Updated August 2026
    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    4.1k

    Personal Management System: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    Organize the essentials of everyday life, everything from a simple to-do list, and notes up to payments, and schedules.

    TL;DR • Personal Management System • as of August 2026

    Personal Management System is an open-source personal dashboards project, with 4.1k GitHub stars and a health score of 79/100. It committed 148 times in the last twelve months across 12 of those months, and its status is actively maintained. Licence: MIT. It has real momentum, so treat it as a live competitor rather than a stale repository.

    4.1k
    GitHub stars
    79/100
    Health score
    148
    Commits (12 mo)
    12/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Actively maintained — Committed within the last 45 days.
    Last commit 2026-08-15
    Days since last commit 2
    Commits, last 3 months 32
    Commits, last 12 months 148
    Months with activity 12 of 12
    Last release 2026-04-25
    Archived No
    Licence MIT
    Category Personal Dashboards

    Health score combines commit recency, twelve-month commit volume, months with activity, release recency and archive state. Metadata refreshed August 2026.

    What the licence lets you do

    MIT

    Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    This matters most when you plan to sell a hosted version. A permissive licence means anyone — including a competitor with more capital — can do the same, so your defensibility has to come from distribution, support or data, not from the code.

    What Personal Management System means for your idea

    Contested · 44/100
    Personal Dashboards category →

    Personal Management System is shipping code consistently, so a buyer comparing your product will find a maintained free option. Price and position against the total cost of self-hosting it, not against the paid incumbent's list price.

    Winnable, but differentiation is not optional. Pick one underserved segment and be visibly better for it rather than competing feature-for-feature with a free tool.

    Personal Management System: common questions

    Is Personal Management System still maintained in 2026?

    Actively maintained. Personal Management System recorded 148 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 12 of those months and 32 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-08-15. Last release: 2026-04-25. Committed within the last 45 days.

    Can I use Personal Management System commercially?

    Personal Management System is published under MIT. Permissive (MIT, Apache, BSD): you can fork it, close the source and sell it. Lowest legal friction for a commercial product.

    How crowded is the Personal Dashboards category?

    18 open-source implementations, 10 of them actively maintained, led by Glance at 36k stars. Saturation score 44/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

    Personal Management System alternatives in Personal Dashboards

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