Jira vs WeKan
Jira and WeKan are both project management software. Jira is a commercial product from Atlassian. WeKan is open source under MIT, with 21k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Jira when
- A software team wants the industry-standard tracker with deep integrations and configurable workflows.
- Pick WeKan when
- You want a free self-hosted Trello replacement and are comfortable with MongoDB.
Side by side
Issue and project tracking for software and business teams with boards, backlogs, sprints, workflows and reporting.
A Trello-style kanban board with cards, checklists, swimlanes and real-time collaboration.
It becomes slow and cluttered without careful administration.
Essentially one maintainer, and the Meteor stack is aging.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, self-hosted server and mobile app
Self-hosted server
Not published
JavaScript, Meteor and MongoDB
Closed source, sold by Atlassian
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.
3.7k 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.