Instead of Asana

Tasks, timelines and team workload.

Partly

Plane covers projects, cycles and issues. What Asana does with portfolios and workload is where the gap shows.

You lose: Timeline views that clients understand, and the integrations.

Start here

Plane

AGPL-3.0a weekendactive

Strong issue tracking and cycles. Reporting is thinner.

github.com/makeplane/plane plane.so

A database, object storage or mail config, plus backups.

Also worth a look

OpenProjectGPL-3.0a weekendactive
Gantt charts and budgets, and it feels like enterprise software because it is.
github.com/opf/openproject www.openproject.org
VikunjaAGPL-3.0a containeractive
Tasks and lists. No portfolio view.
github.com/go-vikunja/vikunja vikunja.io

Head to head

Plane vs OpenProjectPlane feels like a modern tool. OpenProject has the process depth a big team needs.

What the desk has written

Facts checked 8 November 2026. Licences, activity and archive status come from each project's own repository; the verdict and the cost lines are the desk's.