Plane is an open-source project management and issue tracking tool designed as a modern, self-hostable alternative to proprietary platforms like Jira, Linear, and Asana. It solves the need for teams who want full control over their project management data and infrastructure while still having access to a polished, feature-rich interface. Plane combines issue tracking, sprint management, documentation, and analytics in a clean, fast interface that can be deployed on-premises or used as a cloud service.
Plane offers multiple project views including list, board, spreadsheet, and Gantt chart views, with support for cycles (sprints), modules for grouping related issues, custom workflows and states, filters and saved views, and time tracking. It includes Plane Pages for collaborative documentation within projects, analytics dashboards for tracking team performance and project health, and AI features for generating issue descriptions and summaries. The platform supports custom properties, bulk operations, inbox for triaging external requests, and integrations with GitHub and Slack.
Plane is targeted at software development teams, open-source projects, and organizations that prioritize data sovereignty, self-hosting capabilities, and avoiding vendor lock-in in their project management tooling. It is particularly popular among privacy-conscious teams, companies with compliance requirements that mandate self-hosted solutions, and open-source communities. Plane offers both a cloud-hosted version and a Community Edition for self-hosting, integrates with GitHub for issue syncing, and provides an API for building custom workflows and integrations.
