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Deploy Leantime as a fully managed service starting at €9/mo. Get automated backups, SSL, updates, support and monitoring included.

Leantime is an AGPLv3 open-source work-management platform — projects, tasks, time tracking, milestones, goal-setting, and retrospectives — built with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia in mind. It combines goal-focus with kanban depth and gives you software you actually own.

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Leantime

Leantime

STARTING AT

€9/month
Automated Backups
Monitoring
Automated Updates
Auto SSL

USAGE

Unlimited
Human Support
Custom Domains
Terminal Access
File Manager Access
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ABOUT THE SOFTWARE

What is Leantime

Leantime is an AGPLv3 open-source work-management platform built for teams that don't have a project manager. The codebase has been in active development since 2019 and recently rewrote its core onto Laravel and Symfony for performance.

Maintained by Leantime — a US-incorporated team led by Gloria and Marcel Folaron. The platform has crossed 1.8 million Docker Hub pulls and 25,000+ self-reported installations, with over 40 languages contributed via Crowdin and a 9,000-plus star GitHub repository.

Where Leantime is unusual: it was deliberately designed with ADHD, autism, and dyslexia in mind. The interface offers an OpenDyslexic-font reading mode, emoji-based emotional task prioritization, an AI-generated "project story" that re-translates the project goal into the user's preferred tone (motivational, pirate, knight), and a My Work dashboard that hides scope rather than showing it. Customers describe it as the project tool that doesn't fight executive-function friction.

Under the hood: PHP, MySQL or MariaDB, optional Redis. A JSON-RPC 2.0 API exposes everything the UI does.

FEATURES

What Leantime does

Leantime is opinionated where Jira is configurable. The feature set is built around a small team running 5 to 50 projects, not 500. Here is what ships in the open-source core.

Projects, milestones, and goals

Hierarchical structure: goals tie to milestones, milestones to tickets. The OKR view sits above the kanban view. Easy to roll up status without writing reports.

Time tracking and timesheets

Native per-ticket time tracking, weekly timesheet view, exportable to CSV. No third-party integration needed for invoiced hours; the data lives in Leantime.

Strategy and OKR tools

SWOT, lean canvas, value proposition canvas, and OKR templates ship in the core. Useful for the team that wants strategy and execution in one place.

JSON-RPC 2.0 API

A single endpoint at /api/jsonrpc exposes everything the UI does. Token-authenticated, well-documented, easy to wire into n8n or Zapier.

Kanban and list views

Drag-and-drop kanban per project, list view per assignee, calendar view per milestone. The "Group by Parent Task" addition in 3.7 makes hierarchical work readable.

Idea-to-task pipeline

Ideas board, voting, conversion to tasks. The product-discovery layer most lean teams build in spreadsheets is included in the core release.

My Work dashboard

A focus view that shows only the current user's tasks, with emoji prioritization and a "right now" filter. Designed against executive-function friction.

Retrospectives, status updates, notes

Markdown-based notes, automated status reports, sprint retrospectives — the team-process surface Jira makes you buy add-ons for is included in core.

WHAT'S ALWAYS INCLUDED

Every app. Fully managed.
Nothing extra to pay for.

Every app you deploy includes the full managed service — security, backups, updates, and support from day one.

Automatic updates and patches

Apps run the latest stable version. Security patches applied silently, with rollback if needed.

Daily off-site backups

Multiple daily backups in redundant off-site locations. One-click restore if anything goes wrong.

24/7 uptime monitoring

Continuous monitoring with instant alerting. We respond before you notice.

SSL, firewall, DDoS protection

Auto-renewing SSL, hardened firewall rules, DDoS mitigation on every deployment.

Performance and scaling

We monitor resource usage continuously. When your app needs more headroom, we flag it and upgrade with your explicit approval.

Dedicated engineering support

Real engineers on chat. DNS, SMTP & migration help. All included in €9.

WHY MANAGED

Why teams pick managed Leantime

Atlassian raised Jira list prices twice in 2025: Data Center plans went up 15–30% on February 11, and Cloud plans went up 5–20% on October 15. Data Center reaches end-of-sale on March 30, 2026. Teams that picked Jira for cost or control are running out of both.

