WeKan

WeKan is an open-source kanban board built as a self-hosted alternative to Trello. The interface will be immediately familiar to anyone who has used Trello: boards represent projects, lists represent workflow stages like “To Do,” “Doing,” and “Done,” and cards represent individual tasks that you drag between lists as work progresses.

Cards carry the details you would expect: titles, descriptions, due dates, labels, comments, attachments, and checklists. Swimlanes add a second dimension to boards, letting you group cards horizontally by team member, priority, or any other axis while keeping the column structure intact. Custom fields capture structured data on cards beyond the defaults.

The appeal is privacy and ownership. WeKan is MIT licensed and runs entirely on your infrastructure, so project data never touches a third-party server. For a household, a small team, or anyone who left Trello over its pricing or data policies, it covers the core kanban use case without a subscription.

Two honest points. The interface feels dated next to Trello’s polish or newer tools, and real-time collaboration can lag on large boards with many cards. WeKan is also purely kanban, with no agile sprint cycles, modules, or issue-tracking features. If you need those, Plane is the better fit. WeKan is the answer when you want a straightforward, self-hosted Trello replacement and nothing more complicated than that.