Comparisons

Linetrack head-to-head
with the planning tool you use today

This page sorts out every Linetrack comparison. Eight of them put Linetrack head-to-head with a tool that planning actually happens in today: Excel, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Trello, Asana, Monday.com, Stackfield and Microsoft To Do. Two compare against a system category rather than a product: the ERP project module and the detailed scheduling system. If you do not have a specific tool in mind yet, start one level up, with the software categories.

Linetrack as one shared data foundation for schedules and capacity, next to the planning tools in common use today

In short

Linetrack comparisons come on two levels. The software comparison splits the market into five categories: Excel and home-grown solutions, classic project planning software, agile PM tools, ERP project modules, and APS and detailed scheduling systems. Ten head-to-head comparisons go into detail: eight against a specific tool, two against the ERP project module and the detailed scheduling system. If you plan in Excel, you run into the file with exactly one owner. If you plan in Microsoft Project or Primavera P6, you have solid scheduling logic, but a plan with one author or a dedicated planning role. If you use Trello, Asana, Monday.com, Stackfield or Microsoft To Do, the team works on tasks together; scheduling and capacity planning across several projects are missing there or depend on the pricing tier. If your hours live in an ERP project module or a detailed scheduling system, you have costing or loading, but no dates across projects and departments. The question is the same in every case: is the plan maintained jointly, and does it still carry the scheduling logic across all projects?

91 %

named Excel and tool sprawl
as their starting problem

56 %

had a live interface running
within the first six months

1512+

industrial projects
managed in parallel

4000+

completed
industrial projects

Every figure on this page comes from a full survey of all live Linetrack implementations, as of August 2026. Multiple answers were possible for the starting problems.

Where to start

Which comparison applies to you?

What matters is where the binding schedule sits today. The head-to-head comparisons are sorted by tool class, because tools in the same class reach their limit at the same point. Each card names that limit in a single sentence, plus the case in which your current tool remains the right choice.

No specific tool in mind yet?

Then start one level up: which five categories of multi-project management software exist, what each one covers and when each one fits.

Multi-project management software compared

Tool class

Excel and home-grown solutions

Calculates freely and is everywhere. But the file is maintained by exactly one person.

Microsoft Excel

The difference

A file has exactly one owner, which is where copies and competing versions come from; a shared data foundation has roles and rights per area of responsibility.

Excel stays right when

the same person plans, maintains and decides on a single, manageable project – or when the job is free-form calculation rather than scheduling.

Linetrack vs. Excel

Tool class

Classic project planning software

Solid scheduling logic with a critical path. The plan sits with one planner or a dedicated planning role.

Microsoft Project

The difference

The dividing line is not the scheduling maths, it is the number of people involved: a plan with exactly one author versus a data foundation where every department maintains its own share.

Microsoft Project stays right when

one person plans a single undertaking through in depth, or when variations and claims call for mature delay analytics.

Linetrack vs. Microsoft Project

Oracle Primavera P6

The difference

The difference lies in scope and operating model, not in quality: P6 assumes a scheduler role owns the plan, Linetrack assumes many people own it.

Primavera P6 stays right when

you run EPC and large plant projects, or when the schedule itself is a contractual deliverable.

Linetrack vs. Oracle Primavera P6

Tool class

Agile PM and task tools

The team works on tasks together. Scheduling and capacity planning across several projects are missing or depend on the pricing tier.

Trello

The difference

Trello organizes tasks on individual boards without dependencies or capacity planning; Linetrack combines scheduling, resources, and ERP in one system.

Trello stays right when

a single team tracks simple, largely independent tasks visually.

Linetrack vs. Trello

Asana

The difference

Asana offers scheduling and workload views, but without resource-aware date shifting or native ERP integration.

Asana stays right when

tasks are coordinated across departments without shared resources being the central concern.

Linetrack vs. Asana

Monday.com

The difference

Monday.com is a flexible no-code platform where scheduling and resource management have to be configured and are mostly only available on its top tier.

Monday.com stays right when

a company wants a customizable platform for many different processes, not just project management.

Linetrack vs. Monday.com

Stackfield

The difference

Stackfield is a secure all-in-one collaboration suite with a Gantt view, but without documented cross-project capacity utilization or native ERP integration.

Stackfield stays right when

a secure, encrypted communication and document hub for many industries is the priority.

Linetrack vs. Stackfield

Microsoft To Do

The difference

Microsoft To Do is a personal checklist with no project features; Linetrack runs several projects with shared resources.

Microsoft To Do stays right when

a single person manages their own tasks, without team or resource coordination.

