10 Best Free Product Roadmap Tools For Product Managers

monday.com is a good choice for product managers who are new to the world of product roadmaps. The management software is user-friendly and offers a simple way to plan and track progress. You can quickly create a product roadmap using one of their 200+ project templates available on their freemium plan or start from scratch.

monday.com’s interface is intuitive and, once your roadmap is set up, it’s easy to visualize project status and intended trajectory. You can use their boards and customizable columns to visualize product status across time. You can even set aside a board dedicated to backlog items so nothing gets forgotten.

monday.com has a free plan for up to 2 users with limited functionality. For example, Gantt charts, timelines, and calendar views are limited to paid plans.

Wrike includes product roadmap options to help you define objectives, track deliverables, and make better product decisions. The free version lets you access task & subtask management, interactive project boards, spreadsheets, account-wide work schedules, and cloud storage integrations (Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, MSFT Office 365, and OneDrive).

You can organize and prioritize product development tasks in the way that suits your organization best—by a team, time period, or function. You can also tag tasks with priority, projected revenue, or other filters.

Wrike has a free plan available, offering limited features to an unlimited number of users.

Asana is a popular project management system with a wide range of features. Product roadmapping in Asana allows you to align tasks, document backlogs, and obtain a high-level view of project progress. The product roadmap sings as a single source of truth, keeping everyone in the team on the same page.

Plus, the free plan grants you access to over 100 third-party integrations (paid and unpaid options available), which is something that other tools lock to paid subscriptions. You can link up with time tracking apps, communication tools like Slack, and cloud storage systems.

Asana pricing includes a free plan with up to 3 project views.

Harvestr is a product management platform designed for collaboration that informs decisions according to what real users want. Customer feedback and data can be centralized for easy access, giving product managers a detailed overview of customer needs.

Features include essential integrations (a Chrome plug-in, email, Zapier), feedback categorization, feedback counts, prioritization tools, and private & public sharing options. Their free roadmapping tool will walk you through building categories, highlighting issues to address, and inviting team members to collaborate.

Harvestr has a free plan available—limited to one editor, five contributors, and 100 backlog items.

Aha! offers a suite of product development software including a roadmap tool that supports strategic planning, idea generation, product plan creation, and more. Product teams can collect ideas from their existing customer base and then prioritize new features within the platform. The strategy development tool helps teams articulate the value of their product, define their target end-user, and position themselves in the market.

When teams are ready to build their product, they can create their visual roadmap using the software. Roadmaps allow product managers to set deadlines, define work, and align initiatives with the broader strategy. Templates are available so users can start with a generalized plan, then customize it to fit their product's reality. Initiatives can be color-coded to give a visual indication of their progress.

Roadmaps can be shared as images, PDF files, or web pages, and users can craft presentations directly in the software to share their ideas with stakeholders. The software's reporting tool gives visual reports of progress and KPIs. Dashboards can be customized to show the most relevant and important data.

The software is free for 30 days, and paid plans start from $59/user/month.

Visor is a flexible spreadsheet software that helps you create and share live dashboards to display information that lives in Jira and other software.

With Visor, you can import information from Jira, HubSpot, and Salesforce and create roadmaps or other relevant views that you can share with stakeholders. Speaking specifically about Jira, you can import user stories, epics, and issues. Then, create a customized view for each type of user that will have access to the information. This way, you can have a view for a technical team and a separate one for executives.

The one thing I would like to highlight from this software is that once the views are created, you can export them to Excel or share them in Visor, and changes within Visor can be synced with your Jira instance so your systems are up to date.

Joinly is a community platform that allows product teams to collaborate on projects. You can share ideas, collect feedback and discuss issues. This platform is ideal for startups and small to medium size companies, as it is free forever with no paid subscription options (at the moment).

Joinly offers various methods to solicit community feedback, have people vote on new features, leverage collaboration and commenting, and let interested parties follow your product development Additionally, discussions, channels, and integrations are all coming soon.

Joinly is currently free for use by unlimited members.

LoopedIn recently changed branding from what used to be Productstash. This agile product roadmapping solution helps you create clear, concise roadmaps. The interactive drag and drop interface makes it easy to complete a sequence.

LoopedIn allows team members to submit ideas and add updates and keeps external stakeholders informed of progress.

A free version is available, with functionality limited to one workspace and one ideas board.

Coda is a full-featured project management platform that combines spreadsheets, documents, and product roadmaps into a single system. The software eliminates the need for a maze of Excel, PowerPoint, and Word documents.

The product roadmap features are basic but are designed to keep your team moving in the right direction. Coda includes project templates for agile teams in project management, HR, event planning, and sales.

Coda offers a free plan with limited document sizes.

Craftworks is a free product roadmap tool used (most likely in its paid iteration) by the likes of Pinterest, Google, Uber, Walmart, Paypal, and Vimeo. They have a list of 16 free resources that can be used for building a roadmap from scratch or completing roadmap items.

Craftwork provides a range of tools that can be deployed to create product roadmaps. These include flowcharts, illustration packs, wireframe kits, icons, and graphic sets. Web and app kits are also available to enhance roadmap design.

Craftwork offers a limited selection of tools for free, from flowcharts to mockups.