Open Source Basecamp Alternatives
A curated collection of the 2 best open source alternatives to Basecamp.
The best open source alternative to Basecamp is Leantime. If that doesn't suit you, we've compiled a ranked list of other open source Basecamp alternatives to help you find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternative to Basecamp is Redmine.
Basecamp alternatives are mainly Project & Work Management. Browse these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Basecamp.
An open source project management system for people who are not project managers, designed with ADHD, dyslexia, and autism in mind.
Leantime is a project management system aimed at the people who end up running projects without the title. It brings strategy, planning, and execution together, and it was built with ADHD, dyslexia, and autism in mind rather than treating that as an accessibility afterthought.
The comparison the project draws is being as simple as Trello while as feature-rich as Jira, positioned against ClickUp, Monday, and Asana. Everything below ships in the open source version, with nothing held back for a paid tier.
The feature set follows a project from first idea to timesheet.
- Task views: kanban boards, gantt charts, tables, lists, and calendars over the same work, with unlimited subtasks and dependencies.
- Goals and reporting: goal and metrics tracking alongside project dashboards, reports, and status updates.
- Documents: built-in wikis and docs, plus idea boards for work that has not become a task yet.
- Time tracking: time tracking and timesheets across projects.
- Risk and capture: risk analysis, with screen and webcam recording for context that is easier to show than to write.
- Roles and extensions: multiple user roles, per-project permissions, and extension through plugins and the API.
Running it needs PHP 8.2 or newer, MySQL 8.0 or MariaDB 10.6, and Apache or Nginx, with IIS workable once the PATCH method is allowed. An official Docker image is the alternative to a local install, and anyone using plugins should mount the plugins folder so they survive a restart.
A self-hosted project management web application written in Ruby on Rails, covering issues, wikis, time tracking and repository browsing in one place.
Redmine is a flexible project management web application that can be self-hosted. A team that wants issue tracking, a wiki, time tracking and a repository browser normally assembles three or four hosted services and pays for each. Redmine puts them in one Rails application running on your own server.
Everything is scoped by project, and projects nest into subprojects. A project can be public or private, permissions are granted through roles rather than to individual people, and workflow transitions are configurable by role and issue type. Custom fields extend issues, time entries, projects and users when the built-in shape does not fit.
The application covers what most teams reach for.
- Issue tracking: a flexible tracker with customizable statuses and issue types.
- Gantt chart and calendar: both generated automatically from issue dates.
- Time tracking: entries reported by user, type, category or activity.
- Repository browser and diff viewer: works across Subversion, CVS, Mercurial, Bazaar and Git.
- Wiki, forums, news and files: kept per project, written in textile syntax.
- Feeds and email notifications: activity and changes pushed out of the app.
Authentication supports multiple LDAP servers and user self-registration with three activation methods. Redmine is cross-platform and cross-database, running on MySQL, PostgreSQL or SQLite, and the interface is translated into forty-nine languages. It is released under version 2 of the GNU General Public License, with the documentation kept in the repository's doc directory and on the project's own site.
