A monday.com Alternative for When the Board Has to Become a Schedule

Export the board as CSV or Excel and import the CSV. The rows come across — task names, dates, durations, owners — and you add the dependency network on top, which tends to be quick because you already know what waits on what. The caveat to know first is that a CSV carries rows, not a scheduling model, so dependencies, constraints, calendars, and baselines that were never in the file cannot be recovered from it. If the plan originally came out of Microsoft Project or Primavera P6, open that .MPP, XML, or XER file instead — it carries the whole model.

For project scheduling, yes. As a replacement for how a company tracks all of its work, no — and pretending otherwise would waste your time. monday.com is a general work-management platform; Ingantt is a scheduling tool with a Critical Path Method engine, resource leveling, baselines, and Earned Value. If the reason you are looking is that your timeline view cannot tell you what the finish date depends on, this is the swap. If it is that you want a cheaper board for the whole company, it is not.

Our comparison grades monday.com as not having real CPM scheduling, and we hold that grade openly rather than softening it. The distinction is between drawing a timeline and calculating one: a real Critical Path Method engine derives the finish date from the dependency network and durations, identifies which chain of tasks is driving it, and recalculates both when anything changes. That is the capability being compared, and it is the one that matters when a date slips.

Calculate. 4 dependency types with lag, 8 constraint types, custom calendars and work weeks, multiple critical paths, and rescheduling that cascades a change through the whole plan. Resource leveling by priority, slack, or ID with rate tables A–E and time-varying availability. Tracking with 11 baselines, 10 interim plans, and 55 baseline plus 5 variance columns. Earned Value with 13 columns including BCWS, BCWP, CPI, SPI, EAC, VAC, and TCPI. And 10 views on the same plan — including a Task Board, so the board view does not disappear.

Yes. Task Board is one of the 10 views — Kanban-style columns with drag-and-drop status tracking, on the same plan as the Gantt chart, staying in sync with it. So the people who want to see this week's work as cards can, while the schedule underneath remains a real network with a calculated critical path. What Ingantt does not have is boards for work that is not a project.

Ingantt for Web is $7.99 per user per month billed monthly, or $71.88 per user per year billed annually, which works out at $5.99 per user per month. monday.com's published pricing starts at $9 per user per month. The numbers are close enough that they should not decide it — the category should. A 7-day free trial with full feature access and no credit card is there so you can test that against a real plan of your own.

Plans live in your own Google Drive, with Drive's permissions and version history, and Ingantt stores no project data on its own servers. Files are saved in MS Project-compatible XML, so they open in Microsoft Project and other scheduling tools if you ever move on. Export to PDF or PNG for stakeholders who only need to read the plan.