Planka is a self-hosted Kanban board for teams that want to visualize and organize work on a familiar drag-and-drop board. Built with React and Redux and shipped primarily as a Docker container, it offers real-time collaboration, markdown card descriptions, and granular notifications without sending your project data to a third party. Note that Planka is distributed under a fair-code / Fair Use License: the source code is available and the community edition is free to self-host, but a paid Pro Edition adds advanced features and support — so it is not fully OSI open source.

Key Features

• Collaborative Kanban boards — Projects, boards, lists, and cards managed with an intuitive drag-and-drop interface.
• Real-time updates — Changes sync instantly across all connected users, no manual refresh needed.
• Rich markdown support — Write formatted card descriptions with a built-in markdown editor.
• Flexible notifications — Get alerts through 100+ providers, fully customizable to your workflow.
• Single sign-on — Authentication via OpenID Connect integration.
• Multilingual — Full internationalization supporting 35+ languages.
• Self-hostable — Deploy anywhere with Docker; your data stays under your control.

Why Use Planka?

Planka hits the sweet spot between a simple to-do board and a heavyweight project suite. Real-time collaboration and markdown make it pleasant for day-to-day team use, while self-hosting keeps you in control of your data. If you want the polish of a hosted tool without the SaaS lock-in, Planka is a strong candidate — just keep its fair-code license in mind when planning on paid features.

Use Cases

• Team Kanban for agile and lean workflows
• Personal project and task boards
• Self-hosted planning for privacy-conscious organizations

Platform

Web-based · Docker (self-hosted)

Licence

NOT fully open source. Fair-code / Fair Use License — source-available, community edition free to self-host; paid Pro Edition for advanced features and support.

Open source alternatives

• WeKan — open source Kanban board
• Kanboard — minimal open source Kanban, MIT licensed

Website

planka.app