Self-hosting Leantime is well-documented and not technically hard for someone who has run a PHP stack. The work that "just running Leantime" doesn't include is the part that hurts.

The most-cited failure mode on the Leantime issue tracker is the 3.2 release upgrade. The release switched session handling from a homegrown system to Laravel's, and the new session/ folder must be writable by the PHP-FPM user. The upgrade script doesn't say so. Many self-hosted installs locked their own users out on the first run — see GitHub issues #2649 and #2582. The fix is one line of chown, but the symptom looks like a database failure, and the rollback path isn't obvious if you didn't snapshot first. The 3.7 release replaced the entire WYSIWYG editor and quietly tightened the PHP-extension requirements. The 3.x line has had three more upgrade traps like that.

DANIAN ships every Leantime instance on a known-good stack and runs upgrades behind a maintenance window with a rollback snapshot. If 3.7.3 → 3.7.4 breaks something, we revert. You don't. The cron worker is monitored — if it stalls, we restart it. Most self-hosts never notice their scheduler silently stopped six months ago. And the email password-reset flow actually works, because the SMTP relay is pre-configured with TLS, not left for you to wire to Gmail and discover that App Passwords were silently required.

REVIEWS

Hear from customers ​like you​​​​​​​

Successful businesses and professionals around the world rely on DANIAN every day

USE CASES

Three teams who run Leantime on DANIAN

These are representative team types we set up most often. Each starts with the same flat €9 plan.

8-PERSON PRODUCT STUDIO

Moved off Jira after the October 2025 price hike

Germany region. OIDC tied to Google Workspace. GitHub-issue sync via the JSON-RPC API. Founder is ADHD-diagnosed; picked Leantime specifically for the My Work dashboard and emoji prioritization. Daily backups, 30-day retention. Monthly cost replacing Jira: €9 instead of $90.50.

BOUTIQUE DEV CONSULTANCY

Tracking 6 client engagements with native time tracking

USA region. One project per client, kanban board per project, timesheets per consultant. Stripe invoicing wired through the JSON-RPC API. Client roles let stakeholders see only their project. Replaced an Asana Advanced subscription that was $24.99 per seat per month.

ADHD-COACHING PRACTICE

4 coaches managing 60+ concurrent client engagements

UK region. One Leantime project per client, treatment goals mapped to Leantime milestones, session notes in the Notes feature. CalDAV plugin for two-way calendar sync. Self-hosting was a deliberate choice for client-record confidentiality; managed-hosting kept the choice without the 2am pager.

COMPARISON

Four ways to run Leantime

The Leantime team makes the open-source code free. What costs money is running it: a server, a database, backups, monitoring, certificate renewals, version upgrades, on-call. Here are four real-world ways to pay that bill, with the math each path actually involves.

 PATH1 USER5 USERS 10 USERSWHAT YOU OPERATE FAILURE MODE UPGRADE WORK
Jira Software Cloud Standard
$9.05 / month$45.25 / month$90.50 / monthThe vendor's UI
Per-seat math at scaleVendor handles
Self-host on a $24/mo VPS
$44 / month infra + 1–2 hrs opsSame infra + ~2 hrs opsSame infra + DB tuning + ~3 hrs opsA whole stackA 2am alert no one answersYou handle
Run on a home server
€85–185 / month effective€105–245 / month effectiveSame hardware, scaling taxA whole stack and a closetA power flicker that wipes the DBYou handle
DANIAN Managed Leantime€9 / month€9 / month€9 / monthNothingA support replyWe handle

Jira Software pricing per Atlassian's pricing page, October 2025 list rates at annual billing. The 5-user and 10-user rows for the VPS and home-server paths assume the same hardware — the bottleneck is operational time, which scales with team usage and database size. The home-server path includes amortised hardware, electricity at €0.30/kWh, business-grade internet with a static IP, off-site backup target, and 2–4 hours of monthly operational time at €60–120/hour. Once Jira passes 10 seats, the per-seat math is what teams notice.

BY INDUSTRY

Leantime for specific industries

Leantime's goal-focused structure and AGPL license make it a fit for industries that need client-record retention, jurisdictional control over data, and the option to keep working when a vendor doubles their prices. Four patterns we run repeatedly.

