Plane vs Super Productivity
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted project management & tasks options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Plane with
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Compare Super Productivity with
choose an app… AppFlowy AFFiNE Memos Mark Text Joplin SiYuan Logseq Outline Trilium Notes TriliumNext Notes Khoj Chatwoot Wiki.js Focalboard Wekan SimpleX Chat Etherpad OpenProject Habitica Self-Hosted Planka Leantime Centrifugo Screego Typebot git-bug Kanboard Berty Mumble Kaneo The Lounge Papercups Taskwarrior Zammad WorkAdventure OpenEMR Maybe Tasks Taskcafe Vikunja Kimai2 Octobox Nullboard Godo Worklenz Donetick Tasks.md Restyaboard Kanban Tegon Taskell FossBilling Kanban Lite eLabFTW Tracks Gerrit OrangeHRM GanttProject eigenfocus osem Taiga Firefly III Importer LibreBooking Nextcloud Tasks 4ga Boards Todoman Web Vikunja Frontend Mobile Admidio Agorakit Facilmap LibrePlan HamsterBase Tasks DumbBudget WorkAdventure Tasks ShipShipShip TaskLite OpenHabitTracker Fab-manager May croodle rgit Traq myTinyTodo Our Shopping List DumbDo DumbKan SCM Manager FlowInquiry Satdress motion.tools (Antragsgrün) Grr Task Keeper Mergeable Bileto Mobilizon Tasks Galette phpCollab minimal-git-server Rukovoditel PyInventory CiviCRM on Drupal Listaway 92five Active Collab Bénévalibre BitBucket Server Buddy Enterprise Coin Crucible Cultivons Diacamma Dokos Kanban Tool Kantree Liberaforms Paheko PMB Pollaris ProjeQtOr Smederee Solo Tuleap
Feature Plane Super Productivity Category Project Management & Tasks Project Management & Tasks License AGPL-3.0 MIT Language TypeScript TypeScript Setup difficulty Medium Easy Min. RAM 2,048 MB 256 MB Deployment docker binary, source GitHub stars ★ 55,704 ★ 21,181 First released 2023 2018 Replaces Jira, Linear, Asana Todoist, Things
Why pick each one
Choose Plane if… Polished modern interface Good for product teams Active development Plane details Choose Super Productivity if… Released under the MIT license Easy to set up — beginner-friendly Mature project with 21.2k GitHub stars Written in TypeScript Super Productivity details
Frequently asked questions Is Plane or Super Productivity better? Neither is universally better. Plane has the larger community, while Super Productivity is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Plane and Super Productivity free and open-source? Yes. Plane is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Super Productivity under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Plane and Super Productivity with Docker? Plane: yes. Super Productivity: check the project docs for container support.