Free project templates
Start from a plan, not a blank board. Each template below opens as a real, fully editable project in Onplana, phases, scheduled tasks with priorities and estimates, and milestones included, on the Free plan with no credit card. Every one of them also downloads as a spreadsheet for Excel or Google Sheets, with no sign-up.
No credit card. Templates are on the Free plan.
Software Product Launch
Ship your next product on a plan that already exists. This launch template lays out the full arc, customer discovery, MVP build, closed beta, and GA day, as 12 scheduled tasks with priorities, effort estimates, and two launch milestones. Open it in Onplana and you start from a working plan instead of a blank board.
Marketing Campaign
Plan, produce, launch, and measure an integrated campaign without reinventing the checklist. This campaign template covers the whole cycle, goals and channel mix, creative production, paid and owned launch, and the post-campaign retrospective, as 10 scheduled tasks across four phases with a go-live milestone at day 28.
Event Planning
Run your event on a 90-day countdown instead of a sticky-note wall. This event planning template sequences everything from venue tours and speaker outreach to badge printing, volunteer briefings, and the day-of run sheet, 14 scheduled tasks across five phases, each timed backwards from event day.
Migration from MS Project
Move your Microsoft Project or Project Online portfolio with a plan, not a prayer. This migration plan template sequences a 30-day cutover, inventory and stakeholder sign-off, data export and cleanup, staging import, reconciliation and pilot UAT, then the production cutover, and it ships with a pre-logged risk about legacy custom-field mapping so the most common surprise is already on your radar.
Data Migration Cutover
Migrations do not fail at the copy, they fail at the edges: permissions that did not come across, a wave sized from a lab measurement, and the delta nobody ran. This plan sequences a 60-day estate move as waves rather than a weekend, with a pilot that has to be signed off before wave one, a delta sync behind every wave, and two pre-logged risks that account for most of the overruns.
OKR Quarterly Planning
Run a complete OKR cycle, not just a kickoff meeting. This quarterly OKR template schedules the whole 90 days: drafting company objectives, workshopping key results, cascading to teams, weekly check-ins, a mid-quarter review, and end-of-quarter scoring. Eight tasks across four phases keep the cadence honest from week 1 to week 13.
Client Engagement
A consulting engagement that starts without agreed acceptance criteria ends in an argument about the final invoice. This template schedules the whole nine weeks: signed scope and rate card first, discovery that tests what the statement of work assumed, delivery with change requests priced as they arise, and a close that ends in written acceptance and a margin review.
Phase-Gate Product Development
Phase-gate development works when the gates are real decisions and fails when they are status meetings. This template schedules six months from concept to market with four explicit gate reviews, each one a go, no-go, or recycle with the reviewers and conditions recorded, plus the design freeze that turns every later change into formal change control.
RIBA Plan of Work (Architecture)
Architecture practices lose fees between stages, not inside them: the concept change reworked into Stage 3 without a variation, the construction-stage hours that outrun the Stage 5 share. This template lays the RIBA Plan of Work 2020 out as eight phases with a sign-off at the end of each, so the fee schedule, the programme and the hours are one record from Stage 0 to handover.
AIA Design Phases (Architecture, US)
The AIA phases already come with a fee split most owners recognise: 15 percent schematic design, 20 design development, 40 construction documents, 5 bidding, 20 construction administration. What practices lose is the link between that split and the hours, when a design-development change is drawn into the construction documents without an additional-services request. This template lays the five phases out with an owner approval at the end of each, so the approval, the fee share and the hours are one record.
Frequently asked
Are these project templates really free?
Yes. Every template on this page opens on the free Onplana plan with no credit card and no time limit. You get the full plan, phases, scheduled tasks with priorities and estimates, and milestones, as a real project you own and can edit.
What happens when I click "Use this template"?
You create a free Onplana account (or sign in), and the template opens as a working project: phases become color-coded groups, tasks are scheduled from today with realistic durations, and milestones land on the timeline. From there you rename, reassign, and reschedule like any other project.
Can I edit a template after I open it?
Completely. A template is just a head start: every task, phase, milestone, date, and priority is editable, and you can switch between list, board, Gantt, and calendar views. Nothing is locked.
Can I save my own templates?
Yes. Beyond this gallery, Onplana lets you save any project as a reusable template for your organization on paid plans, so the launch plan you refine this quarter becomes the starting point for the next one.
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