Creative work runs on retainers, NDAs, and asset versioning. Agencies bound by per-client confidentiality terms — and by DMCA safe-harbor record-keeping for the work they publish — need project history that lives where the agency can find it years later, not on a SaaS account someone closed.

DANIAN's typical creative-agency configuration: a dedicated single-tenant instance, OIDC tied to the agency's Google Workspace. Pick the region closest to the client base — Germany, UK, USA, or Singapore are typical for agency workloads.

A typical workflow: one Leantime project per client engagement, kanban stages from Brief → Concept → Review → Delivery, Whiteboards plugin for ideation, file attachments per ticket for asset versions, time tracking against negotiated rate cards. Project history and file attachments retained for 7 years post-engagement, aligned to standard NDA-retention windows.

Consultancies live or die on time-tracking accuracy, sprint discipline, and the record-keeping that lets a contractor IP-assignment hold up. Clients on regulated work flow security policies down into the SOW — instance access controls, change-history retention, encrypted backups — and the consultancy has to prove all of it.

DANIAN's typical consultancy configuration: OIDC SSO via Authentik or Keycloak (Leantime supports OIDC natively), IP-allowlist on the admin URL, daily encrypted database snapshots with 30-day retention extendable to a year on request.

A typical workflow: GitHub-issue-to-Leantime-ticket sync via the JSON-RPC API, sprint planning via Milestones, weekly status reports via Leantime's Status Update feature emailed to client stakeholders. Access-log entries retained 365 days minimum; backup RPO under 24 hours. The dashboard shows the consultancy what the auditor will ask for.

Coaching and therapy-adjacent practices need client-record retention measured in years, jurisdictional control over where session notes are stored, and a vendor relationship that won't suddenly change terms. AGPL self-hosted Leantime, run by us, gives the practice the second part of that without losing the first.

DANIAN's typical practice configuration: region-locked single-tenant instance, TLS 1.2+ enforced on the edge, encrypted database volume, SMTP via TLS-only relay for client reminder emails. Multi-instance isolation for practices that need to keep coaching engagements separate from supervision groups.

A typical workflow: one Leantime project per client, treatment goals mapped to Milestones, session notes in the per-project Notes feature (visible only to the assigned therapist), recurring tasks for check-in cadence. Client-engagement records retained for the 6 to 10 years required by most jurisdictional health-records statutes.

Non-profits balance grant-cycle reporting against budget pressure, donor-data confidentiality against the need to actually use the data, and program-management software against the reality that most board members aren't going to learn Jira. Leantime's strategy-and-execution-in-one-place model is unusually well-fitted to grant-funded program portfolios.

DANIAN's typical non-profit configuration: cost-optimized shared CPU tier (non-profits are price-sensitive and €9 fits a small line item), region chosen to match the country of incorporation, OIDC tied to Microsoft 365 Business, LDAP-friendly user provisioning for member-organization access.

A typical workflow: the Programs view for grant-funded program portfolios, Milestones aligned to grant deliverable deadlines, automated Status Reports emailed to grantor contacts. Grant-cycle project history retained for 7 years to satisfy federal grant audit requirements or charity-regulator inspection windows.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Everything teams ask before signing up — answered straight, without sales speak.

Three groups: technical setup, migration, and how DANIAN works as a service.

01

Technical and configuration

Not REST — Leantime exposes a JSON-RPC 2.0 endpoint at /api/jsonrpc. One endpoint, method-based dispatch, token-authenticated. It is documented at docs.leantime.io/api/usage. We have helped customers wire it into n8n, Zapier, GitHub Actions, and Stripe — happy to share working configs.
Yes. The Marketplace at marketplace.leantime.io offers Advanced Authentication, Strategy and Plan tools, AI features, Custom Fields, and several integrations. You buy a plugin license from Leantime directly; we install it into your instance's /app/Plugins/ directory and persist it across upgrades.
Yes, because we configure the SMTP relay with TLS during provisioning, rather than leaving you to discover that Gmail silently requires App Passwords with 2FA enabled — the single most-common cause of broken password resets on self-hosted Leantime. Bring your own SMTP, or use ours.
Yes. Each instance is €9 a month and fully isolated — separate database, separate file storage, separate OIDC configuration, separate region if useful. We help with shared SSO across instances on request.

