Best open-source alternatives to Jira

Plane is an open-source project management platform designed for teams that need to organize work without spending time managing the tool itself. It centers on issue tracking, cycle planning, modular project breakdowns, configurable views, pages for notes and ideas, and analytics for monitoring progress. The project supports both a hosted cloud offering and self-hosted deployment on users’ own infrastructure. Its README highlights an instance-admin “God mode” for configuring server-level settings, along with dedicated product and developer documentation for setup, usage, and contribution. The software is positioned for collaborative team use and includes a rich text workflow for capturing and converting ideas into actionable work.

Huly Platform is a framework for creating business applications, with a focus on helping teams build products like CRM systems more quickly. The repository bundles several application areas, including chat, project management, CRM, HRM, and ATS, and notes that multiple teams are already building on top of it, including Huly and TraceX. The project is aimed at developers and teams who want to self-host or extend a modular business platform. Its README describes a Docker-based self-hosting path, a source-based development workflow, and a typed API client for programmatic integration. It also outlines versioning, architecture documentation, testing, and build tooling for working with the platform locally.

WeKan is an open source, MIT-licensed collaborative kanban board application. It is intended for individuals, small groups, and teams that want a visual way to organize work, track progress, and manage projects without depending on a proprietary service. The project is designed for self-hosting on a personal computer or server and is distributed through multiple deployment paths, including containers and source-based installation. The README emphasizes active development, community contributions, and availability of developer documentation, along with a public demo/roadmap board and commercial support options. It also highlights real-time interaction, broad language translation support, and use across many countries and large organizations.

OpenProject is a web-based project management platform aimed at teams that need to plan, track, and coordinate work in one shared system. The README positions it as a collaborative tool for managing projects, tasks, goals, and related development work, including linking work packages to GitHub pull requests. It provides a broad set of project-management capabilities such as planning and scheduling, roadmap and release planning, task tracking, agile and Scrum workflows, time and cost management, budgeting, bug tracking, wikis, forums, and meeting documentation. The project is available as a self-hosted Community Edition and also as an Enterprise Edition with cloud or on-premises options and support add-ons.

Agile Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.

The to-do app to organize your life.