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HacknPlan vs Twine

	HacknPlan	Twine
What it says it does	HacknPlanHacknPlan is a project management tool for game developers that combines kanban boards, estimates and time logs with an integrated, dynamic game design document (Game Design Model).	TwineTwine is an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories; simple stories need no code, and you can add variables, conditional logic, images, CSS and JavaScript, publishing directly to HTML.
Pricing	HacknPlanPersonal €0 (unlimited projects, 500 MB storage, Discord integration); Personal Plus €5.8/mo single user paid yearly (integrations, time tracking, 2 GB); Studio €7.5/mo per seat paid yearly (roles, Gantt and burndown charts, data export, 5 GB per seat); monthly billing about 20% more; prices exclude VAT (official)	TwineFree and open source (desktop app or browser); anything you create is free to use any way you like, including commercially (official)
Website	HacknPlanhttps://hacknplan.com/	Twinehttps://twinery.org/

Which tool for which job

HacknPlan wins when general project tools feel disconnected from your game design docs.

Twine wins when you want the fastest free way to build and share an interactive story.

Descriptions in the table come from each vendor's own site. This verdict is a fit call from those official pages as of 9 November 2026, not a shared benchmark or a hands-on score. Prices change, so confirm the pricing row on each tool page. How we review tools.

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