Haplen
A project management tool that sits between a bare-bones Trello board and heavyweight enterprise software — Gantt charts, Kanban and workload tracking without the corporate complexity.
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Description
A lot of teams outgrow Trello (too simple to plan real deadlines and dependencies) long before they're ready for something like Microsoft Project or a full enterprise PPM suite (too complex, too expensive, too much setup). Haplen was built to sit in that middle ground — real project-planning features without turning project management itself into a full-time job.
Haplen is a cloud-based work and project management platform offering Gantt charts, Kanban boards, and calendar views alongside goal setting, workload and capacity visualization, and task dependencies with milestones. It includes built-in communication tools and Zoom integration, workflow automation, real-time dashboards and reporting, time tracking and timesheets, and custom fields and forms for adapting the tool to different workflows. It's aimed broadly — marketing, operations, sales, product, creative, construction, engineering, events, finance, and media teams are all named use cases — with particular focus on Portfolio Management Offices (PMOs), embedded services organizations, and business transformation units that need to track multiple projects at once, not just a single team's task list.
💬 Our review
The short version: if Trello feels too flimsy for your team's actual project complexity but Asana or monday.com feel like overkill and overpriced, Haplen's mid-tier pricing and PMO-oriented features (multi-project Gantt/workload views) are worth a serious look.
Its pricing ($9-24/user/month across Professional, Business, and Enterprise) undercuts the bigger, more marketed competitors like Asana or monday.com at equivalent feature tiers, and the explicit focus on Portfolio Management Offices and embedded-services organizations — teams juggling several concurrent projects, not just one team's backlog — is a genuine niche most general PM tools treat as an afterthought. The free tier's 3-user cap makes it unsuitable for evaluating with a real team, so budget for at least the Professional tier to properly test it. Haplen is also a smaller, less-known player than Asana, ClickUp, or monday.com, which means a smaller ecosystem of integrations, templates, and community how-tos — worth checking that your specific must-have integrations exist before committing a whole team. Best fit: PMOs or multi-project teams (10-50 people) wanting Gantt/workload visibility without enterprise PPM pricing or complexity. Weaker fit: a single small team that just needs a simple task board — Trello remains cheaper and simpler for that case.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Gratuit jusqu'à 3 utilisateurs. Professional : 9 $/utilisateur/mois. Business : 18 $/utilisateur/mois. Enterprise : 24 $/utilisateur/mois.
Pros
Tarif inférieur à Asana ou monday.com à fonctionnalités équivalentes
Orienté PMO et organisations multi-projets — vues Gantt et charge de travail transverses
Panel complet : Gantt, Kanban, calendrier, suivi du temps, tableaux de bord temps réel
Champs et formulaires personnalisables pour s'adapter à différents workflows
Cons
Palier gratuit limité à 3 utilisateurs — inutilisable pour évaluer avec une vraie équipe
Écosystème d'intégrations et de templates plus restreint que les leaders établis
Moins connu qu'Asana/ClickUp — moins de tutoriels et de retours communautaires
Overkill pour une petite équipe qui n'a besoin que d'un tableau de tâches simple