No per-person pricing
Resource Guru bills per person each month, so the cost grows with every teammate you schedule. Planara is free, with no seats to count.
- No per-person fee
- No plan tiers
- Free to use
Resource Guru alternative
A Resource Guru alternative, free and in your browser.
Resource Guru is a cloud scheduler billed per person each month. Planara plans the same team capacity for free, with no account and no data leaving your machine.
- Free to use
- No account
- Runs in your browser
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AnaLead dev
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MobileTeam
KitTester
Why teams look for a Resource Guru alternative
No account, no cloud
Resource Guru is a hosted SaaS you sign in to. Planara runs entirely on your device, so your roadmap and people data never leave your machine.
- No sign-up
- No cloud upload
- Private by default
Start in seconds
No trial to activate and no onboarding. Open the app in any modern browser and start planning capacity right away.
- No trial clock
- No install
- Any modern browser
Yours to keep and move
Export a .planara file to back up or hand off, or a styled Excel workbook to share the plan. No export gated behind a higher tier.
- .planara export
- Excel export
- Easy hand-off
Still a full planner
What you keep when you switch
Net capacity, not headcount
Work schedules, public holidays, vacations and a productivity baseline turn people into the hours actually available.
- Offline holiday database
- Per-person overrides
- Per team and per person
An availability-driven Gantt
Schedule work against real capacity, with bars sized by the hours a team genuinely has, not a flat headcount.
- Bars sized by availability
- Day to quarter zoom
- Dependencies and milestones
Share without seats
Hand the plan to anyone as a styled Excel workbook or a .planara file. No invites and no seat licences to buy.
- Styled Excel
- .planara handoff
- No seat licences
Planara vs Resource Guru, at a glance
- Price
- Planara: free. Resource Guru: from $5 per person/month (Grasshopper)
- Account
- Planara: none. Resource Guru: sign-in required
- Hosting
- Planara: local in your browser. Resource Guru: cloud SaaS
- Your data
- Planara: stays on your device. Resource Guru: stored in the cloud
- Export
- Planara: Excel + .planara, free
Questions, answered
Is Planara really a free alternative to Resource Guru?
Yes. Planara is free to use. Resource Guru is priced per person each month (from $5 on its Grasshopper plan), so cost scales with team size.
Do I need an account like I do with Resource Guru?
No. Planara runs entirely in your browser and stores everything locally. There is no sign-up and no login.
Can Planara do capacity planning and scheduling like Resource Guru?
Yes. Planara turns people into net available hours and schedules work on an availability-driven Gantt with dependencies and milestones.
Where is my data stored?
In your browser IndexedDB, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to a server, unlike a hosted tool.
How does a team share one plan without seats?
Export a .planara file to hand off, or a styled Excel workbook so everyone sees the same plan. There are no seat licences.
Try the free Resource Guru alternative
No account, no per-person fee, no setup. Plan your team capacity right in the browser.