Trello is popular for simple kanban boards, but free plan limitations and deeper Atlassian integration are concerns. devpick lists 2 self-hosted kanban alternatives.
- Self-hosted data management with no free plan restrictions
- WIP limits in WeKan for preventing bottlenecks by capping cards per list
- Swimlanes in WeKan for horizontal task categorization within boards
- Real-time sync in Planka for instant change reflection across team members
- Simple UI maintaining Trello's intuitive interaction patterns in both tools
3 tools
wekan
20,896JavaScriptMIT
The Open Source kanban, built with Meteor. GitHub issues/PRs are only for FLOSS Developers, not for support, support is at https://wekan.fi/commercial-support/ . New English strings for new features at imports/i18n/data/en.i18n.json . Non-English translations at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.
Free
planka
11,800JavaScriptNOASSERTION
PLANKA is the Kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone
Free
vikunja
3,891GoAGPL-3.0
The to-do app to organize your life.
Free
How to Choose
For feature-rich kanban management choose WeKan, and for simpler lightweight boards choose Planka.