liveplanner vs Monday.com
A free Monday.com alternative
Monday.com is a flexible, colourful work platform with boards of items, many column types and a deep set of automations. liveplanner covers the everyday core of that, boards with fields of your own, dashboards and forms, in a free planner you can start without an account.
At a glance
| Feature | liveplanner | Monday.com |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free, every feature | Paid plans per seat, with a free plan |
| Start without an account | Yes, create and edit as a guest | An account to create a board |
| Custom fields | Card types with text, number, date, choice and linked-card fields | Many column types on each board |
| Dashboards | Dashboard tabs of live boards, sheets, charts and notes | Dashboards of widgets across boards |
| Automation | API, MCP and CLI for scripts and AI agents | Built-in automation recipes and integrations |
Which to pick
Why pick liveplanner
- Free for every person and every feature, with no seats to count as the team grows.
- Card types with fields of your own, and one card that can sit on several boards at once.
- Dashboards whose slots are live: work on the board, edit the sheet, and watch the chart redraw, all on one page.
- Sheet tabs with over 150 functions, conditional formatting, dropdowns and charts from any cells.
- Forms on a public link, with sections, a closing date or a response limit, and each answer landing as a card or a row.
- No account needed to start, and share links at three levels for the people you work with.
Where Monday.com is the better pick
- You want built-in automation recipes and a broad marketplace of integrations, set up without code.
- Your teams run CRM, service or development work on purpose-built products from the same vendor.
- You need enterprise permissions, audit and administration at scale.
Boards, fields and dashboards, without seats
Monday.com charges by seat, so adding a person to the work is a purchasing decision. In liveplanner it is a link. Every feature is free for everyone, and a guest can open a shared plan and work on it with you straight away.
The building blocks will feel familiar: boards of cards, card types that carry the fields your team tracks, swimlanes by any field, header widgets that count what is due or stale, and Dashboard tabs that lay boards, sheets and charts out in rows of slots, each one live.
Where Monday.com goes further
Monday.com has invested heavily in no-code automation and integrations, and in products built for particular teams. liveplanner does not have automation recipes. What it has instead is an open interface: a REST API, an MCP server and a command-line tool, so a script or an AI agent can do the routine moving and tidying for you.
Free, private, and yours to keep
liveplanner is free for everyone, with no paid tier, no ads and no third-party trackers. A board exports as CSV, an image, a PDF or a Markdown outline and a sheet as CSV, so your work is never locked in.
A board imports a CSV or TSV file: each row becomes a card, landing in the column its Status names and with the person its Assignee names. Only a title is required, and one undo takes the whole import back.
Monday.com alternative FAQ
Is liveplanner a free alternative to Monday.com?
Can I bring my Monday.com boards across?
Does liveplanner have automations?
Do guests need an account?
See how it feels
No sign-up, nothing to install, free forever. Start a plan and judge for yourself.
Comparisons reflect each product’s general positioning and may change. Check Monday.com’s own site for current details. Last reviewed .