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Kanboard is a minimalist self-hosted Kanban project management tool — boards, columns, swimlanes, drag-and-drop tasks. PHP-based, SQLite / MySQL / Postgres backend, no frontend framework bloat. Designed for teams who want Trello's simplicity without Atlassian's complexity.
Kanboard is a minimalist self-hosted Kanban project management tool — boards, columns, swimlanes, drag-and-drop tasks. PHP-based, SQLite / MySQL / Postgres backend, no frontend framework bloat. Designed for teams who want Trello's simplicity without Atlassian's complexity.
For developers and small teams who reject Jira's enterprise weight, Kanboard is the leanest practical kanban tool.
Concrete scenarios where teams pick Kanboard over the SaaS alternative.
visualize work in columns
single-user productivity
2-10 person agile boards
issue management without overhead
milestones, due dates, dependencies
If your team profile matches one of these, Kanboard is a strong fit out of the box.
rejecting Jira's complexity
managing personal projects
tracking startup tasks
running student projects
managing community contributions
When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which Kanboard consistently lands above the alternatives.
The stack you'll plug Kanboard into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.
kanboard/kanboard:latest (release-tagged)Operational guidance from running this in production — what to do before you scale, what to lock down, what surprises people.
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