ClickUp vs Zametek.ProjectPlan
Zametek.ProjectPlan is a narrower, open-source desktop application for designing and tracking project plans, with a CLI suited to batch processing and CI. Choose it when local control, source access, schedule planning, or scripted plan compilation matters more than collaboration breadth. Choose ClickUp when teams need a shared work-management service spanning task collaboration, documents, dashboards, chat, forms, or
Decision guide
The practical reasons to choose either option, based on documented capabilities.
Choose Zametek.ProjectPlan if
- Individuals or small teams creating and tracking structured project schedules in a desktop application
- Organizations requiring BSD-2-Clause source code they can inspect and modify
- Teams that need command-line plan compilation, machine-readable metrics, or chart generation in CI and batch workflows
Stay with ClickUp if
- You need collaborative documents or workspace wikis; these are not documented for Zametek.ProjectPlan.
- You need team chat, forms, whiteboards, goals, OKRs, dashboards, time tracking, or workspace-aware AI; the supplied project documentation does not cover these capabilities.
- You need ClickUp-style assignments, reminders, recurring tasks, custom fields, permissions, or workflow automations; equivalent coverage is not documented for Zametek.ProjectPlan specifically for this alternative.
Deployment and operations
Zametek.ProjectPlan is a BSD-2-Clause, cross-platform desktop application available as a download or buildable from source. Building requires .NET 10 SDK or later. Linux and WSL binaries may require additional font, GTK, and X11-related packages. Releases include portable archives; the Windows MSI must be built locally because CI does not produce it. No Docker or Kubernetes deployment is documented, so this is not presented as a browser-based self-hosted ClickUp replacement. Maintenance of a自建
Migration considerations
The CLI can import Microsoft Project or Excel input and convert it to the native .zpp format. The supplied material documents no direct ClickUp importer, exporter, API compatibility, or preservation of ClickUp workspace structures, so migration from ClickUp would require an independently validated transfer process.
Feature fit
What Zametek.ProjectPlan covers
- Project-plan creation
- Project tracking
- Gantt-style output
- Scenario-based planning
- Project metrics
What’s different or missing
- Collaborative docs and wikis
- Team chat
- Dashboards, goals, and OKRs
- Workflow automations
- Time tracking and timesheets
- Forms and whiteboards
- Workspace-aware AI
- Documented ClickUp import
Project snapshot
- GitHub stars
- 237
- Contributors
- 13
- Language
- C#
- Last commit
- Aug 15, 2026
- Latest release
- Aug 15, 2026
Categories: Workflow Automation, Knowledge Management, Project Management, Task Management, Digital Whiteboards
Sources and editorial review10 linked sources
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A simple, Open Source, and cross-platform desktop alternative to Microsoft Project for designing and creating project plans.
repository description · github.comIt can be also used as a free and simple desktop alternative to Microsoft Project for project planning and tracking.
readme · github.comThe solution also ships a headless command line tool, zpp, which opens or imports a project, compiles it, and produces any combination of outputs without launching the desktop app.
readme · github.comImport from Microsoft Project or Excel, and convert to a project file.
readme · github.comA simple, Open Source, and cross-platform desktop alternative to Microsoft Project for designing and creating project plans.
verdict · github.comHowever, it can be also used as a free and simple desktop alternative to Microsoft Project for project planning and tracking.
shared feature · github.comThe solution also ships a headless command line tool, `zpp` (the `Zametek.ProjectPlan.CommandLine` project), which opens or imports a project, compiles it, and produces any combination of outputs without launching the desktop app - useful for scripting, CI pipelines, and batch processing.
best for · github.comEvery project in the solution targets `net10.0`, so you need the [.NET 10 SDK](https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/download/dotnet/10.0) (or above) installed to build and run it - earlier SDKs (such as .NET 8) will not build the solution.
deployment · github.comNote that the MSI is not produced by CI - the release workflow ships only the portable zip / tar.gz archives - so the installer must be built locally.
deployment · github.comImport from Microsoft Project or Excel, and convert to a project file:
migration · github.com
