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Wekan vs project-management
Wekan has 21,089 GitHub stars, 3,000 forks, 165 open issues and last shipped yesterday. project-management has 1,090 stars, 337 forks, 23 open issues and last shipped 6 months ago. Wekan leads on adoption by 1,835% (21,089 vs 1,090 stars). Wekan is written in JavaScript under MIT; project-management is written in PHP under MIT. Wekan has attracted 14% as many forks as stars, project-management 31%. Wekan was the more recently maintained of the two, and both are self-hostable with no licence fee. The two share 1 topic tag (kanban), so they are genuine substitutes rather than adjacent tools.
Two open source projects, one decision. Both are free and self-hostable — the differences are community size, license terms, language stack and release pace.
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Side by side
| Wekan | project-management | |
|---|---|---|
| GitHub stars | ★ 21K | ★ 1.1K |
| License | MIT | MIT |
| Written in | JavaScript | PHP |
| Last push | 2026-09-17 | 2026-03-29 |
| Forks | ⑂ 3.0K | ⑂ 337 |
| Self-hosting | Yes | Yes |
| Data ownership | Your server | Your server |
pick Wekan if
- You weight community size — 21K stars and counting
- You want the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches JavaScript
- You value the larger contributor base for long-term maintenance
pick project-management if
- You want the project-management feature set and don't need the biggest community
- You prefer the MIT license terms
- Your stack matches PHP
- You evaluated both and project-management fits your workflow better
About Wekan
Wekan is an open source collaborative kanban board application written in JavaScript and built with Meteor. It is licensed under the MIT license and is positioned as a free and open source alternative to Jira and Monday.com. The project lives in the self hosted business software and project management ecosystem.
read the full Wekan overview →
About project-management
Project Management is an MIT licensed, Laravel and Filament based project and ticket management application for teams that want to run projects, track tickets and support clients from a self hosted PHP stack.
read the full project-management overview →
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Frequently asked questions
Is Wekan or project-management more popular?
Wekan has 21,089 GitHub stars and project-management has 1,090. Wekan has the larger community by that measure.
Are Wekan and project-management free?
Both are open source. Wekan is licensed under MIT and project-management under MIT. Neither carries a licence fee.
What is the difference between Wekan and project-management?
Wekan is written in JavaScript and project-management in PHP. The practical differences are community size, licence terms, language stack and release cadence — all compared in the table above.
Which should I choose, Wekan or project-management?
Choose Wekan if you want the larger community (21,089 stars) or its MIT licence terms. Choose project-management if its feature set, stack or MIT licence fits better. Both are self-hostable.