Microsoft Project vs WeKan
Microsoft Project and WeKan are both project management software. Microsoft Project is a commercial product from Microsoft. WeKan is open source under MIT, with 21k GitHub stars.
Which to pick
- Pick Microsoft Project when
- Professional project managers in construction, engineering or government need formal schedules and critical-path planning.
- Pick WeKan when
- You want a free self-hosted Trello replacement and are comfortable with MongoDB.
Side by side
Microsoft's scheduling software for detailed project plans with tasks, dependencies, critical path, resources and baselines.
A Trello-style kanban board with cards, checklists, swimlanes and real-time collaboration.
Microsoft is moving web features into Planner, and the desktop app is costly and Windows-only.
Essentially one maintainer, and the Meteor stack is aging.
Production-ready (both)
Desktop app and cloud service
Self-hosted server
Not published
JavaScript, Meteor and MongoDB
Closed source, sold by Microsoft
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.
1.2k 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.