Project management tools in 2026
21 commercial products, ranked by how many people read about each, or about its maker, on Wikipedia's mobile site. Of those with an article of their own, Asana has the most readers, about 4.7k a month. 59 open-source projects, ranked by GitHub stars and how recently each was worked on. Plane leads with 62k stars, ahead of Platform. 54 had code pushed in the last three months. Most common licenses: MIT (19), AGPL-3.0 (15) and GPL-3.0 (13).
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- Time tracking apps 36 Harvest, Toggl Track and Clockify
Commercial project management tools
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Asana Asana, Inc.
Work management software for teams and AI agents. Plan, automate, and execute critical workflows together.
Complete system Production-ready Marketing, operations or cross-functional teams want a clear project and task tool that non-technical staff use.
4.7k readers a month Since 2008 Commercial -
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Jira Atlassian
Jira brings teams together to reach the next level of productivity with AI agents that orchestrate, plan, and track projects at scale.
Complete system Production-ready A software team wants the industry-standard tracker with deep integrations and configurable workflows.
3.7k readers a month Commercial -
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Microsoft Project Microsoft
Project management software
Complete system Production-ready Professional project managers in construction, engineering or government need formal schedules and critical-path planning.
1.2k readers a month Since 1984 Commercial -
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Trello Atlassian
Make the impossible, possible with Trello. The ultimate tool to boost your productivity. Escape the clutter and chaos—stay efficient with Inbox, Boards, and Planner from anywhere, even on mobile.
Complete system Production-ready A small team or individual wants simple visual task boards with almost no setup.
1.1k readers a month Since 2011 Commercial -
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ClickUp ClickUp
Our mission is to make the world more productive. To do this, we built the everything app for work - Tasks, Docs, Goals, and Chat.
Complete system Production-ready A team wants to replace several tools with one highly configurable workspace and has patience to set it up.
978 readers a month Since 2017 Commercial -
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Smartsheet Smartsheet Inc.
Personalize workflows, predict outcomes, and move faster with Smartsheet – a platform built for the way you work.
Complete system Production-ready A project office or operations team that thinks in spreadsheets needs structured tracking and reporting across many projects.
860 readers a month Since 2006 Commercial -
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Harvest Harvest
Time tracking and management software with powerful easy reporting and streamlined online invoicing. Loved by 73,000 businesses. Get started for free.
Complete system Production-ready An agency or consultancy bills by the hour and wants staff to track time easily against project budgets.
503 readers a month Commercial -
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Basecamp 37signals
Trusted by millions, Basecamp puts everything you need to get work done in one place. It’s the calm, organized way to manage projects, work with clients, and communicate company-wide.
Complete system Production-ready A small company or agency wants calm project communication with clients and a predictable flat bill.
Commercial -
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Microsoft Planner Microsoft
Task management software
Complete system Production-ready A team on Microsoft 365 wants basic task tracking it already pays for.
300 readers a month Commercial -
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Wrike Wrike
Wrike is the trusted work delivery platform for people and AI. We help enterprises reach the outcome faster, without losing control of how work gets done.
Complete system Production-ready A marketing or professional services department needs structured project delivery with request intake and resource planning.
223 readers a month Since 2006 Commercial -
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Notion Projects Notion Labs
With Notion’s connected workspace, get your projects to the finish line faster and with less context switching.
Complete system Production-ready A team already keeps its docs in Notion and wants projects next to them.
Commercial -
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Zoho Projects Zoho Corporation
Zoho Projects is a cloud-based project management tool that helps teams plan, track, collaborate, and achieve project goals. Try our online project management software for free!
Complete system Production-ready A cost-conscious team wants Gantt-capable project management, particularly alongside other Zoho apps.
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monday work management monday.com
Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.
Complete system Production-ready A business team wants colourful, configurable boards that can model many kinds of work.
Commercial -
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Toggl Track Toggl
The best time tracker and capacity planning software. Track employee time, plan capacity, manage tasks and projects, and calculate profitability. Try for free.
Complete system Production-ready Freelancers or teams want simple time tracking that people will actually use, with clean reports.
53 readers a month Commercial -
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Teamwork.com Teamwork.com
Irish project management software company
Complete system Production-ready An agency running billable client projects wants delivery and profitability tracking in one tool.
49 readers a month Since 2007 Commercial -
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Linear Linear Orbit, Inc.
Purpose-built for planning and building products with AI agents.
Complete system Production-ready A product engineering team wants a quick, opinionated tracker and is happy to work its way.
Commercial -
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Track40 Track40
Track40 keeps every customer job on one board, with the owner, the deadline and the details the next person needs before the work can move on.
Complete system Usable A small operations team handing customer jobs between people wants each job's owner and next step visible.
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Clockify CAKE.com
Time tracking software used by millions. A simple time tracker and timesheet app that lets you track work hours across projects.
