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PLANKA — A self-hosted Kanban and project tracker with realtime collaboration and a REST API

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Stars
12,557
Primary language
JavaScript
License
Not determined
Repository last updated
Sep 17, 2026

Overview

PLANKA is a self-hosted Kanban system for projects, boards, lists, and cards. The Community edition includes realtime collaboration, Markdown, attachments, comments, custom fields, notifications, webhooks, a documented REST API, and 2FA. The latest Community release checked on September 17, 2026 is v2.2.1.

Features and best fit

Based on official documentation; not hands-on tested · Content checked:

Combine core Kanban workflows with realtime collaboration, notifications, webhooks, and APIs

Community includes boards, lists, cards, Markdown, attachments, comments, custom fields, timers, due dates, more than 100 notification providers, webhooks, REST APIs, and 2FA. The client uses React/Redux/Vite while the server uses Node.js/Sails.js and PostgreSQL.

Sources: [2][4][5]

Keep Community data and backups on your infrastructure, then add Pro features if needed

Community is self-hosted. Pro adds mobile/tablet interfaces, calendar/timeline/map views, recurring cards, templates, guest roles, OIDC SSO, and exports.

Sources: [2]

For teams that want Trello-style boards without putting project data in a hosted SaaS

It fits small and mid-sized teams that want self-hosted project tracking while preserving realtime updates and API integration.

Sources: [2]

Community uses a custom Fair Use License, and Pro migration plus security updates need planning

PLANKA describes itself as fair-code, but Community uses a custom Fair Use License rather than a standard open-source license. Pro is separately commercially licensed and the upgrade is one-way, so backups matter. Version 2.2.1 is an emergency security release fixing a path-traversal issue in local file-storage routes.

Sources: [2][3]

Official sources

  1. [1]plankanban/planka — GitHub repository metadata(2026-09-17)
  2. [2]PLANKA — README(2026-09-17)
  3. [3]PLANKA Community v2.2.1 release(2026-09-17)
  4. [4]PLANKA — server/package.json(2026-09-17)
  5. [5]PLANKA — client/package.json(2026-09-17)
Supplemental curator note

The licensing model and one-way Pro migration are treated as first-class adoption considerations alongside product features.

Try it in 3 steps

  1. 1

    Get the source

    git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/plankanban/planka.git
  2. 2

    Enter the repository

    cd planka
  3. 3

    Check the official steps

    Continue with the commands in the README Installation, Quick Start, or Getting Started section.

    find . -maxdepth 1 -iname 'README*' -exec sed -n '1,220p' {} \; -quit
Check the official README

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12,557 Stars

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Development activity

Last 90 days · weekly

Commits (last 30 days)
52
Open PRs
3

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GitHub Topics

  • kanban
  • collaboration
  • docker
  • project-management
  • self-hosted
  • task-management
  • trello-alternative
Stars
12,557
Forks
1,378
Watchers
83
Open issues
369
Primary language
JavaScript
License
Not determined
Repository last updated
Sep 17, 2026
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