Asana vs WeKan
Asana and WeKan are both project management software. Asana is a commercial product from Asana, Inc. WeKan is open source under MIT, with 21k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Asana when
- Marketing, operations or cross-functional teams want a clear project and task tool that non-technical staff use.
- Pick WeKan when
- You want a free self-hosted Trello replacement and are comfortable with MongoDB.
Side by side
Work management for tasks, projects, timelines, portfolios and goals, with automations and AI features.
A Trello-style kanban board with cards, checklists, swimlanes and real-time collaboration.
Key features like portfolios and workload sit in expensive tiers.
Essentially one maintainer, and the Meteor stack is aging.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Self-hosted server
Not published
JavaScript, Meteor and MongoDB
Closed source, sold by Asana, Inc.
Open source, MIT (permissive)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
You can build it into a product you sell, as long as you keep its copyright notice.
4.7k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
21k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 12 years ago, latest release v12.87.
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.