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 May 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.
| Plane | kaneo | openproject | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overlap | 70% | 70% | 65% |
| Migration | trivial | trivial | moderate |
| License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | MIT | GPL-3.0 |
| Best for | Small teams | Small teams | Teams with DevOps |
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Drop-in Replacements
Ranked by feature coverage
Plane
7370% coverageOpen source Jira/Linear alternative
Plane is the open source alternative to Jira, covering sprints, kanban boards, and roadmaps without the Jira prices or the Linear waitlist. It's what Jira should have been: clean UI, fast, and you can self-host it.
kaneo
7170% coverageKaneo is a lightweight open source project management tool. Think kanban boards, task tracking, and team collaboration without the enterprise bloat.
openproject
7665% coverageOpenProject is the open source alternative. It covers traditional project management (waterfall, Gantt) and agile (Scrum boards, backlogs) in one tool.
Vikunja
5255% coverageThe to-do app to organize your life. Forever free, opt-in paid features.
Vikunja is a self-hosted task and project manager that occupies the middle ground between Todoist's simplicity and Asana's structure. Written in Go (single binary, no PHP), with a Vue frontend.
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