Microsoft Planner

byMicrosoft
in
4.3
Market Presence: Project and Portfolio ManagementCollaborative Work Management

Overview

Product Information on Microsoft Planner

Updated 3rd December 2024

What is Microsoft Planner?

Microsoft Planner is a task management tool designed for team collaboration and project organization. It allows users to create plans, assign tasks, set deadlines, and track progress through a visual interface. As part of Microsoft 365, Planner enables real-time collaboration and communication within teams. Features like drag-and-drop task management, customizable labels, and progress charts help streamline workflows and improve task tracking. Users can also utilize templates, share comments, and plan tasks with tools like Copilot, all integrated into a single platform for effective project management.

Overall experience with Microsoft Planner

Senior Strategy Business Development
1B - 3B USD, Transportation
FAVORABLE

Microsoft Planner Excels In Task Management While Missing Advanced Planning Capabilities

5.0
Aug 5, 2025
Microsoft Planner has displayed high dependability and significant work management support. The software has a tight and successful integration support with Microsoft Apps like SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, and others, bringing a unified work space where roles and tasks are shared. Microsoft Planner has transparency and reliability, where tracking of individual tasks and deadlines promotes transparency.
HEAD OF MARKETING
<50M USD, Miscellaneous
CRITICAL

Microsoft's Planner: A Potentially Great Product Hindered by Multiple Apps

3.0
Sep 27, 2024
Planner is a good, fairly limited task manager in the style of many others, but frustratingly held back by Microsoft's insistence in having three separate apps instead of one. My personal tasks are in To-Do, Planner for team projects, then Project for more complex team projects. These 3 apps exist together in this weird overlapping ecosystem which forces you to use them all for slightly different purposes and then use Teams Planner as some sort of dashboard to try and tie them all together. It doesn't work. Many competing products just do all of these things with one app. It's nearly a great product, but unfortunately I always find myself returning to alternative project management apps.

About Company

Company Description

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD

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Microsoft Planner Reviews and Ratings

4.3

(709 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
41%
4 Star
50%
3 Star
8%
2 Star
1%
1 Star
0%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.4

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.3

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  • Senior Strategy Business Development
    1B-10B USD
    Transportation
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    Microsoft Planner Excels In Task Management While Missing Advanced Planning Capabilities

    5.0
    Aug 5, 2025
    Microsoft Planner has displayed high dependability and significant work management support. The software has a tight and successful integration support with Microsoft Apps like SharePoint, Outlook, Teams, and others, bringing a unified work space where roles and tasks are shared. Microsoft Planner has transparency and reliability, where tracking of individual tasks and deadlines promotes transparency.
  • IT ASSOCIATE
    <50M USD
    Hardware
    Review Source

    Fantastic tool that can be utilized to track progress and notes.

    4.0
    Oct 16, 2025
    Easy to use and integrate meeting notes and actions that are assigned. Utilizes the Microsoft Teams environment so if heavy users of Teams, it can be beneficial.
  • Line Maintenance Technician
    1B-10B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Microsoft Planner Aids Work Management, But Lacks Advanced Project Management Features

    5.0
    Jul 22, 2025
    Microsoft Planner has comprehensive capabilities that create an intuitive and clean way of work management and collaboration. The app has a layout that is visual card-based, making it efficient to assign responsibilities, track progress and adjust roles. Microsoft Planner works alongside Microsoft 365, more so SharePoint, Outlook, and Teams, keeping communication and tasks in a single platform.
  • NETWORK TECHNICIAN
    1B-10B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    A Visual and Collaborative Way To Manage Tasks and Project

    5.0
    Aug 24, 2025
    Microsoft Planner has been an oustanding experience. It organizes work visuals, tracks progress on tasks and allows collaboration on ongoing projects.
  • DATA ANALYST
    10B+ USD
    Travel and Hospitality
    Review Source

    Team Collaboration Enhanced With Simple Task Management and Custom Organization Options

    4.0
    Nov 4, 2025
    My team uses Planner to align projects and report progress week over week. We create tasks for each ongoing project and keep the details and subtasks updated so leaders can see the current state of all of the work our team is doing. Planner is easy to navigate, and the features are intuitive for the user to implement
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