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Vikunja
ProductivityOpen SourceOpen-source, self-hostable task manager with Lists, Kanban, Gantt and Table views
83/100
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Vikunja is the open-source, self-hostable Todoist alternative built in Go and Vue. Free forever to self-host, with a managed EU-hosted cloud from 4€/month for everyone else.
Vikunja is an open-source, self-hostable task manager with Lists, Kanban, Gantt, Table, and now-stable filter views — positioned as the to-do app you actually own. We rate it 83/100 — the most complete free Todoist/ClickUp alternative for anyone willing to either self-host or pay 4€/month for the EU-hosted cloud.
Vikunja is a project and task management application written in Go (backend) and Vue.js (frontend) and licensed under AGPLv3. The project was created by maintainer kolaente and first published on ; it crossed its big 1.0 stable release in after years as a public beta. As of , the canonical GitHub mirror at go-vikunja/vikunja has 4,057 stars and 420 forks, with a fresh push earlier the same day.
The pitch is unusually direct in a category dominated by SaaS: every feature you would normally have to pay for in Todoist or ClickUp — reminders, attachments, filters, multiple views, recurring tasks — is in the free, self-hosted version. The hosted Vikunja Cloud exists for people who don't want to run their own server, not as a paywall to feature-gate the open-source build. Vikunja is made and hosted in the EU, which has become a real selling point as North American SaaS pricing and data-residency rules drift apart.
Sentiment is genuinely positive but with one consistent thread of caveats. On r/selfhosted, multi-hundred-upvote threads about "goodbye Todoist, hello Vikunja" praise the unrestricted feature set and how lightweight the Go binary is — one widely-shared comment from rusz.dev reads, "Self-hosted Vikunja is free and always will be, and it doesn't paywall basic features like reminders, attachments, and filters behind a paid plan." XDA Developers' 2026 review called it "lighter and more powerful" than Todoist for personal use.
The recurring complaints are equally consistent and worth taking seriously. There is no native iOS or Android app — you get a Progressive Web App (PWA) instead, which means push notifications can be flaky on iOS and the home-screen experience is a step behind Todoist's polished native clients. The community is much smaller than Todoist's, so third-party integrations (compared to Todoist's marketplace and Zapier presence) are sparser. Threads on r/Todoist from people who tried Vikunja flag that the Cloud sign-up flow and onboarding are noticeably less polished than the open-source competition like Plane and AppFlowy.
Self-hosted Vikunja is free, forever, with no feature paywalls. Vikunja Cloud is the EU-hosted managed plan with a 14-day free trial. All Cloud plans include unlimited projects, tasks, reminders, share links, relations, and saved filters.
| Plan | Price | Key Limits |
|---|---|---|
| Self-hosted | Free, AGPLv3 | Everything — no feature gates. You bring the server, backups, and TLS. |
| Cloud — Personal | 4€/month (40€/year, -20%) | Single user, 10 GB attachments, email + community support, 14-day free trial. |
| Cloud — Organization | 5€/user/month (50€/user/year, -20%) | Unlimited teams, 50 GB attachments, priority email support, centralized team billing. |
| Vikunja Pro (add-on) | Custom (Family / Business / Enterprise) | Admin panel, audit logs, time tracking — works with both Cloud and self-hosted instances. |
Critically, the free self-hosted build is not a feature-stripped trial. The Pro add-on adds operational features — admin panel, audit logs, time tracking — that matter for compliance and larger organizations, not core task-manager functionality.
Best for: Self-hosters and homelab users who want a single Go binary they can run on a Raspberry Pi or NAS, EU-based teams who care about data residency, and individuals migrating off Todoist or ClickUp who don't want to lose features (Gantt, recurring tasks, filters) to a free tier. Also a strong fit for small agencies that need shared projects and Kanban without paying $10–15/seat for ClickUp or Asana.
Not ideal for: Mobile-first users who depend on slick native iOS/Android clients with reliable push notifications, teams that need a deep Slack/Linear/Jira integration ecosystem, or anyone who refuses to either run a server or trust a smaller EU vendor with their cloud data.
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Vikunja sits in a crowded open-source field. Plane is more Jira-shaped and aimed at engineering teams with cycles and modules. AppFlowy blends docs and tasks more like Notion. Twenty, Anytype, and Karakeep approach adjacent problems (CRM, knowledge, bookmarks) with the same self-host-first philosophy. On the commercial side, Todoist remains the gold standard for slick mobile apps and TickTick has a deeper habit-tracking story — but both paywall views and filters that Vikunja gives away.
If you can run a small server (or you'll happily pay 4€/month to skip that), Vikunja is the most complete free task manager on the market in 2026. The 83/100 score reflects an honest tradeoff: the desktop and web experience matches Todoist's feature surface and beats it on views and pricing, but the missing native mobile apps and smaller integration ecosystem keep it from being a clean win for everyone. For self-hosters, EU teams, and anyone tired of feature-gated SaaS, Vikunja is the obvious answer.
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