Capacity planning · Local-first

Plan around the capacity your team actually has.

Planara turns schedules, holidays, vacations and productivity into real net hours, then schedules your tasks against them, so a plan never books time nobody has.

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  • Runs in your browser
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  • English & Deutsch

Everything a release plan needs, in one canvas

Teams, time off, tasks and risks live together: change one and the schedule responds.

The workflow

From people to a plan you can defend

  1. 01

    Describe the teams

    Add members, roles and work schedules. Pick a holiday calendar per team: Austria, Germany, anywhere.

  2. 02

    Let Planara find the net hours

    Holidays, vacations, company events and an industry productivity baseline come off the top automatically.

  3. 03

    Schedule the work

    Break tasks into sub-tasks with effort and required roles. Bars size themselves to the capacity that’s left.

  4. 04

    Track the risks

    Flag what could move a date, link a mitigating sub-task, and watch the unaddressed count.

  5. 05

    Share it

    Export a styled Excel workbook or a portable .planara file, and hand the same plan to anyone.

Why it’s different

A schedule that argues back

Bars sized by real availability

A two-week task on a team that’s half on vacation simply takes longer. Planara stretches it instead of pretending the hours exist.

  • Sub-tasks share a team’s daily hours without overbooking
  • Cap parallel workers to model focus, not just headcount
  • Hard and soft dependencies keep the order honest

Risks tied to the plan, not a spreadsheet

Each risk lives on the task it threatens. Link the sub-task that mitigates it and the one it affects, so the plan shows cause and effect.

  • Open / mitigated / accepted status
  • A running count of what’s still unaddressed
  • Mitigations are real work on the timeline

Questions, answered

Do I need an account?

No. Planara runs entirely in your browser and stores everything locally. Open it and start planning.

Where is my data stored?

In your browser’s IndexedDB, on your machine. Nothing is sent to a server.

Can the team work on the same plan?

Export a .planara file to hand off, or share a styled Excel workbook so everyone sees the same plan.

Is it free?

Yes. Planara is free to use.

Open Planara and map your next release

No sign-up, no setup. Your first project takes a few minutes.