Redmine
Shares rank 3 of 8 project management software by recommenders
People recommend Redmine as a free, self-hosted project and issue tracker that covers task breakdown and time estimates without the cost of Jira.
People recommend Redmine as a free, self-hosted project and issue tracker that covers task breakdown and time estimates without the cost of Jira.
8 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 7
- criticize it
- 1
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 5 of 13 months
- November 2025: recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 7 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 5 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Free and self-hosted
“Redmine is free, far better than Jira, and already includes the features you don't yet realize you need.”
Comment from 21 Jun 2026 in “The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software” “All of my self hosted SAAS (redmine , gitea, discourse , vaultwaden , GLPI etc etc )”
Comment from 1 Oct 2026 in “Figma restricts MCP access to whitelisted clients, excluding Pi” “self-hosted redmine, gitlab & a wiki will get you the same”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: Hard and deep tech – why are Jira and Confluence the go-to PM tools?” Good alternative to Jira
“Redmine is free, far better than Jira, and already includes the features you don't yet realize you need.”
Comment from 21 Jun 2026 in “The Minimum Viable Unit of Saleable Software” “self-hosted redmine, gitlab & a wiki will get you the same”
Comment from 26 Nov 2025 in “Ask HN: Hard and deep tech – why are Jira and Confluence the go-to PM tools?”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Issue tracker can feel finicky
“The Redmine issue tracker was too finicky”
Comment from 26 Oct 2026 in “Tasks as Code: Move Your Tickets into the Repository”
Other project management software people recommend
The four most recommended other project management software, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Projects | 9 | 9 | 50% | 7 | — | — |
| Basecamp | 8 | 8 | 50% | 6 | — | — |
| RedmineThis page | 7 | 1 | 88% | 5 | — | — |
| OpenProject | 7 | 2 | 78% | 7 | — | — |
| ClickUp | 7 | 23 | 23% | 6 | — | — |
What people said
7 of the 9 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The Redmine issue tracker was too finicky”
“I use Redmine (lightly customized) and have found that to work very well.”
“All of my self hosted SAAS (redmine , gitea, discourse , vaultwaden , GLPI etc etc )”
“Redmine is free, far better than Jira, and already includes the features you don't yet realize you need.”
“It seems quite powerful for a variety of workflows.”
“self-hosted redmine, gitlab & a wiki will get you the same”
“It allows me to create a project, break it down in to tasks, assign time estimates for the tasks”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.