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GanttPRO vs OpenProject
A side-by-side editorial comparison of GanttPRO and OpenProject — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
GanttPRO vs OpenProject: at a glance
What is GanttPRO?
GanttPRO ships a quarter's worth of features at a time, filed as blog tutorials.
This feed announces product changes as how-to posts, with the actual feature named after the colon. The two most recent — dashboard export with portfolio invitations, and a rebuilt list view — landed on the same day in August, after a three-month gap since the shared board-view link in May. Behind those sit table reports and an AI Gantt chart maker from March. Cadence is quarterly at best, and the gaps are filled with awards notices and evergreen tutorials.
What is OpenProject?
OpenProject settles into patch work after 17.7 shipped resource management.
17.7.0 was the substantial release — a resource management module with departments and work schedules, pushing OpenProject past task tracking into staffing. The two releases since are patches. 17.7.2 fixes four bugs, among them project-level hourly rates that could not be adjusted and non-working days silently dropped when saved while a reschedule job was running — both in the scheduling and cost areas 17.7 had just expanded.
GanttPRO vs OpenProject: editorial side-by-side
GanttPRO
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GanttPRO ships a quarter's worth of features at a time, filed as blog tutorials.
◆ Current state
This feed announces product changes as how-to posts, with the actual feature named after the colon. The two most recent — dashboard export with portfolio invitations, and a rebuilt list view — landed on the same day in August, after a three-month gap since the shared board-view link in May. Behind those sit table reports and an AI Gantt chart maker from March. Cadence is quarterly at best, and the gaps are filled with awards notices and evergreen tutorials.
◆ Where it's heading
Two threads run through the recent work. One is giving people outside the project a way in: shared private links for board view, invitations to portfolios, dashboard export — each aimed at a stakeholder who needs the picture without a seat in the plan. The other is loosening the product's attachment to the chart it is named after, through the list view, board view and table reports. For a tool that sold one visualisation, methodically shipping all the others is the more consequential of the two.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next release to extend the sharing thread — export or link-based access to the views that do not yet have it — since three of the last four features have been about read-only distribution. The March AI chart maker has drawn no follow-up in the entries here, so whether it becomes a line of work or stays a one-off is not something this feed answers.
OpenProject settles into patch work after 17.7 shipped resource management.
◆ Current state
17.7.0 was the substantial release — a resource management module with departments and work schedules, pushing OpenProject past task tracking into staffing. The two releases since are patches. 17.7.2 fixes four bugs, among them project-level hourly rates that could not be adjusted and non-working days silently dropped when saved while a reschedule job was running — both in the scheduling and cost areas 17.7 had just expanded.
◆ Where it's heading
The release rhythm is a feature minor followed by a short tail of patches repairing the surface it just added, and this tail sits squarely in resource-management territory. Rate and non-working-day bugs are the predictable cost of shipping scheduling and cost tracking together. For self-hosted operators the advice does not change between these releases: take the patch.
◆ Prediction
Expect one or two more 17.7.x patches against the resource management surface before 17.8 opens a new feature line.
Alternatives to GanttPRO and OpenProject
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either GanttPRO or OpenProject.
NocoBase
NocoBase runs two release lines at once while the v3 client rewrite absorbs the AI work
Hive
Hive ships in batches, and this one is all planning accuracy and admin control.
Plane
Plane ships a fortnightly digest, and the AI layer is where the real work is going.
Ever Teams
Ever Teams shipped ten tags in twelve hours and one of them touched the product
Asana
Asana's agent left the app — it now answers work questions inside Slack threads.
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Recent activity from GanttPRO and OpenProject
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 5d agoOpenProjectPatch fixes hourly rates, non-working days, custom styles
- 12d agoOpenProjectPatch fixes duplicate users on retried imports
- 14d agoOpenProjectResource management module lands with departments and work schedules ⚡
- 15d agoGanttPROHow to Share Project Progress and Collaborate on Portfolios with GanttPRO: Dashboard Export and Invitations to Portfolios
- 15d agoGanttPROHow to Manage Projects with GanttPRO: Updated List View
- 1mo agoOpenProjectXWiki integration links work packages to external docs
- 2mo agoOpenProjectPatch fixes work package creation broken by 17.5
- 2mo agoOpenProjectProject-based work package IDs arrive in Beta
- 3mo agoGanttPROHow to Present Your Projects with GanttPRO: Shared Private Link for Board View
- 4mo agoGanttPROFrom an Idea to a Plan in Minutes: Meet the AI Gantt Chart Maker ⚡
- 5mo agoGanttPROHow to Accurately Analyze Budget, Progress, and Time on Tasks with GanttPRO: Table Reports
- 6mo agoGanttPROGanttPRO Wins Top Awards in Project Management and Other Related Fields
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between GanttPRO and OpenProject?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. OpenProject is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is GanttPRO better than OpenProject?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. OpenProject is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 5.0), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to GanttPRO?
Top GanttPRO alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "GanttPRO alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ganttpro for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to OpenProject?
Top OpenProject alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "OpenProject alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/openproject for the full list with editorial commentary on each.