Comparison

Project Planner HD vs Narrativ Timeline

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Project Planner HD

Manage multiple projects and tasks with a visual Gantt chart. Organize tasks into phases, set milestones, and track progress. Supports resource and cost management, with various export options for sharing and backup.

Highlights
  • Manage multiple projects
  • Gantt chart view
  • Task dependencies
  • Resource and cost management
  • Project export/import
  • PDF report export
Features
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Project Planner 2 HD is the iPad version of Project Planner 2. Project Planner 2 HD is a project and task planning application that makes it easy to keep track of multiple projects and tasks. Project Planner 2 HD allows you manage multiple projects. In every project you can add many tasks grouped in phases and finished by milestone. You can view your project on Gantt chart in portrait and landscape view in days, weeks or months scale. Major features: - managing multiple projects - viewing your tasks as a list or Gantt Chart - viewing multiple projects on Gantt Chart - editing task directly from Gantt Chart - creating dependencies between tasks - creating and managing resources in tasks - updating progress of task to keep track - adding resources and costs to tasks - exporting and importing projects in .ppf format (supported by Project Planner 2, Project Planner 2 HD and Project Planner for OSX - available in Mac App Store) - exporting and importing project in .gan format (supported by Gantt Project available on OSX, Windows and Linux) (importing with some limitations: Project Planner imports all dependencies as 'hard' and 'end-to-start') - exporting report in PDF format (readable in Adobe Reader, OSX Preview and all full pdf compatible readers) - report and chart printing directly from app using AirPrint - exporting chart as image in PNG format - exporting are available by mail, to iTunes and to Dropbox - importing are available from iTunes, from mail and from Dropbox - copying projects - define their own calendars for projects

About

Narrativ Timeline

This app helps creative writers plan their stories by mapping out plotlines, characters, locations, and world events. It allows for detailed character and scene planning, capturing loose thoughts, and organizing entire story universes. Export your comprehensive story bible in various formats when planning is complete.

Highlights
  • Character planning with relationships and traits
  • Scene mapping with summaries and plotline tags
  • World event tracking
  • Notepad for loose ideas
  • Series planning and universe building
  • Character relationship graph visualization
  • Exportable story bible (PDF, Word, Markdown)
Features
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Narrativ is a planning tool for creative writers. Map out the shape of your story. Add a cast, sketch your plotlines, create locations, note important world events, and link it all to the timeline so you can get a clear picture of the structure of your story. Plan your cast Build characters with photos, roles, descriptions, traits, relationships, and the connections that make them more than a list of names. See who knows whom in a graph. Track who appears in which scene. Plan your scenes Scenes with summaries, tension, cast, and plotline tags. View them as cards, on a timeline, or in story order. This is where the story takes shape. The manuscript comes later, in your writing app of choice. Find the structure Follow each plotline through the story, beat by beat. Start from a framework if it helps: Three-Act Structure, Save the Cat, Hero’s Journey, Seven-Point, Story Circle, Freytag’s Pyramid, Fichtean Curve, Four-Act or Kishotenketsu. Or ignore them all and build your own. Plan your world The story is ten per cent on the page. The world is the ninety per cent underneath. World Events and Lore are where that ninety per cent lives: everything you know about your world that the reader never sees. Add events with your own when-labels, link them to the scenes that show them, and switch the timeline between story order and world time. Capture loose thoughts Not every idea is ready to become a character or a scene. Notepad is where it waits until it is. Write one note or a hundred, with bold, italics and highlights, and link a note to any card in your story with the @ feature. Set milestones Give your next step a deadline: “First act mapped”, Friday at nine. Get a reminder at the deadline, and every day, week or month before it if you want one. See your milestones in a calendar or add them to your phone’s Calendar. Reminders only come from milestones you set up yourself. Plan a series A universe holds multiple stories that share characters, locations, and world events. Add a story and it inherits the cast. The bundled Sherlock Holmes example shows a three-book universe in action. See the connections The character graph maps your cast as a force-directed network. Characters who share scenes pull closer together, loosely connected characters drift apart. Tap a node to open a character card. Tap a line to see the scenes they share. The graph shows you where relationships are overloaded, where they are thin, and where a connection is missing that the story needs. Your book on your Home Screen Widgets show your book’s cover and what it holds, your whole bookshelf, or the shortcuts you choose. Add a Narrativ button to the Lock Screen, Control Center or the Action button to start a note, a character or a scene in one tap, in the book you choose. Quick actions and Siri get you there too. Wherever the idea strikes Narrativ is universal across iPhone, iPad, and Mac, and made for iPhone Duo, folded or open. Work at your desk or on the go. Your work syncs through iCloud. One-time purchase, no subscription. Exports When the planning is done, export everything as a story bible. Choose PDF, Word, Markdown, or plain text. Select which sections to include: characters, scenes, plotlines, world events, or the full document. A clean reference to keep open while you write. Your look Narrativ’s own colours and type, or the system look with iOS colours and fonts. Light, dark, or following your device. Before the story, there’s Narrativ.

