From the Mattermost team comes Focalboard, an open-source, MIT-licensed project board tool - a self-hosted alternative to Trello, Asana, and Notion databases, written in Go with a React frontend. Every board renders the same card data four ways: Kanban with drag-and-drop columns, a spreadsheet-style table, an image-forward gallery, and a calendar. Cards carry unlimited custom properties - dates, dropdowns, checkboxes, people, URLs - and boards can be grouped, filtered, and sorted by any property combination, with unlimited saved filtered views for quick access. Built-in templates cover the common workflows (meeting agendas, content calendars, project tasks, roadmaps, sprint planning), or you can build fully custom boards from scratch. Collaboration is real: card comments with @mentions, per-board permissions for teams or individuals, file attachments stored on your own infrastructure, and archiving with backup snapshots. Migration tooling imports existing boards from Trello (JSON export), Asana, and Notion, so switching does not mean starting over. It ships in 20+ languages and runs as a lightweight multi-user personal server. Worth knowing before deploying: Mattermost has shifted primary development to the integrated Mattermost Boards plugin, so the standalone edition is community-maintained - stable and functional, but evolving slowly. For teams wanting a free, private Trello without per-user fees, it remains a solid pick.

Trello's board model on your own server: Planka is an open-source Kanban project management tool. Boards organize into projects with lists, cards, labels, due dates, checklists, file attachments, and per-card stopwatch time tracking, all managed through drag-and-drop. Updates propagate over WebSockets, so a teammate moving a card or adding a comment appears instantly for everyone without a refresh - a genuine differentiator among self-hosted boards. Card descriptions use a full Markdown editor, custom fields adapt cards to your workflow, and views switch between Kanban, grid, and list layouts. Authentication supports OpenID Connect single sign-on with Google, Azure AD, Okta, or any OIDC provider - a feature Trello reserves for enterprise plans - and notifications reach 100+ channels including Slack, Discord, Telegram, and SMTP via Apprise. A REST API with 50+ webhook events supports custom integrations, and one-click board import eases migration. Built with React and Node.js on PostgreSQL, translated into 35+ languages, deployed via Docker.

Winner of the 2015 Most Valued Agile Tool award and cited as a top project management platform by Opensource.com with over 2,100 GitHub stars on the Docker deployment repository alone, Taiga has served an estimated 20 million users worldwide with over 2 million Docker pulls since its creation in 2014 by Kaleidos. The platform delivers a complete agile project management experience through Scrum boards with backlog prioritization, sprint planning, story point estimation configurable per role, burndown charts at both project and sprint levels, and velocity tracking with a project doom-line indicator. Kanban boards offer customizable workflow columns with swimlanes, WIP limits, zoom controls, and the ability to switch between Scrum and Kanban at any point without losing data. The issue tracker supports custom types, priorities, and severities with the ability to promote issues directly to user stories. Team collaboration features include threaded comments, file attachments, email notifications, mentions, a built-in wiki for project documentation, and a team performance dashboard with the Iocane health metric for tracking team sustainability. The platform integrates with GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket for version control linking, provides importers for migrating from Trello and Jira, and exposes a REST API for custom integrations. Available in over 20 languages with custom fields, tags, roles, and permissions. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. MPL-2.0 licensed.

What Trello fans wanted Trello to stay: Kan (kan.bn) is a minimalist, frills-free kanban board capturing the original vision before the enterprise pivots - and then adds the things 2025 actually demands. The core is exactly right: drag-and-drop cards across lists, labels and filters to find work fast, comments for discussion on cards, checklists, a detailed activity log tracking every change, and reusable board templates. Workspaces gather your team with member invites and role management, and board visibility controls decide who can view or edit each board. Migration is first-class: a built-in Trello importer brings existing boards over, so switching costs an afternoon, not a quarter. The standout differentiator is the bundled Model Context Protocol server exposing 46 tools across workspaces, boards, lists, cards, comments, checklists, labels, and members - meaning Claude Desktop, Cursor, Copilot, or any MCP client can read and manage your boards in natural language: "move everything assigned to me into Done" becomes a sentence, not a click marathon. The stack is modern TypeScript - Next.js, tRPC, Drizzle ORM over PostgreSQL, Better Auth (credentials or OAuth), Tailwind - with optional SMTP email and S3 file storage. Unlimited boards, lists, and cards; AGPL-licensed.

