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Kan

Open-source, self-hosted kanban board and Trello alternative

Project Management & Tasks ★ 5.8k stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Kan is an open-source, self-hosted kanban board application positioned as a Trello alternative. Built with TypeScript, it offers boards, lists, labels, member collaboration, and public board sharing in a modern web interface.

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Key features

  • Trello-style kanban boards
  • Labels and members
  • Public board sharing
  • Modern responsive UI

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Mature project with 5.8k GitHub stars
  • Written in TypeScript

Is Kan secure?

OSV.dev lists 2 published advisories for Kan. It doesn't publish GitHub releases we can match, so we can't say which of them apply to the current version. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2026-92802, published 2026-09-16 (28 days ago), fixed in 0.6.0

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

Kan replaces

Self-hosted Trello alternatives

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