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24 alternatives to Kan.bn

The open source alternative to Trello for teams and makers

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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    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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    Kanba▲332

    Open-source project management tool for modern teams

    2025 · kanba.co · 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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    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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    Kanwas▲441

    An open-source brain for your team

    May 2026 · kanwas.ai · its alternatives →

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    Trello▲1,003

    Powering millions of teams to work smarter, together

    2013 · trello.com · its alternatives →

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    Clean iOS and Mac kanban/trello with flexible views

    2018 · kanbanier.com · its alternatives →

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    Link Trello cards to key business metrics and company goals

    2022 · trello.com · its alternatives →

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    Outsource your code tasks directly from Trello

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    WeKan▲152

    The open-source Trello-like kanban

    2017 · wekan.github.io · its alternatives →

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    kuku▲539

    Your open-source, local second brain for every AI

    Jan 2026 · kuku.mom · its alternatives →

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    Trelloist▲149

    A Kanban board for Todoist

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN, I'm Hakan, the founder of Colanode (https://github.com/colanode/colanode), an open-source, local-first collaboration app combining the best of Slack-style chats and Notion-style note-taking, fully self-hostable for complete data control. Here's a quick demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp1hoSCEArg As a heavy Notion user, I often found it tough to get my teams fully onboard since people naturally gravitate toward chat for quick interactions. Maintaining context between chat apps like Slack and documentation apps like Notion became increasingly…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    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!

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Corrello▲173

    Dashboards for agile teams using Trello

    2015 · bluecatreports.com · its alternatives →

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    Develyn▲238

    Open source AI agent for developer relations

    2024 · openfunnel.dev · 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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    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 →

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    Task management; productivity platform | trello alternative

    Dec 2025 · flow.keynou.com · its alternatives →

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    Kanwas — Shared context board for teams and agents - kanwas-ai/kanwas

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22IM

    The idea is actually quite simple. As a Japanese learner and a coder, I've always wanted there to be an open-source, 100% free for learning Japanese, similar to Monkeytype in the typing community. Unfortunately, pretty much all language learning apps are closed-sourced and paid these days, and the ones that are free have unfortunately been abandoned. But of course, just creating yet another language learning app was not enough - there has to be a unique selling point. And then I thought to myself: why not make it crazy and do what no other language learning app ever did by adding a gazillion…

    2025 · kanadojo.com · its alternatives →

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    An open source alternative to Trello

    2015 · restya.com · its alternatives →

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    Multi Column WIP limits for Trello

    2020 · trello.com · its alternatives →

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