No per-member pricing
Teamdeck bills per scheduled member each month (Full members from $6, Light members $2), so the cost grows with every teammate. Planara is free, with no members to count.
- No per-member fee
- No free-tier gap
- Free to use
Teamdeck alternative
A Teamdeck alternative that is free and runs in your browser.
Teamdeck is a cloud resource-management suite billed per member each month. If you mainly need to plan team capacity, Planara does that for free, with no account and no data leaving your machine.
- Free to use
- No account
- Runs in your browser
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Why teams look for a Teamdeck alternative
No account, no cloud
Teamdeck 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
Planning without the timesheet overhead
Teamdeck bundles resource scheduling with time tracking and leave management. Planara stays focused on forward capacity planning, so there is nothing to configure before you can plan.
- Capacity-first
- No timesheets to run
- Open and plan
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 member licences to buy.
- Styled Excel
- .planara handoff
- No member licences
Planara vs Teamdeck, at a glance
- Price
- Planara: free. Teamdeck: from $6 per full member/month ($2 per light member)
- Free tier
- Planara: free to use. Teamdeck: no free tier
- Account
- Planara: none. Teamdeck: sign-in required
- Hosting
- Planara: local in your browser. Teamdeck: cloud SaaS
- Focus
- Planara: capacity planning. Teamdeck: scheduling, time tracking and leave
Questions, answered
Is Planara really a free alternative to Teamdeck?
Yes. Planara is free to use. Teamdeck is priced per scheduled member each month (Full members from $6, Light members $2, with no free tier), so cost scales with team size.
Do I need an account like I do with Teamdeck?
No. Planara runs entirely in your browser and stores everything locally. There is no sign-up and no login.
Does Planara do everything Teamdeck does?
No, and it does not try to. Teamdeck also handles time tracking and leave management. Planara stays focused on forward capacity and availability planning with an availability-driven Gantt.
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 members to license?
Export a .planara file to hand off, or a styled Excel workbook so everyone sees the same plan. There are no member licences.
Try the free Teamdeck alternative
No account, no per-member fee, no setup. Plan your team capacity right in the browser.