Plane Reviews & Product Details

Currently the #1 alternative to Jira Server and Pivotal Tracker, Plane is that quietly powerful project management workbench that adapts to any framework or style of work for any-sized teams. Just starting-up and freestyling between founding members? Turn off features in clicks until you're ready for them. Got basic project management chops, but not ready for anything by the book? Box your work in cycles that run from a week to a month or more, cool off as you like them to, and auto-transfer incomplete work from one to the next. Got a large deliverable over the next three quarters? Break it up into modules with their own leads and track them from a single place. Handling a group of projects across departments? Map them to Initiatives and see just the forests until you need to dive into the trees. Plane is unopinionated for how work should work, so teams from software and ops, marketing and HR, the assembly floor and the R&D corner can all come together on a single source of truth without trading off their own unique languages and best practices. Customize Teamspaces to reflect your real-world teams, pods, or user-groups and manage work without distraction from the rest of your world. Plane is also the only viable solution for teams in government, regulated industries, and compliance-first areas. With our self-hosted offering that's at 100% parity with our Cloud and our airgapped solution on the way, customers now have governance assurances without trading off modern project management features essential to making meaningful progress. More than 10,000 companies have now switched to Plane from Jira Cloud, Jira Server, Asana, Monday.com, and ClickUp. Sign up free, stay free, and, when you're ready, try one of our thoughtfully packaged paid plans for fourteen days free.

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Plane Software, Inc.

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Languages Supported

German, English, French, Japanese, Spanish

Overview by

Parth Biswal (Marketing • Products • Tech)

Pricing

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Free

12 seats Per Month

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Plane Demo - Link projects and epics to larger initiatives

Replaces portfolios and other legacy or complex hierarchies, automatically rolls up updates from projects and epics, lets all stakeholders instantly catch up to progress.

Plane Demo - See all your projects' progress at once

Replaces the need for complex charts for at-a-glance views of all projects, lets you zoom into those that need attention in one click.

Plane Demo - Tuck multi-cycle and -module work in one neat area per project.

Removes dependencies on project start and end dates, irregular cyclic work, force-fitting into modules Lets you see work grouped this way in one neat place with its own overview.

Plane Demo - Customize the space your teams work in

Replaces weird team-first and -only hierarchies, lets you connect projects to teams instead of housing them under it, allows distraction-free work and keeping team-specific knowledge separate from all other knowledge.

Plane Demo - See data visualized exactly how you like it

Replaces complex, filter-based charts with an open canvas that houses customizable charts. Lets you set scope at the highest or custom levels, automatically refreshing for changes in the source. Permalinked for repeat visits and sharing.

Plane Demo - Track cyclic work without bothering about a dashboard.

Replaces filter-based, DIY charts, come ready out of the box, automatically generates for each cycle, extends to Active Cycles to track all cycles across projects

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Shreejal M.

Full-stack Developer

Retail

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/24/2026

"Promising Features Hampered by Unpolished UI"

3/5

What do you like best about Plane?

I love that Plane is self-hosted and has almost all features needed for a basic task management application. I also appreciate that you can edit whatever you like and create personal API tokens. Being able to self-host is important for managing sensitive data, and the personal API tokens allow me to integrate Plane with other applications like GitHub, which automatically closes tasks when a PR is closed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

I think Plane in general is very unpolished. The UI lags very much, the application won't load until the cache is cleared which was so bad we had to make a custom UI that proxies the application on the frontend because the JS wasn't loading. There are certain features such as an image viewer that are not present in the application, so we need to download the image in order to view it. The UI is also really confusing, where an average Joe or a project manager would have difficulty assigning permissions or managing the application. I think the UI needs an overhaul in general. The main improvements needed would be allowing for preview of attached screenshots, fixing loading of the latest assets such as JS which is vital to the application, allowing for more events on the webhook, and a simpler UI. It's far too unstable to be used in a production environment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sivakumar S.

CTO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

8/12/2025

"Making Product and Team Workflows Seamless"

5/5

What do you like best about Plane?

Plane is simple to set up with a clean, intuitive UI/UX that makes onboarding quick and effortless. As a product company, it’s been invaluable for tracking product development plans, marketing and sales work items, and customer requests — all in one place. It makes progress measurable and keeps everyone aligned. The mobile app is also a great companion, making it easy to stay on top of tasks anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

An excellent tool for managing product development and team workflows, with strong potential to become even better as integrations and AI features evolve. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Plane solving and how is that benefiting you?

