WyzePlan

WyzePlan is a project planner for your Mac built around one idea: tell it how long each task takes and which tasks depend on which, and it works out every date for you. Move one task, and everything after it follows, skipping weekends and holidays.

It brings the power of the big project-management tools to a light, fast app that runs on your own computer. No account, no subscription, no cloud: your plans stay with you.

What you get

1. Dates that calculate themselves — Enter durations and dependencies and WyzePlan schedules everything. Lengthen a task from 3 to 5 days and the next one moves to the other side of the weekend.
2. All four link types — Finish-to-start, start-to-start, finish-to-finish and start-to-finish, with delays or overlaps. Several predecessors are handled, and circular links are refused.
3. A real working calendar — Weekends are skipped, half days count as half days, and you can add Quebec or Canada public holidays in one click, or your own.
4. Critical path and float — See at a glance which tasks decide the end date and how much slack the others have.
5. Seven ways to see your plan — Gantt, Board, Network, Mind map, Calendar, Roadmap and Reports, all from the same data.
6. Phases and subtasks — Organise work in phases that roll up dates, duration and progress from their subtasks. Indent, outdent and reorder with a keystroke.
7. Drag to plan — Drag a bar to move it, pull its edge to change the duration, or drag from the handle to another bar to link them.
8. People, cost and workload — Assign people at any percentage, set hourly rates and track cost. WyzePlan flags overbooked people and can even out the workload for you, and you can undo it.
9. Baseline and earned value — Save the agreed plan, then measure delay and cost variance against it, with earned value and schedule index.
10. Risks and issues — Keep a risk register scored by likelihood and impact, with a planned response, and track open issues on each task.
11. Import and export — Save a full .wyzeplan file, or exchange plans as CSV, MS Project XML, iCalendar (.ics) or PDF.
12. Automatic backups and undo — A dated backup is made every time you open the app, and every change can be undone and redone. Light, dark or automatic theme, in English and French.

Perfect for

• Project managers and consultants who need real scheduling without a heavy tool
• Freelancers and small teams planning a launch, a build or an event
• Anyone moving from spreadsheets to a plan where dates update by themselves
• People who want to keep their plans private on their own computer