What is Small Lime?
Small Lime is an open-source project management application designed as an alternative to Microsoft Project. It provides features for planning, tracking, and managing projects including:
- Creating projects and adding tasks
- Defining task durations, start/end dates, dependencies, milestones
- Assigning resources and costs to tasks
- Viewing Gantt charts for visual timelines
- Generating reports on project status, costs, resource usage
Some key advantages of Small Lime are that it is free and open source, lightweight and easy to use for individuals and small teams, cross-platform compatible, and highly customizable. Users can tailor views, fields, filters, and reports as needed. Data can also be imported/exported to share across tools.
While it lacks some advanced features of Microsoft Project, Small Lime provides a basic but capable feature set for planning and managing smaller-scale projects. Its simplicity makes it accessible for new users while still offering tools for experienced project managers. Integrations and API access allow connecting with other applications.
Overall, Small Lime is best suited for individual project managers and small organizations needing good project tracking at no cost. It makes an excellent free alternative to Microsoft Project.