worklenz vs Huly

Worklenz is a free, open-source project management platform for teams and agencies, bringing projects, tasks, resource planning, and client collaboration into one workspace. Tasks can be viewed as a list, a Kanban board, or a Gantt chart, and time is logged directly against them. Alongside delivery it tracks budgets, costs, and team utilization, so project health and profitability stay visible. Worklenz can be self-hosted under AGPL-3.0 or used as a managed cloud service that has a free plan.

Huly is an open-source, all-in-one workspace that combines project tracking, issue management, team messaging, and collaborative documents in a single interface. It is positioned as a unified replacement for tools like Linear, Jira, Slack, and Notion. Huly is built on the Huly Platform, a framework for business applications that also provides Chat, CRM, HRM, and applicant-tracking modules. It can be self-hosted with Docker via the huly-selfhost project, and offers an API client for building custom integrations.

• Free and open-source under AGPL-3.0, with a self-hostable Community edition
• Covers projects, tasks, resources, and budgets in one workspace
• Multiple task views including list, Kanban board, and Gantt
• Time logged directly on tasks feeds utilization and profitability reporting

• Open-source codebase allows for deep customization and community trust
• Replaces multiple fragmented tools with a single workspace

• Free cloud plan is capped at three active projects
• Self-hosting means running and maintaining your own Docker, Postgres, and storage stack
• Mobile access is through the web app; there are no native iOS or Android apps

• Pricing requires direct contact for enterprise teams
• May have a learning curve when migrating from traditional standalone tools
• Self-hosting setup requires technical overhead for deployment and maintenance