Your Gantt says green. Your action list in Excel says 47 open points. Hedera puts them in one place — no installation, no server, no license per seat.
Designed for how project managers actually work.
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Your schedule lives in MS Project. Your action list lives in Excel. Every Monday morning, you open both. You cross-check deadlines. You chase people for updates. You copy-paste status from one file to the other.
By Wednesday, they're already out of sync. Your Gantt says the project is on track. Your LOP (List of Open Points) has 30 items, three of them overdue. In the gate review, someone asks "what's the real status?" and the answer depends on which file you're looking at. This isn't a tool problem. It's a structure problem.
"I am spending most of my time with status updates. My work is to disturb people's workflow, get an update, and key it into our Excel sheets. It's a huge waste of time."
— Key Manager, global hardware manufacturer
"Manage of each file is very hard and take a long time — I must open each file, check status, send reminder to responsible persons..."
— PM managing 30-40 APQP files/year, Elsmar Cove forum
Update once. Done.
Six reasons your schedule and action list belong in one tool.
Click a cell. Type. Tab to next column. Enter to add a task. No dialogs, no forms, no wizards. If you know Excel, you know Hedera.
All four task dependencies. Critical path. Auto-scheduling that updates the whole project when something moves.
When a task moves, Hedera tells you why. Right-click any date → "Why this date?" → see exactly what's driving it.
No server. No account. No subscription. No installation. Open the HTML file in any browser. Works offline. Data stays on your machine.
Your project lives in a single .hds file — lightweight JSON. Email it to a colleague. They open it in their browser. The file IS the project.
Built-in audit trail. Start a review → make changes → finish → get a summary of everything that changed. Copy to email in one click.
Hedera is the Latin word for ivy — the plant that grows up a tree, reaching along every branch without changing its shape.
That's how this tool works. Your project has its own structure — phases, gates, tasks, open points. Hedera grows along it. As deep as you want, no deeper.
Task table on the left, timeline on the right. Drag to reschedule, resize to change duration, draw arrows between tasks. Critical path in red.
Your action list. Open points, who owns what, what's overdue. Subtasks under each task. The view you bring to weekly meetings.
Parts down, operations across. See at a glance where every part is in every step. Click a cell to drill in. Built for any program tracking multiple parts through shared operations.
You manage APQP timelines across 20 suppliers, each with their own tooling, PPAP, and testing milestones. You need to see dependencies across workstreams — not just a flat task list.
Your schedule changes every shift. When new work comes up, you need to see what it pushes — fast. Every day of delay costs serious money.
You tried the "real" tools. They were too slow, too complex, or too expensive. You went back to Excel — but you miss auto-scheduling and dependency tracking. Hedera gives you both.
Your team members are in 3 countries and 4 time zones. They need to see the schedule and update their tasks — without VPN, without licenses, without training.
A program manager runs 7 automotive projects. Maintains two separate systems — Gantt in one tool, task list in another. Manually cascades dates after every change. Builds reports by hand before every meeting.
One tool. Gantt + LOP + subtask checklists. Auto-cascading dates. Change reports generated automatically. The same work — in a third of the time.
Real workflows, step by step.
| Hedera | MS Project | Smartsheet | Monday / Asana | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $360/yr | $228/yr | $108/yr |
| Installation | None | 4 GB + Windows | Cloud only | Cloud only |
| Startup time | < 1 second | 10–30 s | Network | Network |
| Learning curve | 5 minutes | Days – weeks | Hours | Hours |
| Works offline | ✓ | Partial | No | No |
| Critical Path (CPM) | ✓ | ✓ | Partial | No |
| Dependency types | All 4 | All 4 | FS only | FS only |
| Explains scheduling | ✓ | No | No | No |
| Data location | Your machine | Your machine | Cloud | Cloud |
| Corporate audit risk | None | License audit | Cloud DPA | Cloud DPA |
Most scheduling tools either live in the cloud, or need to be installed. Hedera is neither. It's just a file. You open it in your browser.
Your existing backup, encryption, and data classification policies cover .hds files automatically — because they're just files on your drive.
Single .zip file, ~3 MB
Anywhere on your computer
hds.html in Chrome, Edge, or Firefox
Click a cell, enter task name, press Tab
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