A personal to-do list that scales to team project management: Vikunja is an open-source task manager that grows with the work. Every project can be viewed four ways - classic list, drag-and-drop Kanban board, Gantt chart for timeline planning, and a spreadsheet-style table - so a project manager watches the Gantt while developers work the board, on the same data. Tasks carry the full attribute set: labels, priorities, due dates and reminders, recurring schedules, subtasks and task relations, file attachments, assignees, and comments, and Quick Add Magic parses natural-language input like dates and labels typed inline. Projects share with team members or via links, and saved filters slice tasks across projects. Built-in CalDAV support (VTODO) syncs tasks bidirectionally with clients like Thunderbird, DAVx5, and iOS Reminders, and one-click importers migrate from Todoist, Trello, and Microsoft To-Do. Nothing is metered - unlimited projects, tasks, filters, and attachments. A single Go binary with a Vue frontend runs against SQLite, MySQL, or PostgreSQL, exposes a full REST API, and works as an installable PWA on mobile. AGPLv3-licensed.

Your team's work lives in boards, sprints, and deadlines, and TaskView keeps all of it on infrastructure you control instead of a vendor's cloud. Projects break down into lists, tasks, and nested subtasks with priorities, tags, deadlines, and assignees, arranged on custom Kanban boards whose statuses you define yourself. A dependency graph shows which tasks block which, sprints organize iterations, and recurring tasks regenerate on schedule so weekly rituals never need manual recreation. Built-in time tracking separates billable from non-billable hours, and analytics turn that data into workload reports, productivity views, and income and expense summaries. Multiple organizations share one instance with invites, granular role permissions, and real-time updates, while SAML 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM provisioning plug into your existing identity provider. GitHub and GitLab integrations connect development work to the board, signed webhooks push events into your other systems, and scoped API tokens plus a TypeScript client make automation safe to hand out. An MCP server lets AI assistants search projects, create and update tasks, and manage statuses within the exact permissions you grant. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. TaskView Source-Available License licensed.

"As simple as Trello but as feature-rich as Jira" is how the Leantime team frames its goals-focused project management system for non-project managers - built from the ground up with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia in mind, with behavioral science shaping customizable dashboards, time blocking, low-cognitive-load prioritization, and Kanban, list, table, Gantt, and calendar views so each person works the way their brain does. The PHP application (AGPL, Laravel Blade frontend) connects strategy to execution: tasks with unlimited subtasks and dependencies roll up into milestones on a timeline, sprints and retrospectives handle iteration, and strategy-level blueprint boards - Lean Canvas, SWOT, risk analysis, goal and metric tracking - keep the "why" attached to the work. Knowledge lives alongside: wikis and docs, idea boards, comments on everything, file storage on S3 or local disk, even screen and webcam recording. Time tracking with timesheets supports estimation and client billing. Admin features are serious for an OSS tool: per-project permissions, two-factor auth, LDAP and OIDC single sign-on, Slack, Mattermost, and Discord integrations, a plugin system, and an expanding API that now powers a mobile app. Recent releases added multi-collaborator task assignment and low-vision accessibility improvements. Available in 20+ languages.

Open a project in DooTask and your tasks appear as a Kanban board, a list, a Gantt timeline, or a calendar, with team chat and file sharing beside them. Start from a project or task template and set a task to repeat so each new occurrence links back to the original. Mention colleagues in project and task chats, add emoji, and keep messages protected with asymmetric encryption. Files from chats and tasks gather in a Collaboration Files section, and WebDAV lets you manage My Files and Shared Files from Finder or Explorer. Check the dashboard for what is overdue, due today, or coming up, while department heads switch to a team view charting overdue and incomplete tasks per member. Visit the App Store to install official apps for approvals, OKRs, AI assistants, OnlyOffice, Minder mind maps, and Drawio diagrams. Administrators can add custom apps from an archive, a URL, or a GitHub repository. Add an API key for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, or Grok, or point to Ollama or any OpenAI-compatible URL, then type @AI Robot in a project chat to draft tasks. Log in on the web by scanning a QR code with the mobile app, or use an LDAP or Active Directory username. The free Open Source Edition covers three users; paid editions raise that to ten or unlimited. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Mitra is a self-hosted calendar that puts your tasks on the same timeline as your events, so planning a week finally happens in one place instead of two. Drag across empty grid space to make an entry, drag it to move it, and stretch its edges to resize it. Tasks without a date sit in the Planning tab with a due date and an estimate until you drag them into the week. Subtasks and dependencies draw as lines between entries. Availability shading lays your working hours under the grid so double-booking becomes obvious before it happens. Keep calendars inside Mitra with no account behind them, or connect the ones you already use: CalDAV, Google Calendar, Apple Calendar, Notion, Todoist, and Tempo all sync both ways, and published feeds arrive as read-only subscriptions. Lists sort, filter, and change many entries at once. Files attach to entries, guests reply, reminders land as push notifications, and a command palette drives everything from the keyboard. Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools can read and plan your calendars over MCP. Eight languages, right-to-left layouts, light and dark themes, phone install, and OIDC sign-in for several people round it out. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Plan the day in the morning, capture tasks in your own words as they appear, and let every device settle on the same list by evening: that rhythm is what OpenTodo is built around. The Today view opens with a briefing, a daily limit, and morning, afternoon, and evening sections, with time blocking and meetings counted against the day's real capacity. Quick add understands natural language in six languages, a pasted list becomes tasks in one step, and the command bar, inbox processing, email-to-task, and dictation keep capture fast. Projects organize work with sections, boards whose cards carry notes, timelines, sub-projects, and areas, while recurring tasks and sequential projects handle routines and ordered work. Lists can be shared with the people you live and work with, invited by link once the owner account exists. Every device keeps a full copy and works offline; changes are stamped per field and merge cleanly through your server when you reconnect, with history and undo preserving earlier values. CalDAV and calendar feeds connect your calendars, GitHub and GitLab issues flow in, and webhooks plus ntfy, Pushover, and Gotify send notifications out. Scheduled backups go to a folder, S3-compatible storage, or WebDAV, and the whole server is one container around one SQLite file. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.

