Overview
Redmine is a long-established, flexible open-source project management web application. It provides issue tracking, Gantt charts, calendars, wikis, forums, time tracking, and per-project roles, with multi-project support and a large plugin ecosystem. It is a classic self-hosted Jira/Basecamp alternative widely used in enterprises.
Where it falls short of Jira
- Dated UI compared to modern tools like Linear or Jira
- Many capabilities require third-party plugins of varying quality
- Manual setup (Ruby, database, web server) is non-trivial
- No official mobile apps or managed hosting
We list the gaps honestly so you can decide if the trade-off is worth owning your data.
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