Yes. There's a free plan that includes AI plan generation, one AI plan a month with a free account. Paid plans add more projects, more AI, and more collaborators as you grow.

Can I import my existing Excel or Google Sheets plan?

Yes. Upload an Excel or CSV file and map the columns to tasks, dates, and dependencies. Google Sheets works too. Export it to CSV and import that.

Can I export back to Excel?

Yes. Every plan exports to PDF and PNG, and Excel export is included from the Project Manager plan. You're upgrading the workflow, not abandoning your files, and nothing is locked in.

How is this better than an Excel Gantt chart template?

A template is a static grid you maintain by hand, so every dependency and every scope change is manual. Ganttastic generates a live plan with real dependencies that reflow when dates change and share links, then still exports to Excel when you need the spreadsheet.

Do I need to sign up to try?

You can explore the editor and a sample project without an account. To generate a plan with AI, create a free account. AI generation is included on the free plan, and your plan is saved to your account.

AI project planning

The Excel Gantt chart alternative.

Stop maintaining a Gantt chart by hand. Describe your project and Ganttastic builds a real, editable Gantt with live dependencies, and still exports back to Excel when you need the spreadsheet.

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Import your spreadsheet. Export back any time. Nothing is locked in.

An editable Gantt plan in Ganttastic with live dependency arrows, a milestone, and a today marker, replacing an Excel schedule built by hand

The honest version

Excel is free and familiar. The cost is the upkeep.

For a quick single list, a spreadsheet is fine. You already have it and already know it. The cost shows up the moment the project is real: every dependency is manual, every scope change is a rebuild, and every hour goes into maintaining the sheet instead of managing the work. That is the moment Ganttastic pays off.

Why spreadsheets slip

The trouble with Gantt charts in Excel.

Dependencies are manual

Nothing moves when a date slips. You move every downstream cell by hand, or you don't, and the plan quietly goes stale.

Every scope change is a rebuild

Add a phase or reorder tasks and you're reformatting rows, colors, and formulas instead of managing the project.

No baseline, no drift tracking

A grid of colored cells is a picture of a schedule. Nothing records the dates you agreed, so you cannot see how far the plan has moved since.

It looks unpolished when shared

A spreadsheet emailed to a client or exec rarely reads as a credible plan that is ready for stakeholders.

How Ganttastic works

A live plan, not a grid of cells.

Describe your project

Paste a brief or a plain English description, or import the Excel or CSV plan you already have. No formatting, no formulas.

Ganttastic generates the plan

The AI drafts tasks, phases, milestones, dependencies, and dates as a real Gantt, with dependencies that reflow when a date changes, not cells you recolor by hand.

Edit, share and export

Refine it, share a live link, and export back to Excel, PDF, or PNG whenever you need. Nothing is locked in.

Keep Excel in the loop

You are upgrading the workflow, not leaving your files.

Import the Excel or CSV plan you already have, let the AI turn it into a live Gantt, and export back to Excel, PDF, or PNG whenever the spreadsheet is what someone needs. Nothing is locked in, ever.

Import Excel / CSVGenerate a live GanttExport Excel / PDF / PNG

Questions, answered.

Cannot find what you need? Email support@ganttastic.com and you will hear back within one business day.

Retire the spreadsheet.
Keep the Excel export.

Generate a real, editable plan from your brief, with AI included on the free plan. When you need the Excel export, it is one upgrade away.

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