Roadmap Planner App Reviews

While Roadmap Planner looks pretty, and the app has some promise, it is far too limited in its current feature set to be really useful to anyone. If you look at the features mentioned above, well, those are all the things it can do. I mean really all. It cannot export timelines to any other format (image or CSV), doesn’t let you change apprearance other than project colour, group tasks together on the timeline…oh, and despite the reference to milestones in the product description, you can’t do milestones either. If the developers continue to build out the app, it may eventually be worth the price they are charging. However, it’s not really useful as it stands.

While product looks very promising with simplicity and fast time to start, its still not ready to be sold for money. It crashes every other minute. It has very poor visualization - can’t fit text in ovals (or resize timescale). Will look for updates, if any will follow.

Still a long way to go, but I’m happy to report that the developers are regularly updating the application to improve the product.

Nice look and feel, but many basic features don’t work. May not fail with errors - just nothing happens. Zoom slider is one example. Inability to scale the time axis is a major problem b/c tasks cannot be sized for a few days and also be readable - text gets micro small and unreadable. Current version looks more like a concept beta than an app that is ready to sell on Appstore. Email to tech support was addressed promptly with commitments to fix the buts, but the answer was “we don’t know when the next version will be released.” I recommend that you do NOT buy this product now. It is too expensive for what it is; and the App Store description does not reveal any of the problems (that the vendor knows about). Wait until the vendor proves the software really works, then demand a free trial to verify before you buy. I feel that I got burned/deceived and consider this the most un-read app I have ever downloaded for my Mac.

Looks great and very promising, but many small frustrations. Documentation and support are either nonexistant or obscured. Consistently ran into small things that I wished I could tweak, especially regarding date ranges. I don’t ding them much for this - I get the need to trade off utility for user control, but it’s maybe swung a little too fat. Also encountered a bit of interface roughness. Simple things rangign from a crash losing my first project to badly tangling dependency lines to the fact that when you use the keyboard to create a new item, the name is not selected, so you need to go click on it to name it. Small things, but they reveal it to be a little rough around the edges. But for all that, i really like what this *can* do, and with a little more polish, this could easily move from a curiosity to a permanent addition to my toolkit. Edit for 1.7 - This update looked promising, and I was very excited to see that they placed document settings for the date range very prominently. That feature alone would have bumped them up another star. Unfortunately, it’s behavior is outright erratic - it can set an approximate zoom level, which is nice, but it still can’t seem to put solid bounds on a timeline (and it still can’t seem to usefully zoom in to less than ~2 months). So, not so much. However, they added templates, and there have been numerous cleanups, and the rate of improvement has me optimististic that they’re going to nail this sooner or later. So I am tenatively moving my rating from 2 to 3 stars, in a fit of optimism Edit for 1.9 - Gains another star (4 now) for overall improvement. Events now box out nicely, presents well enough that I can now show these to management without them asking questions about runaway dates or other weird presentation issues. Lots of fun little bells and whistles. This may finally be ready for prime time.

Now more features, less bugs

It looks like it would be a great tool, but too bad I can’t tell since it continuously crashes! Can’t even create a new document. I’m on El Capitan 10.11.6 on a MacBook Pro. Nothing unusual about my setup… Hopefully an update will be forthcoming so I can give it a try. Glad it was free.

It took me a few minutes to get how everything works here. Another 20 min and the plan is ready. Really cool!

Ive just downloaded it and it looks great. Very intuitive. Look forward to planning our marketing roadmap for 2016-2017.

The concept is very good, design and flaw is well done, easy to use. But after working on my roadmap for 3 hours and tried to save it crashed and i lost all the hard work I have done. There is no recovery or autosave mechanism implement in the app.

Great look and feel. The app does what was promised and helps me to plan my projects a lot.

This application has good intentions of being a simplified project timeline visualization and planning tool for non-project managers, however it lacks some UI polish and and provides no documentation or help files to get started. A general getting started video on their website gives you an overview of how to use the software, but there is no more than that. You cannot access help from within the program. This product does not feel like a mature developed OS X application. I would not recommend this.

The application is good. I hope they will add new useful features.

Looks great and very promising, but many small frustrations. Documentation and support are either nonexistant or obscured. Consistently ran into small things that I wished I could tweak, especially regarding date ranges. I don’t ding them much for this - I get the need to trade off utility for user control, but it’s maybe swung a little too fat. Also encountered a bit of interface roughness. Simple things rangign from a crash losing my first project to badly tangling dependency lines to the fact that when you use the keyboard to create a new item, the name is not selected, so you need to go click on it to name it. Small things, but they reveal it to be a little rough around the edges. But for all that, i really like what this *can* do, and with a little more polish, this could easily move from a curiosity to a permanent addition to my toolkit.

A few road blocks that occurred on my road map: 1. Zoom tool (top, center) is not totally useless, but neither is it useful. There have been many intelligent ways to focus a specific time range in a multitude of applications. This is not one of them. 2. Speaking of time periods, there doesn’t seem to be a way to set or reset, if necessary, a start date. In removing finished events at the start of the roadmap, I was left with a blank space at the start of the road map. Which forced me to try and reset the time period using the painful zoom tool. 3. Place concurrent events in a swim lane, it expands to make room for them. Remove one of the concurrent events, it dutifully remains expanded (possibly in case you might want to put the event back). Could not find a way to resize the swim lanes to create more effective vertical spacing. 4. There are no linked, concurrent events, partial, or otherwise. If you link one event to another, the following event will automatically move to the end of the starting event. I tried dragging, changing the dates, etc., but it appears that you will need to plan everything strictly sequential. 5. Could not find a way to print out notes, making them superfluous,unless you prefer to go from event to event to try to understand the overall plan. This makes sharing a plan with others a matter of sharing your computer with others, so they can go from event to event to try to understand. 6. It is unnecessary to look for Help in the Help menu. No help has been provided. 7. I’ve dutifully reported my findings to the Support team. Again, no help has been provided. Normally, I wouldn’t write a review, I’d simply write off my loss. However, I have paid a somewhat significant amount of money, considering the lack of maturity this application demonstrates. I’ve listed my pain points to allow you to decide for yourself. Your planning may be strictly sequential. The zoom tool is the only way to set a time range, but you may not need accuracy. Or notes. Or help. Good luck.

I sent a suggestion to their support team, asked to add backlog, and they did. Ive been using it for over a month now and really satisfied with the app. Look forward to new updates. I hope they improve it even further.

A little complex but very interesting app

Looks very stylish and very easy to use. The overall user experience is amazing, I have managed to outline a plan for my fitness exercises in a couple of minutes and it looks very plain and visual.

As a US customer, I find it unacceptable that the app displays dates in non-US format (Day-Month-Year rather than Month-Day-Year)

Hope, this app will help you as well as me