Complete system Production-ready A team wants free time tracking for many users and may add paid features later.
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Everhour Everhour
Time tracking with built-in billing and budgeting. Set project budgets, track billable hours, and get threshold alerts—all inside Asana, ClickUp, Monday, Jira & more. Free trial.
Complete system Production-ready A team runs projects in Asana or a similar tool and wants time tracked inside it.
Commercial -
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Timely Timely
Complete system Production-ready Consultants or agency staff forget to start timers and want timesheets drafted from what they actually did.
Commercial -
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Hubstaff Hubstaff
Track employee time, monitor productivity, and turn approved hours into payments and insights. Hubstaff helps teams manage work, costs, and performance.
Complete system Production-ready A business manages remote contractors or field staff and needs verified hours tied to pay.
Commercial
New open-source projects
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Jantt AhmadHassan-BTed
The AI-native JSON Gantt chart engine. Dependency-free interactive timelines with React, script-tag, CLI, topological DAG solver, and formal JSON schema.
Building block Experimental You need to render Gantt charts from JSON, perhaps generated by AI, in a web app.
★ 5.8k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 3 days ago -
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Itsaplan croffasia
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Open-source, self-hosted alternative to Linear and Plane. Project management and issue tracking where teams and AI agents work side by side to plan and ship products.
Complete system Experimental A product team wants a Linear-like tracker without seat fees and plans to involve coding agents.
★ 1.4k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 14 days ago
Open-source project management tools
Complete systems you can adopt 9
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Plane makeplane
🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.
Complete system Production-ready A product or engineering team wants a modern Jira alternative it can self-host.
★ 62k AGPL-3.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 5 days ago -
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Platform hcengineering
Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
Complete system Usable Only for existing installs; new users should look at the Platform-Collective fork.
★ 28k EPL-2.0 TypeScript Active, pushed 5 days ago -
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WeKan wekan
FLOSS kanban, built with Meteor. Official Public Support at GitHub issues only. Official Private Pre-Paid Support at https://wekan.fi/commercial-support/ only. Translation PRs to imports/i18n/data/en.i18n.json, other translations at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan . No telemetry.
Complete system Production-ready You want a free self-hosted Trello replacement and are comfortable with MongoDB.
★ 21k MIT JavaScript Active, pushed 7 days ago -
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ActivityWatch ActivityWatch
The best free and open-source automated time tracker. Cross-platform, extensible, privacy-focused.
Complete system Production-ready You want private automatic time tracking without a cloud service.
★ 19k MPL-2.0 Python Active, pushed 7 days ago -
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OpenProject 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 charts, time tracking, collaboration features, and more. Available on premises or in the cloud. ⭐ Star us on GitHub
Complete system Production-ready An organisation, especially in the public sector or EU, needs classic project management with data sovereignty.
★ 17k GPL-3.0 Ruby Active, pushed 5 days ago -
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Leantime Leantime
Leantime is a goals focused project management system for non-project managers. Building with ADHD, Autism, and dyslexia in mind.
Complete system Production-ready A small team without a dedicated PM wants a friendly self-hosted tool.
★ 12k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 4 days ago -
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Kanboard kanboard
Kanban project management software
Complete system Production-ready You want a lightweight, stable kanban board that runs on almost any PHP host.
★ 9.9k MIT PHP Active, pushed 3 days ago -
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Kaneo usekaneo
⚡ Project management that doesn't become the project. Boards, Gantt charts, and GitHub integration. Self-host it or use Kaneo Cloud.
Complete system Usable A small team finds Plane or Jira too heavy and wants something simple to host.
★ 9.6k MIT TypeScript Active, pushed 6 days ago -
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Solidtime solidtime-io
Modern open-source time-tracking app
Complete system Usable An agency wants a modern self-hosted Toggl or Clockify replacement.
★ 9k AGPL-3.0 PHP Active, pushed 7 days ago
Developer tools 1
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CCPM automazeio
Project management skill system for Agents that uses GitHub Issues and Git worktrees for parallel agent execution.
Developer tool Experimental A developer uses Claude Code heavily and wants spec-driven tasks tracked in GitHub Issues.
★ 8.4k MIT Shell Active, pushed 14 days ago
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Open-source licenses
- Permissive: 26. Use it anywhere, including in closed products. You keep the copyright notice; Apache-2.0 also grants patent rights.
- Network copyleft: 15. Like GPL, and running a changed version as a web service counts as distributing it, so its users get the source too.
- Strong copyleft: 14. If you distribute the program or anything built on it, you must release the whole source under the same license.
- Weak copyleft: 4. Changes to the licensed files must be shared, but you can link them into a closed program.
Languages
TypeScript 20, PHP 7, Go 7, JavaScript 6, Python 5, C# 2, C++ 2, Vue 2, Rust 2, Ruby 1, Shell 1, Java 1, Emacs Lisp 1, Blade 1 and Dart 1.
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