Focalboard

Focalboard is an open-source, self-hosted project management tool created by Mattermost. It serves as a direct alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana, offering boards, galleries, tables, and calendar views for organizing tasks and projects.

Teams can create unlimited boards, manage tasks with custom properties, filter and sort by any field, and switch between multiple layout views. Cards support rich text, checklists, file attachments, and comments. Focalboard integrates natively into the Mattermost collaboration platform but also ships as a standalone Personal Edition desktop app.

Licensed as open source, Focalboard is ideal for teams seeking a Kanban and project tracking solution they fully control. It supports multiple users, workspace-level permissions, and data export — all without any SaaS subscription costs.