Donetick vs Gogs
| Tagline | Task and chore manager for personal and family use with advanced scheduling | Minimal painless self-hosted Git service written in Go |
| Category | Project Management & Kanban | Project Management & Kanban |
| Replaces | Asana, Trello, monday.com | Jira, Linear, Trello |
| GitHub stars | 2.3k | 48k |
| Language | Go | Go |
| License | AGPL-3.0 | MIT |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 2/5 Easy |
| Deploy options | Docker Manual | Docker Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 3 days ago | 2 days ago |
| 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
Gogs
- No built-in CI/CD pipeline; relies on webhooks to external systems
- Code review and pull-request functionality is basic compared to GitHub or Gitea
- Plugin/extension ecosystem is very limited
- Development pace is slower than Gitea; some features lag behind by years
Bottom line
Both are a similar lift to self-host; choose Gogs for the larger community and ecosystem. Gogs has seen more recent development. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.
Donetick
Task and chore manager for personal and family use with advanced scheduling