Top 50 Task Management Tools — May 2026

Task management tools in this list span focused to-do apps, kanban boards, project platforms, and broader workspaces. The data here comes from ToolVitals for May 2026 and reflects each product’s health, shipping, GitHub stars, and overall ToolVitals score.

The ranking uses ToolVitals score first, then GitHub stars as a secondary signal when scores are tied. That means the order favors overall ToolVitals performance before popularity, not the other way around.

Rankings

Rank	Tool	Health	Shipping	GitHub Stars	Score	Status
1	Ghost	100	100	52685	94	🟢 Excellent
2	Reactive Resume	94	100	36494	94	🟢 Excellent
3	OpenProject	95	100	14946	94	🟢 Excellent
4	Ever Gauzy	97	100	3660	94	🟢 Excellent
5	Kaneo	91	100	3462	94	🟢 Excellent
6	AppFlowy	97	88	70060	93	🟢 Excellent
7	Outline	97	88	38283	93	🟢 Excellent
8	Solidtime	95	88	8503	92	🟢 Excellent
9	Asana	95	82	285	91	🟢 Excellent
10	Memos	92	88	59227	90	🟢 Excellent
11	QOwnNotes	92	100	5724	90	🟢 Excellent
12	Tududi	97	100	2704	90	🟢 Excellent
13	Titra	91	88	490	90	🟢 Excellent
14	OpenPlanr	83	100	2	90	🟢 Excellent
15	Kimai	89	88	4616	89	🟢 Excellent
16	4ga Boards	86	88	488	87	🟢 Excellent
17	Wekan	95	100	20911	86	🟢 Excellent
18	Planka	86	88	11906	86	🟢 Excellent
19	AnyType	92	100	7453	86	🟢 Excellent
20	Rallly	89	88	5063	86	🟢 Excellent
21	Vikunja	89	88	4069	86	🟢 Excellent
22	Parabol	92	100	2002	86	🟢 Excellent
23	Ever Teams	89	100	499	86	🟢 Excellent
24	Scrumlr	86	88	328	86	🟢 Excellent
25	Plane	94	72	48459	84	🟢 Excellent
26	Documenso	94	72	12727	84	🟢 Excellent
27	Leantime	86	78	9556	82	🟢 Excellent
28	Huly	88	72	25468	81	🟢 Excellent
29	Veritas Kanban	84	77	0	81	🟢 Excellent
30	Kanboard	85	72	9564	79	🟢 Good
31	HedgeDoc	85	72	7125	79	🟢 Good
32	Hi Events	84	72	3684	79	🟢 Good
33	Orangescrum	62	100	439	79	🟢 Good
34	Monday.com	85	67	101	79	🟢 Good
35	TREK	77	100	4538	78	🟢 Good
36	ITFlow	82	72	930	78	🟢 Good
37	Freeplane	93	88	0	78	🟢 Good
38	iLamy Calendar	85	70	0	78	🟢 Good
39	TimeScribe	81	72	805	77	🟢 Good
40	AIPlan	80	65	0	73	🟢 Good
41	Operately	85	56	449	72	🟢 Good
42	Fider	81	56	4244	70	🟢 Good
43	Shelf	83	55	2577	70	🟢 Good
44	NearBeach	80	55	212	69	🟢 Good
45	Eigenfocus	76	47	922	63	🟢 Good
46	FlowInquiry	70	47	122	60	🟢 Good
47	Borrowhood	75	40	0	59	🟡 Fair
48	OpenPR	60	55	0	58	🟡 Fair
49	Joino	64	30	1	49	🟡 Fair
50	Worklenz	57	38	3028	48	🟡 Fair

Top 3 Highlights

Ghost stands out at the top of this list with a ToolVitals score of 94, perfect health and shipping scores, and 52,685 GitHub stars. Among the tools tied at 94, it also has the largest star count.

A one-of-a-kind resume builder that keeps your privacy in mind. Completely secure, customizable, portable, open-source and free forever. Try it out today!. At 94, Reactive Resume comes in strong as the runner-up, with 36494 GitHub stars for extra context.

OpenProject is the leading open source project management software. Rounding out the top three with a score of 94, OpenProject pairs visible maintenance signals with 14946 GitHub stars.

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