Plane helps us bring product development, marketing, sales tasks, and customer requests into one unified workspace. This eliminates the need for juggling multiple tools and spreadsheets, making project tracking more transparent and measurable. The simple UI and quick onboarding mean our team can focus on delivering work instead of learning software. Having everything centralized has improved cross-team collaboration, reduced miscommunication, and given us clear visibility into progress and priorities — ultimately speeding up delivery and improving accountability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ragul J.

Software Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/11/2026

"Full Control and Flexible In-House Hosting"

5/5

What do you like best about Plane?

Full control over the software and in-house hostting Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

Traditional UI - would prefer fancy UI with ease of use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aspril T.

Chief Business Officer

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/9/2025

"It has been productive using the plane, its inexpensive and accessible"

4/5

What do you like best about Plane?

Its provides an option of being open source, as a SME it is a good alternative as no other project management tool gives this. option. It is easy to use as the user interface is something you get use to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

Some additional features like linking your code versioning tool for e.g git lab, git hub, bitbucket is not available. So it not easy to link the user stories with the codebase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shashank V.

Sr. Developer & Technology Lead

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/17/2025

"A refreshingly simple tool that does exactly what our team needs"

5/5

What do you like best about Plane?

Plane hits the sweet spot between flexibility and simplicity. We're a small team juggling multiple projects across design, dev, and ops, and Plane has helped us bring structure without the usual complexity that comes with project management tools. The Pages feature is a quiet hero, we use it for documentation and context sharing right next to our tasks. Also, onboarding new team members has been a breeze thanks to the clean UI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

Nothing major so far. We’re on the free plan, and it’s handled everything we’ve thrown at it. Would be great to see a few more workflow customizations or integrations over time, but we’re not really feeling the need yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Plane solving and how is that benefiting you?

We needed a lightweight but capable tool to manage our cross-functional work without overwhelming the team. Plane gave us just enough structure to stay on top of things whether that’s breaking down sprints, organizing tasks by priority, or documenting key processes. We’ve saved time, stayed aligned, and avoided the overhead of heavier tools like Jira. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jose Alberto T.

Chef de projet, architecte de base de données et développeur Web backend et frontend

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/28/2025

"Plane became our management tool due to its great UX and vast toolset"

5/5

What do you like best about Plane?

We needed a project management software that was simple but allowed us to easily trace the tasks done by our product, development and quality assurance teams. This was easily handled by plane and in recent versions it has even facilitated our progress reports with its newest charts' features!

In my experience, Jira was too much, while asana was too simple, and clickup too convoluted... Plane's UI, on the other hand, has the most amount of information possible in a simple and beautiful UI. Our company uses it on an everyday basis and we count with all the features we need: time tracking, task estimation, traceability matrix features, gantt diagram visualization, OpenIDC integration, an API that allows us to expand upon it, heck, we even host our own database so we can create anything we want with said data.

The price isn't that steep, yet it presents a really competitive solution for project management because of the fact that it combines several software use cases into a single product, and the learning curve is practically null. Besides, the support I've received from both the discord server (both from the community and the company's collaborators) has been pretty efficient and warm, so I'm really happy with this software overall. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

To be honest, I would love it if the company maintained better communication; the sunset of Plane One was definitely unexpected to me, and since I was on board with said plan, it would be great to know if there will be a way to continue with said plan in the mid-term future. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Plane solving and how is that benefiting you?

- We are no longer using a software to manage our kanban tasks and a different solution in order to create our gantt diagrams.

- Due to the fact that we self-host our database, we can easily expand Plane since we can simply develop other applications to modify or visualize the data.

- The analytics that Plane has are super simple to use and offer us great value in order to take decisions and track the progress of our different projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Matthias B.

DevOps Engineer Program

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/16/2025

Guest users or non-business users of the software, not included in G2 scores.

"Simple, intuitive and efficient"

5/5

What do you like best about Plane?

- No per-tool multi-subscription plans

- Coherent namimg conventions

- Very easy and complete customization

- Sharing custom tasks views in 2 clicks

- Easy to set up

- For small and big projects Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

- Some features can still be in development

- The loading on some charged interfaces can take 3-5s Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Plane solving and how is that benefiting you?

First time I tried jira I was like: "Man there's so much, everywhere! And why has everything weird names !?"

While looking for an alternative, I saw a fireship video recommending plane as a free alternative to jira. I went on and tried it thinking it wouldn't be any better than other tools but still gave it a chance.

