ClickUp vs Scrumboy
Scrumboy is a narrower, self-hosted Kanban and issue-tracking alternative for teams prioritizing infrastructure control, inspectable AGPL-3.0 code, configurable board workflows, and lightweight collaboration. Choose it for focused task and sprint management when your organization can operate the service. Choose ClickUp when you need a broader managed suite spanning multiple planning views, documents, dashboards, chat
Decision guide
The practical reasons to choose either option, based on documented capabilities.
Choose Scrumboy if
- Solo developers and small or midsize teams standardizing on Kanban boards, sprints, estimates, tags, and custom status workflows
- Organizations requiring a self-hosted, open-source task system with direct control of application data
- Teams needing anonymous shareable boards or real-time board collaboration without requiring every participant to create an account
Stay with ClickUp if
- You require Gantt, timeline, calendar, roadmap, portfolio, or cross-workspace planning views; these are not documented for Scrumboy
- Your workflow depends on collaborative docs, workspace wikis, dashboards, goals, or OKR tracking; equivalent coverage is not documented
- You need integrated team chat, time tracking, timesheets, structured intake forms, or workspace-aware AI; the supplied Scrumboy material does not document these ClickUp capabilities as native features as a replacement of
Deployment and operations
Scrumboy is self-hosted and licensed under AGPL-3.0. It can run from an official multi-architecture Docker image, Docker Compose, Go source, or a Windows executable; no Kubernetes deployment is documented. Its default storage is SQLite under ./data. Container operators must persist and back up /data, including the database, WAL/SHM sidecars, and file-backed uploads. Basic startup requires no environment file, TLS certificate, or encryption key, but 2FA and password-reset tokens require a backed
Migration considerations
Scrumboy documents full-instance or single-project JSON export/import with merge or replace modes, but its JSON export omits uploaded wallpapers and audit events and is not a complete disaster-recovery backup. No ClickUp-specific importer or compatibility path is documented, so teams should validate field, status, attachment, history, and relationship transfer separately.
Feature fit
What Scrumboy covers
- Kanban-based task management
- Assignees, statuses, tags, and estimates
- Custom project workflows
- Sprint-based work tracking
- Real-time board collaboration
- Webhook and API integration options
- OIDC/SSO and two-factor authentication
What’s different or missing
- No documented Gantt or timeline views
- No documented calendar or portfolio views
- No documented docs or workspace wikis
- No documented dashboards, goals, or OKRs
- No documented integrated team chat
- No documented time tracking or timesheets
- No documented structured intake forms
- No documented native workspace-aware AI
Project snapshot
- GitHub stars
- 429
- Contributors
- 6
- Language
- Go
- Last commit
- Aug 16, 2026
- Latest release
- Aug 13, 2026
Categories: Calendars & Scheduling, Workflow Automation, Project Management, Task Management, Knowledge Management, Team Communication, Document Collaboration
Sources and editorial review12 linked sources
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Self-hosted kanban & project management with shareable boards, voice commands, sticky-notes, multi-language and MCP support
repository description · github.comCustom Workflows: You can create any combination of workflow you want, per project, with user-defined "Done" lane.
readme · github.comRealtime SSE enabled boards for instant multi-user actions.
readme · github.comSprints: create, activate, close; sprint filter on board
readme · github.comRun the official Docker image ... Open http://localhost:8080.
readme · github.comBackup: export/import JSON; merge or replace; scope full or single project.
readme · github.comSimplicity of a light Kanban, with the power of structured systems: Roles, sprints, audit trails & customizable workflows - without being locked into SaaS tools. Centered around the self-hosted & privacy-focused community, as well as small to medium-sized teams & solo builders
verdict · github.comPublished images are multi-arch for `linux/amd64` and `linux/arm64`; Docker pulls the variant that matches your host.
deployment · github.comMount a volume or host directory on `/data` so the database **and** file-backed uploads (for example `user-wallpapers/`) survive container recreation.
deployment · github.comCustom Workflows: You can create any combination of workflow you want, per project, with user-defined "Done" lane.
shared feature · github.comBackup: export/import JSON; merge or replace; scope full or single project. JSON export is not a complete `DATA_DIR` disaster-recovery backup (uploaded wallpapers and `audit_events` are omitted);
migration · github.comReal-time collaboration & instant board updates.
shared feature · scrumboy.com
