Donetick vs Gitea
| Tagline | Task and chore manager for personal and family use with advanced scheduling | Painless self-hosted Git service with code review, CI/CD, and package registry |
| Category | Project Management & Kanban | Project Management & Kanban |
| Replaces | Asana, Trello, monday.com | Jira, Linear, Trello |
| GitHub stars | 2.3k | 56k |
| Language | Go | Go |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 2/5 Easy |
| Deploy options | Docker Manual | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 3 days ago | today |
| View repo | View repo |
Where each falls short
The honest trade-offs — what you give up with each, versus the proprietary tools they replace.
Donetick
- Optimised for household chores rather than professional project management
- No Gantt charts, sprints, or developer-tool integrations
- Reporting is limited to basic history logs rather than burndown or velocity charts
- Small community; fewer integrations and third-party plugins compared to established tools
Gitea
- Advanced Jira-style sprint planning, roadmaps, and velocity charts are absent
- No native real-time pair-programming or live collaboration tools
- Gitea Actions ecosystem is smaller than GitHub Actions; fewer third-party action integrations
- Enterprise SSO (SAML, advanced LDAP group sync) requires extra configuration effort
Bottom line
Both are a similar lift to self-host; choose Gitea for the larger community and ecosystem. Gitea has seen more recent development. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.