Gantt Chart Maker: Free Project Timeline Images
Making a Gantt chart image is quick: open the free gantt chart maker, add a row for each task with a start and end date, set the progress, and download a PNG or SVG. It's the fastest way to turn a list of tasks into a timeline anyone can read, without fighting a spreadsheet's chart menu.
What a gantt chart showsWhat a Gantt chart shows
A Gantt chart places each task as a horizontal bar on a shared date axis. Where the bar sits tells you when the work starts and ends, and how long the bar is tells you the duration. Stack a few of them and the overlaps jump out, which is the reason the format has stuck around since Henry Gantt popularized it a century ago.
You reach for one when timing is the story:
- Roadmaps: phases from research to launch, so everyone sees what lands when.
- Sprints: each workstream as its own colored bar across a two-week window.
- Calendars: content or campaign tasks, from draft to publish.
You could list the same dates in a table, but a table makes the reader do the layout in their head. A Gantt chart draws it for them. The gaps, the crunch weeks, and the tasks running in parallel all read at a glance instead of one row at a time.
Make one freeMake one free
Open the gantt chart maker. You add a row for each task, type its label, and enter a start and an end. Give a task a percent and its bar fills to show how far along it is; leave the percent blank and the bar stays solid. The timeline redraws as you type, so you can nudge dates until the plan reads clearly.
There's no account to create and nothing to install. Pick a bar color, or load the sprint preset to color each task by team. Switch to a dark background when the chart is headed for slides or social. When it looks right, you download a clean PNG for docs, or an SVG if you want it sharp at any size. No signup, no watermark, no credit card.
That handles the one-off. If you rebuild the same plan every week or need one chart per project, keep reading.
Embed it anywhereEmbed it anywhere
A Gantt chart from the tool is just an image, which is what makes it easy to place. Drop it into a slide, paste it into an email, or add it to a doc. In markdown or HTML, one line does it:
Static files are fine for a fixed plan. But schedules slip, and you don't want to redraw the chart by hand every time a date moves. Embed a render URL instead of a saved file and the image regenerates on each load, so the timeline reflects the current tasks without you reopening anything. Same one-line embed, live data behind it.
Generate at scaleGenerate at scale
When you need more than one chart, the API takes over. A single render call turns your tasks into a finished image, and you swap the data per request. One design covers every project tracker, every status report, or every automated update.
Here are the paths, from least to most hands-off:
- API: the API docs walk through a render call with working examples ready to paste.
- Component: the Gantt chart works as an API component. Define the tasks, colors, and progress as fields, then render whenever. See the gantt component for what's configurable.
- AI agent: an AI agent can build the chart over MCP, so you describe the plan in plain language and it produces the image.
Pick the level that fits. A quick script wants the API, a repeatable design wants the component, and a hands-off workflow hands it to an agent.
Start with the gantt chart makerStart with the Gantt chart maker
For a single chart, the gantt chart maker gets you a PNG or SVG in a minute, free and unwatermarked. To automate it, read the gantt component reference, then wire it up through the API docs or hand it to an AI agent.
The free plan includes 100 renders a month, which is plenty to test the automated path before you scale it. Build the timeline that finally makes your plan click for the people reading it.