Redmine
Self-hosted open-source project management and issue tracking web application built on Ruby on Rails.
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About Redmine
Redmine is a flexible project management web application you run on your own server. It supports multiple projects with role-based access control, a configurable issue tracker, Gantt charts and calendars, time tracking, custom fields, and a wiki and forum for each project.
It integrates with Subversion, Git, Mercurial, Bazaar and CVS, can create issues from email, and sends feeds and email notifications. Written in Ruby on Rails, it runs across platforms and databases, and is extended with plugins and themes. Releases remain current, with 7.0.1 published in August 2026.
Strengths
- Issue tracking, Gantt charts, wiki and time tracking per project
- Integrates with Git, Subversion, Mercurial and more
- Large plugin and theme ecosystem
- Actively maintained with several release branches
Limitations
- Requires running a Ruby on Rails server
- Interface is more functional than modern
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GNU GPL v2.
- License
- GPL-2.0
- Developer
- The Redmine contributors
- Platforms
- Web, Self-hosted
- How it runs
- Self-hosted
- Best suited for
- Teams that want a self-hosted issue tracker and project manager
- Categories
- Office tools, Developer tools
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
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Taiga
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Huly
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Leantime
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