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Planka

Open-source Trello alternative for self-hosting

Open SourceFree TierAdded Jan 1, 2019

About

Planka is a self-hosted, open-source project management tool inspired by Trello. It provides kanban boards, cards with descriptions, checklists, labels, due dates, attachments, and real-time updates. Planka is intentionally simple — it does kanban well without feature bloat. Deploy with Docker in minutes. For teams and individuals wanting a private, self-hosted kanban board without sending data to third-party services. No user limits, no pricing tiers.

Tags

open-sourcekanbanself-hostedtrello-alternativedocker

Origin Story

By Maksim Eliseev

The Problem

Trello is great but data goes to Atlassian's cloud. Some teams need private, self-hosted boards.

Building It

Open-source project, growing among self-hosting community.

What It Means

Kanban boards should be self-hostable and free.

The Dream

Private project boards that you fully control.

Pricing

ModelOpen Source
Free tierAvailable

Completely free and open-source. Self-host with Docker.

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Category

Project Management

Problems Solved

  • Trello Sends Data To Cloud
  • Self Hosted Kanban
  • Simple Project Boards

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