PLANKA

A real-time kanban board for teams, an alternative to Trello, with projects, boards, lists, cards and notifications, built in JavaScript.

12.7k stars, 1.4k forks JavaScript On GitHub since August 2019

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What is PLANKA?

PLANKA offers boards, lists, cards, labels, due dates, attachments, comments and real-time updates, so everyone sees changes as they happen. Markdown descriptions, a REST API and many notification channels round out the community version, which you self-host with PostgreSQL or install on Kubernetes with the included Helm chart. A Pro version adds mobile apps, a cross-project dashboard, calendar, timeline and map views, templates, guest roles, SSO and PDF export. PLANKA's interface comes in 28 languages.

Good fit if

  • You want a clean, fast Trello-style board for internal use.
  • You are a home user, school or non-profit, which the license explicitly allows.

Look elsewhere if

  • You need an OSI-approved license: WeKan and Kanboard are MIT.
  • You want to offer boards as a hosted service to customers: the license forbids it.

Before you adopt it

The PLANKA Community License is a fair-use license, not open source by the OSI definition: it allows personal, internal and non-profit use but not running PLANKA as a hosted service for others. Files marked .pe. are Pro or Enterprise code that require a paid license. Contributors sign a CLA, and one developer wrote every recent commit.

Drafted with AI from the project's README and repository data, then checked against that data on 30 October 2026. Report a correction

PLANKA health: is it still maintained?

56 of 100, actively developed

  • Activity
    83 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 28 October 2026.
    23 / 30
  • Contributors
    1 person wrote the 83 commits of the last 90 days; the most active wrote 100% of them.
    2 / 20
  • Releases
    15 releases in the last 12 months; the latest, v2.2.1, on 10 August 2026.
    19 / 20
  • Replies to issues
    Maintainers answered 37% of recent issues, with a median first reply after 8 days.
    7 / 20
  • Security practices
    No OpenSSF Scorecard for this repository yet, so this part gets a neutral score.
    5 / 10

Read from GitHub on 1 November 2026. How the score works

PLANKA license: is it open source?

PLANKA uses PLANKA Community License. It is source-available, not an OSI-approved open-source license: the code is public, but the license restricts how you may use it, usually commercially. Some features sit under a separate paid license inside the same repository. Contributors sign a contributor license agreement, which lets the owner relicense their work later.

  1. August 2019First published on GitHub.
  2. TodayPLANKA Community License, with paid parts: license file assigns a different licence to part of the code. A contributor license agreement is required.

How to run PLANKA yourself

Docker
Dockerfile or compose file in the repository
Compose file
docker-compose.yml: 2 services (postgres)
Setup effort
2 of 5, judged from the compose file
Kubernetes
Helm chart in the repository
Desktop and mobile
No app builds in GitHub releases
Interface languages
28 languages

Install instructions: planka.app or the README on GitHub.

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Questions about PLANKA

Is PLANKA open source?

Not by the OSI definition. PLANKA uses PLANKA Community License, which makes the code public but restricts how it may be used.

Is PLANKA still maintained?

Its health score is 56 of 100 (actively developed). It had 83 commits in the last 90 days, the latest on 28 October 2026, and its latest release came out on 10 August 2026.

How do I run PLANKA?

You can run it with Docker, on Kubernetes with the Helm chart in the repository. The README on GitHub has the exact steps.

What are the alternatives to PLANKA?

Close alternatives in the Project & task management category include Kanboard, Plane, Kaneo.