OpenProject
Manage projects, tasks, timelines, costs, and team collaboration in one workspace.
What it helps with
OpenProject supports structured work packages, boards, Gantt planning, time and cost tracking, documents, and team collaboration. It suits construction, service delivery, IT, and cross-functional programs that need more rigor than a lightweight task board. The Community edition can be self-hosted, while paid Enterprise and hosted offerings add services and features. The breadth brings configuration and governance work: administrators must decide project templates, roles, permissions, status flows, storage, retention, backups, and how upgrades affect integrations.
Best fit
Best for organizations with formal project planning and an administrator; not for a small team wanting the lightest possible board.
Setup reality
Ops-heavy; official package and container routes exist, but production sizing, database, proxy/TLS, email, storage, backups, upgrades, and optional integrations require operations skill.
License context
Copyleft licenseBusiness use is allowed. Sharing duties depend on the specific license and how modified software is distributed or offered.GPL-3.0; internal and hosted use is allowed; distributing modified GPL code requires corresponding source, while hosting alone is not an AGPL trigger.
Resource facts
- Use case
- Project Management
- Industries
- All businesses, Field service
- Setup
- Ops-heavy
- Audience
- Non-technical
- Capabilities
- Non-developer friendly, API
Last verified . Source: github.com