project management / collaboration
Leantime is an open-source, self-hosted project management system that combines strategy, planning, and execution with task management, kanban, gantt, goals, and documentation, designed for non-project managers and accessible to neurodivergent users.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
Self-hosted PM/boards/notes alternative; choose it when you want a Trello/Notion-like tool integrated with Mattermost.
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Mature GPL-3.0 project management suite; choose it when you need traditional project/portfolio planning and Gantt charts.
OpenProject is the leading open source project management software for product, project and portfolio management. A powerful Jira alternative with agile planning, issue tracking, roadmaps, Gantt charts, time tracking, collaboration features, and more. Available on premises or in the cloud. ⭐ Star us on GitHub
Modern open-source Jira/Linear/Monday alternative; choose it when you want a polished self-hosted platform with docs, sprints, and triage.
🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.
All-in-one PM platform (Huly) with Linear/Jira-like tracking plus Slack/Notion features; choose it when you need an integrated workspace.
Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
Broader company operating system; choose it when you need goals, check-ins, and projects in one platform beyond just project management.
The open source company operating system.
AI-native Scrum board where humans and AI agents share sprints; choose it when AI collaboration is your core need.
AI-native, free, open-source alternative to Jira, Trello, ClickUp & Monday. Built for Scrum teams where humans and AI agents collaborate as equals — on the same board, the same sprints, the same goals. Self-hosted. Fully customizable via config and plugins.
AI-collaborative project management with a Linear/Plane-style workflow; choose it when you want AI agents to work side-by-side with your team.
Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Linear and Plane. Project management and issue tracking where teams and AI agents work side by side to plan and ship products.
Lightweight kanban-centric server; choose it when you need only realtime kanban boards without goals or strategy features.
PLANKA is the Kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
Older Laravel/React Jira-like issue tracker; choose it only if you accept a small, unmaintained PHP option for basic issue tracking.
An issue tracking tool based on laravel+reactjs for small and medium-sized enterprises, open-source and free, similar to Jira.
Simpler realtime kanban board; choose it if you need a minimalist, no-frills board-only tool.
Straightforward realtime kanban boards management for intuitive task tracking. 4ga Boards features an elegant dark mode, collapsible todo lists, and multitasking tools to supercharge your team's productivity.
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
Offline desktop kanban app; choose it when you need a local, no-server board for personal use.
Modern offline Kanban board app for Windows, MacOS and Linux made with Tauri and Nuxt. Built with simplicity and user experience in mind.
These projects were analysed and named leantime among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how leantime rates them is a separate judgement, made when leantime is analysed in its own right.
calls leantime “Choose this when an accessible, goals-focused project management UI designed for neurodivergent users matters more than Plane's agile sprint tooling.”
🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.
calls leantime “Choose when you need a PM designed for neurodivergent users, focused on goals, in PHP.”
Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
calls leantime “Choose when you want an actively maintained, AGPL-licensed PM suite with more planning features (timeline, goals) than Focalboard.”
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
calls leantime “Choose when you want a goals-first, neurodivergent-friendly PM with a simpler UX than OpenProject.”
OpenProject is the leading open source project management software for product, project and portfolio management. A powerful Jira alternative with agile planning, issue tracking, roadmaps, Gantt charts, time tracking, collaboration features, and more. Available on premises or in the cloud. ⭐ Star us on GitHub
calls leantime “if you need a PM with goal/OKR focus and a PHP stack, despite AGPL”
🎯 All you need. Nothing you don't. Open source project management that works for you, not against you.
calls leantime “choose when you need a goals-focused, accessible PM for non-project managers.”
PLANKA is the Kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone
calls leantime “Choose when you need goal-focused PM designed for non-project managers; AGPL-3.0, PHP.”
Kanban project management software
calls leantime “choose if you want a simplified goal-focused PM for non-project managers without AI-agent collaboration.”
AI-native, free, open-source alternative to Jira, Trello, ClickUp & Monday. Built for Scrum teams where humans and AI agents collaborate as equals — on the same board, the same sprints, the same goals. Self-hosted. Fully customizable via config and plugins.