project management / issue tracking / work management
Plane is an open-source, self-hosted project management platform for tracking issues, running cycles/sprints, managing product roadmaps, and organizing docs, positioned as a Jira/Linear/Monday/ClickUp alternative.
Same problem, same approach. Swapping one for another is a config change, not a rewrite.
Choose this when you want an all-in-one self-hosted workspace with chat, docs, and issues, under a permissive-ish EPL-2.0 license and an actively developed codebase.
Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
Choose this for a mature on-premise project management platform with Gantt charts and time tracking, and if you prefer a long-established Ruby ecosystem over a modern collaborative UI.
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
Choose this if you want an Apache-2.0-licensed Scrum tool with native AI-agent collaboration; it is younger and has a smaller ecosystem than Plane.
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.
Choose this for a self-hosted, AGPL-3.0 Plane alternative explicitly designed for teams and AI agents planning side by side; its codebase is much younger/smaller.
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.
Choose this if you want a fast, MIT-licensed, self-hosted PM with a minimal feature set and lower overhead than Plane.
🎯 All you need. Nothing you don't. Open source project management that works for you, not against you.
Choose this when an accessible, goals-focused project management UI designed for neurodivergent users matters more than Plane's agile sprint tooling.
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
Solves the same problem with a different architecture or at a different layer. Expect to rewrite the integration.
Choose this when project planning must live inside a broader company OS with goals, decisions, and people management, not as a standalone PM tool.
The open source company operating system.
Choose this if you want project and workforce management combined with time/people features in one suite; it is a broader work platform, not a drop-in PM tool.
Ever® Teams™ - The Workplace for Humans. Open Work & Productivity Platform - https://ever.team
An earlier or more limited way to do the job. Still the right call when you need something small, proven, or CPU-only.
Choose this for a simple self-hosted board workflow, especially with Mattermost integration; it lacks Plane's cycles, roadmaps, and docs.
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana.
Choose this as a lightweight Trello-style kanban board; it does not provide Plane's sprints, docs, or roadmap features.
PLANKA is the Kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone
Choose this only if you need a historical dev-first issue tracker and accept a project that has been archived and unmaintained for over a year.
Tegon is an open-source, dev-first alternative to Jira, Linear
Choose this only in a legacy Laravel/PHP environment; it is an older, unmaintained Jira-like issue tracker, not a current alternative.
An issue tracking tool based on laravel+reactjs for small and medium-sized enterprises, open-source and free, similar to Jira.
Choose this for a minimal self-hosted kanban board only; it has no cycles, docs, or roadmaps.
Kanban project management software
Does the same job, but ships as an app. Useful to a person, not swappable into a codebase.
Choose this if you need a terminal TUI task board usable by agents; it is an end-user app rather than a self-hosted server you embed.
Task Manager with a TUI written in Python and usable by agents
These projects were analysed and named plane among their alternatives. The relationship is not symmetric — how plane rates them is a separate judgement, made when plane is analysed in its own right.
calls plane “Choose when you want the most widely adopted open-source Jira/Linear alternative, AGPL-licensed.”
Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
calls plane “Choose when you want a modern, actively developed TypeScript/AGPL PM with a polished UI and docs/issue tracking.”
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 plane “Modern open-source Jira/Linear/Monday alternative; choose it when you want a polished self-hosted platform with docs, sprints, and triage.”
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
calls plane “if you want a more widely adopted platform with docs and sprint management, under AGPL”
🎯 All you need. Nothing you don't. Open source project management that works for you, not against you.
calls plane “choose when you need a full-featured PM platform with sprints, docs, and issue tracking beyond Kanban.”
PLANKA is the Kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone
calls plane “Choose when you need sprints, docs, and issue tracking beyond a pure kanban board; heavier AGPL stack.”
Kanban project management software
calls plane “choose if you need a mature Jira-style issue tracker/wiki/sprints without built-in AI teammates.”
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.