Adrian N.
AN
Adrian N.
CEO
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"A complex and felxible solution to project management and bug tracking."
4/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

1. It can be used on own server, without cloud.

2. It's open source and free in standard version.

3. It has very intuitive interface.

4. It's often updated.

5. It has extensive configuration, possibility of custom fields definition.

6. It has a wide range of usage.

7. If offers many useful features: workflows (tasks statuses vs. roles), budgets, Gantt charts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

1. Despite the frequent updates, the software is still buggy.

2. It has only basic system of permissions e.g. lack of privileges on levels lower than a project like on work packages or custom fields.

3. Budgets management is very limited e.g. there are neither margin option nor possibility to use common budget for couple projects.

4. It still lacks a some system of automation e.g. possibility to write some scripts, define own views for all projects at once etc.

5. Working with many projects is very limited.

6. You cannot use custom fields in many features like cost reports or my page widgets.

7. The external API is still underdeveloped.

8. Lack of KPI's, resource management and employees efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Not bad, but not very userfriendly"
3/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

It keeps track of every change, and a lot seems possible in terms of commenting and task descriptions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

User experience isn't very good. Navigating isn't very easy or fast, and writing a task sometimes gives errors in both submitting as well as formatting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

YA
Yohan A.
CSM
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"Free things can indeed be good"
3.5/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

This platform, which seems so simple at first glance, offers many customization possibilities. The important thing is to know exactly how we want to use it, and we will have very important customization options.

What I enjoy the most is how fast it is; it is a powerful yet very lightweight software. In our company, we have it installed on a local server, and the access speed through the intranet is unbeatable, but it also remains fast when we are working remotely or from home and access it via the Internet.

The ease of creating tasks and assigning them to people, as well as creating work packages within a project, is unbeatable. The large number of options when creating a work package is very useful, as is the ability to assign custom statuses to these work packages.

Finally, the relationship we can establish between tasks is also extremely useful, with the ability to add predecessors easily and quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

The only feature I miss from this tool is the ability to create visual schedules in the "spreadsheet" style that other market options offer. Although it provides the possibility to generate project timelines, this functionality has been of little use to me when it comes to projecting tasks that will be carried out in a future time period and that I need to visualize graphically in the form of a calendar with phases, tasks, and relationships between them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Abel L.
AL
Abel L.
Project Coordinator and Analyst
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"OpenProject - An excellent application for tracking projects and effort"
3.5/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

The effort tracking feature is one feature of this application that I love the most. It is designed very efficiently that makes it easy for the users to use it. Creating filters and saving them is one main feature that I love the most. It helps to save time and you could get all the information at the click of a button. Creating custom rows and columns under while creating Cost Reports is another thing that is very useful. I do this on a weekly basis and has helped me in achieving different types of Reports for my senior managers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

One main thing that I dislike about this application is its inability to expand and collapse tasks. When a parent task has multiple children and it ranges over to multiple pages, it makes it difficult to track the tasks. You would not be able to know which child comes under which parent if the parent and child is in a different page. It would be great if the OpenProject UX designer see this as a serious issue and make necessary pages, this would resolve a lot of problems.

It would also be great if a new feature could be included to export Cost Reports in excel sheets so that Utilization reports of different teams could be calculated in an excel sheet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ronald M.
RM
Ronald M.
Desarrollador de software
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Manage your project efficiently with open project"
4.5/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

Besides being able to plan your projects in a very efficient way, it has certain characteristics that help you to take a better management of the project, for example with the gantt chart you can observe what is the status of the project, tasks that are overlapping and the whole context of the development times of the same, this feature is very good because it allows you to know the actual scope of your goals and your deliverables, also when generating tasks by teams of work you can keep an exact track of what is being developed and this allows you to include Agile and Scrum methodologies in your projects, in addition to providing your client based on this, reports of development times, costs, and even doing bug tracking within the application. In short, it is a very complete tool for project management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

As far as I've been able to work on this tool is only available for Linux environments I have not been able to work with it under the windows environment, it is true that the vast majority of development teams use linux environment but I think there should be a version available for windows 10 natively. I think the option to be able to handle it is the option in Cloud. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Genesis  R.
GR
Genesis R.
Consultor SOA
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Excellent tool!"
4.5/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

It is an excellent tool if you want to manage projects, anyone can use it whether it uses Windows, Mac or Linux, it has a very good reach to the user because it is multiplatform!.

What I like the most is that it allows me to observe the status of my projects using Gantt diagrams, which shows in a more graphic way the progress I have had during the time that has elapsed to a project to which I currently belong in my work. In a few words, it offers me everything necessary to be able to plan a project with guarantees.

I love its ability to share files with the Microsoft application and also shares many of its features: Gantt charts, PERT, histograms, graphs, reports, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

- I think it should have more features.

- When executing OpenProject, certain files that incorporate some of the most complex functions can not be read. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

RF
Roshan F.
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Excellent app - would be good to have report exporting "
3.5/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

I have been using OpenProject for the past 2 years. I was using Redmine previously in my company before moving to OpenProject. I love the UI offered by OpenProject - it's not as boring or monotonous as Redmine. As a project manager, I constantly monitor the status of bugs reported within my projects. The ease of use in setting up filters and saving these filters privately/publicly is a feature that has helped me within my organization and with my clients. Setting a custom filter to filter out the features that are being developed in different phases and creating a separate menu item for this filter helps my clients get a quick idea about the features that my team is developing in each phase of the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

it would be really great if there was an option to export cost report. While trying to understand the resource utilization within my project, exporting the cost report as an excel sheet will greatly help me in filtering out different reports. Also, there have been many cases where I get a server error when uploading documents. My clients have reported the same issue, which is very annoying when you are trying to share important documents. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ranjith M.
RM
Ranjith M.
Bussiness Analyst
Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Very good but has a room for improvement"
3.5/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

Have been using it for around 2 years now to manage projects of various sizes. Easy to understand and master it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

Inability to group & minimize child work packages under a parent. This leads to a lot of clutter for projects of a reasonable size.

UI improvements are needed. Especially with the filters & cost reports.

While there is an option to maintain relationship between work packages in different projects, there is no way that the contents or the statuses can be reflected automatically when change is made on one of them Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer Software
UC
Verified User in Computer Software
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
"is an excellent software for anywhere project management (Version 1.4)"
4/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

Allows the allocation of resources for activities and tasks, creates the gantt chart of the project. It is ideal to start project management. It can be installed on Linux and Windows machines and is perfect because is free (version 1.4). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

I consider that openproject is ideal for small or medium projects, since it does not have collaborative work or access to the cloud, it is only a desktop application (versión 1.4) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
AI
Verified User in Information Technology and Services
Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
"Best Open Source Project Management Tool"
4/5
What do you like best about OpenProject?

Task management and team collaboration

Agile & Scrum

Time tracking, cost reporting and budgeting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about OpenProject?

User Interface and Occasional Crashes. The uI seems to be at times confusing. Copying of task from one sub project to another is not possible. This is a major overhead if you are planning to have 2 versions for the project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.