kanboard

Kanban project management software

⭐ 9,569 stars on GitHub · 🍴 1,950 forks · 📜 License: mit · 💻 Language: PHP

What is kanboard?

A lean, self-hosted Kanban tool for teams that want task flow without buying into a heavyweight project-management suite. Its differentiator is simplicity: Kanboard focuses on boards, cards, automation, and visibility rather than trying to become your company’s entire work operating system.

Main components

• Kanban boards for organizing work across columns, swimlanes, and tasks
• Task cards with assignees, due dates, comments, attachments, subtasks, and activity history
• Project management features for multiple projects, users, groups, roles, and permissions
• Built-in automation rules to move cards, assign tasks, update metadata, and trigger actions
• Time tracking, analytics, cumulative flow diagrams, and task reporting for delivery oversight
• Plugin support and API access for extending workflows and integrating with other systems

Clear use cases

• Run a self-hosted task board for a small engineering, ops, or support team
• Track internal IT work such as maintenance tasks, incident follow-ups, audits, and requests
• Manage lightweight agile workflows without Jira-level complexity or administration overhead
• Give clients or stakeholders a simple project board with controlled access
• Build a private personal or team productivity system where data stays on your own server

The biggest strength is focused minimalism — Kanboard does the core Kanban job well without burying users under roadmaps, epics, OKRs, dashboards, and paid-tier feature gates. Compared with commercial tools like Trello, Asana, or Jira, its value is control: you host it, you own the data, and you can keep the workflow intentionally small.

The main caveat is that Kanboard is in maintenance mode, so you should not expect major new features or a fast-moving product roadmap. For many self-hosters, that is acceptable: the software is mature, documented, and still receives community-driven fixes, but teams looking for modern collaboration UX, deep integrations, or enterprise portfolio management should look elsewhere.

Best for sysadmins, small dev teams, agencies, and privacy-conscious organizations that want a stable, self-hosted Kanban board with low operational and workflow complexity.

Topics: the project is tagged with popular topics:

• 🏷️ agile
• 🏷️ kanban
• 🏷️ kanboard
• 🏷️ project-management
• 🏷️ self-hosted

Quick install

See the README for detailed install instructions. Most projects support Docker — if the repo has a Dockerfile, use:

git clone https://github.com/kanboard/kanboard.git
cd kanboard
docker build -t kanboard .
docker run -d -p 8080:8080 kanboard

Minimum system requirements

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Resources

• 🔗 GitHub: kanboard/kanboard
• 🌐 Homepage: https://kanboard.org
• 📚 Official docs: see README in the repo
• 💬 Community: GitHub Issues + Discussions

Article compiled from GitHub data on 05/05/2026. Star/fork counts may have changed — see live numbers via the GitHub link.