Host Planka without installing anything
A kanban board that moves live: the card a colleague drags slides across your screen without anyone reloading the page.
Starting at €8.99/month
Introduction
Planka installed, updated and backed up by us, on a machine in France. You install nothing and configure no server: the application is online a few minutes after you order, under your own name.
The plan that suits it is App Confort at €8.99/month incl. VAT — 4 GB of memory. Planka owes its fluidity to a permanent connection kept open with each browser: ten people in front of their board means ten channels held in parallel, and every card move is broadcast to everyone at the same moment it is written to PostgreSQL. Add the attachments dropped onto cards and the tier makes sense.
It is the shortest way out of Trello in the catalogue: when you create a board, Planka accepts the JSON file exported from Trello directly, and lists, cards, descriptions and labels take their places again. There is no dedicated mobile app — the interface adapts to a phone and can be added to the home screen — and no Butler-style automations: Planka is a kanban board, it does that very well, and it does not pretend to do the rest.
What managed hosting changes
Everyone sees the same thing, live
Planka holds an open connection with every browser: a card moved by a colleague slides across your screen within the second. In a meeting, nobody asks whether the other person has refreshed.
Direct import of a Trello board
When creating a board, you drop in the JSON file exported from Trello. Lists, cards, descriptions, labels and checklists take their places again, in order.
Proper cards, not sticky notes
Markdown description, colour labels, assigned members, due date, checkable sub-tasks, attachments and a comment thread. Every move stays recorded in the card history.
A timer on the card itself
Time spent is started and stopped from the card. Useful when a job gets rebilled, and instructive when you simply want to know where the day went.
Why hand it over rather than install it
A team of three leaving Trello
Board imported in the morning, everyone working on it by the afternoon. No cap on the number of boards, no feature tucked behind a per-seat subscription.
A tradesperson following jobs
One list per stage — quote sent, materials ordered, in progress, to invoice — and one card per job travelling across the board from left to right.
A charity committee
Preparing an event, one card per task, a due date and someone responsible. People who run from the words "project management" understand a board in thirty seconds.
A support desk sorting requests
To handle, waiting on the customer, resolved: three lists, priority labels, and a history that says who moved what and when.
A trainer and their project groups
One board per cohort, one card per group, submissions attached directly to the card they belong to.
Hosted in France
In our own infrastructure in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, which we operate ourselves. Your boards stay with you, and the person on the phone speaks your language.
Frequently asked questions
Yes, and it is built in. In Trello, the board menu offers an export in JSON format; in Planka, you choose to import that file as you create the board. Lists, cards, descriptions, labels, checklists and comments come across. Butler automations and Power-Ups do not, having no equivalent, and attachments still living at Trello have to be uploaded again.
No, and that is worth knowing before you choose. Planka is used in the browser, including on a phone where the interface adapts properly; you can add it to the home screen so it opens like an app. There are no push notifications on mobile.
It depends what you mean by full. Planka is a kanban board: columns, cards, people, a due date. It has no Gantt chart, no calendar view and no consolidated timesheets. If you need dependencies between tasks and several views over the same data, Vikunja is closer to the need; for company project tracking with versions and time spent, that is Redmine.
Nothing. You choose the application, fill in the fields it asks for — often an email address and a name — and it goes online. Access arrives by email with the address and the credentials.
Yes, they are part of the service. Planka moves quickly and its releases regularly touch the database schema: exactly the kind of update you would rather not run yourself on a Friday evening.