Linetrack vs. Microsoft To Do

Tool class

ERP project modules and detailed scheduling

Both work with the hours from the ERP, as costing or as loading in production. Linetrack does not replace them and puts the schedule across projects and departments behind them.

ERP project module

The difference

The ERP costs hours and money per WBS element; Linetrack takes over those budgets and plans when they fall in which department.

The ERP project module is enough when

project controlling is the actual job and dates are not coordinated across departments.

Linetrack vs. ERP project module

Detailed scheduling system

The difference

Detailed scheduling spreads ERP hours across the machines and staff of one department; Linetrack spreads them across projects that pass through many departments.

Detailed scheduling stays right when

production is pure series production or machine loading is the bottleneck.

Linetrack vs. detailed scheduling system

At a glance

What each tool class covers

The five categories from the software comparison, set against fifteen requirements from everyday project work. This is a rough classification. Tools within a class differ, and with agile tools often by pricing tier alone; those cells show a ~, and the head-to-head comparison has the details.

Requirement	Excel	Classic planners	Agile tools	ERP modules	APS / detailed scheduling
Team task management	~	~	✓	~	~	✓
Project scheduling	~	✓	~	~	✕	✓
Gantt and milestones	~	✓	~	~	✕	✓
Dates with dependencies	✕	✓	~	~	✕	✓
Formal delay analysis for claims	✕	✓	✕	✕	✕	~
Capacity across all projects	✕	~	~	✕	✓	✓
Department and resource planning	✕	✕	✕	~	✓	✓
ERP integration	✕	✕	✕	✓	✓	✓
Time tracking connected	✕	✕	✕	~	✓	✓
Collaborative, not single-user	✕	✕	~	~	~	✓
Shared data foundation	✕	✕	✕	~	~	✓
External suppliers involved	✕	✕	✕	✕	~	✓
Automatic status tracking	✕	✕	✕	✕	✓	✓
Free-form ad-hoc calculation	✓	✕	✕	✕	✕	✕
Ease of use	~	✕	✓	✕	✕	✓
Head-to-head comparison	Microsoft Excel	Microsoft Project Oracle Primavera P6	Trello Asana Monday.com Stackfield Microsoft To Do	ERP project module	Detailed scheduling system

fully supported limited or tier-dependent not available

For a specific tool, the head-to-head comparison is more precise than any row in this table.

Core argument

Maintained jointly and sound in its scheduling logic

Ten head-to-head comparisons, one dividing line. Each of these systems does something better than Linetrack: Excel calculates more freely, Microsoft Project and Primavera P6 go deeper methodologically, Trello or Asana are quicker to set up, the ERP handles the costing.

The real question: is the plan maintained jointly, and does it still carry the scheduling logic across all projects? Excel does neither, classic planners only the second, agile tools only the first.

The test: who enters, on a Friday afternoon, that assembly will start two weeks later? If there is no paid planning role for that, only the department itself keeps the plan current.

That is what Linetrack is built for: roles and rights per area of responsibility, all projects on one data foundation, the capacity histogram directly below the bar chart. More under collaborative project management.

91 %

named Excel and tool sprawl as their starting problem

1512+

industrial projects managed in parallel

Honest boundaries

When switching is not worth it

These cases come from the head-to-head comparisons, where each is stated without a counter-argument. They hold regardless of which tool is in use today:

One project, one owner. When the same person plans, maintains and decides, there is no coordination loss for a shared data foundation to absorb. For a single, manageable undertaking the Excel file is the right size; for one planned through in depth by exactly one planner, Microsoft Project is.
One team with largely independent tasks. If there are no fixed dependencies between work steps and nobody is scheduled across several projects, there is no need for scheduling logic across projects. Trello or Asana is then the quicker start, and for a personal checklist Microsoft To Do is enough.
Formal schedule analytics: claims, proof of delay. Where delays have to be demonstrated formally, variations substantiated or causes of delay reconstructed after the fact, the network analytics of Microsoft Project and Primavera P6 is the more suitable tool. Linetrack computes the critical path and compares baselines against scenarios, but it does not claim that formal analytical depth for contractual proof.
The schedule itself is a deliverable. Some clients explicitly require schedules in MS Project format, including a prescribed structure and task numbering; public clients, oil and gas and major infrastructure programmes require P6 schedules in a defined format and reporting rhythm. Where that is written into the contract, the tool question is already answered.
An established operation with its own planning role. If Project Online is already administered and mastered by the project managers, the enterprise layer exists and is paid for. Where a planning department runs the P6 methodology confidently, switching solves no problem – it removes a working foundation.

