Self-Hosting Vikunja: Open Source Todoist Alternative
Task management apps want your data and your wallet. Todoist locks features behind premium tiers. TickTick has a free limit. Notion is great until you realize your entire workflow lives on someone else’s server. Vikunja is a self-hosted, open source task manager that handles projects, kanban boards, Gantt charts, and CalDAV sync — all running on your own hardware. What Vikunja Does Projects and tasks — organize with subtasks, priorities, labels, and due dates Kanban boards — drag-and-drop card view like Trello Gantt charts — timeline view for project planning CalDAV integration — sync tasks to any calendar app (Thunderbird, DAVx⁵, Apple Reminders) Reminders — email and in-app notifications Team collaboration — share projects with other users, assign tasks Attachments and comments — attach files, leave notes on tasks API and webhooks — automate everything Todoist import — migrate your existing tasks directly Prerequisites A Linux server with Docker and Docker Compose installed A domain name (optional but recommended for HTTPS) 512MB RAM minimum — Vikunja is lightweight Docker Setup Create a directory for Vikunja: ...