# Wekan Reviews **Vendor:** Wekan **Category:** [Kanban Project Management Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/kanban-project-management) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 16 ## About Wekan Wekan is an open source project management tool. ## Wekan Reviews ### 1. Bare bones, essential project management **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Marketing and Advertising | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 12, 2021 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Ability to customize and build your own functionality. For our company and team we need our swimlanes, checklists, etc to be custom in eveyr scenario **What do you dislike about Wekan?** The only downside(s) I have are basic aesthetics of the UI. I feel like things could easily be spruced up to look more grand. It's a little too utilitarian right now **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Project management has been much easier. Our whole team is on Wekan using a handful of boards. There's not much more communication outside of the application, everyone knows where certain tasks are in their life cycle ### 2. Amazing tool for planning and management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shruti L. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 04, 2020 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Managing sprints became really convenient with WEKAN! I could collaborate with my colleagues, keep status, have a different task list, add label for categories, and assign tasks to people in my team. This all is really amazing! **What do you dislike about Wekan?** Not really anything I disliked though would love more features! **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** Must try this management tool! Tried and Tested! **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** We work in AGILE and for our Sprint management, Wekan is the tool that we rely on and love to use because of its so many features that align with our needs. After the retrospection meeting, we create cards for new tasks, we keep the backlogs and tasks on current work and done lists. We also have lists for testing and approval. This all could be done with Wekan as it provides so many collaborators to work and stay updated in addition to adding comments whatsoever making the planning efficient. ### 3. For the privacy conscious and those who prefer open source solutions **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Thomas B. R. | Project Maintainer, Telecommunications, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Wekan is still in its infancy. As of me writing this review they haven't released a 1.0 yet. Yet it already has a lot going for it. There are situations where a publicly hosted solution, like Trello, is not viable. I was in that situation myself. Sadly that was before Wekan was born; looking back I'd have chosen Wekan instead of another open source self hosted solution, that had some rough edges. If you have the in house expertise it is easy enough to customize, as it's open source software. In addition it doesn't come with a price tag attached. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** It still grows and one should check carefully if it provides all the needed features. It would be nice if more people, especially companies would contribute to it. That would really boost development and help it gain features. **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** You can self-host it. It can be hosted on a private network to satisfy confidentiality requirements. It's open source, which means its source code can be audited, but also modified to fit specific requirements. ### 4. Wekan is cool and simple to use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Michael K. | Technical Project Manager, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Maxime has done a great job with Wekan, it's simple to use and clutter free. It behaves quite intuitively, and being open source has the flexibility to be adapted or integrated with other tools in the toolbox. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** Nothing much to dislike, it could do with some additional features such as multiple swim lanes, counters on boards (in board listing view) **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** Worth a look, quick to get up and running, new users will take to it quickly, much less complex than tools like JIRA **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it to help me manage my personal projects as well as some collaborations with friends. The learning curve is so short that people can get value out of it very quickly rather than needing to get their heads around new concepts. Part of the benefit to using Wekan is access to the source code, as I can make my own modifications to it to add features (although I have not needed to yet) ### 5. Easy and simple kanban board **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gaël A. | Stagiaire Administration Système et réseau, Gambling & Casinos, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Really easy to use and to understand, yet powerfull. It focus on the basics things and do it well. The user interface is nice and easy to handle even for non tech person. It's a small project management tool for... small project. It's free (as in free beer) and open source. You can host it on modest server, it's easy to install. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** With few to no customisation possible big projects can be a mess to manage. There is no per user authorisations. You will need one board per project. **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** Keep in mind this is a real kanban board, as in real life someone from the team can delete the tasks. The software is about a board with lists filled by tasks if that's engouh for you that's good ! If you hope to find evoluated administration panel, fine user authorisation and cost measuring stuffs, move along. The soft is free and licenced under MIT licence, feel free to modify and re-share it ! **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** For agiles teams, and small group of people working on small project Wekan may help you organise your workflow. ### 6. Wekan is a great product, but it is still early and definitely not enterprise ready. