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Roadmap Flow turns rough roadmap thinking into a clear, checkable, stakeholder-ready roadmap — without becoming another backlog tool. This page gets you oriented in about five minutes.

What Roadmap Flow is for

You are a product manager. You need to show where the product is going, to people who will ask hard questions. Roadmap Flow is built for that moment, and not much else. It is a roadmap visualization tool, not a project-management system: no sprints, no tickets, no time tracking.

The five-step spine

Almost everything you do in Roadmap Flow follows the same path:

1. Create roadmap items — the pieces of work you want to show.
2. Structure them into workstreams and time horizons.
3. Visualize them on the canvas in Stream, Board, or Timeline view.
4. Validate roadmap quality with the Check tab.
5. Export a stakeholder-ready file from the Share tab.

If what you are doing does not improve one of those five steps, you are probably in the wrong tool.

The workspace

A header rail runs down the left of the app:

• Canvas — the always-visible roadmap, in three layouts.
• Items — a searchable list of every item.
• Check — a roadmap health score and the issues behind it.
• Progress — an automatic log of what changed.
• Share — exports and transfer.
• Config — workstreams, owner teams, statuses, and branding.
• Guide — this manual.
• Account — your plan, what it includes, and billing.

The canvas never goes away. Every other tab slides in beside it, never over it.

Free, Pro, and Team

Roadmap Flow is free to install and use. Creating roadmaps, validating them, and exporting them are free.

• Free — create, structure, visualize, validate, and export roadmaps.
• Pro — adds stakeholder-polish features: saved views, milestones and change reports, custom export presets, and branded exports.
• Team — adds shared-workspace features for a product team. Team features are still in development; treat them as planned, not available today.

Feature pages in this guide carry an Availability note when something is Pro.

Where your roadmap lives

Your roadmap is stored on your computer, in a workspace folder you choose. It does not go to a server. It leaves your machine only when you export or share it. See Local-first workspaces.

The browser companion

Planning often starts somewhere else — a strategy doc, a Jira board, a Notion page, a Slack thread. Roadmap Flow Check is a free Chrome and Edge extension that captures that content locally, checks how roadmap-ready it is, and exports a package you import here through the Share tab. It works on every plan and keeps everything it reads on your machine. See Roadmap Flow Check.

Your first roadmap

Starting from nothing? Follow the playbook Your first roadmap in 15 minutes. It walks the whole spine end to end.