Plane vs Tasks.md
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted project management & tasks options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
Not the right match-up?
Compare Plane with
choose an app… AppFlowy AFFiNE Memos Mark Text Joplin SiYuan Logseq Outline Trilium Notes TriliumNext Notes Khoj Chatwoot Wiki.js Huly Focalboard Super Productivity Wekan SimpleX Chat Etherpad OpenProject Habitica Self-Hosted Planka Phabricator Leantime Centrifugo Screego Typebot git-bug Kanboard Berty Mumble Kaneo The Lounge Papercups Redmine Taskwarrior Zammad WorkAdventure OpenEMR Maybe Tasks Taskcafe Vikunja Kimai2 Octobox Nullboard Godo Worklenz Donetick Restyaboard Kanban Tegon MantisBT Taskell FossBilling ZenTao Kanban Lite eLabFTW Tracks Gerrit OrangeHRM GanttProject eigenfocus osem Bugzilla Taiga Firefly III Importer LibreBooking Phorge 4ga Boards Todoman Web Vikunja Frontend Mobile Trac Admidio The Bug Genie 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 eTraxis 92five Active Collab Bénévalibre BitBucket Server Buddy Enterprise Coin Crucible Cultivons Diacamma Dokos Kanban Tool Kantree Liberaforms Paheko PMB Pollaris ProjeQtOr Smederee Solo Tuleap
Compare Tasks.md with
choose an app… Focalboard Super Productivity Wekan OpenProject Habitica Self-Hosted Planka Leantime git-bug Kanboard Kaneo Taskwarrior OpenEMR Maybe Tasks Taskcafe Vikunja Kimai2 Octobox Nullboard Godo Worklenz Donetick Restyaboard Kanban Tegon Taskell Nextcloud Deck Kanban Lite Taiga
Feature Plane Tasks.md Category Project Management & Tasks Project Management & Tasks License AGPL-3.0 MIT Language TypeScript JavaScript Setup difficulty Medium Easy Min. RAM 2,048 MB 128 MB Deployment docker docker GitHub stars ★ 55,704 ★ 2,175 First released 2023 2023 Replaces Jira, Linear, Asana Trello
Why pick each one
Choose Plane if… Polished modern interface Good for product teams Active development Plane details Choose Tasks.md if… Released under the MIT license Easy to set up — beginner-friendly First-class Docker support for quick deployment Active community (2.2k GitHub stars) Tasks.md details
Frequently asked questions Is Plane or Tasks.md better? Neither is universally better. Plane has the larger community, while Tasks.md is simpler to set up (easy difficulty). Choose based on the comparison table above and your own setup.
Are Plane and Tasks.md free and open-source? Yes. Plane is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Tasks.md under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Plane and Tasks.md with Docker? Plane: yes. Tasks.md: yes.