plankanban

    plankanban/planka

    Elegant open source project tracking. Self-hosted Kanban for teams — free Community edition, with PLANKA Pro for organisations.

    12.7K stars
    1.4K forks
    80 GitHub watchers
    Updated Nov 5, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest today, with 156 contributors on GitHub.

    Peaked at #29 in the weekly ranking the week of Aug 16, its best in the past year.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a self-hosted, collaborative Kanban board system for project and task management with real-time updates and rich markdown support.
    • Enables teams to manage projects privately with full control over deployment and customization, unlike cloud-only Kanban tools.
    • Use for managing software development sprints with instant syncing and drag-and-drop task organization.
    • Use for coordinating marketing campaigns across distributed teams requiring multilingual support and flexible notifications.
    • Use for organizations needing a self-hosted alternative to Trello with enterprise licensing options and OpenID Connect single sign-on.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    Other

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    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

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    From the README

    Project mastering driven by fun

    Client demo (without server features).

    ⚠️ The demo GIF and client demo are based on v1 and will be updated soon.

    PLANKA is easy to install using multiple methods - learn more in the installation guide.

    For configuration and environment settings, see the configuration section.

    Excerpt from the plankanban/planka README on GitHub (NOASSERTION license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 12: +10Aug 13: +11Aug 14: +10Aug 15: +13Aug 16: +19Aug 17: +4Aug 18: +18Aug 19: +10Aug 20: +4Aug 27: +4Aug 28: +1Aug 29: +3Aug 30: +3Aug 31: +4Sep 1: +8Sep 2: +6Sep 3: +10Sep 4: +7Sep 5: +10Sep 6: +3Sep 7: +5Sep 8: +5Sep 9: +9Sep 10: +0

    +335 stars over 87 days across 30 snapshot days; best day +19 on Aug 16.

    Forks

    1.4K+55

    Open issues

    366-80

    Compared with peers in DevOps

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