Free Gantt chart templates
Every template below is a real, working Gantt chart, not a picture of one. The phases, task durations, dependencies and milestones are already set up. Open one to see how it is put together, or copy it into your own account and change the dates to yours. Everything here is free and there is nothing to install.
Project schedules
General-purpose plans that work for most projects. Start here if you are not sure which one you need.
Simple Gantt chart
A small three-phase plan with dependencies and two milestones. The quickest way to see what a Gantt chart looks like when it is set up properly.
Project schedule
The standard five-phase schedule with a baseline milestone and two parallel workstreams. The one to take if you want something to run a project from.
Project timeline
Milestone-led and deliberately sparse. Long bars instead of task detail, for reporting progress upwards rather than running the work day to day.
Weekly project plan
Three weeks of day-level tasks laid out Monday to Friday, for work measured in days rather than months.
By industry and use case
Built around how a particular kind of work actually sequences, including the waits you do not control.
Construction schedule
Seven phases from permits to practical completion, with the trade sequence linked and the MEP first fix running in parallel.
Software development plan
Discovery through beta to launch, with backend and frontend overlapping and the test plan written during the build.
Research project plan
For a proposal or thesis. Includes the ethics approval wait and a writing-up phase that is actually long enough.
Event plan
Works back from a fixed date, with the venue booking as the hard gate and a wrap-up phase most event plans forget.
Marketing campaign plan
Strategy through to post-mortem, with every asset traced back to the launch date and a QA gate before anything goes live.
Product launch plan
Twelve weeks with the go-to-market track running alongside the build, and one launch milestone both tracks feed into.
Examples that show a technique
Smaller charts built to demonstrate one thing clearly rather than to run a project from.
How these templates work
Pick a template and open the preview. You will see the whole schedule laid out on a timeline: phases grouped down the left, each task as a bar showing when it starts and how long it runs, and arrows between tasks that have to happen in order.
When you click Use template, a copy is made in your own account and the whole schedule is shifted so it starts on the coming Monday. The gaps between tasks are preserved, so you get a plan that begins now rather than a set of dates from a demo. From there you can drag bars, change durations, add your own tasks and share the chart.
What makes a good Gantt chart template
A Gantt chart is only worth building if it tells you something a task list cannot. Three things do that work:
- Durations, not just deadlines. A task that runs for two weeks should look different from one that takes an afternoon. Every task in these templates has a start date and an end date.
- Dependencies between the tasks that genuinely block each other. This is what makes a chart react: move one date and everything downstream moves with it. Over-linking is the common mistake, so the templates only link work that really cannot start early.
- Milestones you can point at. Short, zero-duration markers for the moments that matter, like a sign-off or a launch, so anyone reading the chart can find the checkpoints without reading every row.
If you want the background before you pick one, what is a Gantt chart covers the basics, and Gantt chart dependencies explains which tasks are worth linking.
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