How to Build Your Own Plane
Replace Plane with a custom build. Open-source Project Management Software for all teams
Build Difficulty: 4/5
A few focused days to build a solid replacement
Estimated Timeline
Based on 84 features at Few Days difficulty, expect about 3-5 days with AI-assisted development.
Recommended Tech Stack
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Key Features to Replicate
Top features across 8 categories. See all 84 features
Analytics(7 features)
Create your own dashboards with custom widgets and data types for advanced visualizations
See relevant details and progress charts for each module like Cycle Overviews
See who's viewing, sharing, and commenting on your pages along with other useful info
Track progress in cycles, modules, and overviews throughout Plane without switching to dashboards
See just-in-time snapshots of your project with essential metrics
+2 more in this category
Integration(7 features)
Extend Plane with apps, agents, and your own integrations using Open API, webhooks, OAuth apps, and native MCP server
Connect to Figma to sync design work with project management
Sync Plane work items and states to GitHub work items and states with automatic updates in both directions
Sync Plane work items and states to GitLab with automatic updates in both directions
Bring Plane AI into Teams and turn conversations into work items while getting updates
+2 more in this category
Documentation(6 features)
Pages inside a page to organize your pages as you see fit for the progressive disclosure with real-time collaboration
Use pages as templates for your project, team, or workspace
See restorable versions of edits to your pages
Build knowledge bases for your teams which are accessible and shareable with nested pages to organize content
Documentation built in for tribal knowledge with company knowledge in one place tied to the work that created it
+1 more in this category
Collaboration(5 features)
Respond to work items, @mention members, and brainstorm together without leaving Plane
Get an email address for reporting work items directly into a project's Intake
Take intake work items from externally accessible web forms
Get and customize dedicated spaces for your teams for noiseless collaboration with a noise-free customizable space
Capture all feedback and suggestions from viewers and guests before deciding to turn them into work items
Import(5 features)
Import your work items, users, and associated data from one Asana project at a time
Import your work items and data from ClickUp into Plane
Import your work items, users, and associated data from one Jira project at a time with full migration support
Import teams, projects, work items and cycles seamlessly mapped to Plane
Import your work items and data from Monday.com into Plane
Planning(5 features)
Time-box work with velocity tracking and burndown charts built in to track work in timeboxes with differing frequency
Adjust timelines for dependent work items visually on the Gantt layout
Measure effort in points in a system that works for you to take the guesswork out of effort and deadlines
Align team-level work to org-level goals with rollup tracking to organize long-term work
Group replicable work in modules with their own leads
Productivity(5 features)
Add several work items to cycles or modules, transfer them, or edit their properties in bulk
Access a keyboard-first gateway to almost anything in Plane
Export page content into PDFs or Word-compatible docs
Save states, workflows, automation, and other project settings into templates to scale proven workflows across teams
Create project-level work item templates including custom properties to create new work items easily
Security(5 features)
Programmatically trace who did what and when with audit log APIs
Keep all your data, source code, and configurations entirely within your environment on self-hosted instances
Get official LDAP implementation to secure your Plane workspace with your LDAP directory and sync groups
Get the officially supported OIDC implementation to make Plane secure with any IdP
Get the officially supported SSO implementation and SAML with any IdP for secure authentication
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Total Cost Comparison
DIY hosting estimate based on Vercel + Supabase free/pro tiers (~$20/mo). Build time estimated from 84 features at easy complexity.