Planka is a kanban board in the style of Trello: boards, lists, and cards you drag between columns, with changes appearing live for everyone looking at the same board. It is one of the most polished self-hosted options for small teams and households.

Features

• Real-time collaboration with drag and drop
• Markdown card descriptions, checklists, labels, due dates, and attachments
• Notifications through 100+ providers, such as email, Discord, Telegram, and ntfy
• Two-factor authentication
• A REST API
• Multilingual interface

Editions

	Community	Pro
Kanban boards, real-time sync, API	Yes	Yes
SSO (OIDC)	No (removed in 2.2)	Yes
Calendar, timeline, and map views	No	Yes
Recurring cards, templates, guest roles	No	Yes
Mobile support, PDF export	No	Yes

The Community Edition uses a fair-code “Fair Use” license: the source is visible and self-hosting is free, but it is not an OSI-approved open source license. Version 2.2.0 moved OIDC single sign-on out of the Community Edition. If you relied on SSO, that means staying on an older version, buying Pro, or using a forward-auth proxy such as Tinyauth or Authelia in front of it.

Deployment

Planka is a Node.js app with PostgreSQL, shipped with a production-ready Docker Compose file and backup and restore scripts. Helm charts are available for Kubernetes.

Alternatives

• Vikunja: tasks plus kanban, list, and Gantt views, fully open source (AGPL)
• Wekan: the long-running open source Trello clone
• Kanboard: minimal and very lightweight
• Plane: a larger project management tool, closer to Jira

License

Community Edition: PLANKA Fair Use License (fair-code). Pro Edition: commercial.

Links

• Repository
• Website