The last two weeks were the busiest stretch LoopGantt has had. Some of it you'll notice the moment you open a project — a new view, a new dashboard, a clock in the task modal. Some of it is quieter: honest scheduling math, roles that finally work, an importer that stops mangling Microsoft Project files.
Here's everything that shipped, in the order you're most likely to feel it.
Time tracking that logs itself
Manual time logging has one fatal flaw: people forget to log. So we built the timer to be the data entry.
Open any task and start a Focus session — a 25-minute countdown that lives in a persistent chip in the header, so you can navigate anywhere in the app and still see the task name and the time left. Sessions survive a reload. When the countdown ends, LoopGantt logs a 25-minute entry against the task automatically, chimes, sends a browser notification if you've allowed them, and rolls into a 5-minute break. You never typed a number.
Prefer to log by hand? The time log now lives in the task modal's side panel, right next to comments and the checklist, and manual entries work exactly as before. And the dashboard gained a Time logged widget: per person, total minutes plus the rolling last seven days, with proportional bars — a free at-a-glance answer to "where did this week go?"
A month calendar view
The sixth way to look at a schedule, and the one every Microsoft Project migrant asks for first. Tasks render as bars across their scheduled span, clipped per week with continuation flags; milestones are diamonds on their date; overdue and critical work is tinted. Click any day and an agenda lists everything touching that date — that's also how the calendar works on a phone, where bars become density dots and a tap reads the day. Clicking a bar, a diamond, or an agenda line opens the task.
It's on desktop and in the mobile tab bar, and it's free.
A dashboard that answers the question
The project dashboard was redesigned around the one thing a stakeholder actually wants to know. The new hero tile states it in a sentence: estimated finish versus the deadline — "Nov 9 — 102 days past the Jul 31 deadline" — with one sign convention, late in red. Start and deadline stay editable tiles. Progress now shows "vs N% expected" in plain sight instead of in a tooltip.
Under the hood, everything now shares one denominator: task status counts real tasks only, with phases and milestones counted in their own widgets, which also fixes phases double-weighting their children in the progress percentage. For the PMs who want more, an opt-in PM Metrics widget houses the schedule performance index, the driving path, and the near-critical count.
Three new widgets join the set: custom-fields summary, assignee workload, and the time logged glance above. Widgets are customizable — pick what's on your dashboard and what stays in the tray.
Team workspaces: roles, invites, and leaving cleanly
The biggest gaps from our Teams field review are closed. Owners and admins can now change a member's role (admin, member, viewer) and remove members; anyone except the owner can leave. When someone leaves or is removed, the projects they owned transfer automatically — nothing goes orphaned.
Invites are no longer fire-and-forget: a pending invitations list shows who's been invited and when it expires, with resend and revoke on each row, and invitees get an in-app notification the moment an invite lands. Accepting one now switches you straight into that workspace. The project list is scoped to the workspace you're in, and the dashboard tells the truth about your role — edits you're not allowed to make are refused with a clear message instead of silently failing.
@-mention anything
Chat now has the same @-mention machinery comments had: type @ to mention a teammate, and they get a notification with a deep link straight to the message. Group threads with several people are in too.
Better still, the @ popup now lists tasks and projects below people. Pick one and it becomes a link — in chat and in comments — that opens the exact task, in the right project, in one click.
Custom fields grow up
Custom fields learned the verbs you use every day. Filter by any field type, not just selects: options, checkboxes, number ranges, dates before or after a day. Sort the Table by a field. Bulk-edit a field's value across a whole selection of tasks.
They now feed your reports, too. The PDF and Word exports carry a project-level custom-fields summary — Backlog: 2 · Review: 1, 3/4 checked, Sum 15 · Avg 7.5, next date and overdue counts — and Excel gets a summary worksheet. Duplicating a project, saving it as a template, or instantiating a template keeps every field intact.
WBS codes where you work
Outline numbers — 1, 1.1, 1.2.3 — are now available as a toggleable Table column and as chips in the Gantt task column (look in the eye menu). They're computed once from the project's structure, so the Table, the Gantt, the WBS diagram, and the PDF, Word, and Excel exports all print identical codes, and a filter or a re-sort never renumbers anything. Off by default; flip them on when you want the seriousness signal.
Smaller things you'll notice
- Settings are pages now. The old settings dialog is retired in favor of a grouped sidebar — Account, Preferences, Workspace, Billing — with new pages for profile, export defaults, calendars, and billing.
- Double-click a Table row to open the task editor. Single-click rename is untouched.
- Honest scheduling. A task only reads blocked once its scheduled start has arrived and an unfinished predecessor is what's holding it. Marking progress 100% marks a task complete and vice versa, everywhere. The progress scrubber got a bigger hit zone and stops losing the handle on a fast drag.
- Microsoft Project import fidelity. Real exports write
<Summary>, not<IsSummary>— phases now import as phases instead of flattening and adding phantom days. Lag units are converted correctly, and dates no longer shift a day west of UTC. - Deleted a project at the free limit? The slot frees up immediately — no more refresh to make the "Upgrade" prompt go away.
- Branded confirmation and password-recovery emails, a right-click menu on project cards, a confirmation before unpinning a sidebar project, neutral surfaces across every color theme, and phase spans in the exported schedule tables.
Try it
Open a task, start a Focus session, and let the timer do the logging. Then switch to the Calendar view and see the same schedule laid out by month. If you're on a team, head to your workspace's Members page — roles and invites are waiting.