Free Gantt chart templates
Choose from 29 free Gantt chart templates with tasks, dependencies and milestones already set up. Preview a chart or copy it into your account and adapt the dates. For an explanation of each plan, browse the Gantt chart examples.
General project schedules
Plans that fit most projects. Start here if none of the industry templates below is a clean match, or if you want the standard shape before adapting it.
Project schedule
The standard five-phase schedule with a baseline milestone and two parallel workstreams. For anyone who needs to run a project from the chart, not just present it.
Simple Gantt chart
A small three-phase plan with dependencies and two milestones. For seeing what a Gantt chart looks like with linked tasks and milestones, before building a bigger one.
Project timeline
Milestone-led and deliberately sparse. For reporting progress upwards to a client or a board, where long bars and a few checkpoints read better than task detail.
Weekly project plan
One week of team priorities, with a Monday plan, a midweek check, a Friday review and the unfinished task carried into next week. For a team deciding what has to be done by Friday.
Monthly Gantt chart
Six months of team work laid out in weeks, with four linked workstreams and a review at the end of every month. For a team that plans by the month and wants to see what slips into the next one.
Gantt plan with Excel export
An office move with owners, linked tasks and milestones. Edit it online so the dates move together, then export the tasks and dates to Excel. The file is a task table without the bars. For anyone who needs the plan in a spreadsheet at the end.
Google Sheets Gantt chart
An annual report plan with an owner on every task, the auditor and the printer drawn as waits, and the links that decide the publication date. Edit it as a real chart, then download the .xlsx and open it in Google Sheets. For anyone who plans in Google Sheets but wants the dates linked while the plan is built.
Business plan Gantt chart
A new business from research and the written plan through funding, a first hire and launch, with the costly work waiting on funding. For founders who need a timeline for the plan and a schedule to run.
Employee onboarding plan
One new hire from two weeks before day one to the probation decision: the laptop and the paperwork before they start, a first week by the day, and 30, 60 and 90-day checkpoints that each wait for something real. For the manager of one new person, with the buddy, IT and HR each owning rows.
Employee training plan
Twelve weeks for a team or cohort: a needs analysis, the curriculum and trainer bookings, three modules of sessions each followed by a practice week, a progress assessment, then certification and follow-up. Owners, modules and milestones, not a learning management system.
Production schedule
One manufacturing order by week: order intake, materials and the supplier's lead time, tooling, a first article for the customer to approve, three batches with quality checks, then packing and dispatch. A schedule for the order, not an MRP system.
Hiring plan
Three roles filled in one quarter, one list per role: approval, job descriptions, sourcing, screens, interview rounds, offers, notice periods and start dates, then the hand-off to onboarding. The schedule for each opening, not an applicant tracking system.
Audit plan
One audit engagement over ten weeks: the document request, walkthroughs and a risk assessment, fieldwork split by area, the closing meeting, the draft report, management responses and the final report. For a single engagement, not the year's audit programme.
Construction
Built around the trade sequence, the inspections and the waits you do not control.
Academic and research
For a proposal, a dissertation or a PhD, with time set aside for approvals, writing and feedback.
Research project plan
Literature review through submission, with the ethics approval wait, supervisor review and a separate writing-up phase. For a master's dissertation, a research proposal, or stretched out to a full PhD.
PhD and dissertation Gantt chart
Three years of a doctorate by month: literature review and proposal, the ethics wait, two studies, chapters written while the research runs, submission, the viva and corrections, with the upgrade review and submission as gates. For a programme that runs more than a year and has formal gates in it.
Thesis plan for the last 12 weeks
The final stretch counted back from a fixed submission date: chapters, supervisor feedback, revisions, formatting and printing, week by week. For a student with a deadline and work still to do.
Grant proposal timeline
A three-year research grant as work packages, with milestones, deliverables and the reporting cycle, ready to export into a funding application. For researchers writing the work plan section of a proposal.
Clinical trial timeline
Protocol, ethics approval, site setup, recruitment, follow-up, analysis and reporting on one chart, with the approvals as gates. For study teams planning a trial from protocol to final report.
Marketing and events
Plans that work back from a fixed date, where the launch or the event is the one thing that cannot move.
Marketing campaign plan
Audience and offer through to follow-up, with copy and design running side by side, an approval step before anything goes live and a mid-campaign review. For campaign managers running several channels against one launch date.
