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Process Tracker

A process diagram planner made for the wall of the progress meeting — not for a software manual. Commissioning, approvals, campaign launches, audits: if the work moves through gates, it fits.

Try it free — no time limit Buy the licence — US$49

A shared Google Sheet or an installed desktop app · Built by a planner, for planners

Four steps, start to wall

1

Table in

Type the activities — or paste them straight from Excel or Google Sheets.

2

Diagram out

Lanes, shapes and a month axis draw themselves from your dates.

3

Tick progress

Done goes grey with its actual date. Anything past the current date shows red — in words as well as colour.

4

On the wall

The Current Status view is the meeting’s page: the diagram as it stands today, with the counts beside it — done, overdue, next gate. Put it on the screen or print it.

The method behind the diagram is written up in the first of the guides: Track the gates, not the bars.

Two editions, free to evaluate. One licence.

The evaluation is the complete product — every feature, nothing expires, the only mark a quiet “For evaluation only” on your own screen. Try everything. Pay when it has earned its place: one US$49 key covers both editions.

Which edition is for you?

The same planner, the same diagrams, the same licence key. The difference is where the work lives.

Choose the Google Sheet if…

  • A team edits together. Everyone you share the Sheet with works on the same diagrams, live, through the web app it publishes.
  • Your work already lives in Google Drive. The Sheet sits beside the rest of the project; sharing is ordinary Drive sharing.
  • You switch computers. Nothing to install; open it from any desktop browser where you are signed in.
  • Your organisation is fine with Google Apps Script. The web app is a script that runs inside your own Sheet — most Google workspaces allow it. If yours restricts scripts, the Desktop App needs no such permission.

Choose the Desktop App if…

  • You plan alone, or hand files over. One data file holds a project’s diagrams; keep it with the project, back it up, pass it on.
  • Google is off the table. No Google account, no Apps Script, no workspace policy to clear — it needs nothing from anyone.
  • You work offline or on site. Once installed it runs from its own icon without internet.
  • You use Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome on a computer. It installs from the browser in one click. Supported browsers: Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome on a computer. Safari, iPhone and iPad are not supported — the app cannot keep its data file up to date there. Firefox cannot install it.

Still unsure? Start with the Google Sheet if your team is on Google, the Desktop App otherwise — diagrams move between the two with export and import, and one licence key covers both.

Google Sheet

Free

Version 2.0 · evaluate as long as you need.

  • Every diagram in one Google Sheet you own — edited live by everyone you share it with
  • Import from Excel, Google Sheets, or any standalone copy
  • Current Status view — today’s diagram with its counts, ready for the wall or the screen
  • Snapshots to send — one page anyone can open, no account needed
  • Runs in your own Google account — we never see your data
Get it free on the shop

Desktop App

Free

Version 2.0 · evaluate as long as you need.

  • Supported browsers: Microsoft Edge or Google Chrome on a computer. Safari, iPhone and iPad are not supported — the app cannot keep its data file up to date there. (Firefox is not supported)
  • Works offline; no account anywhere
  • Your diagrams live in data files you own
  • Current Status view — today’s diagram with its counts, ready for the wall or the screen
  • Import from Excel, Google Sheets, or the Sheet edition
Get it free on the shop

Licence

US$49

One-time. One key covers both editions.

  • For continued commercial use — the evaluation is the trial
  • “Licensed to” your organisation, or you — exactly as you write it at checkout
  • A year of updates and email support; everything keeps working when the year ends
  • Any number of devices; the key is verified inside the product, offline
  • Renew for another year when you want it — US$29 at cycleclose.com/renew; the new year starts when the old one ends, never before
Buy the licence

Your key arrives by email within a minute of purchase.

The bridge: Process Tracker licence owners get US$49 off the licence for Cycleclose, the progress update tool, at launch.