What's included
The template lays out a single working week, each day pre-filled with a representative task so you can adapt rather than start from a blank page:
- Monday — Kickoff — align on goals for the week and confirm what "done" looks like.
- Tuesday — Deep work — the focused block where the main effort begins.
- Wednesday — Build — the core of the work, carrying forward from Tuesday.
- Thursday — Review — check progress, gather feedback, fix what's off.
- Friday — Ship — finish and deliver. Milestone: week complete.
The 7-day grid explained
The template spans Monday to Sunday so it fits any working pattern, but the online editor's working-day calendar lets you hide the weekend so it reads as a clean five-day work week. Each task is a bar sitting on the day it happens; multi-day work simply stretches across columns. Because the grid is day-level, there's nowhere for slippage to hide — a task that spills past its day is obvious the moment you update it.
When to use a weekly view
Reach for the weekly template when the whole effort fits inside a handful of days and you need to coordinate it hour by hour rather than week by week: a sprint, a launch week, an onboarding, an event week, or a tight client deliverable. If your work spans several weeks or months, a wider lens reads better — jump to the monthly or quarterly view instead so the chart isn't a mile long. The weekly view is about near-term precision, not long-range planning.
How to customize free
- Set Monday's date so the seven-day grid lines up with your week in the free online editor.
- Rename the daily tasks — Kickoff, Deep work, Build, Review and Ship are placeholders for your real work.
- Add owners so it doubles as a simple weekly schedule for the team.
- Link dependencies so the week reflows if an early task slips.
- Duplicate the week and shift the dates to roll a recurring weekly plan forward in seconds.
Tips
- Keep tasks to a day or two. If a bar spans the whole week, break it down — weekly views reward small, trackable tasks.
- Front-load the risky work. Put the item most likely to slip on Monday or Tuesday so there's room to recover by Friday.
- Protect the Friday milestone. Treat "week complete" as a fixed gate and cut scope earlier in the week if needed.
- Update daily. A quick % complete pass each morning keeps the plan honest across such a short window.
- Hide the weekend unless you actually work it, so the grid reflects real working days.
Download formats
Grab the Excel (.xlsx) version to plan in a spreadsheet, the PowerPoint version for a quick share, or the CSV to import anywhere. For a live, dependency-aware weekly plan, edit it online free — no login — and export to PDF, PNG, Excel or PowerPoint for check-ins.
Related templates
Need even tighter granularity? Try the daily template. Zooming out instead? Use the monthly template for month-long work, or the sprint planning template for a two-week scrum sprint. Browse them all on the templates page.
Frequently asked questions
When should I use a weekly Gantt chart instead of a monthly one?
Use the weekly view for short, fast-moving work — a one-week project, a sprint, or a launch week — where you need day-level detail. For anything spanning several weeks or more, a monthly or quarterly view is easier to read.
Does the weekly template use a 5-day or 7-day grid?
It ships as a seven-day grid from Monday to Sunday, but the online editor's working-day calendar lets you hide weekends so it reads as a five-day work week if you prefer. Adjust it free in the gantts.app editor.
Can I reuse the same weekly plan every week?
Yes. Duplicate the week in the free gantts.app editor and shift the dates forward, so a recurring weekly project plan takes seconds to roll over.
Is the weekly Gantt chart template free?
Yes. It is free to download and free to edit online with no sign up, and exporting to PDF, PNG, Excel and PowerPoint is free too.