Damn was I wrong. The UI was so minimalistic and refined. I had everything I needed to plan and automate my project and the best part was:

- No per-tool multi-subscription plans

- Complete customization

- Sharing custom tasks views

- Integrated wiki and pages

So much is possible with the free tier already, it's really more accessible to everyone.

Plane's team is also very rapid and ingaged in user experience. Overall it's a less agressive and more pleasant experience than huge and over-complicated project management softwares.

You use what you want and need, with little to no barriers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from Sruthi Ramisetty of Plane

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Matthias,

Just read your review. Thank you so much for taking the time to share it.

Loved how you highlighted the ease of use, customization, and the no-fuss experience. That’s exactly what we’re building Plane for.

Feedback like yours keeps us going, and it helps more people discover there’s a simpler, saner way to manage work.

We’re so glad Plane’s working out for you.

Catch you in the changelog 😉

— Team Plane

Matthew K.

Vice President, Corporate Marketing

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

5/30/2025

"Why I Switched From Asana to Plane"

5/5

What do you like best about Plane?

Self‑Hosting Freedom

One of the biggest pulls for me was Plane’s support for self‑hosting. Rather than surrendering all my data to a cloud vendor, I spin up Plane on my own servers (or in my private cloud) and maintain full control over backups, compliance, and uptime. This isn’t just a checkbox feature—it’s seamless to deploy (Docker‑ready, Kubernetes‑friendly) and integrates with my company’s existing identity and monitoring tools.

A UI That Hits Every Mark

Plane’s interface feels fresh without sacrificing familiarity. Task lists, boards, timelines and calendars are all laid out with generous whitespace, intuitive drag‑and‑drop interactions.

Comprehensive Feature Set

From nested subtasks and custom fields to dependencies, milestones, and multi‑project portfolios, Plane has a toolkit that rivals any heavyweight in this category. I especially appreciate:

• Workspace and Project Views, which let me slice my task backlog however I like.

• Built‑in time tracking with per‑task timers and reports.

• Automations, so routine work (assigning reviewers, moving tasks on status change) just happens. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

Mobile polish. I'd love to see a native iOS/Android app for Plane. The UI is responsive enough to use in a mobile web browser, but it's not perfect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Plane solving and how is that benefiting you?

1. Vendor Lock‑In & Data Ownership

• Problem: With cloud‑only tools, I worried about sudden pricing changes, API restrictions, or data portability headaches.

• How Plane Helps: Self‑hosting (there is a cloud option available) gives me full control over my data, backups, and uptime policies. I can keep my projects on‑premises, behind our own VPN, and integrate with existing identity and monitoring systems—no more “black‑box” SaaS concerns.

2. Fragmented Toolchains & Context Switching

• Problem: In Asana (and other platforms), I often needed a separate time‑tracker, a different tool for docs, yet another for dashboards—and toggling between them broke my flow.

• How Plane Helps: Plane bundles tasks, nested subtasks, time‑tracking, automations, and dashboards into one coherent interface. Fewer windows means fewer interruptions and a cleaner “single pane of glass” for project work.

3. Sluggish Performance at Scale

• Problem: Large Asana workspaces can lag—loading boards with hundreds of cards or switching between portfolios takes noticeable time.

• How Plane Helps: Whether on self‑hosted hardware or a high‑end cloud instance, Plane’s React‑based UI feels snappy even with thousands of tasks. That instant feedback helps me move faster through triage, stand‑ups, and backlog grooming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Dorthe B.

Project manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

6/27/2025

"Easy to get started with project management"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Plane?

Super easy to get started on.

We use it daily in our Product team.

Many settings that you can use to get Plane working like you would want it to.

It's nice that you can both have shared Project spaces and your own personal Project space.

Nice clean UI and easily understandable UX.

Their customer support is quick and gives usable answers, and they are open to suggestions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

We miss more customizable fields.

Better reports that can be set up just like we need them.

Loading is sometimes a bit slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Alex B.

COO

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/22/2025

"Solid project management tool with a short learning curve"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Plane?

I needed to quickly enroll ±25 people in a project management tool, and Plane did the job.

My primary concern was that most users aren't very technical, so I was looking for a solution with not too many bells and whistles, or at least a way to hide them from most users. Plane helped me with that, and a complete deployment with migration from a previous solution took less than 2 weeks.

One special highlight is how snappy the Plane is when you drive it daily. I can juggle between hundreds of tasks, and it never lags. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Plane?

Analytics is rudimentary, and custom issue types require a higher license tier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.