Open source Monday.com alternatives
Every project in the catalog is MIT, Apache or BSD licensed. 0 projects explicitly describe themselves as a Monday.com alternative; 9 more are in the category where Monday.com is a typical product.
Open source projects in the same category: Project & Task Management
Category-level information: these projects are the same kind of software as Monday.com; they have not claimed to be a one-to-one replacement.
vibe-kanban
100BloopAI · Project & Task Management
Common commercial products in this category: Jira, Asana, Monday.com
- You create and prioritize tasks on the Kanban board.
- In workspaces, you run coding agents and use the terminal and development server.
- You review the changes and send feedback directly to the agent with inline comments.
- • High number of open issues (544)
- • NeutralGitHub Issue
Bring back old UI
“After upgrading to vibe-kanban from 0.1.7 to 0.1.9 there is no option to disable workspace. Previous UI was more UX friendly for me and was more "kanban" than new one. Also, after upgrade ALL old tasks and PROJECTS are gone.”
- ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue
Vibe Kanban agents refuses to start (Invalid WS)
“Starting vibe-kanban v0.0.143... 2026-01-03T13:51:02.364051Z INFO executors::profile: Loaded user profile overrides from profiles.json 2026-01-03T13:51:44.765480Z INFO services::services::oauth_credentials: OAuth credentials backend: file 2026-01-03T13:51:44.769011Z INFO…”
Verified against README · Oct 26, 2026 · source
WeKan
100wekan · Project & Task Management
Common commercial products in this category: Jira, Asana, Monday.com
- You can manage your personal to-do list or the activities you plan with your friends through a visual Kanban board.
- By hosting your data on your own server, you can safely track your corporate projects.
- Using the Docker infrastructure, you can quickly install into your own system and organize your projects in real time.
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
WeKan: Open-Source Meteor Kanban
“I've been looking for an on-premise Trello for months and WeKan seems to be the best option for now. How would you guys feel about deploying such a project for 300 people? Too soon?”
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
WeKan: Open-Source Meteor Kanban
“I love WeKan - we use at at Bytemark (www.bytemark.co.uk) for our internal to-do board - high level project tracking across the company with 28 staff.”
Grist
95gristlabs · Project & Task Management
Common commercial products in this category: Jira, Asana, Monday.com
- You can automatically process data in spreadsheets using Python formulas
- You can edit your data by creating columns that work with relational database logic
- Using the desktop application or server version, you can host your tables in your own infrastructure
- • High number of open issues (742)
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Grist – Open core alternative to Airtable and Google Sheets
“Believe it or not, I have actually considered that possibility. However, I think Grist looks like a great project and I can see they are reading the comments here. They might appreciate the feedback and it might not be hard to act on it. Plus, they might be small enough to fly…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Grist is a modern, relational spreadsheet
“[Grist founder here] On separating formulas from data, that's always been an important part of Grist. In Grist, check out the "Code View" page in the left-side panel -- it shows all the logic (i.e. formulas) of the document along with the Python data model (i.e. all the column…”
Kanboard
100kanboard · Project & Task Management
Common commercial products in this category: Jira, Asana, Monday.com
- You follow the new versions of this software in maintenance mode published with community contributions
- You use this application, which focuses on Kanban methodology for project management
- By defining automatic actions linked to events, you automatically change the assigned person, color, or category of tasks.
- ↑ PositiveHacker News
Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software
“We use Kanboard in our institute, but its UI/UX is among the worst I've experienced. It's reliable, but extremely unintuitive, causing people to avoid using it. However, it has potential.”
- ↓ NegativeHacker News
Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software
“Yes. I could have listed all the good points, but didn't apart from stability. The negatives are only such if they're important to you. If you don't have more than 50 cards visible, no problem. If you don't need a good Gantt chart, no problem. If you don't need fancy report…”
Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source
kaneo
80usekaneo · Project & Task Management
Common commercial products in this category: Jira, Asana, Monday.com
- You can install it on your own server with the Docker Compose or drim tool.
- You track tasks in Board, List, Calendar, and Gantt views, with backlogs, filters, and searches.
- MIT licensed you can host this open source project in your own infrastructure.
- • NeutralHacker News
Kaneo – An open source project management platform
“> * Docker Compose is sufficient for a Quick Start, but not production installation. As an author of a DevOps tool [1] based around Compose files, I beg to differ! It should be pretty easy to adapt the config from the README to use in medium-scale production setups [2] (the only…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Kaneo – An open source project management platform focused on simplicity
“Hey HackerNews, last month, Kaneo, my pet project which is open source ended up here. I saw a wide amount of reactions and these past weeks I took all your suggestions and tried to do as much as possible. It's a pet project where I try to give people valuable software which will…”
Verified against README · Oct 25, 2026 · source
AhmadHassan-BTed · Project & Task Management
Common commercial products in this category: Jira, Asana, Monday.com
- You convert notification-based JSON documents into interactive and driftable Gantt schemes.
- With the topological DAG solver and Critical Path Method, you perform program timing checks.
- You generate timeline data by providing schema contracts for AI models and autonomous agents.
- • No published release
Taskcafe
55JordanKnott · Project & Task Management
Common commercial products in this category: Jira, Asana, Monday.com
- Manage tasks via the Kanban board interface and add checklists with the deadline, tag
- Follow all current tasks assigned to you via the "My Tasks" view
- You comment on tasks and display activity history
- • Last update 3 years ago
- ↓ NegativeGitHub Issue
User icon glitch
“**Describe the bug** On the top of right no user icon is shown. Built from the latest source (61cd376bfd0e9272b9c0cfd3497dbf163728e35f). **Expected behavior** Uploaded avatar is shown. **Screenshots / Live demo link** : Jira, Trello, ClickUp, Monday
Common commercial products in this category: Asana, Monday.com
- İnsanlar ve yapay zeka ajanlarıyla aynı gerçek zamanlı Scrumban panosunu paylaşabilirsin.
- Proje sohbetinde düz dille epic, hikaye ve görev oluşturup planlayabilirsin.
- Etkinlik panelinde her alan değişikliğinin farkını görüp tek tıkla geri alabilirsin.
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
“Great project, will give it a try! Struggling to find a simple task management for work across different repos and some admin+marketing tasks. Become very messy when tasks are distributed among Hermes, Claude Code & myself. Planned to building on beads to for non-repo based…”
- • NeutralHacker News
Show HN: Paca – Lightweight Jira alternative for human-AI collaboration
“This is what was for looking for. I need a visual surface to plan agentic feature development workflow. Don't you mind if I make Paca integration with the AI agentic Go runtime I'm developing? your OpenHands concept with container per agent seem little heavy. I will start from…”
Verified against README · Oct 29, 2026 · source