FLOID — Free Product Development Scheduling & Timeline Software
FLOID is a free, browser-based scheduling tool for product development teams — and for anyone who needs to build a project timeline. Plan new product development schedules, product launch timelines, and multi-team project plans with drag-and-drop phases, tasks, and milestones. No account required, no usage limits, and your data stays in your browser.
Features
- Drag-and-drop timeline scheduling with phases, tasks, and milestones
- Multiple parallel schedules per project — one track for each team or workstream
- Pinned schedule — pin one schedule as the reference and its milestone lines extend through every schedule, keeping key dates visible across the whole project
- Ready-made schedule templates: complete product development, engineering, industrial design, software, and marketing
- Color-coded schedules, with a multicolor option that gives each phase its own palette color
- Export as .floid file, full project backup (.floid-project), or timeline image for presentations
- Import schedules from collaborators
- Dark mode support
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Works offline after initial load
Who Is FLOID For?
FLOID is built for anyone planning a product development schedule: product managers, program managers, engineers, industrial designers, and founders. It is ideal for new product development (NPD) where parallel workstreams — engineering, design, tooling, prototyping, testing, marketing, and regulatory — need to stay aligned against shared milestones. And because it is a general-purpose timeline builder at heart, it works just as well for software release plans, marketing campaigns, event schedules, research projects, or any plan that benefits from a visual, multi-track timeline.
Common Use Cases
- Product development timelines from concept through launch, including build stages like EVT, DVT, and PVT
- Product roadmap and launch timelines shared across engineering, design, and marketing
- Multi-team program schedules where each team keeps its own track but aligns on shared milestones
- Quick project estimation — sketch a timeline in minutes to scope duration and spot conflicts
Why FLOID?
Unlike general-purpose project management tools, FLOID focuses on visual timeline scheduling without the overhead of task assignment, communication, or workflow automation. It is a simpler, faster alternative to traditional Gantt chart software, where you organise work by dragging blocks onto each other rather than wiring up task dependencies. And unlike spreadsheet-based scheduling, FLOID provides a proper drag-and-drop timeline with automatic date calculation and clean export formats.
Pricing
FLOID is completely free. No account, no sign-up, no limits.
FLOID for Mac
FLOID is also a native Mac app, free on the Mac App Store. It is the same timeline with a full macOS menu bar, native save and open panels, and Finder support for .floid and .floid-project files — and it runs entirely offline, making no network requests at all. It needs macOS 12 Monterey or later and runs natively on both Apple silicon and Intel Macs.
Download FLOID for Mac on the Mac App Store
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