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Kan

Modern, open source Trello alternative with kanban boards, lists, cards, and collaborative project tracking.

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Kan is a fast, open source kanban board application that ships as a clean, modern alternative to Trello. Built on Next.js, tRPC, Drizzle ORM, and Better Auth, it focuses on speed, a polished UI, and a developer-friendly codebase.

Each board in Kan contains lists, cards, drag-and-drop ordering, labels, due dates, members, and activity history. The project is positioned as a no-fuss self-hostable task board for personal productivity, small teams, and software projects where the simplicity of Trello is enough — without the per-user pricing.

Kan is released under AGPL-3.0, deploys as a single Docker image, and uses SQLite by default for trivial setup, with PostgreSQL support for production deployments.

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Project Management

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OpenAltFinder Score
73/100
Project Health (50%)
70/100
License (20%)
40/100
Self-hostable (20%)
100/100
Recency (10%)
100/100
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License
AGPL-3.0
Self hostable
Yes
Repository details
Created
10/27/2023
Stars
5,872
Forks
532
Open issues
121
Last commit
11/3/2026

Updated 11/4/2026, 10:01:04 AM

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