Kanban boards your
whole team can afford
Self-host HonestWork on your own server. One price, unlimited users, yours forever — no monthly subscriptions eating into your budget.
One-time payment · Self-hosted · Unlimited users
Boards & Cards
Visual workflow your whole team actually uses
Create boards for any project, add columns for each stage, and drag cards as work moves forward. Dead simple to set up, immediately useful to everyone.
- Drag cards between columns in one move
- Color labels, due dates, and assignees on every card
- Unlimited boards and unlimited cards
Self-Hosted
Your data stays on your server. Full stop.
Deploy HonestWork on any server you control. Your tasks, your data, your infrastructure. No vendor lock-in, no third-party peeking at your work.
- Deploy on your own VPS, cloud, or on-premise server
- Full database access — export anytime
- Works on your internal network, no public internet required
Honest Pricing
Stop paying every month for tools your team already bought
A 10-person team on Trello pays $600 a year. Forever. HonestWork is one payment — and your whole team is in, no matter how fast you hire.
- One lifetime license, unlimited users
- Optional $99/year priority support
- Most teams break even before the end of month two
Roadmap
What’s coming next
Here’s a look at what we’re building next for HonestWork.
Reporting & Analytics
See how your team is performing across boards — card completion rates, cycle times, bottlenecks, and workload distribution. Visual charts you can actually act on.
Mobile App Companion
A native iOS and Android companion app so your team can check boards, move cards, and leave comments from anywhere — fully connected to your self-hosted instance.
Pansophy Private AI Integration
Your boards get smarter. Pansophy’s private AI will summarize card activity, suggest next steps, auto-assign tasks, and answer questions about your projects — all running on your own infrastructure, no data leaving your server.
Learn about Pansophy →Pricing
One price. No surprises.
Pay once, deploy forever. Add your whole team — no per-seat fees, no monthly bill.
Lifetime License
One-time payment
Everything you need to run kanban boards for your entire team. Yours forever.
- ✓ Unlimited users
- ✓ Unlimited boards & cards
- ✓ Self-hosted on your server
- ✓ Labels, assignees, due dates
- ✓ Drag & drop between columns
- ✓ Full data ownership
- ✓ Free software updates
- — Priority email support
Lifetime + Support
One-time + $99/year for support
Everything in Lifetime, plus priority email support with guaranteed 24-hour response time.
- ✓ Unlimited users
- ✓ Unlimited boards & cards
- ✓ Self-hosted on your server
- ✓ Labels, assignees, due dates
- ✓ Drag & drop between columns
- ✓ Full data ownership
- ✓ Free software updates
- ✓ Priority email support
Reviews
Teams that switched and never looked back
“We were paying $480 a year for Trello for 8 people. HonestWork was $199 once. I set it up in 20 minutes on our existing server. The team didn’t even notice the switch — it just works.”
“Finally a board tool that doesn’t penalize you for growing your team. We went from 6 to 18 people and paid exactly the same. The per-user model was killing us.”
“Our data stays on our own server which was a hard requirement for our clients. Most tools couldn’t offer that. HonestWork was literally the only option that made sense.”
FAQ
Common questions
You install HonestWork on a server you own or rent — a $5/month VPS from DigitalOcean or Hetzner works perfectly. Your team accesses it from your own URL. We provide a simple Docker Compose setup that takes about 10 minutes.
Unlimited. That’s the whole point. Add 5 people or 500 — the price never changes. No per-seat fees, ever.
Bug fixes, security patches, new feature updates, and priority email support with a guaranteed 24-hour response time. The support plan is optional — the lifetime license works on its own — but it keeps your installation current.
Nothing happens to your installation — it keeps working exactly as it did. You just won’t receive future updates or support. You can always renew later.
Your data never leaves your server. We have no access to it whatsoever. You’re responsible for your own backups, which is also the point — full ownership, full control.
HonestWork runs as a Docker container, so it works on any Linux server. If you can run Docker, you can run HonestWork.
Stop paying monthly for something you can own
Get HonestWork for your team today — one payment, unlimited users, forever.
Get lifetime access — $199