Gitea vs Vikunja
| Tagline | Painless self-hosted Git service with code review, CI/CD, and package registry | Self-hosted to-do and task management app with list, kanban, table, and Gantt views |
| Category | Project Management & Kanban | Project Management & Kanban |
| Replaces | GitHub, GitLab, Jira | Asana, Trello |
| GitHub stars | 57k | 4.9k |
| Language | Go | Go |
| License | MIT | AGPL-3.0 |
| Self-host difficulty | 2/5 Easy | 2/5 Easy |
| Deploy options | Docker Docker Compose Kubernetes Manual | Docker Docker Compose Manual |
| Managed hosting | ||
| Last updated | 2 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.
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
Vikunja
- More of a task/to-do manager than a full team PM suite; lacks deep agile/sprint tooling
- Limited reporting and dashboards
- Mobile app is community-driven and less polished
- Fewer third-party integrations than Asana
Bottom line
Both are a similar lift to self-host; choose Gitea for the larger community and ecosystem. Open each guide below for deploy steps and the full feature gap.