Plane

Plane is an open-source project management tool for tracking work items, running cycles (its term for sprints), and managing product roadmaps. It's built as a self-hostable alternative to tools like Jira, Linear, and Monday.com, aimed at teams that want project tracking without the operational overhead of managing a heavyweight tool. Plane is available as a hosted cloud service or as a self-hosted deployment via Docker or Kubernetes.

Key features

• Work items: Create and manage tasks with a rich text editor that supports file uploads, sub-properties, and references to related issues.
• Cycles: Track team progress over fixed periods with burn-down charts and other progress tools, Plane's equivalent of sprints.
• Modules: Break large projects into smaller, more manageable pieces of work.
• Views: Build custom filters to surface only the relevant issues, then save and share those views with your team.
• Pages: Capture and organize ideas in a rich text editor with AI capabilities, and convert notes directly into actionable work items.
• Analytics: Get real-time insights across your Plane data to visualize trends and spot blockers.

Self-hosting and deployment

Plane Cloud is a free hosted option for teams that don't want to manage infrastructure. For self-hosting, Plane provides Docker Compose and Kubernetes deployment guides, and instance admins get a "God mode" panel for configuring instance-wide settings without touching the underlying servers directly.

Tech stack

Plane's frontend is built with React Router, the backend runs on Django, and Node.js handles supporting services. The project is licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3).

Community and support

Plane maintains a public forum and GitHub Discussions for feature requests, bug reports, and general questions, alongside a documented code of conduct for all community channels. Security issues are handled through a dedicated disclosure process rather than public issues, with reports sent directly to the security team. Both the product documentation and the developer documentation are open for contribution, so fixing a typo or adding a missing setup step doesn't require touching the application code at all.

The maintainers describe Plane as evolving daily and explicitly invite bug reports and feature requests through the forum or GitHub issues, with most submissions receiving a response. Popular feature requests can be upvoted directly on GitHub, which feeds into how the roadmap gets prioritized, and the project's repository activity and contributor graphs are published publicly for anyone evaluating how actively it's maintained.