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24 alternatives to I bulit Kanba, open source alternative to Trello, self-hostable PM tool

hi all, i just released Kanba, a self-hostable, open source project management tool built for developers and small teams who prefer to own their tools. - no vendor lock-in - fully local data (via Supabase or your own backend) - MIT licensed - lightweight, minimal UI. think Trello, but open and yours tech stack: React + Tailwind + Supabase github link on comments would love feedback or ideas. contributions welcome!

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Kanba▲332

    Open-source project management tool for modern teams

    2025 · kanba.co · its alternatives →

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    The open source Trello alternative. Contribute to kanbn/kan development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    TL;DR: We built Kanbanq, a minimal task management app for indies and small teams. It keeps Trello’s simplicity but adds proper backlogs, sprints, real-time collaboration and public board sharing. Free while in alpha, feedback welcome --- I’ve been working on Kanbanq with a friend. It’s a minimal task management app we built after getting frustrated with Trello. It was great for simple boards, but it falls apart when you need backlogs (that are more than just a giant list) or want to work in sprints. Kanbanq keeps the same clean feel but adds backlog management (our unique feature), sprints,…

    2025 · kanbanq.app · its alternatives →

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    Kan.bn▲149

    The open source alternative to Trello for teams and makers

    2025 · kan.bn · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, Over the past two years, I've been building Upbase, an all-in-one PM tool. I've tried so many project management tools over the years (Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Teamwork, Wrike, Monday, etc.) but they've all fallen short. Most of them are overly complicated and painful to use. Some others, like Trello, are too limited for my needs. Most importantly, most of these tools tend to be focused on team collaboration and completely ignore personal productivity. They are useful for organizing my work, but not great at helping me stay focused to get things done. That's why I decided to build…

    2022 · upbase.io · its alternatives →

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    The Open Source kanban, built with Meteor. GitHub issues/PRs are only for FLOSS Developers, not for support, support is at https://wekan.fi/commercial-support/ . PR source translation to imports/i18n/data/en.i18n.json, other translations at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan . No telemetry. - wek

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source alternative to Trello

    2015 · restya.com · its alternatives →

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    WeKan▲152

    The open-source Trello-like kanban

    2017 · wekan.github.io · its alternatives →

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    Duet▲211

    A self-hosted alternative to Trello

    2016 · its alternatives →

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    DeckHub▲221

    A TweetDeck style desktop client for GitHub.

    2016 · getdeckhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Seamless time-tracking & visual project-management tool

    2014 · kanbantool.com · its alternatives →

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    Lavagna▲95

    OpenSource project management tool designed for small teams.

    2015 · lavagna.io · its alternatives →

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    Turn GitHub into a project management suite! Plus, socks

    2015 · app.zenhub.com · its alternatives →

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    Project management and collaboration for GitHub Enterprise.

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Everything is a project. Plan it like one.

    Jan 2026 · montella.bxt.org · its alternatives →

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    Stacks▲71

    Personal kanban and project management tool in a stunning UI

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Project management without the complexity.

    Jul 2026 · kantanban.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone! Trobo here, the creator of Kanri. This has been my main side/passion project for around a year now, so here's a bit of a back story: In the COVID-19 lockdown, I needed a new way to handle the big amount of tasks which were thrown at me in school, mostly coming in through emails so it was very difficult to keep track of them. That's where I discovered Trello and instantly fell in love with it. For the whole lockdown period, I used it extensively to organize my tasks, and it was great. Naturally as a programmer, I was drawn in to try making my own apps in the productivity…

    2023 · kanriapp.com · its alternatives →

  20. 20BI

    Just wanted to share my latest project Taskstax, it's just a simple Kanban kind of trello clone, built mainly for the learns, but it works too so it's online. Simple Kanban boards, easy login that takes you straight to it. It uses socket.io for data xfer after login which was fun to setup and also makes it work well. Totally free, any feedback would be cool or if you wanted some info on the tech just ask.

    2025 · taskstax.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21OS

    I got tired of collecting open source projects in my chrome bookmarks so I decided to compile a curated list of: - Recently active projects on GitHub - Mostly dev tools (but also productivity, analytics) - Projects which are "Alternative to X software" My bookmarks are finally empty:D If you have a great open source tool you use, I'd be glad to hear your suggestions. Also, any feedback is greatly appreciated.

    2025 · alternativeoss.com · its alternatives →

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    He HN, I'm an entrepreneur, and I help startups to ship products. I find out that for startups tools like Jira, Monday, slack and others are expensive and unnecessarily complex. That's why I decided to built a Freemium software for simplifying project management process. Workfeed is all-in-one soft, including docs, kanban boards. I plan to add chats in couple of months too. I hope this product will help you to manage your projects simpler and faster. Would love your feedback plz Enjoy !!

    2024 · workfeed.ai · its alternatives →

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    Hello Hacker News, this is Ashish. We started building Stackdome in 2024 as a hobby project. The idea was to package the tooling in the CNCF/cloud-native ecosystem into an opinionated platform, so that developers can get a well engineered platform without learning Kubernetes YAMLology or a dozen other projects from the CNCF landscape. Railway and Render did this well for their hosted products. I wanted to bring that level of polish and DX to something you can self-host. Stackdome uses Kubernetes underneath, but it's completely transparent to users. (I have some ideas for an expert mode…

    Aug 2026 · stackdome.com · its alternatives →

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    As we all are, I've been experimenting with ways to reduce external saas spend, and continually bring traditionally external pieces of context (prs, docs, trello boards) into the one mono repo. I have toyed with a markdown todo list and setting claude/codex into a "ralph" loop previously, but always missed the web ui for organising, planning, and tracking things in progress. So codex and I build kanban-cli, an installable or npx-runnable cli util that takes one or more markdown files, and uses markdown headers and todo syntax to track and manage agentic tasks. Let me know your thoughts,…

    May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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