Merlin Project vs Roadmap
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Merlin Project
This professional project management tool offers comprehensive planning, control, and monitoring features. It supports various project views like Gantt charts and Kanban boards, with cloud synchronization for collaboration. A 30-day free trial is available.
- Gantt diagram with plan/actual comparison
- Mind maps for graphical planning
- Kanban boards with automatic adjustment
- Net plans in graphical formats
- Cost and budget planning
- Patented cloud synchronization
- Automatic resource leveling
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Merlin Project is the professional tool for the project manager on Mac, iPad, iPhone & Vision Pro. 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 & Vision Pro • 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. Privacy policy: https://www.projectwizards.net/about/legal/privacy Terms of use: https://www.projectwizards.net/about/legal/terms
Roadmap
Visualize, manage, and simplify product roadmaps, business strategies, and project plans with intuitive gestures and powerful customization. Offers a 7-day free trial for full functionality, with options to view documents for free after the trial. Supports iCloud Drive for document storage.
- Visualize product roadmaps
- Simplify business strategy
- High-level project planning
- Natural gesture controls
- Powerful customization options
- Export to PDF and image files
- iCloud Drive integration
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The Roadmap app helps you visualize, maintain, and simplify your product roadmap planning, business strategy, and high-level project plans with a simple estimate - all at a glance. Natural gestures and powerful customizations allow you to manage roadmap plans as easily as you need to - without the complexity. * 7-day trial WITHOUT buying anything. * An uniform app for the iPad and iPhone. * Roadmap is NOT a project plan app (you can find the best project plan app QuickPlan at https://itunes.apple.com/app/id621375878). ### PRIVACY FOCUSED User-created Roadmap documents are stored on the user's devices or on iCloud Drive, at the user's discretion. ### FREE TRIAL With the free seven-day trial, you can try out all the features without buying anything. After the trial period expires: - You can continue to use the Roadmap app to view documents for free. - For full functionality, you can purchase a subscription with automatic renewal. ### EXAMPLES https://roadmapgo.com/documents/examples ### SUPER EFFICIENT Create a beautiful roadmap plan in less time than expected! ・ Natural and intuitive gestures make creating roadmap plans super-efficient. ・ Apple Pencil is supported in drawing mode. ・ Well-designed keyboard shortcuts. ・ Manage tasks in the diagram and property editor. ・ A clear user interface. ### POWERFUL CUSTOMIZATIONS. The Roadmap app provides powerful configuration options that allow you to customize the appearance to make the user interface more business friendly. ・ 15 styles for displaying section lanes. ・ 6 task shapes (available when displaying tasks in small display size). ・ 16 Milestone icons (available when displaying tasks in small display size). ・ Color. ・ Grayscale and color display variants. ・ Large and small taskbar size. ・ Option to customize taskbar content available when displaying tasks in large display size. ・ Customization of the timeline - manually, by templates and by text formulas. ・ Additional fields: 6 single-line text fields, 2 multi-line text fields and 3 URL fields. You can specify how the additional fields will be used. ・ Visibility of task fields. ・ Task fields TITLE customization. ・ Automatic bullets ・ Date display option. ### MULTIPLE DOCUMENTS. Managing documents in multiple document groups. ・ Local document group - roadmap documents on the device. ・ iCloud Drive document group - Roadmap documents on iCloud Drive. ・ Examples Group. With the ability to create, copy, move, clone and remove documents using intuitive gestures and context menu. ### REPORT ・ Export to PDF and image files. ・ Options to customize the export. ### INTEGRATIONS ・ Export to a CSV file. ・ Export to a (mobilized) WBS file. ・ Export to a QuickPlan (project plan) file with powerful options to customize the timeline and content. With the following options: - Map a Roadmap timeline cell to the calendar day, workday, week, and months in the QuickPlan project (the minimum duration of a task in QuickPlan is one day). - Customize the project date. - Customize the content. ### SYNCHRONIZATION Documents organized in the iCloud Drive group are located on iCloud Drive - they are synchronized between iOS and macOS devices. ### PRICE The Roadmap app requires a subscription. We offer an annual subscription and a fully functional 7-day trial. The plans unlock the app on iOS devices only. --- LEGAL --- The duration and price of each subscription will be displayed in the Roadmap storefront and updated at the time of purchase. Payment will be charged to the iTunes account when the purchase is confirmed. Subscriptions automatically renew unless you turn off auto-renewal at least 24 hours before the current period expires. Subscriptions and auto-renewal can be managed/turned off in iTunes account settings. Terms of Use: https://roadmapgo.com/legal/terms-conditions Privacy Policy: https://roadmapgo.com/legal/privacy-policy --- macOS --- "Roadmap for macOS" and "Roadmap for iOS" are separate apps.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Roadmap at free with in-app purchases against Merlin Project's subscription. Roadmap also leads on iOS requirement (12.1 vs 18.0). Merlin Project's advantage is update cadence (every 6 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Merlin Project sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Roadmap sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $11.99 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Merlin Project against 4.5 for Roadmap. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 31 and 26 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 48% of Merlin Project's written reviews are positive against 43% of Roadmap's.
Merlin Project ships an update every 6 weeks, Roadmap every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Merlin Project | Roadmap |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (31 ratings) | 4.5 (26 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 48.3% of reviews — better | 42.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | 26 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Subscription | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ProjectWizards | 瑾 韩 |
Customer experience
Merlin Project
Roadmap
In-app purchases
Merlin Project
- Monthly Subscription$9.991 Month
- Annual Subscription$99.991 Year
Roadmap
- iOS Yearly Subscription$11.991 Year
- 7-Day Trial (fully functional)Free









