Merlin Project: Gantt + Kanban 4+

Project Management For Pros

ProjectWizards

    • 4.4 • 26 Ratings
    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Merlin Project is the professional tool for the project manager on iPad, iPhone & Mac. 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

• 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.

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What’s New

Version 8.2.0

New fields for the work-breakdown view, the assignments view and the resources view:

- Expected Work Variance: Contains the net difference between Expected Work and Planned Work. A positive value means more work compared to the plan.
- Expected Duration Variance: Contains the net difference between Expected Duration and Planned Duration. A positive value means a longer duration compared to the plan.
- Expected Start Variance: Contains the net duration between Planned Start and Expected Start. A positive value means a delay in the start.
- Expected End Variance: Contains the net duration between Planned End and Expected end. A positive value means a delay at the end.
- Expected Cost Variance: The difference between Expected Costs and Planned Costs. A positive value means increased costs compared to the plan.


More flexibility in the assignments view:

In the assignments view, you can now also display selected fields of the associated activities in rows for assignments. The following new columns are available for this purpose:

- Code (Activity)
- Notes (Activity)
- Tags (Activity)
- WBS Code (Activity)
- # (Activity)

In addition, all user-defined activity fields are available as columns and are also identified by the suffix "(Activity)".
You can also display the corresponding fields of the assigned resources in the work-breakdown view. The columns are marked with the suffix "(Resource)".


More overview in the work breakdown view:

- Customize the display of assigned resources via the context menu of the resource column. With the new "Show content" option, you can now select whether column content is only displayed on the activities or also on activity groups.
- Via the context menu of the comment column, you can now set whether the resource names in the column are displayed in full or only with abbreviations. You can also select the format for date and time values.


Changes:
- The minimum operating system is now iOS 15.
- The view settings inspector now closes automatically when you select a new table row.
- If you enter actual work values without a time unit in the inspector, the unit is automatically taken from other fields already filled in.
- When setting up the first user, Merlin Project now automatically asks you whether guests should have full access, read-only access or no access at all.
- If activities are still assigned when deleting resources, a warning dialog is now displayed.
- Timescale tiers in Gantt charts can now also be selected via the "Display > Timescale > Tiers" menu.
- Objects can now also be moved by dragging when the help function is activated.
- When adding new columns, you can now select multiple list entries.


Fixed issues:
- Documents from some MindManager versions could not be imported.
- File attachments could receive an incorrect timestamp.
- The earned-value BCWP was not always calculated correctly.
- When changing print settings, the print preview did not always adjust correctly.
- Reports with charts for activities with very long titles could not be exported or printed.
- CTRL clicks did not work in the style inspector.
- No values could be set for certain date fields in filters.
- General stability has been improved.

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
26 Ratings

26 Ratings

mclnelson ,

Fantastic PM Tool / ...with some output bugs

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.

mikejoerod ,

Move over MS Project!

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.

PCB Reviews ,

Lost 2 hours of customization and updates

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.

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