Merlin Project
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| Product | Platforms | Minimum requirement | Current version | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merlin Project for Mac | Mac | macOS Ventura (13) | 9.2.1 (August 24, 2026) | 30 days |
| Merlin Project for iPad, iPhone and Apple Vision Pro | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro | iOS 16 | in the App Store | 30 days |
| Merlin Project Express for Mac | Mac | macOS Ventura (13) | 9.2.1 (August 24, 2026) | 14 days |
Subscription prices per currency, as of October 19, 2026.
| Product | EUR | USD | CHF | GBP | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merlin Project for Mac | Monthly | 19,99 € | US$22.99 | CHF 20.00 | 16.99 £ |
| Annual | 199,99 € | US$229.99 | CHF 200.00 | 169.99 £ | |
| Merlin Project for iPad, iPhone and Apple Vision Pro | Monthly | 9,99 € | US$9.99 | CHF 11.00 | 8.99 £ |
| Annual | 99,99 € | US$99.99 | CHF 110.00 | 89.99 £ | |
| Merlin Project Express for Mac | Monthly | 4,99 € | US$6.99 | CHF 6.00 | 4.99 £ |
| Annual | 49,99 € | US$69.99 | CHF 60.00 | 49.99 £ |
The licenses are valid per user. The sales tax (VAT/GST) is included in the prices.
Currencies not listed are calculated on the basis of the Euro.
Our End User License Agreement (EULA) applies, which you can read here.
| Merlin Project (macOS) |
Merlin Project (iOS) |
Merlin Project Express |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Project Planning | |||
| AI assistant for project creation | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Template-based project creation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time- and Effort-based Planning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Milestones | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Costs/budgets | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dependencies | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Working Time Calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Activity Notes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Plan/Actual Comparison | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Dynamic Baseline | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Actual Work/Remaining Work | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Earned Value Analysis | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Automatic Resource Leveling | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Use the Central Resource Pool | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Create a New Resource Pool | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Advanced planning parameters | ✓ | ✓ | |
| WBS and Outline Codes | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Using Tags | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Using User-defined Fields | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Create New User-defined Fields | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Media Fields | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Resource Groups and Roles | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Sub-Projects | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Views | |||
| Structure View | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Gantt Chart | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Resource Management | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Net Plan | ✓ | ✓ | |
| PERT-Chart | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Organizational Chart | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Mind Map | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Kanban Board | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Utilization View | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Reports | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Limitless sub-views (view configurations) | ✓ | ✓ | |
| All Views as Detail View | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Create own views | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Multi-page printing of all views | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Display | |||
| Dark Mode | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Critical Path View | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Hide Non-working Time | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Rules-based Style System | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Time Box View | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Restrict Date Range Displayed in Gantt Chart | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Multiple Configurations Per View Type | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Own Style Rules | ✓ | ✓ | |
| More than One Window per Document | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Named Column Sets | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Undocked Inspector Window | ✓ | ||
| Tabled Dependencies Inspector | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Groupings | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Filters | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Library | ✓ | ||
| Attachments | |||
| Files | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Checklists | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Events | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Information | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Issues | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Risks | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Import | |||
| CSV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| iCal / iCalendar / ICS | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Merlin 2 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Microsoft Project | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mindmanager / Freemind / Novamind | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OmniPlan | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OPML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Export | |||
| CSV | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| iCal / iCalendar / ICS | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Images (PDF, PNG, JPEG, etc.) | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| OPML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XML | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| MS Project XML | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Mindmanager / Freemind / Novamind | ✓ | ✓ | |
| HTML | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Collaboration | |||
| Sync with Cloud Services like Dropbox or iCloud | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Users & Passwords | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Feature-oriented Access Rights | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Annotations and Comments | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Automatic Publishing | ✓ | ||
| More Features | |||
| AppleScript Automation | ✓ | ||
| Languages | |||
| German | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| English | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Spanish | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| French | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Japanese | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Simplified Chinese | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
One app for your project plan, native on every Apple device.
