Microsoft Planner
Manage all your work in a single, intelligent planning solution to stay on track and achieve more.
Overview
Work management in one simple experience
- Manage your tasks, to-do lists, plans, and projects across Microsoft 365 apps in one place online.
- Stay on top of your daily tasks with a view that helps you focus on what needs to get done today.
- Get to your work faster with simple navigation, including three main views: My Day, My Tasks, and My Plans.
- Use templates to quickly start a new plan and choose views such as lists, boards, timelines, and sprints.
- Cocreate and collaborate on plans with your team for effective work management.
- Use the features you already know such as agile sprint planning, custom fields, and task history.
- Create project plans with powerful scheduling and resourcing tools that evolve as your plans evolve.
- Configure, automate, and extend Planner with a flexible, low-code/no-code platform.
- Proactively manage and allocate resources as needs change with access to real-time dashboards and visualizations.
- Define plan goals at the organizational, team, or project level to help align work to strategic goals.
- Create buckets and tasks based on your planning goals with Copilot in Planner.
- Help your team succeed by using Copilot to set clear, measurable goals.
- Keep up to date on high-priority tasks, potential risks, and team availability with Copilot.
FEATURED TEMPLATES
How can Planner help you?
Planner isn’t just for project managers; it’s a powerful tool for teams across departments. Get started quickly with ready-made templates, customizable for any industry.
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App integrations
Take your plans with you
Microsoft Loop
Track your team’s plans alongside other online planner content in one workspace.
Microsoft Outlook
Check assignments from flagged email without leaving Planner.
Microsoft Teams
Cocreate to-do lists and make plans based on meetings and conversations.
Microsoft Viva Goals
Create plans and set goals informed by company objectives and key results.
Hear from our customers
Learn how customers are improving work management
Frequently asked questions
- Individual workers, team leaders and professional project managers are asking for a simple, consolidated work management solution that can flex and scale to meet their needs.
The new Planner brings together task management, collaborative work management, and enterprise work management into a single online planner experience. It’s designed to meet the needs of your workforce and scale with you into the future. - We don’t expect this change to impact existing user scenarios or functionality for Project customers. Existing Project for the web customers will get access to the premium capabilities in the new Planner app in Teams as part of their Project for the web subscription, while continuing to have access to the web experience.
There will be no change in name or product experience for the Project Online desktop client, Project Online, or Project Server.
- The new Planner web experience will be available later in 2024.
- Your work and projects within Project for the web, as well as all the existing features, won’t be impacted. You’ll still be able to access existing work in Project for the web. You’ll also be able to view your work in the new Planner app in Teams.
- For customers currently using Project for the web, existing capabilities will continue to be available in Project for the web (as well as in the new Planner app in Teams), followed by a new Planner web experience later in 2024. Pricing for these capabilities is not impacted.
For more information, see plans and pricing.
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In April 2024, the Tasks by Planner and To Do app was renamed Planner. This app received the new Planner experience—bringing together your work across plans, projects, and to do lists. Below are some additional updates coming soon:
Planner for the web:
- The new Planner for the web will start rolling out in Fall 2024, ensuring that experiences are aligned across the web version of Planner and the new Planner in Teams.
Project for the web:
- Project for the web remains available with no change to its existing functionality.
- You can now view your Project for the web tasks in the new Planner in Teams.
- Users will also be able to access Project for the web capabilities in Planner for the web once it is rolled out to their organization.
- Microsoft Project is not being retired.
Capabilities in Project for the web are becoming part of the new Microsoft Planner. Project for desktop, Project Online, and Project Server will continue to be available and supported for new and existing customers. - Customers currently using Project for the web will be able to access the existing product features in the new Planner.
Additional capabilities of the new Planner include:
- New enterprise work management capabilities.
- Copilot in Planner (preview) –— see plans and pricing.
- The simplicity of To Do, the collaboration of Planner, and the versatility of Project for the web in one simple, familiar experience.
- Clean, intuitive design.
- Microsoft 365 administrators can install and enable Microsoft Planner and assign users and security groups.
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- [1]A credit card is required to begin a one-month trial. The duration of the trial varies by the month you sign up. The expiration date will appear on the trial subscription details page within the Microsoft 365 admin center. Upon expiration of your one-month trial, you’ll be charged the applicable subscription fee. Cancel any time to stop future charges.
- [2]While final pricing for Copilot in Planner has not been announced, users with a Planner and Project Plan 3 or Planner and Project Plan 5 license will be able to preview Copilot in Planner capabilities once it is rolled out to their organization.
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