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Wekan is an open-source kanban board platform — Trello-style boards with cards, lists, swimlanes, custom fields, time tracking, voting. Node.js + MongoDB. Designed as a Trello alternative for self-hosters who refuse to commit to Atlassian.
Wekan is an open-source kanban board platform — Trello-style boards with cards, lists, swimlanes, custom fields, time tracking, voting. Node.js + MongoDB. Designed as a Trello alternative for self-hosters who refuse to commit to Atlassian.
For teams who liked Trello pre-Atlassian-acquisition and want the same experience on their own infrastructure, Wekan is the spiritual successor.
Concrete scenarios where teams pick Wekan over the SaaS alternative.
visual task management
multiple boards per project
single-user task organization
shared boards across teams
student project boards
If your team profile matches one of these, Wekan is a strong fit out of the box.
rejecting Trello / Atlassian
wanting visual task management
running student project boards
keeping task data on-prem
at any scale
When evaluating self-hosted options for this category, here are the dimensions on which Wekan consistently lands above the alternatives.
The stack you'll plug Wekan into — services, protocols, and adjacent apps in the BluixApps catalog.
wekanteam/wekan:v7 (release-tagged)Operational guidance from running this in production — what to do before you scale, what to lock down, what surprises people.
mongo:6