Updated August 2026
    Slowing down
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    Tasks.md: Maintenance, Licence and Alternatives

    A self-hosted, file based task management board that supports Markdown syntax.

    TL;DR • Tasks.md • as of August 2026

    Tasks.md is an open-source task management & to-do lists project, with 2.2k GitHub stars and a health score of 28/100. It committed 24 times in the last twelve months across 5 of those months, and its status is slowing down. Licence: MIT. It does not currently meet the momentum threshold, so verify maintenance before depending on it.

    2.2k
    GitHub stars
    28/100
    Health score
    24
    Commits (12 mo)
    5/12
    Active months

    Maintenance health

    Status Slowing down — Commits have thinned out over the last year.
    Last commit 2026-03-08
    Days since last commit 162
    Commits, last 3 months 0
    Commits, last 12 months 24
    Months with activity 5 of 12
    Last release 2026-03-08
    Archived No
    Licence MIT
    Category Task Management & To-do Lists

    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 Tasks.md means for your idea

    Tasks.md is not currently shipping at a healthy pace. Popular but stalled projects inflate how competitive a category looks — and they are also risky to build on.

    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.

    Tasks.md: common questions

    Is Tasks.md still maintained in 2026?

    Slowing down. Tasks.md recorded 24 commits over the last twelve months, with activity in 5 of those months and 0 commits in the last quarter. Last commit: 2026-03-08. Last release: 2026-03-08. Commits have thinned out over the last year.

    Can I use Tasks.md commercially?

    Tasks.md 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 Task Management & To-do Lists category?

    24 open-source implementations, 9 of them actively maintained, led by AppFlowy at 75k stars. Saturation score 50/100 — Contested. Several maintained alternatives exist, but no one owns the category.

    Tasks.md alternatives in Task Management & To-do Lists

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    Slowing down
    AGPL-3.0

    Super Productivity

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    Advanced todo list app with integrated timeboxing and time tracking capabilities. Integrates with Jira, GitHub, GitLab, Redmine and OpenProject.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    MIT

    Wekan

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    Open-source Trello-like kanban.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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    Planka

    Alternative to Kanban board

    12k

    Realtime kanban board for workgroups (alternative to Trello).

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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    Kanboard

    Alternative to Kanban board

    9.8k

    Simple visual task board.

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
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    Kan

    Task Management & To-do Lists

    5.4k

    Flexible kanban app that helps you organise work, track progress, and deliver results (alternative to Trello).

    Actively maintained
    Real momentum
    AGPL-3.0

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