Share a plan with people who cannot open it

A schedule is shared by uploading it here, saving it to an account and switching the plan to public: that produces a link anyone can open in a browser, with no Microsoft Project and no account of their own. The link is read-only and revocable - make the plan private again and it stops working for everyone at once.

The routine this replaces

If you plan work for a living, one part of the job has nothing to do with planning. The schedule updates on Friday, and then you spend twenty minutes making it readable for people who do not own Microsoft Project: export to PDF, crop the timeline so it fits, attach it to an email, and answer the three replies asking what changed since last week.

The PDF is the compromise everyone has settled for, and it is a bad one. It is a photograph of a schedule. Nobody can collapse the phases they do not own, change the scale from days to quarters to see the shape of the year, click a task to find out what it waits for, or search for their own name. Every one of those questions comes back to you as a message, which is why the twenty minutes is never really twenty minutes.

What a link gives them instead

Open your .mpp here, save it, and share the link. What lands in their browser is the plan itself, not a picture of it: the task hierarchy with phases they can fold away, dependency arrows, the critical path, non-working days shaded from your project calendar, and full detail on any task they click - dates, progress, predecessors, resources, notes.

They need no account and install nothing. It works the same on Windows, macOS and Linux, which matters more than it sounds: Microsoft Project has no macOS version at all, so the person on a Mac has never been able to open your attachments. If you want to see what a recipient gets before you send anything, the sample plans are this same viewer with someone else's schedule in it.

What they cannot do

Edit it. That is the whole list. Nobody can move a bar, change a date, reschedule anything or alter the file you hold - this is a viewer, deliberately, and there is no edit mode to find. The plan you sent is the plan they see, and the copy on your machine stays the only one that can change.

Sharing is revocable. Switch a plan back to private and the link stops working the same second, for everyone who has it. Pro adds a password on the link, so forwarding it does not widen the audience by accident.

What it costs

Reading is free for them, always, with no account and no quota - that is the point of the whole thing. On your side a free account keeps 20 plans and 2 live links at a time, which is enough to try it on a real project. Pro removes both limits and raises the upload size to 50 MB - the plans are here.

Common questions

Does the recipient need an account?

No. They open the link and read the plan. They need an account only if they want to save plans of their own.

Can they change my schedule?

No. There is no editing anywhere in the product, for anyone. The file you uploaded is never modified and cannot be written back to.

What if I send the wrong plan?

Make it private again and the link dies immediately, including for people who already have it. Access is checked on every request, not baked into the link.

Can I stop the link spreading?

Make it private again - that kills it for everyone at once, on any plan. On Pro you can instead put a password on the link, so it asks before showing anything and forwarding it alone is not enough. That password holds while Pro is active; if it lapses the link turns private.

Will they see the same dates I see?

Yes. Everything is read out of your file rather than recalculated - the same hierarchy, dates, durations, dependencies, critical tasks and calendar. Only the styling is ours.