FLOID — Free Product Development Scheduling & Timeline Software
FLOID is a free, browser-based scheduling tool for product development teams — and for anyone who needs to build a project timeline. Plan new product development schedules, product launch timelines, and multi-team project plans with drag-and-drop phases, tasks, and milestones. No account required, no usage limits, and your data stays in your browser.
Features
- Drag-and-drop timeline scheduling with phases, tasks, and milestones
- Multiple parallel schedules per project — one track for each team or workstream
- Pinned schedule — pin one schedule as the reference and its milestone lines extend through every schedule, keeping key dates visible across the whole project
- Ready-made schedule templates: complete product development, engineering, industrial design, software, and marketing
- Color-coded schedules, with a multicolor option that gives each phase its own palette color
- Export as .floid file, full project backup (.floid-project), or timeline image for presentations
- Import schedules from collaborators
- Dark mode support
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Works offline after initial load
Who Is FLOID For?
FLOID is built for anyone planning a product development schedule: product managers, program managers, engineers, industrial designers, and founders. It is ideal for new product development (NPD) where parallel workstreams — engineering, design, tooling, prototyping, testing, marketing, and regulatory — need to stay aligned against shared milestones. And because it is a general-purpose timeline builder at heart, it works just as well for software release plans, marketing campaigns, event schedules, research projects, or any plan that benefits from a visual, multi-track timeline.
Common Use Cases
- Product development timelines from concept through launch, including build stages like EVT, DVT, and PVT
- Product roadmap and launch timelines shared across engineering, design, and marketing
- Multi-team program schedules where each team keeps its own track but aligns on shared milestones
- Quick project estimation — sketch a timeline in minutes to scope duration and spot conflicts
Why FLOID?
Unlike general-purpose project management tools, FLOID focuses on visual timeline scheduling without the overhead of task assignment, communication, or workflow automation. It is a simpler, faster alternative to traditional Gantt chart software, using relative positioning instead of rigid task dependencies. And unlike spreadsheet-based scheduling, FLOID provides a proper drag-and-drop timeline with automatic date calculation and clean export formats.
Pricing
FLOID is completely free. No account, no sign-up, no limits.