Vikunja
The to-do app to organize your life.
High commit volume, frequent releases and growing activity.
Commit activity more than 88% of tracked projects; popularity more than 69%. How this is calculated.
Is Vikunja actively maintained?
Development is ongoing. The repository recorded 1890 commits over the same window, and the last three months alone account for 1232 of them.
Activity is accelerating: the last quarter carried 87% more commits than the one before it.
The most recent tagged release, v2.6.0, shipped within the last month — a current, installable version exists today.
Of the 26 projects we track in Task Management & To-do Lists, Vikunja ranks #4 by health score — in the top quarter of its category.
What Vikunja actually does
Vikunja is a self-hosted task management platform designed to help you track to-do lists and organise daily projects. It provides a central interface for planning personal or collaborative work items. The backend is written in Go and distributed under open source licences.
Best fit: It suits individuals or teams seeking an independent, self-hosted task tracker that avoids third-party cloud services.
Worth knowing: You may find it overlaps significantly with mature, well-known project management alternatives, and its feature set depends on how you choose to configure and maintain the instance.
Deployment notes
As a Go application, it typically compiles into a single binary that requires a separate database like PostgreSQL or MySQL, alongside a reverse proxy for TLS termination and persistent storage for user data.
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