PLANKA vs TickTick

PLANKA is a Kanban tool for teams organizing work visually, available self-hosted or as a hosted service. Its free Community edition includes boards, lists, cards, comments, attachments, real-time sync, and Docker deployment. Pro and Enterprise add six board views, calendar and map views, card inboxes, recurring cards, and advanced global search. Those plans also provide scoped worker and guest roles, live presence, collaborative description editing, and card sharing. Integration and developer options include a REST API, personal API keys, webhooks with 50+ events, WebSocket updates, and SMTP notifications. Pro and Enterprise support OpenID Connect single sign-on and identity-provider role assignment. For self-hosting, PLANKA says application data and attachments stay on customer systems; its hosted service operates in Germany and offers a GDPR Article 28 DPA. The maker describes Community for home, homelab, and club use, and paid plans for organizations. Pro Hosted costs €42.50 a month billed annually, with a five-user minimum and shared storage allocation. Pro Self-Hosted costs €36 a month billed annually, with a one-user minimum and updates included. Enterprise is directed to hosted deployments from 500 users or self-hosted deployments from 1,000 users.

TickTick is a task and reminder app with recurring tasks, subtasks, and calendar sync. Its calendar includes yearly, monthly, weekly, daily, and agenda views, while reminders can repeat weekly, monthly, yearly, or on custom schedules. Users can share lists, assign tasks, and collaborate with friends or colleagues. Other features include Pomodoro, habit tracking, countdowns, Kanban, timeline, and Eisenhower Matrix tools, plus more than 40 themes. TickTick is available on the web, Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, and Android, and also lists a Chrome extension. The free plan includes 9 lists and up to 99 tasks per list; it also allows 1 attachment per day and 2 shared members. Premium costs $49.99 per year and raises limits to 299 lists and 999 tasks per list. It adds higher attachment and collaboration limits. TickTick integrates with Notion and supports MCP, CLI, and OpenClaw workflows. If Premium expires, stored data remains, but Premium features are no longer available.