Float vs Rapla

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.

Rapla is an open-source system for scheduling resources and planning events, including rooms, people, and equipment. Its calendars offer month, week, day, and specialized views, with repeating appointments and conflict checks before saving. Administrators can define resource, person, and event types, assign categories and attributes, and set fine-grained permissions. Rapla exports to PDF and iCal and can email users when a resource is allocated. Data can be stored in a file or in MySQL, PostgreSQL, or HSQLDB. Rapla 2 is labeled stable and can run as a standalone application or in client-server mode; its desktop client supports Linux, Windows, and macOS using Java and OpenWebStart. The interface is available in English and German, with translations of varying completeness in French, Dutch, Polish, Spanish, Finnish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Czech. Rapla 3 describes Exchange sync, a GraphQL API, OAuth 2.0 with PKCE, and sign-in with Microsoft, Google, or Keycloak. Its nightly builds are self-signed, untested, and not for production. The software is free under AGPL-3.0-or-later or Apache-2.0.