Scheduling and capacity planning in Linetrack across several departments and parallel projects

There is also a division of labour that stays in place: for ad-hoc calculations, data preparation and free-form what-if analysis, Excel is faster than any planning system – including in companies that plan with Linetrack. Switching only pays off once several departments have to maintain the same plan, or several projects compete for the same people. From that point the question moves from visualization to organization – and therefore to multi-project management.

Method

How we compare

This page is a vendor comparison. It is written by Linetrack, and Linetrack is one of the parties being compared. That belongs at the top, not in a footnote.

The Linetrack figures come from a full survey of all live Linetrack implementations, as of August 2026. Multiple answers were possible for the starting problems. It is neither a sample nor a market study, and shares are deliberately given as percentages.

The statements about Excel, Microsoft Project, Primavera P6, Trello, Asana, Monday.com, Stackfield and Microsoft To Do describe the products as their vendors publicly document them. ERP project modules and detailed scheduling systems are compared as a category, without naming individual vendors; where user reports are drawn on, the head-to-head comparison says so. They are not measurements and not a benchmark: nothing was run against anything else and no times were taken. The tool class table is a rough classification, not a score.

Collaborative planning in Linetrack, with every department maintaining its own share

Where another tool can do more, this page and the individual comparisons say so explicitly – the critical path being the clearest example. No separate figures exist for replaced Primavera installations, which is why none appear here. What cannot be substantiated is better settled in a first conversation than in a chart.

Switching over

Moving off the tool you use today

The import is a finished standard function and part of the product: schedules from Microsoft Project and Primavera, project and task lists from Excel and master data from SAP are read in instead of being retyped. No separate interface development is needed – which means the existing planning is not an argument against switching.

The qualification belongs with it: this is a data migration, not an ongoing sync between two systems. What Linetrack keeps permanently in sync is ERP, time-tracking and HR data; which systems those are in detail is set out in the interfaces and integrations overview.

Work breakdown structure in Linetrack with tasks, durations and dependencies after the data migration

What matters afterwards is not the import but the first plan of your own. It takes ten working days from kick-off to go-live, regardless of company size. The phased process behind it is described on the implementation page.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Still have questions?

Book a meeting with our team.

Which comparison is the right one for us?

The one that matches the tool holding the binding schedule today. If planning happens in spreadsheets, it is Linetrack vs. Excel. If a planner runs the schedule in Microsoft Project or a planning role works in Primavera P6, it is Linetrack vs. Microsoft Project or Linetrack vs. Oracle Primavera P6; the same goes for Trello, Asana, Monday.com, Stackfield and Microsoft To Do. If the hours live in an ERP project module or a detailed scheduling system, it is Linetrack vs. ERP project module or Linetrack vs. detailed scheduling system. Where several tools are in use, the comparison with the project managers' tool is the right place to start. If you have not got as far as the tool question, start with multi-project management software compared.

We plan with two tools at once – what does the switch look like then?

That is the normal case, not the exception: schedules in MS Project, capacity and order lists in Excel alongside them. Both imports are standard functions and run one after the other into the same data foundation. The effort does not come from the number of source tools, it comes from agreeing how deep the planning should go and which department maintains which share. Which systems are connected permanently beyond that is covered under interfaces and integrations.

What does Linetrack cost – regardless of what we plan with today?

From 10 € per user and month, modular by number of users, roles and the functional modules booked. Testing before the decision is free of charge, and suppliers receive a free collaboration licence. Linetrack does not comment on Microsoft's or Oracle's licence models – they depend on product and contract and they change. A reliable figure for your setup comes out of a first conversation.

What does Linetrack explicitly not do?

Linetrack does not record working times and does not resolve an overload by itself. It also does not replan automatically: the software calculates a shift through the chain, marks the critical path and shows the consequence – the decision is made by people. And it is not intended for schedules that are contractually owed in a particular format.

Can we keep running Linetrack alongside Microsoft Project, Primavera or Excel?

Yes. Individual plans may still be built in MS Project and imported for the cross-project view. For ad-hoc calculations and reports, companies running Linetrack still export to Excel. And needing Primavera P6 for one large project does not mean the rest of the portfolio has to be run there as well.

Where do the figures in these comparisons come from?

The Linetrack figures come from a full survey of all live Linetrack implementations, as of August 2026; multiple answers were possible for the starting problems. The statements about the other tools describe the products as their vendors publicly document them. They are not measurements and not a benchmark. No separate figures exist for replaced Primavera installations.

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