Work over time
Gantt charts without opening a project tool
Name the tasks, how long each takes and what follows what — the bars and the dependencies are laid out for you.
Straight answer first: there is no canvas here and nothing to drag. You describe the gantt in a sentence, or bring a file you already have, and it is drawn for you — on your own brand. If you want to place every shape by hand, draw.io is free and better at that. If you have the numbers already, read on.
Your file is read once to draw the diagram and is never stored. Converting turns on anonymous usage analytics — we never send your file, its contents or your brand URL. What we measure
Paste any URL. We read its palette and type and redraw the diagram in them — about a second, no account.
Colour
Found on your site
Any colour
Found on your site
Any colour
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Any colour
Found on your site
Any colour
Found on your site
Any colour
Found on your site
Any colour
Or set it yourself
Every choice here redraws the diagram. Nothing is saved.
Language
The layout mirrors and the Arabic type scale applies, free. Translating the labels needs an account on a paid plan.
Skin
Type
Motion
Line
Depth
A bar in relief still measures correctly — the top face sits on the bar's end. A pie does not: squashing the circle makes the near slices read larger than the far ones at the same share.
Show
Font
Your diagram
Selected shape
Icon
Fill
Border
Label
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Try it with this
Paste this into the description box above — it is the example that produces the worked gantt in the gallery.
Registry takes 1 week, tree and lane 2, plots 3, icons 1.5, each after the last.
For the chart, not for running the project
This draws a Gantt chart. It does not track one — there is no resource levelling, no percentage complete moving as people update it, no critical path recalculating overnight. If you are running delivery, use a project tool. If you need the schedule *in a proposal or a board pack*, on your own brand, in the next five minutes, that is what this is for, and it is a different job.
What comes out
Drawn by this pipeline, not picked to flatter it.
What you get out
SVG and PNG on any plan. PowerPoint with real editable shapes and live text — not a picture of a chart you cannot fix a typo in — plus our own .dgm format, which is plain text you can edit and re-import. Every conversion returns a ledger saying what changed, because you know your own diagram and would notice anyway.
Questions people actually ask
- Can it show dependencies?
- Yes. A task described as following another is drawn with the link, and the bars are placed from the durations rather than from dates you have to type.
- Does it export to MS Project?
- No. The exports are SVG, PNG, editable PowerPoint and our own .dgm format. This is for the picture of the plan, not the plan.
- Can I change a duration afterwards?
- Edit the .dgm export and re-import it — the durations are in the file as plain text you can change by hand.
Other diagram types
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All 53 types have a worked example in the gallery.