cherryware.de

What It Is

Cherryware is a German software vendor positioned as a provider of “smart, easy-to-use” office and enterprise software. Its products are mainly built around Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, Excel, and related workplace scenarios, including Project Plan, Shared Calendar, Inventory & Asset Reservation, Diagrams, Team Absence, and Showmaster. The site states that its software is used by more than 180,000 users every month, and that Project Plan and Shared Calendar rank among the top 20 most-used Microsoft Teams apps worldwide.

Core Features and Integrations

The flagship product is Project Plan, which lets users create high-level project plans, roadmaps, Gantt charts, and timelines in Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel. It supports tasks and subtasks, tree views, progress tracking, resource allocation, milestones, dependencies, calendar zooming, weekend markers, and color coding. It can also convert regular project plans into cloud-synchronized plans and embed them into environments such as Teams, Confluence, and SharePoint while keeping everything in sync. Other products cover Teams project calendars, asset and equipment reservations, architecture diagrams and flowchart collaboration, absence approval with visual calendars, and presentation-oriented countdowns and animation packaging.

Pricing and Deployment

The site only clearly states that Project Plan is free for small projects. To create an unlimited number of project elements, users need to purchase a Project Plan PRO license, but no specific pricing, plans, billing cycles, or enterprise procurement options are provided. In terms of deployment, Project Plan mentions a cloud-synchronised plan, indicating that cloud sync is supported. No information was found about self-hosting, private deployment, or on-premises deployment.

Pros and Cons

The main advantage is that the products are closely aligned with Microsoft 365 workflows, allowing users to handle project planning, calendars, and collaborative diagramming without leaving Teams or Office, which keeps the learning curve relatively low. The product lineup also targets specific office productivity pain points, making it suitable for lightweight workflow enhancements. The drawbacks are that the website provides limited information on data security compliance, permission controls, APIs, support services, and pricing transparency. The products are also clearly dependent on the Microsoft ecosystem, so their value is lower for teams that do not use Teams.

Who It’s For and Access from China

Cherryware is suitable for project teams, PMOs, small to mid-sized businesses, administrative teams, and operations teams that already rely heavily on Microsoft Teams, PowerPoint, and Excel. The site does not disclose details about access from China, payment methods, or Chinese localization, so these need to be tested directly. If access or procurement is restricted, alternatives to consider include Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Project, Asana, Monday.com, ClickUp, as well as China-based tools such as Feishu Projects, Teambition, and Tower.