Merlin Project: Gantt + Kanban

Name: Merlin Project: Gantt + Kanban
Rating: 4.4 (30 reviews)
Author: ProjectWizards

Project Management For Pros

Free · In‑App Purchases

30 Ratings
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ProjectWizards
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Merlin Project is the professional tool for the project manager on Mac, iPad, iPhone & Vision Pro. Customers in over 160 countries rely on this practical software. Merlin Project provides you with answers to all your questions about planning, controlling and monitoring your projects. Try the extensive functions free of charge for 30 days. Our customers love the easy-to-learn application as a standard in many industries: For example in media, development & IT, architecture & construction as well as research & teaching. Top Features on the iPad & Vision Pro • Work breakdown structure with Gantt diagram in many variations with plan/actual comparison • Mind maps for graphical project planning • Kanban boards with automatic adjustment of completed work • Net plans in many graphical formats • Costs and budgets with top-down and bottom-up planning • Patented synchronization of all projects with other users via cloud services (iCloud, Dropbox, etc.) • Automatic resource leveling and utilization view • Attach e-mails, checklists, project risks and additional information • Modular reporting system • Import from Microsoft Project Compact on the iPhone Merlin Project is also a reliable companion on the telephone. All data and key figures are always available in a compact format. Even minor changes are no problem. If you want to admire your project plan graphically, simply rotate your iPhone into landscape format. So you always have everything under control, even on the move. Pricing • Annual or monthly subscription required to create & work on projects • Before you decide, you can try Merlin Project for 30 days for free, with no obligations. • No subscription required to open and view existing Merlin Project documents Legal Prices vary depending on geographical location. Subscriptions are billed via your credit card or iTunes account. Your subscription will renew automatically unless canceled within 24 hours prior to the end of the current subscription period. You will not be able to cancel the subscription once activated. You may cancel automatic renewal by selecting Manage App Subscriptions in your iTunes Account settings and selecting the subscription you want to modify. Privacy policy: https://www.projectwizards.net/about/legal/privacy Terms of use: https://www.projectwizards.net/about/legal/terms

Ratings & Reviews

4.4

out of 5

30 Ratings

Fantastic PM Tool / ...with some output bugs
02/29/2020

mclnelson
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 this app. 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.

Developer Response
Awesome Rayne, thank you very much for reviewing the app so thoroughly. We really appreciate your feedback! We'll let you know when the RTF export or PDF conversion works again, the developers are working on including a solution in the next release.
Fantastic PM Tool / ...with some output bugs
02/29/2020

mclnelson

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 this app. 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.
Developer Response 03/02/2020
Awesome Rayne, thank you very much for reviewing the app so thoroughly. We really appreciate your feedback! We'll let you know when the RTF export or PDF conversion works again, the developers are working on including a solution in the next release.
Move over MS Project!
07/22/2020

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.

Developer Response
Awesome thank you very much for your review and sharing your experience :-) We really appreciate it.
Move over MS Project!
07/22/2020

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.
Developer Response 07/23/2020
Awesome thank you very much for your review and sharing your experience :-) We really appreciate it.
Lost 2 hours of customization and updates
02/06/2023

PCB Reviews
I have been using Merlin Project for 2 weeks now only on my iPad. I tolerate frequent crashes (e.g. multiple crashes within 1 or 2 hours time frames). But so far, the crashes have only resulted in the loss of the last update. I am only using the app locally on my iPad; no synch with server or iCloud. Then today, I spent about 2 hours adding custom fields, groups, filters, and designing reports. After the last crash, ALL of my customizations were gone (filters, groups, custom fields and their data). There appears to be no way to restore to an earlier version of the project from today. I was considering buying 2 licenses (1 for work, 1 for personal) because they are separate Apple IDs, but now I can’t imagine paying their licensing feeds with the risk of losing my work from these crashes with no backup or restore. And, I am experiencing the crashes on both iPads (Apple IDs) so this is not a machine dependent issue, this is an issue with the stability of the app.

Developer Response
Thanks for your feedback. We are sorry that you are having issues with Merlin Project on iPadOS. We offer free support to our customers, so we would like you to contact us directly to investigate the issue. Please write to us at support@projectwizards.net. Our developers would like to have a look at the CrashLogs.
Lost 2 hours of customization and updates
02/06/2023

PCB Reviews

I have been using Merlin Project for 2 weeks now only on my iPad. I tolerate frequent crashes (e.g. multiple crashes within 1 or 2 hours time frames). But so far, the crashes have only resulted in the loss of the last update. I am only using the app locally on my iPad; no synch with server or iCloud. Then today, I spent about 2 hours adding custom fields, groups, filters, and designing reports. After the last crash, ALL of my customizations were gone (filters, groups, custom fields and their data). There appears to be no way to restore to an earlier version of the project from today. I was considering buying 2 licenses (1 for work, 1 for personal) because they are separate Apple IDs, but now I can’t imagine paying their licensing feeds with the risk of losing my work from these crashes with no backup or restore. And, I am experiencing the crashes on both iPads (Apple IDs) so this is not a machine dependent issue, this is an issue with the stability of the app.
Developer Response 02/08/2023
Thanks for your feedback. We are sorry that you are having issues with Merlin Project on iPadOS. We offer free support to our customers, so we would like you to contact us directly to investigate the issue. Please write to us at support@projectwizards.net. Our developers would like to have a look at the CrashLogs.
Feature-packed
01/24/2023

Pryn625
There are so many features in this app and it’s a lot easier to use than some of the others I have tried. I really like the reports and ability to create custom reports which could save a lot of time I currently waste spinning the same information for different groups. ** What I am concerned about is the apps stability ** I downloaded the app yesterday and have experienced several crashes (the screen goes away) while I was trying out the report customizations. For the cost of this app, I do not expect it to crash when looking at the sample projects and going through the different settings and options.

Developer Response
Thank you for your review. Please contact us (support@projectwizards.net) so that we can find out what could be the problem for the crashes. Thanks!
Feature-packed
01/24/2023

Pryn625

There are so many features in this app and it’s a lot easier to use than some of the others I have tried. I really like the reports and ability to create custom reports which could save a lot of time I currently waste spinning the same information for different groups. ** What I am concerned about is the apps stability ** I downloaded the app yesterday and have experienced several crashes (the screen goes away) while I was trying out the report customizations. For the cost of this app, I do not expect it to crash when looking at the sample projects and going through the different settings and options.
Developer Response 01/25/2023
Thank you for your review. Please contact us (support@projectwizards.net) so that we can find out what could be the problem for the crashes. Thanks!