List of Top Free Open Source & Self Hosted Application for Task Management & To-do Lists

Task management software.

• Focalboard – An open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. It helps define, organize, track and manage work across individuals and teams. MIT/AGPL-3.0/Apache-2.0 Nodejs/Go
• Kanbana – Create boards to track users and projects from flat markdown files. Forked from Crepido. MIT Nodejs
• Kanboard – Simple and open source visual task board. MIT PHP
• Minimalist Online Markdown Editor – The simplest and slickest online Markdown editor. MIT Nodejs
• myTinyTodo – Simple way to manage your todo list in AJAX style. Uses PHP, jQuery, SQLite/MySQL. GTD compliant. GPL-2.0 PHP
• Nullboard – Single-page minimalist kanban board; compact, highly readable and quick to use. BSD-2-Clause Javascript
• Our Shopping List – Simple shared list application. Typical uses include shopping lists of course, and any other small todo-list that needs to be used collaboratively. AGPL-3.0 Docker
• Planka – Open source Trello alternative. AGPL-3.0 Nodejs
• Restyaboard – Open source Trello-like kanban board. OSL-3.0 PHP
• Task Keeper – List editor for power users, backed by a self-hosted server. Apache-2.0 Scala
• Tasks – Simple tasks and notes manager written in PHP, jQuery and Bootstrap using a custom flat file database. MPL-2.0 PHP
• Tasks.md – A self-hosted, file based task management board that supports Markdown syntax. MIT Docker
• Taskwarrior – Taskwarrior is Free and Open Source Software that manages your TODO list from your command line. It is flexible, fast, efficient, and unobtrusive. It does its job then gets out of your way. MIT C++
• todo – Simple todo list manager. MIT Go
• todoMini – Mobile friendly zero-feature TODO list web app. Unix philosophy. GPL-3.0 PHP/Java
• Tracks – Web-based application to help you implement David Allen’s Getting Things Done™ methodology. GPL-2.0 Ruby
• Vikunja – The to-do app to organize your life. GPL-3.0 Go
• Wekan – Open-source Trello-like kanban. MIT Nodejs

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