Roughout, natively.

Same tool, same .rout files as the free web version — plus the things only a real Mac app can give you: it lives in your Dock, your diagrams show up in Spotlight and Quick Look, and one scheduling feature the web version doesn't have.

Coming soon to the Mac App Store

$4.99, once. No subscription, no account.

It behaves like a Mac app, because it is one

Finder knows what it is

A real file type with its own icon — double-click a .rout file anywhere and it opens straight into Roughout, no "open with" dance.

Spotlight-searchable

Diagrams save as plain text by default, so Spotlight can actually find the one you're thinking of by what's written in it, not just its filename.

Quick Look preview

Tap the space bar on a .rout file in Finder and see the diagram rendered, without opening the app at all.

A proper document-based app

Defaults to ~/Documents/Roughout/, plays nicely with macOS's own file handling — it feels like the rest of your Mac, not a browser tab pretending to be an app.

Mac App Store exclusive

Gantt tasks that reschedule themselves

In the free web version, every Gantt task needs its own fixed dates. In the Mac app, a task can start relative to another one instead — so when a date slips, everything chained after it moves with it, automatically:

Design review: st:1.oct, dur:3d Build phase: st:follow, dur:5d <- starts the moment Design review ends Design sign-off: st:same, dur:1d <- starts alongside Build phase, not after it

Push "Design review" back by two days and "Build phase" and "Design sign-off" both shift with it — no hand-editing every date downstream. Named references and offsets (st:follow-2d(Handover)) work too, for plans more tangled than a straight chain.

The Roughout Mac app showing the example above: a text editor on the left with the Design review, Build phase, and Design sign-off tasks, and the resulting Gantt chart on the right, with Build phase starting exactly when Design review ends.

Not locked to one platform

The Mac app and the free web version read and write the exact same file format. Buy the app because you want the extras, not because the web version will ever stop working.

One price, not a subscription

$4.99 once, through the Mac App Store. No recurring charge, no account, no feature paywall inside the app after that.

Still hosted in the EU

If you ever use the shareable-link feature from the Mac app, it talks to the same self-hosted, EU-based infrastructure as the web version — see our Privacy Policy.