Trello vs Ticky
Ticky is a plausible migration target for teams that primarily need self-hosted Kanban boards and are willing to operate the application themselves. It documents boards, cards, deadlines, subtasks, templates, time tracking, and user management, but not Trello’s broader views, capture tools, calendar planning, automation, or integration ecosystem. Choose Ticky for an MIT-licensed, offline-capable deployment and Trello
Decision guide
The practical reasons to choose either option, based on documented capabilities.
Choose Ticky if
- Teams seeking self-hosted Kanban boards under an MIT license
- Organizations able to maintain a Docker-based application and MySQL database
- Personal or team workflows needing cards, subtasks, deadlines, reminders, comments, attachments, or time tracking without Trello’s broader planning suite
Stay with Trello if
- You depend on Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard, Map, or workspace-level views
- You capture tasks from email, Slack, or Microsoft Teams into an inbox
- You require calendar time-block planning, board automation, Power-Ups, or Trello’s documented integration ecosystem
Deployment and operations
Ticky is self-hostable and MIT-licensed. Its recommended installation uses Docker Compose with separate application and MySQL 8 containers plus persistent volumes; a manual .NET setup is also documented. SMTP is optional, and the application can run fully offline with email functions and the avatar service disabled. Database migrations are applied automatically at startup. No Kubernetes deployment is documented.
Migration considerations
Ticky documents Trello board import, including mapping assigned Trello members to Ticky users. The supplied material does not specify which other board data is preserved, so validate representative exports before committing to migration.
Feature fit
What Ticky covers
- Kanban boards with movable cards
- Deadlines and task responsibility support
- Subtasks comparable to checklist steps
- Reusable boards through cloning
- Team access and card collaboration
What’s different or missing
- No documented alternate project views
- No documented inbox task capture
- No documented calendar Planner
- No documented board automation engine
- No documented Power-Ups or integration catalog
- No documented custom fields
Project snapshot
- GitHub stars
- 289
- Contributors
- 2
- Language
- HTML
- Last commit
- Jul 16, 2026
- Latest release
- Jan 2, 2026
Categories: Calendars & Scheduling, Workflow Automation, Project Management, Task Management
Sources and editorial review13 linked sources
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Modern and free Kanban board app
repository description · github.comTicky is a modern, feature-rich task management system with Kanban-style boards, built using ASP.NET Core Blazor.
readme · github.comCreate and manage your own Kanban boards.
readme · github.comCreate, edit, and move task cards between columns with drag-and-drop functionality.
readme · github.comDeadline Management: Set and track deadlines with color-coded indicators.
readme · github.comUser Management: You can add users on the project level or on the board level.
readme · github.comUsing Docker (Recommended)
readme · github.comOpen your web browser and go to: http://localhost:4088
readme · github.comCreate, edit, and move task cards between columns with drag-and-drop functionality.
verdict · github.comTemplates: You can clone boards, therefore allowing you to use boards as templates.
shared feature · github.comThis project is licensed under the MIT License - see the [LICENSE](LICENSE) file for details.
deployment · github.comThe application automatically applies migrations on startup.
deployment · github.comTrello import: You can import your Trello boards, including the ability to map all the assigned members from your Trello board to Ticky users.
migration · github.com
