replacing Trello
Kanban-based project management boards — Trello pricing: $5-$17.50/user/month. Below: 2 free, self-hostable open source projects that cover the same ground, ranked by real GitHub adoption.
There are 2 open source Trello alternatives tracked on this registry, against Trello pricing of $5-$17.50/user/month. The most-adopted is Planka with 12,557 GitHub stars, written in JavaScript. Together the set has 17,995 stars across 2 languages and 1 licence. All 2 are free to self-host with no licence fee, and 2 of 2 received a commit in the last 90 days. 2 head-to-head Trello comparisons are available.
Planka is a self-hosted Kanban board for project and task management. It lives in the open-source project and work management ecosystem, with JavaScript as its implementation language, and it positions itself as an open alternative to Trello and Monday.com. The project provides a free Community edition for self-hosting, while PLANKA Pro adds organization features and developer support.
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Vikunja is a self-hosted task and project management application that carries the tagline "The task manager you actually own." It lives in the Go and Vue.js ecosystem: the backend is written in Go, the frontend uses Vue.js, and the project ships a documented OpenAPI interface with Swagger docs published against the hosted demo instance. The repository sits on GitHub under the go-vikunja organization, is licensed AGPL-3.0-or-later across most of the codebase with the contents of `desktop/` under GPL-3.0-or-later, and is published as the Docker image `vikunja/vikunja` with the current release marked as v2.6.0.
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last updated nightly · ranking method: github stars, live-tracked
Planka is the most-starred open source alternative to Trello in this registry, with 12,557 GitHub stars. 2 alternatives are compared here in total.
Yes. Every project listed on this page is open source and free to self-host — there is no licence fee. Some projects also sell a managed hosted version, but the self-hosted path costs nothing.
Compare licence terms, community size (stars), primary language and release activity. A fast-moving project with a compatible licence and an active maintainer base matters more than raw star count when you are committing to a migration.