Compare the Top Free Product Lifecycle Management Software as of January 2026

What is Free Product Lifecycle Management Software?

Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software is used to manage product information throughout the lifecycle of a product. It involves controlling, organizing and tracking the different stages of a product's development, from creation to retirement. PLM software also helps businesses execute processes and workflows in order to optimize their product development process. Compare and read user reviews of the best Free Product Lifecycle Management software currently available using the table below. This list is updated regularly.

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    Quantum

    Quantum

    CIMx Software

    Quantum is a robust MES that gives manufacturers the visibility they want, the data they need, and the compliance they count on, all while seamlessly managing everything from inventory to final inspection. With Quantum: - Your production schedule is always accurate and adaptable, able to flex to any situation. - Your team always has the proper instructions to do their daily work. - You have a prioritized work list, keeping your team on top of tasks today, tomorrow, and beyond. - Gain total visibility into your inventory and manage everything from raw materials to finished products in one place. - Proactively identify and prevent potential issues with real-time alerts. Quantum bridges the gap between your ERP (example: QuickBooks) and your shop floor operations, integrating these functions into a singular system. This empowers the front office with essential financial insights while equipping the shop floor with unparalleled production efficiency
    Starting Price: $6,495 +$250 per user per year
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    Primary

    Primary

    ReqFire

    Harness the power of stories to build better digital products. Primary provides a structured approach so users and developers can work together to establish what jobs your app will do and how it will do them. Build better products. Create a product thoughtfully aligned to your business strategy and deliver services with the experience your customers want. Bring teams together. A browser-based platform means everyone can be on the same page, no matter where they are Power-up presentations. Create a genuine meeting of minds with shareable previews, markdown and team commenting. Want to deliver new features and improvements faster, giving users an amazing experience with your product? Primary makes it easy to design for experience first, putting your user at the forefront: create a step, describe what the user does, how the app responds, and add detail. Easy as! Bring your product vision to life. Unlock the creativity of your whole team. Keep your projects on track.
    Starting Price: $8 per user, per month
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    OpenBOM

    OpenBOM

    OpenBOM

    OpenBOM is a digital network-based platform that manages product data and connects manufacturers and their supply networks. OpenBOM’s modern SaaS real-time collaboration and data management technology allows to create and manage Parts, Bill of materials, vendors, and purchases across networks of engineers, supply chain managers, and contract manufacturers. OpenBOM enables people to share and collaborate using an online Bill of Materials from initial design through all stages of engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain. OpenBOM enables people to seamlessly share and collaborate data using online Bill of Materials from initial design through all stages of engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain. OpenBOM is uniquely positioned to provide solutions for small and medium-sized manufacturing companies, collaboration for teams in large manufacturing OEMs, construction projects, supply chain and contractors. OpenBOM is an online platform available globally.
    Starting Price: $25 per user per month
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    Chisel

    Chisel

    Chisel Labs

    Chisel is a product manager's best friend. It is a tool that makes it easy to build roadmaps, gain customer feedback, and prioritize your product feature all at your fingertips. Moreover, create user personas and customer journey maps with Chisel's integrated analytics. Chisel is the first product roadmap software built on input from real-life PMs. It provides features that are essential for today's modern product manager or marketer, including: Real-Time Collaboration – for teams inside and outside your company; Centralized Data – consolidate all of your data in one place to make better decisions; Faster Roadmap Creation – create beautiful roadmaps in minutes; New Features Every Week – Chisel continually delivers new features based on customer feedback; Customizable Workflows - configure workflows to match how you work. Sounds interesting? Try Chisel's free forever version right now!
    Starting Price: $0
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    Skyjed

    Skyjed

    Skyjed

    Skyjed’s AI-powered end-to-end product platform brings together every data point across the entire product portfolio and lifecycle into a single source of product truth. It gives product teams a new perspective on their portfolio and a shortcut to discovering their best next move. Technology cycles are accelerating. Customer expectations are shifting and increasing. Product managers’ responsibilities are expanding. Organizations face a data deluge Yet even as product managers create ever more simple products for their customers, they’ve lacked their own tools to overcome the daily headaches and hurdles and help them stay ahead. Designed for product managers by product managers, Skyjed fixes this. Develop more customer-centric and profitable products and gain an unstoppable advantage. Skyjed is an ISO-27001 accredited solution, a safer, faster, and smarter way to manage your product lifecycles and product compliance.
    Starting Price: $59 per month
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    Unifize

    Unifize

    Unifize

    Speed up innovation and continuous improvement by 3x in 30 days. Unifize is a software platform that makes innovation, quality, and CI processes collaborative. This helps manufacturing companies bring better products to life, faster. Whether you start with a single solution or deploy Unifize across all functions, you can be sure it works well in your environment. The templates are infinitely customizable and eliminate silos by connecting your processes together. Unifize is the only PLM tool that focuses on bringing teams together in a real-time collaborative environment to solve problems and manage critical innovation processes. If you're looking to upgrade to a complete quality suite, look no further. Unifize is the only eQMS that makes every quality process collaborative and easy to follow. Stop paying lip service to your APQP/PPAP processes. Bring teams together in a dedicated real-time conversation for every record.
    Starting Price: $100 per month
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    One Click LCA
    One Click LCA is the #1 easy and automated life cycle assessment software that helps you calculate and reduce the environmental impacts of your building & infra projects, products and portfolio. Choose from global generic data or manufacturer specific, third-party verified EPDs. New EPDS are constantly being added and the platform even enables you to request EPDs directly from manufacturers. All data undergoes our rigorous verification and qualification process that guarantees consistency and robust assessments. Choose whether to manually input building materials and other data points, or import your design from Excel, Revit, IFC, IESVE, energy models (gbXML), and other tools. You can also input building areas, energy consumption, water consumption, construction site operations, emissions and removals to get a complete picture of your building’s life-cycle impacts.
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    ISOQualitas.PLM

