Wekan
Project Management & TasksOpen-source kanban board for collaboration
Replaces Trello
Best Real-Time Project Management & Tasks for self-hosting
The 4 best Real-Time project management & tasks you can self-host, ranked by community traction.
Habitica Self-Hosted
Project Management & TasksGamified task and habit manager for personal productivity
Replaces Todoist, Habitica
Planka
Project Management & TasksRealtime kanban board for workgroups
Replaces Trello
dwyl App MVP
Project Management & TasksMinimalist todo list with built-in time tracking, in Elixir
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At a glance
| App | Deploy effort | Difficulty | Min. RAM | License | ★ Stars |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wekan | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 1,024 MB | MIT | 21,117 |
| Habitica Self-Hosted | Under-an-hour setup | Hard | 1,024 MB | GPL-3.0 | 14,205 |
| Planka | Under-an-hour setup | Easy | 256 MB | AGPL-3.0 | 12,615 |
| dwyl App MVP | Under-an-hour setup | Medium | 512 MB | MIT | 98 |
Quick picks
- Most adopted: Wekan (21,117 GitHub stars).
- Lightest footprint: Planka (from 256 MB RAM, against 1,024 MB for the heaviest here).
- Licensing: 2 of 4 use MIT; check the rest individually if you plan to modify and redistribute.
Every option here is open-source and self-hostable, tagged Real-Time within the project management & tasks category. Deploy effort is graded from published container recipes, not vendor claims — see the methodology.