Product launch plan
Product, documentation, support and sales readiness all feeding one go/no-go decision before launch day, then a post-launch review. For a small team launching one product on one date.
Event plan
Works back from a fixed date, with the venue booking as the hard gate and a wrap-up phase after the event. For conferences, launches and anything else with a date on the invitation.
Fundraising campaign plan
A twelve-week non-profit campaign: the goal and case for support, donor segments, major-gift asks before the launch, three appeal waves, a donor event, the close and thank-yous. The campaign schedule, not a donor CRM.
Wedding planning timeline
Twelve months by week, ending on a Saturday: the budget and the guest list, the venue as the date everything hangs off, the vendors in booking order, the dress with its twenty-week lead time, and invitations and RSVPs feeding the final numbers. For the dozen things with lead times that a checklist cannot show.
Software and product
For builds where the streams overlap and the test plan is written while the code is.
Software development plan
Requirements through release and maintenance handoff, with the build in three two-week iterations and one change request showing how scope growth moves the dates. For a team that tracks issues elsewhere but needs the whole project on one chart.
Software implementation plan
Rolling out a system you have bought, from kickoff to the end of hypercare: discovery, configuration, data migration with two trial loads, integration, testing, training, a go or no-go decision and the cutover weekend. For the finance system, CRM, HR platform or ERP a company buys and then spends half a year bringing in.
Data migration plan
Moving records from an old system to a new one in ten weeks: inventory and mapping, cleansing, two trial migrations with reconciliation, a go / no-go decision, the cutover weekend, hypercare and switching the old system off.
Multi-project roadmap
Three programmes on one chart, each with its own phases and dependencies. For seeing where two projects collide over the same people or the same week.
Examples that show a technique
Smaller charts built to demonstrate one thing clearly rather than to run a project from.
What is a Gantt chart template for?
A Gantt chart template gives you a starting set of phases, tasks, durations and links. Review that structure against your own work before adding dates. Permits, reviews, deliveries and approvals may need to be added, removed or moved to fit your process.
These templates open as editable charts in the browser. With automatic scheduling configured, linked tasks can shift when dates change. A basic spreadsheet template may need manual updates, while formulas or add-ons can provide scheduling logic. Choose the format you can maintain and share.
When does a template beat a blank chart?
A template is useful when its structure resembles your project. It can prompt you to include a review or handoff you might otherwise miss. Check the dependencies as carefully as the task list; a familiar phase name does not mean the sequence is right for your work.
Start with a blank chart when the project needs a different structure. The simple Gantt chart can still help you see how tasks, milestones and dependencies fit together.
How to pick the right template
- Match the industry first. If you are building, researching, launching or running an event, the matching template gives you relevant phases to review. Adjust the links as well as the names and durations.
- Otherwise pick by how you will use the chart. The project schedule is for running the work day to day. The project timeline is for showing progress to someone who will not read task detail. The weekly plan is for work measured in days.
- Several projects at once? The multi-project roadmap puts them on one chart so you can see where they collide.
- Want to learn the technique? The critical path example is built to show one idea clearly, and it is the fastest way to understand why some tasks can slip without moving the deadline and others cannot.
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. The preview opens without an account.
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 invite teammates to view and edit it.
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, and every template here has all three:
- 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, Gantt chart dependencies explains which tasks are worth linking, and how to create a Gantt chart walks through building one from scratch if none of these fits.
Common questions
- Are these Gantt chart templates free?
- Yes. Every template opens in the browser without an account, and copying one into your own Ganttile account is free with no trial period and no card. There is no paid tier to unlock.
- Can I download a Gantt chart template for Excel or PowerPoint?
- These templates are working online charts rather than files, so there is nothing to download. Once a template is in your account you can export the chart as an image or PDF for a document or a slide. If you specifically need a spreadsheet, the guides to building a Gantt chart in Excel and Google Sheets cover that.
- Which Gantt chart template should I start with?
- If your project matches one of the industry templates, start there, then check its phase order and waiting periods against your project. Otherwise take the project schedule template, which is a standard five-phase plan, or the simple Gantt chart if you want to see how a chart is put together before committing to a bigger one.
- What happens when I click Use template?
- A copy is made in your account and the whole schedule is shifted to start on the coming Monday, with every gap and dependency preserved. From there you rename phases, change durations, add your own tasks and share the chart. The original template is unchanged.
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