WeKan ® - Open Source kanban by wekan

The Open Source kanban, built with Meteor. GitHub issues/PRs are only for FLOSS Developers, not for support, support is at https://wekan.fi/commercial-support/ . New English strings for new features at imports/i18n/data/en.i18n.json . Non-English translations at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.

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Verdict 76/100 health $4.13/mo cheapest, hetzner 1/5 setup difficulty 2 open CVEs Last release 2 months ago

Self-host WeKan ® - Open Source kanban on hetzner for $4.13/mo and save approximately $10/year vs Trello.

Health score
76 /100
6-dim composite
Self-hosts from
$4.13 /mo
hetzner · CAX11
Difficulty
1 /5
One-click deploy
GitHub stars
21k
3.0k forks

About WeKan ® - Open Source kanban

From the project's README at github.com/wekan/wekan. Lightly cleaned for readability; for the full source see the upstream repo.

https://wekan.fi/install/ Docker Containers GitHub Quay Docker Hub

docker-compose.yml at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/blob/main/docker-compose.yml Standards WeKan and Standard for Public Code assessment was made at 2023-11. Currently Wekan meets 8 out of 16 criteria out of the box. Some others could be met with small changes. Code stats CII Best Practices Code Climate Open Hub OSS Insight Translate WeKan ® at Transifex

Translations to non-English languages are accepted only at Transifex using webbrowser. New English strings of new features can be added as PRs to master branch file wekan/imports/i18n/data/en.i18n.json . WeKan ® feature requests and bugs

Please add most of your questions as GitHub issue: WeKan ® Feature Requests and Bugs. It's better than at chat where details get lost when chat scrolls up. Discussions

Health score breakdown

6-dimension composite. See methodology for formula and weights.

activity
75
maturity
85
community
88
security
85
sustainability
100
adoption
40

Adoption signals

Real-world usage data, pulled from each registry. The bigger the numbers, the more battle-tested the project.

SignalValueSource
GitHub stars 21k github.com/wekan/wekan
GitHub forks 3.0k github.com/wekan/wekan
NPM downloads (last month) 15 wekan

Release & maintenance

Is this project actively maintained, or about to die? Check the recency of last commit and last release.

Project age12.4 yearssince Jan 2014
Last commit2 months agoMay 4, 2026
Releases shipped603last: 2 months ago
Security policySECURITY.mddeclared by maintainers
Funding links2declared by maintainers

Self-hosting cost across providers

Detected requirements: 4GB RAM, 40GB disk minimum. Cheapest plan per provider that meets the requirement.

ProviderPlanSpecsMonthly
hetzner CAX11 2c · 4GB · 40GB $4.13 USD Deploy →
vultr VC2 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5 USD Deploy →
linode Nanode 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $5.12 USD Deploy →
digitalocean Basic Regular 1GB 1c · 1GB · 25GB $6 USD Deploy →

Security advisories

39 known advisories tracked via OSV.dev. 2 currently open without a documented fix. Most recent: CVE-2026-30847.

What people say on Hacker News

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