SmartPlans is currently the most popular project planner on the App Store (today it is ranked #21).  We have been working on a new version that will be ready at the end of the year and it is going to be even better. And for all of you who already own SmartPlans, the upgrade will be free! Here’s a peek at some of the new features:

  • Milestones with critical path
  • Milestones sync with your Calendar (they will appear in your iPhone & iPad calendars as “All Day Events”)
  • Milestones have pop-up Alerts based upon deadlines
  • Dependencies – any project can become a parallel, sub-project by linking it to a Milestone inside another project
  • Gantt View has two levels: Project level and Milestone level
  • Cascading detail in Gantt view allows you to see and edit specific milestones, tasks, and sub-project directly from the Gantt view

Coming in 2012, we will integrate projects directly into our productivity apps.