Crashes repeatedly when you filter by a single resource!
Update: now I can't even open the project on iOS because it crashes repeatedly due to the project tasks being filtered for a single resource.
This app both on windows desktop and iOS really is TERRIBLE and should be avoided at all costs.
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My experience of Project Plan 365 has been pretty terrible. I'm using it via the Windows desktop app and also iPhone iOS app. In terms of simply entering tasks, setting up dependencies and assigning resources, it's easy and straight forward, but that's where it stops. Trying to group tasks into "headings" or sub-projects is buggy as hell. Tasks end up assigned to the wrong subgroup, task durations randomly change, and tasks may *look* like they've been successfully grouped only to find when you refresh the screen they haven't been and you have to start again. Additionally, one of my resources only works 2 hours a day on the project and despite me setting up an individual calendar for them with altered hours, the app still allocates 8 hours of work to them each day and then complains they are "over allocated". I've tried everything to get the app to correctly allocate just 2 hours a day and have had to resort to manual allocation as none of the auto allocations seem to honour the reduced hours. On the iOS app, it's impossible to read the calendar view because it's too small and you can't zoom in or change the number of days shown, making it entirely useless. Also frustrating there is no easy way to see on the app the tasks assigned to a particular resource on a particular day (on the desktop the calendar view works well for this, but on iOS it's unreadable). Thank god I've only got this app on a free trial. No way in hell I'd pay money for something as buggy as this.
This app both on windows desktop and iOS really is TERRIBLE and should be avoided at all costs.
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My experience of Project Plan 365 has been pretty terrible. I'm using it via the Windows desktop app and also iPhone iOS app. In terms of simply entering tasks, setting up dependencies and assigning resources, it's easy and straight forward, but that's where it stops. Trying to group tasks into "headings" or sub-projects is buggy as hell. Tasks end up assigned to the wrong subgroup, task durations randomly change, and tasks may *look* like they've been successfully grouped only to find when you refresh the screen they haven't been and you have to start again. Additionally, one of my resources only works 2 hours a day on the project and despite me setting up an individual calendar for them with altered hours, the app still allocates 8 hours of work to them each day and then complains they are "over allocated". I've tried everything to get the app to correctly allocate just 2 hours a day and have had to resort to manual allocation as none of the auto allocations seem to honour the reduced hours. On the iOS app, it's impossible to read the calendar view because it's too small and you can't zoom in or change the number of days shown, making it entirely useless. Also frustrating there is no easy way to see on the app the tasks assigned to a particular resource on a particular day (on the desktop the calendar view works well for this, but on iOS it's unreadable). Thank god I've only got this app on a free trial. No way in hell I'd pay money for something as buggy as this.
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Expensive and that bug a lot for nothing
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Hi! Thank you for your feedback! We are sorry to hear that you encountered issues while using our application! Please submit a ticket with more information about your issue at https://www.projectplan365.com/newticket
Purchased but Keep saying TRIALPeriod is OVER!. Scam???!
The price is not an issue, I have purchased them.. but when I want to use them in my MacBookPro… the notification of “YOUR FREE TRIAL IS OVER” keeps annoying.. is this a scam????
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Like so many things you can’t figure out how much it costs unless you down load
Sorry it would help if you were straight forward about costs. Instead you have to download to figure that out.
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Hi! Thank you for your feedback! We are sorry for all the inconveniences regarding our prices. If you want to learn more about our product and prices please reach to our Support Team at https://www.projectplan365.com/newticket/index.
Has improved this past year from 1 to 4 stars
On an Ipad Pro M1, latest OS and latest PP365. User Interface has been dramatically improved. Predecessor/successor entries work as expected now. (2fs, 2ss, etc. for dependencies entries). Outdent/Indent (demote/promote) now works nicely (tab and shift tab that you’d use in MS Project can’t be used, but it’s an iPad user interface and the outdent/indent buttons on top work well. All the bugs seen a year ago as the app originally tuned for a Mac Desktop interface didn’t like touch interface of an iPad are gone. Still doesn’t offer Saving a File to icloud, so if you want to save there, you will still have to save to local device (default folder is DOCUMENTS), then use Filer to move the file to the iCloud. All the other industry standard cloud storage environments are available (dropbox, onedrive, etc.). Import and Export from/to MPP works flawlessly now. All the fields expected stay intact. Auto-Save will post the latest version (I have AS set to every 5 minutes) to a subfolder named RECOVERY. This is working nicely now (prior the folder was being created named RECORVERY). Being able to create tasks and subtasks quickly, without being forced to fill out all the additional columns, and then go back to do all that additional work later was buggy a year ago, but is now working nicely. Like I mentioned, a lot of user interface and feature/function improvements for the IOS platform! The Online HELP web site screens now have far more content for IOS/IPAD OS than they did before. Glad to see that! File/Print - this is still buggy. When you select Save to Files, a popup flashes and vanishes. So this still needs work. There is a work around. Instead of Print to PDF, choose Print. That brings up the iPad OS print view. Use two fingers to expand the left column’s page icons and that trick lets you now save as a PDF to a File or other destinations. This is about the only way to get any sort of a GANTT chart printed, but the formatting of the GANTT is a bit messed up. So again, there’s more work needed there. Other Reports though seem to work but certain reports will require a Business License (I still don’t grasp this tiered approach. As an individual PM, i use this so I don’t have to carry around an 5+ pound laptop while traveling. Developer should really just make all the reports and views available to any licensed user (whether individual or business). I don’t have 5 staff and I’d rather pay a SMALL bump to get ALL the reports and functions available rather than leap into a business license model). NOTE to Developers: Most of us using your app are doing so for more freedom via iPad as Individuals. Don’t keep limiting key pieces of reports and graphics to businesses. Most businesses will demand we use SmartSheets or MS Project within company networks and laptops, so you’re not going to see many (or any?) business licenses surface. Stop limiting this and you’ll see more individual licenses and NEW USERS signing up! The Bar, Column, Pie chart capabilities seem to work. Haven’t tried to actually export or print them yet though. Bottom line: If you need to import an MPP, it works. If you need to export an MPP, CSV, etc., it works. So the freedom I now get using this app on my iPad Pro M1 is extremely helpful and worth the license fees (but I still don’t see the justification for Business License bumps). Another glitch: There is no Agile nor Kanban type of capability built into the iPad OS version (this version). So any reference to Agile and Kanban you may read in product description or on web page is solely for the MAC version.
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Hi! Thank you very much for your detailed review! We really appreciate the feedback and will take your suggestions into consideration for our future enhancements!
