osTicket
The osTicket open source ticketing system official project repository, for versions 1.8 and later (by osTicket)
focalboard
Focalboard is an open source, self-hosted alternative to Trello, Notion, and Asana. (by mattermost-community)
| osTicket | focalboard | |
|---|---|---|
| 69 | 125 | |
| 3,449 | 23,740 | |
| 1.1% | 1.2% | |
| 8.4 | 4.4 | |
| 5 months ago | 10 days ago | |
| PHP | TypeScript | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
osTicket
Posts with mentions or reviews of osTicket.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-05-19.
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6 Best Open-Source Ticketing Systems for 2025
🔗 GitHub: https://github.com/osTicket/osTicket
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The 50 best open-source alternatives to popular SaaS software
GitHub: osTicket GitHub Repository
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List of your reverse proxied services
OsTicket as Ticket System
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Ask HN: Helpdesk/ticketing software for small SaaS company
You can try osTicket https://osticket.com
The UI is very tho dated, but we're working on a rewrite with modern UI.
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Looking for a ticketing system
Check out https://osticket.com/ I used earlier on my career. It’s free to use it worked great for a small team and it has everything you need.
- Affordable multi channel support ?
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Help tickets
we use https://osticket.com/ It's not a groundbreaking ticket system but it's rock solid, user-friendly, and free.
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I would like to find a free software for tickets in my household
Another option, for a dedicated ticketing/helpdesk system, is osTicket. Self-hosted is completely free, and I had it up and running inside of an hour, from creating a fresh Debian LXC, installing Apache/MariaDB/PHP8.1, and uploading the requisite files for osTicket followed by the initial setup. Going off your mention of snaps, I'm assuming you're on Ubuntu or a derivative, if you'd like I should be able to write up a quick guide for installing osTicket specifically for whatever version of Ubuntu you're on, cause at least on Debian I had to go track down the requisite PHP version.
- Tailor, Cobbler, Repair Ticketing System Recommendations
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MSP opensource ticketing tool -ITSM
GLPI (https://glpi-project.org/) or osTicket (https://osticket.com/) are open source ticketing systems but I highly doubt they're what a MSP need. You need a PSA.
focalboard
Posts with mentions or reviews of focalboard.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2025-01-13.
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15 Open-Source Projects to Replace Popular SaaS Tools & Apps 👨💻🔥
👩💻 GitHub link | ⭐ 21.7K stars | 💻 Website link
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Top 8 Open-Source Projects (Rated) to Build Your Own Task Management System
Project URL: https://github.com/mattermost-community/focalboard
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5 Best Open-Source No-Code Tools for Project Management
Focalboard is an emerging open-source project management tool offering task boards, calendar views, and task tracking, with integration capabilities with other tools.
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How to Install Focalboard on Ubuntu 22.04
wget https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard/releases/download/v7.9.2/focalboard-server-linux-amd64.tar.gz
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Exploring the Top Open Source Projects of 2024: Innovations and Opportunities
Focalboard is an open source project management tool that helps teams organize tasks and projects visually. It’s a great alternative to tools like Trello and Asana, offering a high degree of customization and flexibility. Discover more about Focalboard on their GitHub.
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Elegant open source project tracking, Trello like but self-hosted
I switched to Planka after Focalboard went community-supported, but failed to appoint any community leaders. So far, I'm very happy with Planka for my needs at home.
https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard
- Focalboard
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Trello Alternative
https://www.focalboard.com is what i use in my lab.
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Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software
Yeah except it’s a weird license and it’s losing support:
https://github.com/mattermost/focalboard
It seems like it was a successful test product for Mattermost (more power to them).
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Anything you wish there was an open source solution for?
Have you checked out FocalBoard?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing osTicket and focalboard you can also consider the following projects:
Zammad - Zammad is a web based open source helpdesk/customer support system
Planka - PLANKA is the kanban-style project mastering tool for everyone.
FreeScout - FreeScout — Free self-hosted help desk & shared mailbox (Zendesk / Help Scout alternative)
Wekan - The Open Source kanban (built with Meteor). Keep variable/table/field names camelCase. For translations, only add Pull Request changes to wekan/i18n/en.i18n.json , other translations are done at https://app.transifex.com/wekan/wekan only.
Request Tracker - Request Tracker, an enterprise-grade issue tracking system
AppFlowy - Bring projects, wikis, and teams together with AI. AppFlowy is the AI collaborative workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data. The leading open source Notion alternative.