Kanboard kanboard/kanboard

Minimal self-hosted kanban board in PHP with WIP limits, subtasks, filters and automatic actions; MIT licensed and in maintenance mode.

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Kanboard at a glance

Checked 15 Oct 2026

Kanboard (v1.2.54, Aug 2026, ~9.9k stars) is a deliberately simple kanban board: drag-and-drop columns, WIP limits, subtasks with time estimates, a search query language and automatic actions. MIT licensed. In maintenance mode: no new major features, only small fixes and community releases. Runs on PHP with SQLite, MySQL or PostgreSQL on Linux, FreeBSD or Windows, or via Docker. No real-time collaboration or calendar/timeline views listed.

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How much of Trello does it replace?

1 of 3 jobs. Simple kanban boards with WIP limits and automation; minimalist UI, no new major features planned.

Kanban boards (boards Partial replacement

Shared boards with comments and live updates Not covered

Calendar and timeline views Not covered

For shared boards with comments and live updates, calendar and timeline views, see other Trello alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

How much of Todoist does it replace?

1 of 3 jobs. Kanban task tracking covers visual planning; it does not reproduce Todoist's natural-language capture, reminder experience or client ecosystem.

Tasks, assignees and deadlines Not covered

Kanban task boards Partial replacement

Task reminders Not covered

For tasks, assignees and deadlines, task reminders, see other Todoist alternatives. You may also need to build an interface, an API server and hosting yourself.

Facts, with sources

Every answer links to where we found it. We read the documentation; we did not install it.

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Runs on my machine? Self-hosted PHP web app The recommended operating system is GNU/Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL/Alpine Linux). docs.kanboard.org · requirements ↗ 1d ago

Code licence MIT Kanboard is distributed under the permissive MIT License. kanboard.org ↗ 1d ago

Model weights licence No separate model weights github.com · kanboard#readme ↗ 1d ago

Commercial use Yes, MIT Kanboard is distributed under the permissive MIT License. kanboard.org ↗ 1d ago

Paid services needed? None required; no paid edition found Free and Open Source software kanboard.org ↗ 1d ago

Hardware Not documented Know the answer? —

Operating systems Linux (recommended), FreeBSD, Windows; macOS not listed The recommended operating system is GNU/Linux (Debian/Ubuntu/RHEL/Alpine Linux). docs.kanboard.org · requirements ↗ 1d ago

Setup effort Easy; one docker run command, or PHP with SQLite docker run -d --name kanboard -p 80:80 -t kanboard/kanboard:v1.2.45 docs.kanboard.org · docker ↗ 1d ago