butter of project management. As such, it’s not too complicated, but still worth doing correctly. Sure, you can put together a rudimentary example on Microsoft Excel or Google Sheets, but it will always be a second-class product when compared to the real thing.

Project management software is a great way of formalizing the process, while also making it more collaborative, customizable, and accessible. Gantt charts are only one of the formats on offer within project management software.

What Kind of Templates Do I Need to Use in Project Management?

Gantt charts are one of many chart types and tools that a project management software can come with. Here are some other handy features that project management software can offer you:

• RACI chart: RACI stands for “responsible, accountable, consulted, and informed”. These are a broad umbrella for the four ways someone can be involved in the project, and designating each member with one of these titles can improve communication and workflow.
• MoSCoW chart: MoSCoW stands for “must, should, could, and won’t”. These four designations are given to the various steps within a project. For example, if you’re making a website for a product, you must have a homepage, you should include imagery of your product, you could include customer testimonials, and you won’t play annoying music on every page.
• Task list: While a task list could just be written down on a whiteboard, having a virtual collaborative space is a lot easier and more efficient. Team members can claim certain tasks, and update their progress as they go.
• Roadmap: A broader document than a task list, the roadmap is the bird’s eye view of the entire project from day one to the finish date. It might not have each individual step, but it will address the broader segments of the project.
• Kanban chart: While Gantt charts are popular, Kanban charts are another great solution for projects with more independent stages. Team members can move projects from one stage to another, like “in progress” or “in review”, while encountering little in the form of roadblocks from other unfinished steps. An example of Asana’s Kansan chart is below: