Merlin Project: Gantt + Kanban 4+

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.

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.

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.

Awesome thank you very much for your review and sharing your experience :-) We really appreciate it.

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.

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.