I’m looking for a self hosted Kanban board where we as a exteded family can track things which have to be done. Since my parents are getting older and me and my siblings live all in different countries there is more and more to do to help our parents. But it’s difficult to keep track who is doing what and what status things are and we’re forgetting to do things, etc.
But because we will need to store confidential information there I am not so fond of using something like trello and would rather want to selfhost it.
I had a look at some of the self hosted KanBan boards, but none of them were mobile phone friendly. But we really need it to be mobile friendly, best case scenario would be a app for both Android and iPhone, but a PWA would be also OK. Most of the work in the tool will be done by us on mobile phones because we are doing it mostly on the go.
We don’t need much functionality, Tasks, subtasks, comments, assignees, status and attachments would be the most important ones, different project would also be good.
Anyone has some idea what I should look into?
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Planka is fantastic kanban software. There is a 3rd party mobile app, but so far it hasn’t yet been updated to support Planka v2. Planka’s own mobile web UI is better than it used to be, but it’s not quite there yet.
I host Vikunja and there is an iOS app for it. I think there is a cross platform app for Android but I’m not at all familiar with it.
Runtipi had a bunch and they all worked fine, just host multiple and try them all
It’s a bit heavy for your use case and as a docker image but I use YouTrack.
I use the knowledge base to build out my notes for my environments and it can handle uploading pretty big documents (useful for attaching pdfs)
It’s a bit overwhelming and complicated for normal use but wanted to throw it out there.
Nextcloud has decks. Not sure how good they are.
I like to use super productivity, which does have kanban support as well.
I was using Odoo at home for a while
Not adding anything useful to the discussion, but the “ban” in kanban is board 😅
So kanban board is like chai tea.
I think in colloquial usage, identifying chai as a tea type is useful. No one means green tea when they say chai tea, and using chai as a substitute for tea doesn’t make sense. In hindi, do they use chai for every tea type?
Edit: After some cursory digging it seems like what we mean by chai tea in the anglosphere is actually masala chai, and in hindi they use <name> chai for the tea types. TIL.
ahhhh online forums. Gotta love 'em. LOL
Let me pay for that chai tea using cash from the ATM machine and my PIN number. Would you also like some naan bread with it?
I always liked chai tea!
https://vikunja.io/ work very well, and can be used as a PWA
I convinced my workplace to host this one and it works well for us.
Self hosted != FOSS
Yes, but open-core will come back to bite you in the ass anyways. Enshittification built in.
Did you try Planka? It’s identical to Trello (before Salesforce bought it).
Pretty sure Trello was bought by Atlassian?
Ah, yes, the Jira folks.
I got Trello mixed up with Heroku.
I tried the demo but the UI is not really for mobile:
It has an app, altough i never managed to set it up correctly. (I can log in but it shows empty)
The mobile app is 3rd party and has not yet been updated for Planka v2.
Source: I use Planka a LOT.
If you look around, there’s an alpha mobile app
Edit I used to use this, but it’s not been updated: https://github.com/LouisHDev/planka_app
This one comes up in search, try at your own risk (I will be): https://plankapal.com/Planka is by far the best kanban around on desktop, I have searched far and wide and the only competitor is Vikunja, which is overall excellent and much more flexible with less focus on kanban, but full mobile support https://vikunja.io/
Yes, I see what you mean. Technically it works but nothing is optimized for a small screen.
Cfait does tasks, sub-tasks, comments, status (to do, done, canceled, started, paused), dependencies, and you could use tags/sub-tags to assign people.
You would need a CalDAV server which allows sharing “calendars” (I’ve only use Radicale and I do it there with symbolic links).
There is an Android and desktop (Linux, Windows, in theory MacOS) TUI and GUI clients but no iPhone. It uses the CalDAV standard so the data would still be accessible from an iPhone using a different client (but it might look less organized especially if that client doesn’t support all the same features).
Disclaimer: I am the developer :)
I have radicals already and use it for Task.com and also with symbolic links. Thanks, I’ll check it out.
The only one I’ve tried before is Wekan. I’m not a heavy kanban user, I just basically wanted to put sticky notes in columns, and it worked for that. Looks like it has the features you’re needing, though. There’s read-only demo here: https://boards.wekan.team/b/D2SzJKZDS4Z48yeQH/wekan-open-source-kanban-board-with-mit-license
It looks fairly mobile-friendly, and I think they have Android and iOS apps, too.
Github page: https://github.com/wekan/wekan
I’m testing Wekan in a volunteer project. It gets the job done, but it’s rough around the edges and I wouldn’t use it with people who don’t necessarily know what they are doing. It works in a mobile browser, but it’s no joy to use it there.
I’m not sure if it fits your criteria exactly, but Grocy has an assignable chore list. I’ve not used this function but I have used the mobile app which is solid.
That’s a interesting one, it’s quite different but looks very nice.
Deck for Nextcloud has a nice app.
Noooo it’s soooo bad. UI fail
Ok
I would recommend nextcloud, there is a deck mobile app too
That’s what I said
Yeah it looks good from the screenshots but I’ve been burned by NextCloud in the past a lot and would like to avoid it.
Did you run multiple users on SQLite?
I don’t remember the details but there were several occasions
- The sync UX was so confusing that I set it up and deleted things on a unimportant device to make some room and that deleted it everywhere without me realizing it for some time so I lost those things forever. This is where I switched file syning to Syncthing.
- I ran it basically without apps only for syncing caldav and carddav and it took so many resources on my server that it constantly brought down the whole vhost with all other unrelated services and the UI was so slow I could only use it through the API from desktop and mobile clients. I then switched to the lightweight Radicals and deleted NextCloud which made space to many new services on the little Hetzner vhost.
I haven’t seen self hosting small instances prioritized by NextCloud, I think it probably works very well on a beefy server for a lot of users, similar to Lemmy, but for one user instances it seems to not be well supported.
Not seen this on the list https://kanboard.org/
It’s a php app and very good
If you don’t find any hostable service, perhaps you could try Obsidian if its Kanban plugin works well in the mobile client. It’s closed source, but all data is stored in markdown files, and you could use a self-hosted git server for storage and synchronization between users.
I’ve tried it a few times, that kanban plugin sucks. It doesn’t even compete with Microsoft Planner in features.
