I went down the rabbit hole of self hosted kanban boards recently. Honestly, nothing comes close to Trello and while I love the open source communities (and supporting them), these alternatives usually dont come close, or worse they try to be super feature rich and its get in the way of their functionality. The better open source options tend to be airtable alternatives or full blown project management tools (Eigenboard, Plane, etc)
I've also been using Vikunja locally for myself, but the UX really isn't the best and it isn't keyboard-driven which is a bit of a shame. The mobile version also isn't really ready for real usage, seems to lose state every now and then, or disconnect in some manner.
We have been using Vikunja for our team for about 2/3 years and it's good. It has it's quirks but generally works. What we haven't done well is keeping up to date with development as the version we installed did enough for us. We recently found out that they moved main development to github and we are keen to contribute where we can as we have found value in it.
They don't appear to be using an OSI-approved license, but the source code is available. So depending on your use-case that may be an academic distinction.
Pretty obviously because this one is very different in philosophy (minimalism) than the one OP is working on while the other ones that have been posted aim for feature parity (at least) with Trello?
It takes forever to compile, the locally hosted solution links to the online one at https://kan.bn and you've got to spend half a day to figure out how to truly self host
I went down the rabbit hole of self hosted kanban boards recently. Honestly, nothing comes close to Trello and while I love the open source communities (and supporting them), these alternatives usually dont come close, or worse they try to be super feature rich and its get in the way of their functionality. The better open source options tend to be airtable alternatives or full blown project management tools (Eigenboard, Plane, etc)
I think I found Plane[1], but Eigenboard?
https://github.com/makeplane/plane?tab=readme-ov-file
Plane is so sick. I think it's better than trello
Thank you, I hadn't heard of Plane... and ... nice
Or this one that I've been self-hosting for my team: https://vikunja.io/
I've also been using Vikunja locally for myself, but the UX really isn't the best and it isn't keyboard-driven which is a bit of a shame. The mobile version also isn't really ready for real usage, seems to lose state every now and then, or disconnect in some manner.
We have been using Vikunja for our team for about 2/3 years and it's good. It has it's quirks but generally works. What we haven't done well is keeping up to date with development as the version we installed did enough for us. We recently found out that they moved main development to github and we are keen to contribute where we can as we have found value in it.
Your comment just made me think about the fact I installed Vikunja like 2 years ago and I haven't updated it since. D:
Also https://github.com/plankanban/planka
Planka is not open-source.
There is fork of Planka with MIT license:
https://github.com/RARgames/4gaBoards
They don't appear to be using an OSI-approved license, but the source code is available. So depending on your use-case that may be an academic distinction.
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I am using Planka for my personal projects. Works great!
https://github.com/usekaneo/kaneo / https://kaneo.app
also Obsidian with Kanban plugin
Obsidian is not open-source.
and Nullboard: https://github.com/apankrat/nullboard
i don't understand the wave of downvotes but whatever
Thank you, hosted demo with no login required saving to local storage is exactly what i was looking for.
Pretty obviously because this one is very different in philosophy (minimalism) than the one OP is working on while the other ones that have been posted aim for feature parity (at least) with Trello?
OK, i see
It takes forever to compile, the locally hosted solution links to the online one at https://kan.bn and you've got to spend half a day to figure out how to truly self host