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GanttProject vs Notion
A side-by-side editorial comparison of GanttProject and Notion — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
GanttProject vs Notion: at a glance
What is GanttProject?
A desktop Gantt tool on a multi-year cadence, tethering itself to its own cloud
GanttProject is a desktop project scheduling application released every one to three years, with occasional build-only tags in between. The most recent feature update, 3.3, added calculated columns driven by SQL expressions in the task table, project-relative week numbers, and a native Apple Silicon package. The intervening tags are packaging work rather than product: restoring Linux and Windows builds, and producing both Intel and Silicon macOS packages.
What is Notion?
Notion is turning itself into the place other companies' agents come to work.
Notion's releases have stopped being about documents. The 3.5 Developer Platform put Workers — custom code running on Notion's infrastructure — behind Custom Agents, and 3.6 opened the workspace to External Agents like Claude and Cursor, assigned tasks from a shared board. The surrounding shipments fill that frame in: Workers are now shareable across a team, their usage is metered in the credits dashboard, agents got calendar tools, and agents got their own iOS app.
GanttProject vs Notion: editorial side-by-side
A desktop Gantt tool on a multi-year cadence, tethering itself to its own cloud
◆ Current state
GanttProject is a desktop project scheduling application released every one to three years, with occasional build-only tags in between. The most recent feature update, 3.3, added calculated columns driven by SQL expressions in the task table, project-relative week numbers, and a native Apple Silicon package. The intervening tags are packaging work rather than product: restoring Linux and Windows builds, and producing both Intel and Silicon macOS packages.
◆ Where it's heading
The through-line since 3.0 is a desktop application acquiring a service tail. GanttProject Cloud arrived in 3.0 alongside a bundled Java runtime and an update channel, 3.1 added a connection toggle and pulled a shared human-resource database from the cloud, and 3.2 rewrote the task table with filtering and non-destructive sorting. By 3.3 the table is programmable through SQL expressions. Each release deepens either the cloud tie or the table, which are the two places a desktop planner can still differentiate — but the cadence means any given year may show only a packaging fix.
◆ Prediction
Expect the next feature release to extend calculated columns or the cloud collaboration surface; on this cadence it is unlikely to arrive quickly, and the entries give no indication of timing.
Notion
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Notion is turning itself into the place other companies' agents come to work.
◆ Current state
Notion's releases have stopped being about documents. The 3.5 Developer Platform put Workers — custom code running on Notion's infrastructure — behind Custom Agents, and 3.6 opened the workspace to External Agents like Claude and Cursor, assigned tasks from a shared board. The surrounding shipments fill that frame in: Workers are now shareable across a team, their usage is metered in the credits dashboard, agents got calendar tools, and agents got their own iOS app.
◆ Where it's heading
The direction is orchestration, not authorship. Notion is positioning the workspace as the shared surface where a team's agents — its own and other vendors' — hold state, take assignments, and leave visible work behind, with Workers as the connective tissue to outside systems. Metering Workers in the credits dashboard before the beta ends signals this is being built as a billable platform tier, not a free add-on. Classic editor work still ships, but high contrast mode and merged table cells are now the smaller half of the changelog.
◆ Prediction
The Workers beta looks close to converting into paid capacity given the credits-dashboard groundwork, and the External Agents roster is stated as expanding beyond Claude and Cursor. Expect the agent surfaces that lag — mobile calendar tools are called out as not yet shipped — to close next.
Alternatives to GanttProject and Notion
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either GanttProject or Notion.
Planify
A GNOME task app that has turned CalDAV interoperability into the product.
Kanri
An offline-first kanban app whose solo maintainer has been quiet for ten months.
Super Productivity
A solo-focused task manager grows a plugin layer and, quietly, a collaboration story
Akiflow
A time-blocking client spending its releases on calendar correctness and crash fixes
Roadmunk
Roadmapping tool in slow, presentation-focused upkeep with a scrambled release feed
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Recent activity from GanttProject and Notion
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoNotionHigh contrast mode
- 7d agoNotionWorkers, now in your Notion credits dashboard
- 15d agoNotionNew calendar tools for your agent
- 22d agoNotionShare Notion Workers across your team
- 23d agoNotionMeet the Notion Agents iOS app
- 1mo agoNotionNotion 3.6: External Agents, HTML blocks, and more ⚡
- 7mo agoGanttProjectGanttProject 3.3
- 1y agoGanttProjectBuild tag restores Linux and Windows packages
- 2y agoGanttProjectBuild tag adds Intel and Apple Silicon macOS packages
- 4y agoGanttProjectGanttProject 3.2
- 5y agoGanttProjectGanttProject 3.1
- 5y agoGanttProjectGanttProject 3.0 ⚡
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between GanttProject and Notion?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Notion is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is GanttProject better than Notion?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Notion is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to GanttProject?
Top GanttProject alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "GanttProject alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/ganttproject for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Notion?
Top Notion alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Notion alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/notion for the full list with editorial commentary on each.