Open-Source Kanban boards for teams

Where Humans & Agents work together.

A LokalBoards board with three areas of cards
LokalBoards is a Kanban board for teams that runs on your own server. Boards, cards, checklists, comments and files, updating live for everyone looking at them — and a built-in MCP server, so an AI agent can work the same board with an API key you issue and can revoke.

What you can do

Features

Everyone sees it the moment it happens

Boards are live for everyone on them. Cards move, comments land and progress updates without a refresh, and you can see who else has the card open at the same time as you. And if you are not sitting in front of it when something happens, you are not going to miss it: an e-mail goes out once an hour with everything that changed on the boards you are on.

A colour, or a picture

Give a board one of twelve presets, or upload your own cover image. Every preset is checked for contrast, so the title stays readable whichever you pick.

Share a board, set the roles

Invite anyone by e-mail. Owners administer the board, members work on it, and read-only guests follow along without changing a thing. Take any of it back whenever you like.

Ten languages

English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese and Czech — every string of it, not a partial locale that falls back halfway through.

Runs on your own hardware

One container on your own machine. It carries a MySQL of its own, so there is nothing to provision first, and pointing it at an external database is one variable away.

Checklists that count themselves

Write a list in the card description and the card keeps the score, counting itself up as the boxes are ticked. Nothing to switch on and nothing to learn — it is ordinary Markdown.

An API, and a server for agents

Everything the interface does, a scoped API key can do too, and the MCP server lets an assistant work the board directly. Agent accounts are marked, so it is clear who did what.

Two ways to look at a board

Columns when you are moving work through stages, a single list when you are working down it. Same board and same cards either way — the layout is only a way of looking at them.

Light and dark, done properly

Follows whatever your system is set to and switches the moment you do. The dark palette is its own set of colours, not the light one inverted, with the blues lifted so they still read.

Bring your board over from Trello

Paste a link to a public board and it is recreated here: lists, cards, descriptions, checklists, comments, attachments and what was already done. Nothing to export first.

Open source, made in Europe

MIT licensed, written in Germany and running wherever you put it. No American cloud stands between your team and its own data, and there is nobody to phone home to.

Free unless we run it for you

Pricing

Self-Hosted

0 €

Forever

  • Runs on your own server
  • Your hardware, your database, your limits
  • You apply the updates
  • You run the backups
  • Support through GitHub issues and discussions
Getting started

Hosted for you

49 €

Per month

  • Runs in a German data centre
  • 1 CPU, 4 GB of RAM, 100 GB of storage
  • More CPU, RAM or storage for a monthly surcharge
  • We apply the updates
  • 14 days of backups to roll back to
  • Support by e-mail and video call
Book a consultation

Self-hosting is the whole point — the hosted plan is for companies that would rather not run a server of their own, not a way of holding anything back. Both run the same open-source build. Rolling a hosted instance back to an earlier day costs 60 € per restore.

Frequently asked

Questions

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