    ISOQualitas.PLM

    ISOQualitas

    ISOQualitas.PLM is an all-in-one QMS software that helps automotive suppliers efficiently capture product design, development and manufacturing information to create, print, and store quality information and documents, including Control Plans, CSRs, Work Instructions, R&R Studies, FMEA, Flow Chart, Characteristics Matrix, Inspection Reports, and many more. ISOQualitas.PLM helps standardize the entire quality management process so it is efficient and up to 80% more productive than spreadsheets, and fully complies with IATF 16949. Each quality team member can work on their individual tasks simultaneously in the office or remotely. Tasks are planned and displayed on progress charts so users and management stay up to date and can focus on priorities. Consistency is guaranteed across all documents eliminating one of the most common audit non-compliance issues. Roles are individually set for each user so information and document approval and release is controlled.
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    PTC Windchill
    PTC Windchill is a comprehensive product lifecycle management (PLM) platform designed to help manufacturers improve collaboration, data sharing, and quality control across global teams. It provides secure, role-based access to real-time product data, enabling streamlined product development and manufacturing processes. Windchill’s open architecture allows seamless integration with enterprise systems like SAP ERP, supporting a connected digital thread. The platform includes advanced features such as BOM management, engineering change control, manufacturing process management, and supply chain collaboration. Windchill leverages AI-driven insights and automation to enhance decision-making, reduce manual tasks, and accelerate innovation. Its flexible delivery options include on-premises and cloud deployment to fit diverse IT strategies.
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    SILKROAD ALM

    SILKROAD ALM

    NSE Technology

    SILKROAD ALM is an application lifecycle management system for high reliability software. It is named after “Silk Road”, which is a historical network of interlinking trade routes across the Asia and European world. It has interlinking routes for various legacy management system such as requirement tools, design tools, configuration management tools and test tools.Many developers have trouble with developing high reliable software because they have no choice to use an integrated tool to manage software development lifecycle from requirements to test phase. SILKROAD will be a great tool providing an integrated view for the while life cycle of software development. Analysis is the logical breakdown that proceeds from elicitation. Analysis involves reaching a richer and more precise understanding of each requirement and representing sets of requirements in multiple and complementary ways.
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    Innovation Cloud

    Innovation Cloud

    Innovation Cloud SARL

    Innovation Cloud will assist you in connecting all dimensions of innovation, from front-end ideation, through new product development and innovation portfolio to the launch and post-launch review, with a single, integrated cross-functional software. Innovation Cloud has a proven track record in successfully developing and implementing software for end-to-end innovation management. During 12 years of experience and working with clients from various industries, we gained a better understanding of the potential challenges that companies are facing. That’s why we always tend to focus on the unique requirements of every client since every company is unique in regards of its workforce, processes, products and services, objectives and priorities.
    Starting Price: $30.00/month
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    Acunote

    Acunote

    Acunote

    Acunote is an agile project management tool and Scrum software. Companies from 1 to 100,000 people use it to manage software development, IT project management, and as an online project management software for the whole company. Acunote is disarmingly simple, but extremely powerful at the same time. Whether a project is following a Waterfall or Agile methodology, Acunote serves the same purpose of providing a transparent, simple, flexible and economical tool for collaboration. Acunote is fast and easy to use for everybody. Small teams can keep their todo lists. Large enterprises can track the work of hundreds of employees. Acunote is fast no matter how much data you have and usable for both technical and non-technical users. Because Acunote is fast and easy, people use it for their daily work. This way actual execution data gets into the system. Using that data Acunote shows you the actual progress in burndown charts, not just wishful thinking.
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    ManageEngine AssetExplorer
    ManageEngine AssetExplorer is an IT asset management (ITAM) platform engineered to offer quick deployment for IT managers to effortlessly gain control of IT assets spread across multiple sites. Its out-of-the-box capabilities include hardware and software asset discovery and inventory management, custom workflows to automate life cycles, purchase and vendor management, and a CMDB to visualize the digital infrastructure. Choose between our on-premises and cloud offerings to manage your hardware and software assets. Govern every state of an asset, from request initiation to asset disposal. Be aware of all the assets in your network with multiple methods of discovering and scanning assets. Drive sustainable cost savings with visibility over asset demand and usage. Stay audit-ready for both hardware and software any time of the year.
    Starting Price: $995 per year
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    beCPG PLM
    beCPG is an open source Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) software that manages the entire lifecycle of a product from its conception, through design and manufacture, to service and disposal. beCPG permits you to work on products and projects with customers and suppliers. beCPG is ready to use for the CPG industries such as Food & Beverage and Cosmetics. We differentiate ourselves from the competitors with a comprehensive and user-friendly software offered at a competitive price. In a few words, beCPG offers the following features: - Product repository to manage finished products, recipes, raw materials and packaging with their technical and regulatory data - Formulation to calculate automatically allergens, ingredients, nutrient facts, costs, labeling, ... - Product specification generator for clients, R&D and production - Project management to manage new product development from ideas until market launch - Customer complaints
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