Focalboard

Open source · OSI-approvedStatus: unknown

Project boards that work offline and stay local

Focalboard is a board and table tool that runs as a desktop application against local files, or as a server for a team. It covers the kanban, table, and calendar views most planning needs without a subscription or an account.

The personal desktop edition is genuinely offline, which makes it usable for planning work on a machine that is not allowed to talk to a SaaS product.

Decisive facts

Board, table, gallery, and calendar views
Fully offline personal desktop edition
Server edition for shared team boards
Templates for common planning patterns
Data stored in files you can back up yourself

Project Management Notes & Knowledge go react self-hosted kanban offline

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