Float vs LibrePlan

Float is resource planning software that shows who is working on what, team availability, utilization, delivery, and project margins. Scheduling displays roles and experience for capacity planning, while project planning supports prices, budgets, roles, timeline baselines, and AI-assisted staffing. Reports cover capacity, utilization, actuals, margin, and budget burn. The API works with team data and project workflows, and listed integrations include Aprimo, Asana, Basecamp, Claude via Float MCP beta, ClickUp, Google Calendar, HubSpot, Jira, and Karbon. Calendar sync and recurring tasks are supported, with calendar listed as a task view. iOS and Android apps let staff check schedules, add time off, and log hours. Starter costs $7 a month per scheduled person and includes scheduling, capacity and time-off management, project scoping, API, and integrations access. Pro costs $12 a month per scheduled person and adds time tracking, AI people experience profiles, multi-currency rate cards, cost estimation, advanced reporting, SSO, and domain restrictions. A 30-day Pro trial requires no credit card.

LibrePlan is a free, open-source web application for planning, monitoring and controlling projects. Its planning tools include hierarchical work breakdown structures, Gantt charts, task dependencies, scheduling constraints and project templates. Teams can plan human and machine resources, set calendars and skills, and allocate resources manually or by criteria. Workers can record time and expenses, while teams track task progress through multiple measurement units and progress indicators. For wider monitoring, LibrePlan provides company-wide project status, resource-load views, earned-value indicators, budget and cost controls, and reports. Web services import and export resources, calendars and project WBS data; separate installations can interoperate for subcontracting. The application supports database authentication by default and LDAP authentication with role mapping. Community Edition is self-hosted and has no licensing fee; Enterprise Edition is a commercial subscription available hosted or on-premise, with guaranteed support and SLA agreements. The download page describes a Docker image and a WAR file for Tomcat, and says Windows installation packages are not currently available. LibrePlan began in Galicia, Spain, in 2009.