There's a free Gantt chart for Jira on the Marketplace now and it does what BigGantt does (critical path, baselines, drag-to-create dependencies) at $0/user up to 10 users.
It's Wednesday. Your CEO asks why the Q3 launch slipped two weeks.
You open Atlassian Roadmaps. It shows ten epics in a timeline. None of
them are connected. There's no critical path. There's no baseline you
saved last sprint to compare against. You can see WHAT slipped, not
WHY. So you go to the Marketplace and discover that every Gantt plugin
charges $1.50–$2.50 per user, billed from user 1, and your 5-person
team is suddenly looking at $66 to $125 a month for a chart.
Most teams either pay it through gritted teeth, or live without and
keep guessing. The "cheap alternatives" further down the search are
mostly 2-star apps with 2018-era screenshots.
There's a third option as of last week.
What you'll see when you open it
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The whole project on one screen:
- Spreadsheet on the left (key, summary, assignee, dates), Gantt on
the right
- Drag a bar to reschedule — the change writes back to Jira instantly
- The bars on the critical path are red. The one causing your slip is
the one with everything red downstream of it
- Saved a baseline two weeks ago? Ghost bars overlay the chart so you
can see the drift, task by task
- Drag from the end of one bar to the start of another → dependency
arrow, auto-detects FS / SS / FF / SF
- One click → "Standup mode": filters to active sprint, hides done,
flat view, day zoom, sorted by assignee. Run your standup off it.
It runs entirely inside Atlassian Forge. No external server, no data
leaving your tenant, no credit card to install, no trial expiry.
Pricing
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- Free for everyone right now (paid launch is Aug 1, 2026)
- Free FOREVER for teams up to 10 users — not a trial, the actual
free tier
- $1.20/user/month for 11–100 users (about a third of BigGantt)
- Scales down to $0.04/user at enterprise headcount
Try it without installing
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Live screenshots from a real Jira project (no install, no login):
[link in first comment]
2-minute screen recording of the auto-scheduling and critical path
in action: [link in first comment]
If it looks right, the Marketplace install is 30 seconds. Forge
deletes everything if you uninstall — there's nothing to clean up.
Honest stuff
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- It just shipped. Zero reviews on the Marketplace yet. Be the first
to leave an honest one (good or bad)
- 3.15.1 has the resource-leveling UI in place but the backend isn't
wired yet — that lands next release
- Cloud only, no Data Center build
- Best-effort support via GitHub issues, not enterprise SLA
Disclosure: I'm the publisher. Posting here because the pricing gap in
this category has been a Jira-team complaint for years. Atlassian's
policy means I can't ask for installs or reviews directly — just
showing it exists.
Curious what the rest of you do
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For those of you on BigGantt or WBS today: what's the ONE feature that
keeps you on it that's worth $1.50/user/month? Trying to figure out if
that's a real moat or just switching cost.