Work, personal, business, and school calendars at different providers double-book because no one system sees your real availability - Keeper solves that multi-calendar collision problem. Its pull-compare-push sync engine aggregates events from Google Calendar, Outlook/Office 365, iCloud, FastMail, any CalDAV server, or read-only iCal/ICS feeds, and pushes blocking events to one or many destination calendars so time slots align everywhere. The design is deliberately content-agnostic - it syncs timeslots, not titles or descriptions, so a personal appointment shows as busy time on your work calendar without leaking details. Sync logic is clean: events Keeper creates carry a traceable UID suffix, deletions propagate, and orphaned entries are purged automatically. A token-authenticated aggregated iCal feed combines selected calendars into one subscribable URL for Apple Calendar or Thunderbird. An optional MCP server gives AI agents read-only calendar access over OAuth 2.1 - list calendars and query events by date range, with no write capability. Built with Next.js and Bun under AGPL-3.0, the standalone Docker image bundles web, API, cron, worker, Redis, and PostgreSQL in one container, and self-hosting unlocks every Pro feature - unlimited calendars and one-minute sync intervals - for free.

What Doodle did before ads and paywalls took over: Rallly (three L's) lets you propose a few dates, share a link, and watch an availability grid fill in - no email threads, no forced accounts, no "$6.95/month to remove ads." The availability grid makes the winning slot obvious at a glance, comments on each poll keep the "I can do Tuesday if we start late" discussion attached to the decision instead of buried in chat, and email notifications fire as votes and comments arrive. When consensus lands, finalize the winning option and everyone gets notified. The stack is modern TypeScript - Next.js, tRPC, Prisma over PostgreSQL, Tailwind - with a clean, genuinely mobile-friendly UI, dark mode, and community translations in 10+ languages. Self-hosting means unlimited polls and unlimited participants with meeting data on your server rather than a scheduling SaaS. It pairs naturally with Cal.com: Rallly answers "which time works for everyone?", Cal.com handles "book a slot on my calendar." AGPL-licensed.

Calendars, to-do lists, journal entries, and contacts, synced over the open CalDAV and CardDAV standards nearly every client already speaks: Radicale is a small pure-Python server that works with Thunderbird, DAVx5 on Android, Apple Calendar and Contacts, GNOME, and many more. Its defining design choice is radical simplicity: there is no database. Events live as plain .ics files and contacts as .vcf files in an ordinary folder structure, which makes backup a copy command, migration a move, and disaster recovery a matter of reading text files. The server works out of the box with no complicated setup, then grows as needed: flexible authentication (htpasswd files among other methods), per-collection authorization rules, TLS-secured connections, and a plugin system for extending storage, auth, and rights handling. Built-in limits on parallel connections, file sizes, and failed authentication attempts harden it for network exposure behind a reverse proxy. A bundled web interface handles creating and managing calendars and address books - useful since many clients cannot create collections themselves. Maintained since 2011 with 140+ contributors, GPLv3-licensed, and light enough to run on the smallest VPS or a Raspberry Pi.

GroupOffice checks your whole company in at one address: mail, meetings, projects, invoices, and files behind a single login on your own server. The built-in mail client saves messages straight onto projects or contacts, signs and encrypts with S/MIME, and shares folders and accounts across the team. Shared calendars offer team views, bookable resources, and video meetings, while address books carry custom fields and comments so customer knowledge survives staff changes. Projects gather their tasks, files, and discussions in one place, track hours as work happens, and turn those hours and costs into invoices and reports. Support tickets arrive from your website or by email and stay organized by team, and newsletters compose campaigns from templates filled with your own data. Files co-edit in the browser through OnlyOffice or Collabora, connect to desktops over WebDAV, and sync to native phone and computer apps over open protocols. Two-factor authentication, encryption, and a module system you can extend with your own tools keep the office private and shaped to how you actually work. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. AGPL-3.0 licensed.