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kenton H. | Director of AR/VR Development, Rehabilitation Robotics Laboratory, Higher Education, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** It's a fully fleshed out Kanban board system, similar to Trello. I like it more than Trello because it is free, open-source, and self-hosted (meaning my data stays my data). It also looks much better and more professional in my opinion, where Trello looks somewhat childish. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** It's still a work-in-progress, so some core things that an organization would want to use are missing. For example, an administrative user who can manage the system and control user accounts. Since there is currently no way to restrict user sign-ups, I host my instance behind an HTTP authenticated nginx reverse proxy, but this isn't ideal. **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** If you're looking for an alternative to Trello, Wekan is great. If you don't have the technical skills to follow along at https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Install-and-Update or don't have your own server to run it off of, it's probably not for you. **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use Wekan for most of my project management needs. It lets me quickly and easily set up tasks and things to do, and the ease of use helps me stay organizing. ### 7. Excellent replacement for Trello. Customisable and fast! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ketan B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Since it is an open source kanban board, I can customise it the way I want. Host it on my system and use it. The board also has a lot of bells and whistles, but a low memory footprint. Other than that, it is a perfect tool for team management. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** Nothing as such, all seems to be fine. It delivers what it promises. **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** Go for it if you want your own implementation of Trello **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wekan allows me to manage my team and their tasks better. Everyone understands what is everybody else doing, it feels all open. I like Wekan as a tool as it lets me focus on what is important at present, as all the tasks are logged on the boards, I can get my next task from there. Kanban boards are a good way to be productive as a team, or individually. ### 8. Mildly amused **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Pranu S. | UX design intern, Internet, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** The fact that wekan is open source and i being a coder can expand on its features in anyway i like and i also dont have to pay a thing to store my data as it gets recorded on my computer only **What do you dislike about Wekan?** Didnt really like The design altogether. I know it is inspired from Trello. But when i am in a board and open a card then close it, and then press The back button instead of taking me back to the dashboard it opens the card again. **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** Better than Trello if you can tinker with code a bit **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am trying to build a team collaboration tool for small businesses myself. And wekan helped a lot in underatanding the procedure in many ways. ### 9. A suitable replacement for Trello with the ability to host it yourself. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nick P. | Software Engineer, Computer Software, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** It is designed really well and has all of the essential features for a Kanban board. I have been hosting it myself on DigitalOcean for months and I've never had a single problem. The web interface is responsive and mobile-friendly. It is free and open source. The Wekan team has a Gitter and appears very responsive so far. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** It lacks a few of the 'extra' features that Trello has like checklists, due dates, and good media integration. No mobile app. **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** It will fulfill all of your basic needs. If you need anything fancy - it may not work out for you. However, it is open source. So, go ahead and implement the feature yourself. **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently, I've only used it for personal projects. ### 10. Open source Trello, marred by lacking mobile support and missing features **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Essentially an open-source clone of Trello, although in some ways it is starting to branch off by itself now. Since you have control of the database and underlying code, it's quite easy to import, export, and back up your board data, which is very important. While Trello does have export functionality, it's marred by the fact that there is basically no way to import it back. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** There are some missing features compared to Trello, some of which are even quite basic. For example, you cannot set due dates, and while the team has stated that they would "like to support this feature", there's no sign of it yet. A mobile application is also essential for me, since I use systems like this to organise my life. Since Wekan doesn't have one yet, it's hard to recommend to those who need access to their lists on the go. **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** I would recommend you come back when Wekan is generally more mature. Right now it is missing too many features to be a serious Trello competitor. **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Time management. I currently use Trello for this, but I was interested in using an open source alternative so that I could have better control of my data. Wekan doesn't seem quite mature enough for this yet though. ### 11. Amazing Private Trello Clone! **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Evin R. | Frontend Engineer, Retail, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 10, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** We own the data we create on our boards. