The application is available to premium, business, and educational subscribers to Microsoft 365.

[1] Microsoft Planner is a team-work oriented tool that can be used in a variety of ways.

Some of Planner's uses include team management, file sharing, and organization.

[2] On June 6, 2016 Microsoft made the application available for general release and rolled it out over the first few weeks to eligible subscription plans.

[4] Planner enables users and teams to create plans, assemble and assign tasks, share files, communicate and collaborate with other users, and receive progress updates.