Start free
Start for free

Free plan · No credit card · Clients always free

Gantt chart for agencies

A Gantt chart that shows you what will move before it moves.

Drag a job and the jobs that wait on it show where they will land. Only the ones that would clash move, as one change you can undo, even after a refresh. On every plan.

Start for free Read the guide

Preview, then push

See where everything lands before you let go

Choose Timeline at the top of any project and each job is a bar from its start to its due date. Drag a bar to move it, or an end to change one date. The jobs that wait on it show as ghosts where they would land, and only the jobs that would clash move when you let go.

The Northwind Rebrand timeline at Week zoom, grouped by column, with links drawn between jobs. Maya drags “Homepage hero concepts” a working day later, to 13–15 October. “Logo lockups, final round”, which waits on it, shows as a dashed ghost where it will land. “Product page copy” also waits on it but has a day to spare, so it stays where it is, and so does the Client sign-off milestone.

Ghosts while you drag

Dashed outlines show where each waiting job would land, so you can see the knock-on before it happens. Esc cancels the drag.

Only clashes move

A job that would start before the one it waits on is finished moves later, keeping its length in working days. One with time to spare stays where it is.

Alt moves one job

Hold Alt (⌥ on a Mac) as you let go to move just the job you dragged and leave everything else where it is.

Nothing moves on anyone's behalf: if a job you can't change would have to move, Skybase asks first, and you can choose Move only this job or cancel.

Undo that lasts

Every move explained, and easy to undo

Undo puts back everything one change moved, and it still works after a refresh. Each job keeps what moved and why for 30 days: who moved it, and which job pushed it, with Revert on each change.

  • Undo and redo keep working after a refresh
  • Moved by Maya because Design moved: every push names its cause
  • If someone has changed a job since, Skybase says so and offers to undo the rest
  • Lock dates while you are only looking, so a stray drag can't move anything
  • Everyone on the project sees each move as it happens

The dates, links and history of “Logo lockups, final round”: 16–19 October, waiting on “Homepage hero concepts” with “Client sign-off” waiting on it. Under What moved it, the newest entry reads “Moved by you because Homepage hero concepts moved, 2m ago” with a Revert button; below it, a move by Priya marked Undone, then Priya putting it back.

Baselines and the critical path

Know what slipped, and what can't

Save the plan as a baseline, and compare with it later: each job shows its planned bar beneath it and how many working days late or early it now ends. Turn on Critical path to outline the jobs that can't slip without moving the project's end.

  • Keep up to 5 baselines per project, and compare with any of them
  • One line sums it up: how many jobs are late, and whether the project's end moved
  • Jobs off the critical path say how many days of slack they have
  • Your team saves baselines. Clients only see them if you choose to show them

The Northwind Rebrand timeline compared with the “Kick-off plan” baseline: “Homepage hero concepts” and “Logo lockups, final round” end a working day later than planned, each with a +1d chip and its planned bar beneath it, and the project’s end is on plan. The critical path is outlined in red: the hero concepts, then the product page copy, then the Client sign-off milestone two working days after it.

Workload

See who's busy, and when

Turn on Workload for a strip under the timeline with how many jobs each person has on, day by day. Switch it to All projects to count everyone's jobs in every project you can see, before you hand out the next one.

  • Three jobs in a day show in amber, four or more in red
  • This project counts the jobs on show, filters and all
  • The workload is for your team: clients never see it

The Northwind Rebrand timeline with the workload strip open beneath it, counting everyone’s jobs in all projects day by day. Ava Lindqvist has four jobs on Thursday 15 October, marked in red, and three on the days either side, marked in amber.

Clients

A clean timeline for your client, at no seat cost

By default a client sees milestones and their own jobs: the key dates, the jobs they asked for or work on, and how long each column runs. Never the critical path or the workload. An administrator can show them everything they can see, or switch their timeline off, project by project.

Clients join free as single-project guests, and baselines stay hidden from them unless you choose to share them. How the client portal works

The timeline on a phone

On a phone the timeline is a list of weeks, from this one on. Each job shows the days it runs that week, how many jobs it waits on, and Starts too soon if it begins before one of them is finished. Tap a job to set its dates, and see how many jobs that wait on it will move before you save.

Print it, or take it to a spreadsheet

Print the timeline or save it as a PDF: the dates on screen, on A3 landscape, up to 500 rows. Or download its jobs as a CSV, with each one's start, due day, working days, milestone and what it waits on, and how far it ends from a baseline when you compare with one.

On every plan
The timeline, links, baselines, the critical path and the workload strip, with no add-ons. Free for up to 5 users.
Undo that lasts
Undo a move with one click, even after a refresh.
Clients join free
A client on one project never takes a paid seat.

Every feature on every plan: see pricing

FAQ

What people ask about the timeline

The timeline guide goes step by step. The same jobs show on the calendar by due date and in the table, with Start and Waits on columns.

Is the Gantt chart on every plan?
Yes. The timeline, links, milestones, baselines, the critical path and the workload strip are on the Free plan and on Pro, with no add-ons. Free is for up to 5 users, and Pro is $3.99 per user per month.
What happens to jobs that wait on a job I move?
While you drag, they show as ghosts where they would land. When you let go, only the ones that would now start before it's finished move, later and keeping their length in working days, as one change you can undo. Hold Alt (⌥ on a Mac) to move just the job you're dragging. Completed jobs and jobs with no dates never move. If a job you can't change would have to move, Skybase asks first.
Does it skip weekends?
Yes. Moves, pushes and lags count working days, Monday to Friday unless an administrator changes the workspace's working week in Account settings. Changing the working week doesn't move any dates.
Can clients see it?
Yes, unless you turn it off. By default a client sees the project's milestones and their own jobs, and never the critical path or the workload. An administrator can show them everything or switch their timeline off in the project's settings, and baselines stay hidden from clients unless you share them. Clients join free as single-project guests.
Can I undo a move after I refresh the page?
Yes. Undo and redo keep working after a refresh, and each job shows what moved it in the last 30 days, with Revert on each change. If someone has changed one of the jobs since, Skybase says so and offers to undo the rest.
How do I give a job a start date?
Drag it from the Unscheduled tray onto the timeline, or drag the start of its bar. You can also set Start on the job page, in the table or when you create the job.
Who can change the dates?
Anyone who can change the job: administrators, team members on the project, and guests on the jobs they raised, are assigned to or were added to. Saving a baseline is for your team, not guests.
Do the calendar and the table move waiting jobs too?
Yes. Change a due date on the calendar, in the table or on the job page and the jobs that wait on it move too, with an Undo on the note that tells you.
Can I use the timeline on my phone?
Yes, in your phone's browser. The timeline shows as a list of weeks, from this one on, with the days each job runs, how many jobs it waits on and a warning when it starts too soon. Tap a job to change its start or due day or make it a milestone, and Skybase says how many jobs that wait on it will move before you save. Dragging bars is for a larger screen.
Can I print the timeline or export it?
Yes, from More on the timeline. Print it or save it as a PDF: the dates on screen, on A3 landscape, up to 500 rows. Or download its jobs as a CSV for a spreadsheet, with each one's start, due day, working days, milestone and what it waits on, and how far it ends from a baseline when you compare with one.

Plan your next project on a timeline.

Free plan, no credit card. The Gantt chart is on every plan.

Start for free Questions? support@skybase.it

Free plan · No credit card · Clients always free