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OpenProject is a free, open source project & work management project written in Ruby and released under GPL-3.0. It has 16,132 GitHub stars, 3,486 forks and 224 open issues, and was last pushed 4 hours ago. On this registry it ranks #5 of 62 tracked projects in Project & Work Management, and is listed as an open source replacement for 2 paid products, with 5 head-to-head comparisons available. It gained 45 stars over the last 6 tracked days.

OpenProject — Classic, agile, or hybrid project management, self-hosted

What is OpenProject?

What it is

OpenProject is a web-based open source project management software for teams and organizations that need transparency, flexibility, and data sovereignty. It lives in the open source project management ecosystem, with Ruby as the repository language and Angular as a listed topic. The project is positioned as an open alternative to Asana and Basecamp, and the README also compares it with Jira, MS Project, Monday, and YouTrack.

The concrete problem it solves is the separation of project, product, portfolio, issue-tracking, and collaboration work across multiple tools. OpenProject brings projects, portfolios, products, tasks, bugs, agile workflows, roadmaps, and team collaboration into a single platform. Organizations can use it on premises or in the cloud, which helps them keep control over data and infrastructure.

Key capabilities

  • It supports project and portfolio management, including product and release planning, roadmaps, and work packages.
  • It provides agile boards with Kanban, Scrum, and SAFe workflows, matching the boards, kanban, and agile-development topics.
  • It includes Gantt charts for project planning and scheduling, matching the gantt and gantt-chart topics.
  • It offers issue tracking, bug tracking, task management, time tracking, cost reporting, and budgeting.
  • It includes wikis, forums, news, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and integrations with Nextcloud, XWiki, GitHub, and GitLab.

Who uses it and how

  • Enterprises, public institutions, and highly regulated industries use it when they need self-hosted control over project data and infrastructure.
  • Agile teams use it to plan work on boards, track issues, and coordinate Scrum, Kanban, or SAFe workflows.
  • Product and portfolio managers use it for release planning, roadmaps, and Gantt charts.
  • Teams use it alongside GitHub, GitLab, Nextcloud, and XWiki.

Getting started

Users can start with a 14-day free trial, download the Community Edition for self-hosted production or evaluation, or sign up for the Enterprise Edition with cloud or on-premises deployment. The README directs production or evaluation installs to installation guides, documentation, and optional training or consulting offers.

When to use it — and when not to

OpenProject is useful when an organization wants an open source alternative to Asana, Basecamp, Jira, MS Project, Monday, or YouTrack and needs project, portfolio, issue-tracking, agile, and collaboration features in one platform. It may be less suitable when a team does not need the full set of listed project management, portfolio, agile, and collaboration features or does not want to operate a self-hosted installation. The provided metadata lists zero contributors, a zero-year repository age, 224 open issues, and a last-push date of 2026-09-14, so directory users should verify current activity and support before adoption.

project readme (upstream, from github) — read inline

OpenProject

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We empower teams to achieve great things together for the good of society.

OpenProject is a web-based open source project management software for teams and organizations that require transparency, flexibility, and data sovereignty. Manage projects, portfolios, products, tasks, bugs, agile workflows, roadmaps, and team collaboration in a single platform. OpenProject can be self-hosted and is designed for organizations looking for an open source enterprise-ready alternative to tools such as Jira, MS Project, Monday, Asana, YouTrack while maintaining full control over their data and infrastructure.

OpenProject is trusted by organizations worldwide, including enterprises, public institutions, and highly regulated industries.

Screenshot of OpenProject, showing the GitHub tab on a work package

OpenProject's key features include:

More information can be found on our website.

Start now with OpenProject

Report bugs

You found a bug? Please report it to our OpenProject Community. Thank you!

Contribute

OpenProject is supported by its Community members, both companies and individuals.

We are always looking for new members to our Community, so if you are interested in improving OpenProject we would be glad to welcome and support you getting into the code. There are guides as well, e.g. a Quick Start for Developers, but don't hesitate to simply contact us if you have questions.

Working on OpenProject comes with the satisfaction of working on a widely used open source application.

Also, if you do not want to be limited to working on open source in your free time, OpenProject GmbH, the company contributing to the OpenProject development, is hiring.

Stay in contact

Here you can find our contact information. As we regularly update OpenProject, we recommend staying in touch – here is where you can find us:

Security / responsible disclosure

We take security very seriously at OpenProject. We value any kind of feedback that will keep our Community secure. If you happen to come across a security issue we urge you to disclose it to us privately to allow our users and Community enough time to upgrade. Security issues will always take precedence over anything else in the pipeline.

For more information on how to disclose a security vulnerability, please see this page.

License

OpenProject is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3. See COPYRIGHT and LICENSE files for details.

Credits

Icons

Thanks to Vincent Le Moign and his fabulous Minicons icons on webalys.com.

OpenProject icon font

Published and created by the OpenProject Foundation (OPF) under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License with icons from the following sources Minicons Free Vector Icons Pack and User Interface Design framework both by webalys

Creative Commons License

OpenProject Icon Font by the OpenProject Foundation (OPF) is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License and Free for both personal and commercial use. You can copy, adapt, remix, distribute or transmit it.

Under this condition: provide a mention of the "OpenProject Foundation" and a link back to OpenProject www.openproject.org.

Frequently asked questions

Is OpenProject free to use?

OpenProject is open source under the GPL-3.0 licence. There is no licence fee and no seat count — you can self-host it or, where the project offers one, pay a vendor for a managed version instead.

What does OpenProject do?

Classic, agile, or hybrid project management, self-hosted

What is OpenProject written in?

OpenProject is primarily written in Ruby. Its source is publicly available at https://github.com/opf/openproject, and it has 16,132 GitHub stars.

What is a good open source alternative to Asana?

OpenProject is one of the open source options listed as an alternative to Asana, Basecamp. Compare licences, stars and activity side by side on the OpenProject profile.