Project management · Updated October 2026
Jira is Atlassian's issue tracker and project management tool for software teams. If you would rather own your tools, here are 7 open source alternatives to Jira, ranked by GitHub stars. Each one is free to use under its license, and you can read, change, and often self-host the code.
The most popular is Plane with 61.2k stars, and the most recently updated is OpenProject, with a commit on Oct 21, 2026.
by makeplane
🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.
by hcengineering
Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
by opf
OpenProject is the leading open source project management software for product, project and portfolio management. A powerful Jira alternative with agile planning, issue tracking, roadmaps, Gantt ch…
by Leantime
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
by kanboard
Kanban project management software
by go-vikunja
The task manager you actually own.
by taigaio
By GitHub stars, Plane is the most popular open source alternative to Jira right now, with 61.2k stars, followed by Huly and OpenProject. The best fit depends on your setup, so compare their licenses, languages, and recent activity in the table above.
Yes. All 7 projects on this page are open source, so the software itself is free to use, study, and change. Some of them also sell a hosted version or paid support.
OpenProject (last commit Oct 21, 2026), Plane (last commit Oct 21, 2026), and Vikunja (last commit Oct 21, 2026) have the most recent commits. Licenses on this list include AGPL-3.0, EPL-2.0, GPL-3.0, and MIT.
Plane
Huly
OpenProject
Leantime
Kanboard
Vikunja
Taiga