Find your fit
Who it is for
Desktop fits someone who owns one project plan, needs a Gantt schedule and resource or cost tracking, and can maintain local project files. It runs on Windows, macOS and Linux. A team needing simultaneous collaboration or portfolio visibility should evaluate Cloud separately.
Cloud suits teams that need multiple project schedules, shared resource pools and browser-based collaboration. Test the exact plan for enterprise features, and define who maintains the schedule, resources, access and baseline before moving a portfolio.
The work it supports
Core capabilities
In Desktop, build a schedule from tasks and dependencies, add constraints and calendars, set milestones and a baseline, then inspect critical path and float. Gantt, work breakdown structure and network views provide different ways to inspect the same individual project.
Desktop can assign resources to an individual project and track rates, costs, workloads and earned value. This is single-project work; shared pools and cross-project resource leveling are Cloud capabilities. Check the actual assignments and calendar assumptions in a small project before using cost reports.
Desktop opens Microsoft Project files. Import a representative schedule and compare task links, calendars, baselines, resource assignments and resulting dates with the original before replacing the old workflow. The vendor does not establish perfect conversion for every file in these captures.
Cloud schedules also model task logic, constraints, calendars, baselines, float and critical path. Project managers can use Gantt, network and WBS views while the team sees changes through real-time synchronization.
For several projects, Cloud advertises shared enterprise resource pools, portfolio views and resource leveling to examine over-allocation. Compare the Core and Enterprise/PMO entitlements before assuming that every Cloud account includes the same scope.
Cloud also advertises Monte Carlo risk analysis, DCMA schedule-quality audits and an AI copilot for project creation and edits. These are decision aids that need a sample project, plan-entitlement check and human review of the resulting schedule.
Cloud can import Microsoft Project files. For a migration pilot, check task dates, dependencies, calendars, baselines and resources after import, then ask the team to make a collaborative edit and confirm that it reaches the intended people.
Understand the offer
Pricing and getting started
ProjectLibre Desktop is free, open source and has no recurring subscription. Local operation still requires the buyer to budget its own time for file handling and support.
Cloud is a subscription service. On the captured October 20, 2026 home page, Core is listed at $9.99 per user per month and Enterprise/PMO Cloud at $29.99 per user per month, both billed annually. The page does not establish a currency or tax treatment in these captures, and feature scope needs confirmation in the current plan and order terms.
The advertised Cloud trial lasts seven days, allows up to fifteen users split between project managers and team members, and needs no credit card. Verify trial entitlements and what happens to work when the trial ends before migrating a production schedule.
Look a little closer
Before you choose
Start with one fictional project. Enter linked tasks, a milestone, resource assignments and costs; capture a baseline, change a duration, then inspect the critical path and reports. If using Desktop, test local file backup and restore with the intended computer and operating system.
For Cloud, test access with project managers and contributors, one shared resource conflict and an imported Microsoft Project file. Verify which plan actually includes portfolio tools, advanced analysis and AI, and confirm the current billing term before buying.
4 distinct sources behind this profile. Research observed Oct 20, 2026. Features and offers can change.
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