Trello vs Scrumboy
Scrumboy is the stronger fit for teams that prioritize self-hosting, an AGPL-licensed codebase, custom workflows, sprints, audit trails, and lightweight Kanban. Trello remains the safer choice for organizations that depend on its broader planning views, inbox and calendar workflows, templates, Power-Ups, or established integrations, because equivalent Scrumboy coverage is not documented in the supplied material.
Decision guide
The practical reasons to choose either option, based on documented capabilities.
Choose Scrumboy if
- Solo developers and small or medium teams that can operate a self-hosted Kanban service
- Teams needing custom workflow lanes, sprints, project roles, and append-only audit history
- Organizations requiring OIDC/SSO, optional TOTP 2FA, anonymous shareable boards, or multilingual access under their own hosting control
Stay with Trello if
- Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard, Map, or workspace-level views are required; comparable Scrumboy views are not documented
- Workflows depend on Trello Inbox, calendar time-blocking, reusable templates, or Power-Ups; equivalents are not documented
- Migration requires verified preservation of Trello attachments, comments, checklists, custom fields, automation, or board settings; the supplied evidence only identifies a Trello JSON upload limit
Deployment and operations
Scrumboy is self-hosted and AGPL-3.0 licensed. 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 plus file-backed uploads under the data directory. Operators must persist and back up the complete /data volume, including database sidecars and uploads. TLS, OIDC/SSO, SMTP password reset, web push, and encryption-backed 2FA require additional configuration.
Migration considerations
Scrumboy documents a Trello JSON import upload limit of 32 MiB. The supplied material does not establish which Trello objects are imported or how faithfully boards, attachments, comments, checklists, custom fields, and automation are preserved, so a representative test import is necessary before migration.
Feature fit
What Scrumboy covers
- Kanban-style task boards
- Shared collaborative boards
- Task assignment
- Customizable workflows
- Task tags and filtering
What’s different or missing
- No documented multi-view planning parity
- No documented inbox task capture
- No documented calendar time-blocking
- No documented reusable template library
- No documented Power-Up ecosystem
- No documented checklist or custom-field parity
- No documented Trello automation parity
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
Public documentation supports this comparison. Automation assists collection and classification; editorial standards and corrections remain the responsibility of Kris.
Self-hosted kanban & project management with shareable boards, voice commands, sticky-notes, multi-language and MCP support
repository description · github.comSelf-hosted project management & issue-tracking solution + instant shareable & customizable boards + realtime collaboration, automation, API access and MCP-compatible client support
readme · github.comFeatures: Custom Workflows; Realtime SSE enabled boards for instant multi-user actions.
readme · github.comFeatures: Sprints; Advanced filtering; Anonymous shareable boards can be created in both Full & Anonymous deployments.
readme · github.comRun the official Docker image ... ghcr.io/markrai/scrumboy:latest
readme · github.comOpen http://localhost:8080.
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.
verdict · github.comSelf-hosted kanban & project management with shareable boards, voice commands, sticky-notes, multi-language and MCP support
shared feature · 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.com`MAX_TRELLO_IMPORT_BYTES` | `33554432` (32 MiB) - Max Trello JSON import upload size
migration · github.comFor your own automations, not in-app or browser notifications.
missing feature · github.com