02

Migration and onboarding

We can activate your app on your own custom domain/subdomain. Examples: mydomain.com, anyword.mydomain.com.
Or, on our randomized free subdomain. Example: 963.apps.danian.cloud
If you wish to use a custom domain/subdomain, select that option when ordering your app (or notify us later). We will send you the required DNS records and if needed, our tech team will modify them for you.
21 datacenter locations across six continents. You choose the region at provisioning. Application data sits in the region you choose; pick whichever is closest to your users or matches your data-residency preference.
Yes. Request a region migration from the dashboard and we run the move in the background. The system emails you when the migration completes; total transfer time depends on data volume but typical instances finish in a few hours. There is no extra charge for a region change.
Yes. Full data export is available at any time, in a portable format you can bring to any infrastructure.
Jira exports XML and CSV; Leantime imports CSV natively. The mapping is one-time work — Jira projects become Leantime projects, issues become tickets, sprints become milestones, custom fields land in Leantime's Custom Fields plugin.
Asana exports JSON and CSV per project. Leantime imports CSV; we script the JSON-to-CSV conversion when projects use Asana's custom fields. Sections become kanban columns, tasks become tickets, milestones become milestones, comments become comments. The typical 10-project Asana migration is a half-day's work end-to-end.
Yes, if it's exportable. Example time records origins: Asana, Toggl, Harvest, and Jira Tempo. The fields don't always map cleanly — Tempo's worklog comments need a target ticket; Toggl's project labels need a target Leantime project — but the import is reliable once the mapping is decided.

03

Billing, support, and platform

€9 covers everything we do for that app: hardware in the region you choose, daily off-site backups with one-click restore, automatic security patches and version upgrades, 24/7 monitoring, SSL and firewall, and engineering support on Email/LiveChat. There are no setup fees or hidden line items. For more info see our Pricing page.
If you decide to continue, we charge €9/app/month from day 8. If you don't, the trial ends and you can export your data. No card is required for the trial, and we never auto-charge you without explicit consent.
No. The €9/month is flat regardless of how many users log into your app. Add 5 users or 50; the price doesn't change.
24/7 Live chat and email support, both staffed by engineers who run the systems. We handle DNS configuration, SMTP setup, app integrations, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and migration help. Response time is typically under an hour. There is no tier system — every customer gets the same support.
Yes. Cancel from the dashboard. We don't charge a cancellation fee, we don't lock data, and we will export your data to you on request before deletion. data to you on request before deletion.
Every customer instance is backed up daily to a separate region from the primary. We test restores. You can request a restore at any backup point within the retention window — usually 7 days for daily backups.
Your application data sits in the region you choose at provisioning — 21 datacenter locations across six continents. Account-level data (billing, account email, support ticket history) is processed centrally. Application data region is picked by you, per app.
99.9% uptime SLA on every app, every tenant. Service credits are documented at danian.co/service-level-agreement. The status page is located at status.danian.co.
When your tenant approaches the resource ceiling — the base tier holds 1 vCPU/RAM, 30 GB storage — we notify you. Resource upgrades happen with your explicit consent; we will not upgrade your tenant or charge you without it.
We wait. We don't suspend the app or delete your data on the first failed charge. We email you, you fix the card on file, and we continue.
Invoices can be downloaded from the billing dashboard in PDF the day each charge succeeds. EU VAT is added where applicable and the VAT-reverse-charge regime applies for VAT-registered businesses with a valid number.
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Yes. Every instance comes with a web-based terminal and a file manager in your DANIAN management dashboard. Useful for managing your data and customizations.
Resources scale with your usage. If your app needs more vCPU, RAM, or storage, we add it — and we ask first before any change to your plan. €9 is the floor; resource-heavy workloads may price higher, but you'll always know in advance.
Yes. We have both a Partner program and an Affiliate program available. Anybody can sign up.
No contract. No minimum commitment. Cancel anytime from the dashboard with one click. The 7-day free trial requires no credit card. After the trial converts to paid, you can still cancel at any month without notice or penalty.

DEPLOY IN YOUR REGION

21 datacenter locations on six continents

Pick the region closest to your users.

United States, Germany, Finland, Singapore, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Netherlands, UK, Spain, Italy, France, Sweden, Malaysia, India, Japan, Mexico, Poland, South Korea, Chile, South Africa and more coming soon

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