# WeKan

> Open-source kanban boards with swimlanes, self-hosted or hosted

WeKan is an MIT-licensed kanban board application that most users install on their own server from a Snap, a Docker image or a bundle for Windows, Mac and Linux. Boards hold cards in lists and swimlanes and can also be shown as a table, calendar or Gantt chart. Its maintainer runs a free hosted app and a paid hosted version with the Admin Panel from servers in Finland.

- **Category:** Project Management
- **Made by:** WeKan (Lauri Ojansivu)
- **Website:** https://wekan.fi
- **Runs on:** Web, Windows, Android
- **Facts last checked:** Oct 9, 2026

## Pricing

WeKan has a free plan. Paid plans start at €50 per year for hosted WeKan with the Admin Panel.

- **Pricing model:** Free plan
- **Free plan:** The MIT-licensed server is free to install on your own machine. A free hosted WeKan app at boards.wekan.team gives Normal User access with no Admin Panel.
- **Free trial:** None listed.

| Plan | Price | What you get |
| --- | --- | --- |
| On-Premise | Free | The MIT-licensed server, installed from a Snap, a Docker image or a Windows, Mac and Linux bundle. The first registered user gets the Admin Panel. |
| WeKan Free App | Free | Hosted on WeKan Cloud in Finland with Normal User permission only and no Admin Panel. |
| Official SaaS with Admin Panel | €50 per year | Hosted on WeKan Cloud in Finland with the Admin Panel, a custom domain and what the vendor calls unlimited everything. |
| Yearly Support | €500 per year, includes 5 support hours | Prepaid private priority support. Also €1,000 for 10 hours or €2,000 for 20 hours a year, and multi-year plans up to €5,000 for 3 years with 50 hours. |

Read from https://wekan.fi/commercial-support/ on Oct 9, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with WeKan before buying.

## Key features

- **Boards, lists and swimlanes:** Cards sit in lists that run across swimlanes, with work-in-progress limits, collapsible lists and multi-selection for moving or recoloring many cards at once.
- **Board views:** Besides the swimlane and list layouts, a board can be shown as a table, a calendar, a Gantt chart or a statistics view.
- **Detailed cards:** Cards carry checklists, subtasks, custom fields, attachments, received, start, due and end dates, card-to-card dependencies and templates.
- **Rules and webhooks:** Rules pair a trigger with an action, board buttons run a rule on demand, and outgoing webhooks can be set globally or per board.
- **Import and export:** Boards can be imported from Trello, Jira, Kanboard, CSV, TSV and Excel files with imported members mapped to real accounts, and exported as JSON, Excel or CSV.
- **Sign-in and roles:** Sign-in works with passwords, LDAP, CAS and OIDC or OAuth2. Each board has nine roles, from admin to read-only, and boards can be limited to an organization or team.

## Good for

- Organizations that want a kanban board on their own server
- Teams moving from Trello, Jira or Kanboard with boards to import
- Small teams that want low-cost hosting on servers in the EU

## Worth knowing

- The free hosted app gives Normal User access only; the Admin Panel needs the €50 per year SaaS or a self-hosted server.
- The Android and Windows store apps are full-screen web browsers with no native functions, and iOS users are pointed to a browser.
- Prices are listed in euros only, and paid services are sold business-to-business as final, non-refundable purchases.
- The install page says only the newest release is supported and asks self-hosters to keep at least daily backups.

## Works with

Trello, Jira, Kanboard, MinIO, Azure Blob Storage, Google Cloud Storage

**Tags:** Open source, Self-hostable, Kanban boards, Gantt & timelines, Workflow automation, Real-time collaboration, Public API

## Alternatives

- [Trello](https://toolgpa.com/tools/trello): Kanban boards with an inbox, planner and built-in automation. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/trello-vs-wekan)
- [Kanboard](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kanboard): Free, self-hosted kanban board software under the MIT License. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kanboard-vs-wekan)
- [PLANKA](https://toolgpa.com/tools/planka): Self-hosted kanban boards with a free Community edition. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/planka-vs-wekan)
- [Kan](https://toolgpa.com/tools/kan): Open-source kanban boards, built as an alternative to Trello. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/kan-vs-wekan)
- [Taiga](https://toolgpa.com/tools/taiga): Open-source agile project management with Scrum and Kanban. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/taiga-vs-wekan)

## Sources

The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Oct 9, 2026:

- https://wekan.fi/
- https://wekan.fi/commercial-support/
- https://wekan.fi/saas/
- https://wekan.fi/app/
- https://wekan.fi/install/
- https://wekan.fi/docs/
- https://github.com/wekan/wekan
- https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=team.wekan.boards.twa

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