Project and task management
ClickUp alternatives
2 open-source projects that already do this job. Free to use - not free to run, which is what the numbers on the right are for.
The projects
makeplane/plane★55,662 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceOpen-source project management platform for tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.Open on GitHub ↗AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy★75,039 GitHub starsAGPL-3.0 licenceSelf-hosted collaborative workspace for notes, docs, and basic project management with AI features.Open on GitHub ↗
What you give up either way
- Enterprise certifications, compliance guarantees (SOC2/ISO/HIPAA) from vendor
- Out-of-the-box integrations and managed connectors
- Scale, uptime SLAs, and 24/7 managed support
- Proprietary 'Super Agent' orchestration and prebuilt agent marketplace
- Polished multi-model routing, billing for AI credits, and built-in workspace migration tools
An open-source project doing the core job proves a replacement is possible. It does not prove it matches ClickUp, and it does not prove anyone has run it for a month. How we decide.