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An open-source alternative to Trello

WeKan is the one project in our catalog listed as a replacement for Trello. It is project management software with 21.1K GitHub stars. Below is how it measures against the questions people usually ask first.

WeKan

Project management

Plan team work on kanban boards with swimlanes, rules and Trello import.

WeKan is a kanban board for teams that want Trello-style cards and lists on their own server. Beyond the classic board it offers swimlanes, table, calendar and Gantt views, Scrum tools and automation rules. It is free software under the MIT licence and sends no telemetry.

  • Plan work in swimlanes and lists, or switch to table, calendar, Gantt and Scrum views.
  • Automate card moves and updates with if-this-then-that rules, similar to Trello Butler.
  • Import boards from Trello, Jira or Asana and export them to CSV, Excel, PDF or JSON.

What people use it for

Move a team off Trello

Choose Add Board, then Import, and pick the Trello export to recreate the board in WeKan. Several export files, or a .zip of them, can be imported in one go, each becoming its own board.

Run sprints on a shared board

Turn on the Scrum settings to keep a product backlog and sprints on the board. Follow progress in the sprint report, velocity and burndown views, and review cycle time when the sprint ends.

Sign in with company accounts

In the Admin Panel, connect LDAP, SAML or an OAuth2 provider so staff log in with existing accounts, and group people into organisations and teams. Global webhooks and scheduled backups are set up from the same panel.

21.1K starsMITJavaScriptLatest release todayWebsite ↗Full profile →

Fact checklist

The same questions the pages with more alternatives let you sort by, answered for WeKan.

  • Permissive licence (MIT, Apache, BSD)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Open-source licence (copyleft or permissive)Licence: MIT (permissive)
  • Released in the last 90 daysLatest GitHub release Oct 31, 2026 (today)
  • Does not meet: Gaining stars this weekNot enough star history yet to tell
  • Written in JavaScriptMain language on GitHub
  • Does not meet: Recommended in a stackNot in any of our stacks yet

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