Open Source Alternatives
Open Source Project Management Alternatives to Trello
Visual kanban board for project and task management by Atlassian.
Trello is a trademark of its respective owner.
Updated Nov 2026
What you gain
- ✓No per-user pricing starting at $5-17.50/user/mo
- ✓Full ownership of your boards, lists, and cards
- ✓No Power-Up limits (free tier gets 1, Standard gets unlimited)
- ✓Self-hosted deployment with custom board automation
What you give up
- △No Butler automation with rule-based and scheduled triggers
- △No Trello Power-Ups ecosystem with 200+ integrations
- △No managed views (Timeline, Table, Calendar, Dashboard)
- △No Trello Templates with 100+ prebuilt board layouts
Switching Cost
Trello has minimal lock-in. Boards export as JSON with full card data, descriptions, attachments, and comments. The migration itself takes under an hour for most teams. The real friction is the Power-Ups: if your workflow depends on specific Power-Ups (GitHub, Slack, Salesforce integrations), you need equivalents in the new tool. Teams using basic Kanban boards switch in minutes. Teams with complex Butler automations and multiple Power-Up integrations should budget a few hours. The hidden cost is actually very low since Trello's core feature is the board/list/card structure that every project management tool supports.
| kaneo | Plane | openproject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overlap | 80% | 70% | 65% |
| Migration | trivial | moderate | moderate |
| License | MIT | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GPL-3.0 |
| Best for | Small teams | Small teams | Teams with DevOps |
We find the alternatives so you don't have to
Open source analysis in your inbox every Wednesday.
Drop-in Replacements
Ranked by feature coverage
kaneo
8080% coverageKaneo is project management without the Jira overhead: boards, lists, calendar and Gantt views, a backlog, subtasks, dependencies, time tracking and custom fields. It's MIT licensed, and self-hosting is free with unlimited users and every feature, SSO included, which is rarer than it should be.
Plane
8170% coverageOpen source Jira/Linear alternative
Plane is a self-hostable project tracker for the work most teams buy Jira or Linear for: work items, cycles (sprints), modules, pages for docs, intake for triage, and five layouts including board, calendar and Gantt. The open source Community Edition is AGPL v3 and free with no user cap.
openproject
8165% coverageOpenProject is an open source alternative to Jira and MS Project that handles both styles of project management in one tool: classic plans with Gantt charts, and agile boards and backlogs. Add time and cost tracking, wikis and meetings, and it's a whole suite.
Vikunja
6855% coverageThe to-do app to organize your life. Forever free, opt-in paid features.
Vikunja is a self-hosted task and project manager sitting between Todoist's simplicity and Asana's structure. It is a single Go binary with a Vue frontend, AGPLv3, and it ships at a steady pace rather than in bursts.