Best Self-hosted Project & Work Management tools in 2026

Loomio is a collaborative decision-making tool for group discussions, proposals, and polls, helping teams make transparent decisions asynchronously with a clear record.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Diligent Boards+16

Open-source task and chore manager for individuals and groups featuring natural-language scheduling, assignee rotation, NFC triggers, REST API, and S3-compatible storage.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Todoist+19

Open source agile project management tool with Scrum and Kanban boards, issue tracking, backlog planning, and team collaboration features.

MPL-2.0Slowing down

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Atlassian Jira+19

MantisBT is a free web-based issue tracker for managing bugs, tasks, and projects with customizable workflows, email notifications, and role-based access control.

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Atlassian Jira+7

Open-source web app to manage electronic component inventory with projects/BOMs, barcode labels, fine-grained permissions, and powerful search.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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inFlow Inventory+11

ZenTao is an open source project management system for agile teams, combining product planning, Scrum/Kanban execution, bug tracking, testing, docs, and reporting.

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Jira Software+19

Open-source self-hosted app to manage, track and journal houseplants with locations, tasks, inventory, calendar, reminders, group chat and plant identification.

MITActively maintained

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Planta+2

Open-source low-code platform to build internal tools and customer-facing web apps with a visual UI builder, reusable modules, data-source connectors, and RBAC.

AGPL-3.0Slowing down

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Retool+13

Accent is an open-source translation management tool for apps, providing a web UI, CLI, and GraphQL API to manage i18n strings with review history and collaboration.

Nextcloud Deck is a Kanban-style project and personal task management app for Nextcloud, with boards, cards, labels, comments, and file attachments.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Trello+17

Open-source, self-hosted Work OS unifying project management, CRM, and agile workflows for startups.

MITSlowing down

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monday.com+19

Open-source Rails web app for David Allen's GTD: manage next actions, contexts, projects, tags, feeds and statistics; Docker-friendly and multi-user.

GPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Todoist+16

Modern, privacy-focused task manager with kanban, calendar, natural-language dates, recurring tasks, and JSON file storage.

Slowing down

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Todoist+9

Open-source vehicle tracking management system to manage vehicles, log fuel and maintenance, track insurance/documents, and set renewal reminders with dashboards.

Open-source PSA for MSPs combining client documentation, ticketing, billing/accounting, and a client portal, with API integrations and optional AI assistance.

GPL-3.0Actively maintained

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HaloITSM+19

Self-hosted project management with kanban boards, issue tracking, multiple views, and built-in time tracking and reports.

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Trello+19

Ontime is a browser-based, open-source rundown, scheduling, cueing, and event timer app for live events and broadcasts with real-time team collaboration and integrations.

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Rundown Creator+3

Bugzilla is an open source, web-based bug and issue tracker for managing products, components, milestones, and releases with powerful search and workflows.

MPL-2.0Actively maintained

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Bugzilla Hosted+8

Docker-ready, open-source computerized maintenance management system with web and mobile apps for work orders, preventive maintenance, inventory and analytics.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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UpKeep+8

Open-source invoicing app for freelancers to create invoices and quotes, manage clients, and track payments with a self-hosted stack (React, NestJS, Prisma, SQLite, PostgreSQL).

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Invoice2go+9

Open-source realtime Kanban-style board for teams with an advanced Markdown editor, SSO, import/export, and Docker deployment. Built with React and Sails.js on PostgreSQL.

MITActively maintained

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Trello+19

Kanba is a lightweight, open-source Trello-style project management tool with boards, lists, and team collaboration, built for simple, fast self-hosting.

MITActively maintained

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Trello+19

Django-CRM is a Django-based open-source CRM providing contact & lead management, deal tracking, email marketing, task/project management, and built-in analytics.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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HubSpot+19

Open-source operating system that connects company goals, projects and check-ins with opinionated workflows, an AI executive coach, and self-hosting options.

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monday.com+19

Project-based, minimalist time tracking with realtime reports, exports and basic integrations; available as a hosted demo or deployable via Docker and MongoDB.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Toggl Track+11

Feedback management and public roadmap platform for collecting, prioritizing and sharing customer requests; supports Docker, Helm/Kubernetes and multiple storage backends.

Apache-2.0Actively maintained

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Canny+6

Open-source, browser-based groupware providing calendar, email, file manager, CRM, projects, Collabora Online integration and SSO support.

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Microsoft Exchange Online+19

Open-source Kanban board and task management app built with ASP.NET Core Blazor. Supports projects, boards, cards, subtasks, time-tracking, attachments, reminders and Trello import.

MITActively maintained

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Trello+19

PHP-based groupware and CRM for teams: calendars, contacts, email, file management, projects and CRM with CalDAV/CardDAV/IMAP support and extensible modules.

AGPL-3.0Actively maintained

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Microsoft Exchange Online+15

Self-hosted PHP project management and issue tracking system with multi-project support, milestones, custom fields, built-in Markdown wiki, and REST API.

GPL-3.0Slowing down

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Atlassian Jira+19