Screenshots

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Project Planner HD at $5.99 against Narrativ Timeline's $24.99. Project Planner HD also leads on rating (4.0 vs 3.5) and review sentiment (16% vs 0%). Narrativ Timeline's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and device support (3 vs 1). On ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Project Planner HD costs $5.99 and Narrativ Timeline $24.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Project Planner HD holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 16% of Project Planner HD's written reviews are positive against 0% of Narrativ Timeline's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Project Planner HD ships an update every 2 months, Narrativ Timeline weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Project Planner HD versus Narrativ Timeline: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterProject Planner HDNarrativ Timeline
Price$5.99 — better$24.99
Rating4.0 (8 ratings) — better3.5 (2 ratings)
Positive reviews16.3% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings8 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS11.4 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size13 MB21 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperPeritum.NetEIRIK ANDRE STEEN

Customer experience

Project Planner HD

All ratings8 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%
Written reviews129 reviews
Positive16.3%
Neutral12.4%
Negative71.3%

Narrativ Timeline

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Bugs and requests

Project Planner HD

Reported bugs

28 issues
  • App crashes when adding tasks
  • App crashes when deleting tasks
  • App crashes when moving tasks
  • Grayed out interface elements preventing use
  • Calendar not accepting date input
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  • Calendar defaulting to incorrect dates (April 2013)
  • Tasks jumping to random positions
  • Task links breaking after reordering
  • Project titles overlapping
  • Duration calculations producing wrong end dates
  • Keyboard not appearing for input
  • Screen navigation buttons not responding
  • App crashes on opening Gantt charts
  • Font overlay issues in allocation area
  • Tasks disappearing when moved off-screen
  • Negative duration values (-1 day default)
  • Tasks not carrying over to next day with multi-day durations
  • PDF export cutting off notes and text
  • Grid going blank after 60 days
  • Unable to change dates after task saved
  • App unresponsive and sluggish
  • Data loss in project fields
  • Crashes when editing preferences/roles
  • Allocation field not accepting data entry
  • Cannot edit resource allocations
  • Crashes after OS upgrades
  • Help button non-functional
  • Dropbox login required to exit app

Requested features

23 requests
  • Subtask support
  • Microsoft Project export/import compatibility
  • CSV export format
  • Drag-and-drop task bar editing
  • Undo and redo functionality
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  • Critical path analysis
  • Resource allocation and management
  • Cost budgeting features
  • Zoom functionality
  • End date input instead of duration only
  • Task color customization
  • Start/finish summary display
  • Month-based export options
  • Text color and size formatting control
  • Help documentation and tutorials
  • Ability to edit task order after creation
  • Backward scheduling (end date to start date)
  • Task grouping and indentation
  • Calendar customization (work hours, days)
  • 12-hour clock format option
  • Integration with device calendar
  • Online help and support resources
  • Sample projects for learning

Narrativ Timeline

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Project Planner HD

No in-app purchases

None

Narrativ Timeline

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Project Planner HD free?
Project Planner HD costs $5.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Narrativ Timeline free?
Narrativ Timeline costs $24.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Project Planner HD or Narrativ Timeline?
Project Planner HD is rated higher. Project Planner HD averages 4.0 out of 5 from 8 ratings, while Narrativ Timeline averages 3.5 from 2 ratings.
Do Project Planner HD or Narrativ Timeline have ads?
Neither Project Planner HD nor Narrativ Timeline shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Project Planner HD or Narrativ Timeline?
Project Planner HD ships an update every 2 months, and Narrativ Timeline weekly. Most recently, Project Planner HD was updated on October 19, 2026 and Narrativ Timeline on October 31, 2026.

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