Merlin Project: Gantt + Kanban Reviews

by Daledawg

I will not sign up for anything that will not give me a price first.
This is simple trickery on the developers part.

by Rayne_._

Working still with the trial version, but will be subscribing. Great tool for plotting out complex projects, durations, dependencies. Very frictionless touch interface. Perfect integration of Kanban sorting and the report creation rapidly creates meaningful snapshots of project status for distribution to project teams. I work in MS Project on the PC, and have OmniPlan on the iPad. Merlin Project is far and away the best of them when it comes to on screen planning, having a very powerful tool at your disposal. Kanban integration and Reports far surpass both of the others. But......

Project output to pdf, print etc. is a work in progress and creates a pretty big stumbling block when it comes to distributing all of the great information that’s possible to generate in MerlinProject. Font color changes to white or disappears. Reports crash when exporting to RTF, text disappears altogether when converting to PDF. Best I’m able to do is export to MS Project which is a program I would love to never use again..

I contacted tech support a few times, they were incredibly responsive and are clearly working on further development. I’m rooting for them.

Despite the output bugs, the tool and the team that made it are too good not to support. Incredibly powerful for PMs on complex projects. Hope they work out the bugs soon. Willing to help if I can.

by Mikejoerod

I have been working with MS Project for a number of years and in my search for something compatible with iOS and Mac 8 came across this jewel. Simple and straightforward without sacrificing the needed details of running a project of any sort. After the trial version I downloaded it to my iPad Pro and iPhone and now I am using only Merlin for my side hustles in Project Management. I look forward to the updates where I can customize the columns.

by R2ick

Merlin was the PM tool I used through my Masters Degree Project Management courses because I wanted to go as “Mac” as possible. The port of that amazing product to iOS in a full-featured thrills me.

Some of the areas requires a little more thinking (like how you have to hold on the + button to add an attachment), but I cannot says how thrilled I am!

by Adventure_tense

I’m a long time user of Merlin for desktop. Now the iPad gets the same love and attention. I am very pleased with how well it runs, and conforms to the iPad platform so far. It feels like a solid desktop app, running on the iPad. Nice work. This is how to take Merlin out onto the production floor, or into a job site.