cherryware.com

What It Is

Cherryware offers a set of lightweight software apps for enterprise collaboration, built mainly around Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, and other office entry points. Its products include Project Plan, Shared Calendar, Inventory & Asset Reservation, Diagrams, Team Absence, and Showmaster. The site states that its software has more than 180,000 global users per month, and that Project Plan and Shared Calendar rank among the top 20 most-used Microsoft Teams apps worldwide.

Key Features and Integrations

Project Plan is the most fully described product. It lets users create high-level project plans, Gantt charts, roadmaps, and timelines in Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel. It supports task/subtask trees, progress tracking, resource assignment, milestones, dependencies, calendar controls, weekend highlighting, and color coding. Its cloud-synced plans can stay consistent across different slides and Teams channels, and can be embedded in Teams, Confluence, and SharePoint. Shared Calendar is used to create standalone project calendars inside Teams channels; Inventory manages reservations for equipment, rooms, vehicles, and other assets; Diagrams supports real-time collaboration on architecture diagrams, flowcharts, and visual documentation; Team Absence handles leave/PTO and approvals; and Showmaster enhances presentation experiences in PowerPoint, Google Slides, Teams, Webex, and Zoom.

Pricing and Deployment

The current content only clearly describes Project Plan: small projects can be used for free, while creating an unlimited number of project items requires a Project Plan PRO license. However, specific pricing, seat-based billing, enterprise plans, and payment methods are not disclosed. In terms of deployment, the products mainly exist as Microsoft Teams apps, PowerPoint add-ins, and cloud-synced services. No self-hosting information is provided.

Pros and Cons

The main advantage is its deep integration with the Microsoft collaboration ecosystem. It suits teams that want to quickly create Gantt charts, shared calendars, asset reservations, and visual collaboration workflows inside their existing tools, with a relatively low learning curve. The downside is the lack of key information for enterprise procurement, including data security and compliance, permission models, APIs, SLA, support channels, and detailed pricing. It is also heavily dependent on Teams and Office, making it less attractive for teams outside the Microsoft ecosystem.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Cherryware is best suited for project teams, PMOs, operations teams, and administrative teams that already make heavy use of Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and Confluence. Access from China is not discussed in the available content, and because its core experience depends on overseas services such as Teams and AppSource, network and payment availability should be tested in practice. Domestic alternatives to consider include Feishu Projects, DingTalk Projects, and Teambition, while international alternatives include Microsoft Project, Planner, Smartsheet, Asana, Monday.com, ClickUp, Miro, and Lucidchart.