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** Nothing! Functions just as Trello does for us! **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** The issue of having to secure data behind our own firewall to fulfill security requirements on the enterprise level. By having a powerful tool like Wekan being a piece of open source software that fulfills the need for us owning the data we are creating, it opens us up to the possibility of using other open source tools to achieve a lot more for a lot less. ### 12. wekan is one of my favorite open source project. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Raj A. | Web Developer, Financial Services, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 14, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** I like the new UI better than trello like UI,the best thing is that the code is open **What do you dislike about Wekan?** The web app is not responsive and there is not mobile app for wekan. **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** Please built a Cordova or a native Android app **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it for my personal projects as well as in my non profit organization.. We plan all the evens conference etc in wekan..we are using wekan more like a event planning tool than a project management tool ### 13. Very Trello-like experience - and that is a good thing. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Aviation & Aerospace | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Wekan is very reponsive. Everything happens happens instantly and the immediate feedback is great. It's very much modeled after Trello - they even use some of the same words for the concepts inside the app. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** I would like Wekan to be a bit more flexible in its configuration. While it's great that it's very easy to use and deploy, sometimes you just wish for this one thing, and it's not there. **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically, I use it to keep track of things so that nothing get swept under the rug when things get out of hand. It definitely helps to have a way of quickly wiring down tasks and assigning them to people. Labels for cards help to get an quick overall overview. ### 14. Wekan Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Robert S. | Unix Systems Administrator, Defense & Space, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** Local install of Trello. We use Wekan for local data, so that we don't have to trust Trello with our data. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** Not as full featured as Trello. No search function. Lack of admin users. Lack of colors for backgrounds. **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Wekan is great for local storage of your data when you still want to use a full featured kanban board. Wekan is helping our group collaborate more, assign tasks and track them, and we don't have to trust anyone else with our sensitive data. ### 15. Using it for personal projects **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Krzysztof L. | Ruby Developer, Information Technology and Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 07, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** easy to use, configure. The features are exactly what I need from this kind of software **What do you dislike about Wekan?** The documentation on setting up the app could use a bit of more explaning **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating personal projects, the business problems range from simple proxy to full blown apps ### 16. Online Kanban-style board **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2016 **What do you like best about Wekan?** - Open-source, thus installable on-premise. - Very responsive. - Feature-complete for a standard usage. - No learning curve if used to Trello. **What do you dislike about Wekan?** - Bad keyboard accessibility, which means lost productivity. - Permanent hosted service is hard to get quickly. - Copy-paste of Trello UX. **Recommendations to others considering Wekan:** Double-check you don't need some of the Trello features that are available only there, such as email import or a calendar view. **What problems is Wekan solving and how is that benefiting you?** Dead simple project management, without depending on an external, US-hosted service. ## Wekan Discussions - [How do you run Wekan?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/how-do-you-run-wekan) - [Is Wekan free?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-wekan-free) - [Is Wekan good?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/is-wekan-good) - [What is Wekan?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-wekan) - [View Wekan pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/wekan/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-14+04%3A40%3A39+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=7f076a0a-3cbc-465c-ba97-04fde0f37995&secure%5Btoken%5D=92b02bc35c0ad87c9ee317531b5798f0ada5b3ba1b9e79de629f1cc51f0ea020&format=llm_user) ## Wekan Features **Tasks** - Tasks - Details - Priority **Task Creation** - Creation & Assignment - Due Dates - Drag & Drop - Mass Updates **Agentic AI - Kanban Project Management** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration - Adaptive Learning - Natural Language Interaction - Proactive Assistance - Decision Making **Kanban Boards** - Kanban Cards - Drag and Drop - Visibility **Task Management** - Task Prioritization - To-Do Lists - Dependencies - Recurring Tasks **Planning** - Workflow - Backlog - Optimization **Generative AI** - AI Text Generation - AI Text Summarization ## Top Wekan Alternatives - [Trello](https://www.g2.com/products/trello/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (13,623 reviews) - [Asana](https://www.g2.com/products/asana/reviews) - 4.4/5.0 (13,062 reviews) - [Wrike](https://www.g2.com/products/wrike/reviews) - 4.2/5.0 (4,447 reviews)