ProjectLibre Reviews & Product Details

ProjectLibre has Desktop and Cloud versions and is the #1 alternative to Microsoft Project. The Cloud is essentially Microsoft Project in the Cloud. The Desktop is free and has over 7,00,000 downloads in over 193 countries and translated into 31 languages. ProjectLibre manages projects on all 7 continents including projects on Antarctica! ProjectLibre Cloud is for Teams and is multi-project with a portfolio and role based access. Manage projects "anytime/anywhere in your browser and has a central resource pool and manages resources across the enterprise. ProjectLibre Desktop is free and the only open source solution with a compatible data model with Microsoft Project so you can import even the most detailed project data. ProjectLibre has Gantt Chart, Network Diagram, WBS, RBS, Task Usage, Resource Usage and more

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Languages Supported

Arabic, Czech, Danish, German, Greek, English, Persian, Finnish, French, Galician, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Dutch, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional)

Solution Type

Best-of-Breed

Overview by

Marc O'Brien (Founder CEO ProjectLibre)

Value at a Glance

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Perceived Cost

$$$$$

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Top-Rated Alternatives

Microsoft Project & Portfolio Management

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Average based on 36 real user reviews.

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ProjectLibre Reviews FAQs

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Last updated: Nov 04, 2026

What is ProjectLibre, and what problem is it built to solve?

ProjectLibre is open-source project management software designed as an alternative to Microsoft Project. It helps organizations plan projects using Gantt charts, resource management, scheduling, and import and export options aligned with industry standards.

What languages does ProjectLibre support?

ProjectLibre supports 34 languages, including Arabic, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, and others.

What company sizes and industries is ProjectLibre the best fit for?

ProjectLibre’s strongest fit in positive user experiences is among small businesses and mid-market organizations, with use also represented in larger enterprises. The industries with the most visible presence include:

Company size — Small businesses: Organizations with 50 or fewer employees are the most prominent segment.
Company size — Mid-market: Organizations with 51–1,000 employees are also well represented.
Company size — Enterprise: Organizations with more than 1,000 employees appear as well.
Industry — Mechanical and industrial engineering: A recurring use case among positive users.
Industry — Information technology and services, research, and internet: These fields also appear regularly in positive user experiences.
Industry — Civil engineering: Project planning and scheduling are represented in this field too.

What features or capabilities could make ProjectLibre even more useful?

ProjectLibre could be more useful with refinements to its interface and visualization controls, along with broader options for sharing and presenting project information. Improvements that would help include:

Make the interface easier to navigate, with more flexible chart zoom, display, and customization controls.
Expand reporting, printing, and import/export options to make project information easier to share and present.
Add more collaboration options, including calendar connections and mobile reminders.
Broaden support for different project approaches and workflows, such as Agile and Kanban.

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Tisagh C.

IT Consultant

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Originally submitted 2/28/2024

"An adequate project management solution"

5/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

It's open-source. It also provides Gantt charts, defining task dependencies, setting milestones and allocating resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

Limited collaboration options and features. Rigidity of the reporting options. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ashlesh S.

Student

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

4/11/2023

"One of the best open source project management application"

5/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

It is used to manage the infrastructure and progress of the project. We can assign project elements to the team members. The work can be viewed in a spreadsheet. The Gantt chart is handy for users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

It isn't effortless to use for new users. The implementation of the rates of per-person work might sometimes be complex. Freezing of screen is quite often in this application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Yuvraj L.

Editor

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

4/13/2023

"Recommended for project management!!"

5/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

One best feature that it is free to use. It is a cost effective and a user friendly project management software. Its hierarchical organization of projects is the feature that makes it unique. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

Sometimes the application crashes in between and also the work gets lost. Sometimes diagrams also get messed up and it is almost impossible to reassign all the tasks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Steven D.

Product Development Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/30/2023

"Cumbersome free alternative to MS Project"

1.5/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

It fulfills my customer's expectations when it comes to providing Gantt chart timelines for my various programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

The software is cumbersome and aesthetically is a step behind MS Projects 'clean, crisp' look. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Babu R.

Senior R&D Project Manager

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

11/16/2022

"Review of Project Libre"

5/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

Free, easy to get started with it to aid in project management, lightweight in terms of memory footprint, it has major functionalities and features of similar project management tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

It does not support Mac OS very well, it does crash sometimes and currently, when I use apple mouse (Air Mouse) to scroll on-screen horizontally, it is not correctly performed in Project Libre. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Aldo Y.

Civil Enginnering and Teacher

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

6/8/2022

"Very good short projects and easy to use"

4.5/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

What I like the most is that everything related to project management can be applied in a very simple way without the need to load libraries or make advanced configurations as it happens with other programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

A little more work could be done in the area of the graphic interface to obtain results that are a little more eye-catching for the final presentations of the projects and that are easily understood by non-experts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering ProjectLibre:

It is a very simple to use and very powerful tool due to its complete compatibility with almost any project management standard used today, and above all it is free, so the advantages over any other similar commercial software is very great. Cost management, once costs are estimated by another tool, is already very easy to do, mainly to see the variations between actual costs and planned costs. On the other hand, schedules are very easy to make, and all types of rules between sequences of activities are allowed, as well as delays and overruns. It is a tool that every project manager should try out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Everything related to time and cost management of not very complex projects. However, I did not find the cost analysis part very useful, i.e. breaking down a cost into its parts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Fernando José G.

Professor

1/5/2022

"ProjectLibre helping on managing"

4/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

ProjectLibre is free software to manage a project. Its files are effortless to understand and very practical for an MS Project user. It is easy to use if you have some concepts of project management. It helps in planning calendars for resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

ProjectLibre does not have zoom on the Gantt Chart. This zoom helps a lot in the planning stage because some details are on the screen. Zoom changing is essential for a detailed project with many tasks outside the main screen. The dates on tasks are difficult to read in other formats. This tool could help. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Francis C.

Marketing manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/31/2021

"Good to have ProjectLibre"

5/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

This is a simple, efficient and free download program. Fit my work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

I used to use Microsoft Project. ProjectLiber has fewer features relative to Microsoft one. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ing MSc José Antonio M.

Catedrático universitario

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Originally submitted 1/2/2022

"The closest thing to Microsoft Project"

5/5

What do you like best about ProjectLibre?

It covers 95% of the functionality that every project manager needs to manage small to medium size projects and you can't beat the price!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about ProjectLibre?

It lacks some import/export functionalities and maybe some reporting capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.