Planka
Planka is a source-available, self-hosted app in the Task Management category, licensed PLANKA Community License (Fair Use License 1.1) and written mainly in JavaScript. It is a self-hosted alternative to Trello and Asana and ships a Docker image. It has 12,643 GitHub stars and its last commit was on Oct 23, 2026 (data as of Oct 26, 2026).
- Task Management
- JavaScript
- PLANKA Community License
- Source-available
- Docker
- Active
GitHub stats
- GitHub stars
- 12,643
- Forks
- 1,396
- Open issues
- 369
- Commits, last 12 months
- 297
- Last commit
- Oct 23, 2026
- Latest release
- v2.2.1Aug 10, 2026
- Created
- Aug 30, 2019
- License
- PLANKA Community License (Fair Use License 1.1)Source-available
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Project health
ActiveActive: last commit Oct 23, 2026, 297 commits in 12 months.
- Regular releases10 or more releases in 12 months
- Welcomes contributors14 open good-first-issue or help-wanted issues and a contributing guide
- Security policyPublishes a security policy on GitHub
| Last commit | Oct 23, 2026 |
|---|---|
| Commits, last 12 months | 297 |
| Latest release | v2.2.1 (Aug 10, 2026) |
| Releases, last 12 months | 10 or more |
| Releases, all time | 63 |
| Open issues | 369 |
| Open pull requests | 14 |
| Good first issues | 1 |
| Contributing guide | Yes |
| Security policy | Yes |
| Created | Aug 30, 2019 |
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About Planka
Realtime kanban board for workgroups (alternative to Trello).
Description adapted from awesome-selfhosted (CC BY-SA 3.0). Source code: github.com/plankanban/planka.
Topics
- kanban
- collaboration
- docker
- project-management
- self-hosted
- task-management
- trello-alternative
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Is Planka free and open source?
Not by the OSI definition. Planka is source-available rather than open source: its code is public under the PLANKA Community License (Fair Use License 1.1), which is not an OSI-approved open-source license. This is a custom license: the source is public, but it adds conditions that OSI-approved licenses do not, such as limits on commercial, hosted or production use. Read it before you deploy. Check the license in the repository before using it commercially.
Can I run Planka with Docker?
Yes. Planka provides a Docker image, so you can run it on any Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed. The project README lists the image name and the environment variables to set.
What are the best alternatives to Planka?
Popular self-hosted alternatives to Planka include AppFlowy, Super Productivity and Wekan. Planka itself is a self-hosted alternative to Trello and Asana.
Is Planka actively maintained?
The most recent commit to Planka was on Oct 23, 2026 with 297 commits in the past twelve months. The latest release is v2.2.1, published Aug 10, 2026. It had 369 open issues on GitHub. appsgit's project-health label for it is "Active" as of Oct 26, 2026.