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Huly

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The free alternative toMonday

🔴 Advanced⏱️ ~30 min to installYou save €9/mo

Huly is an open source all in one app for teams that replaces monday.com: projects and tasks on a kanban board, in a list or on a timeline, chat channels, shared documents, planning and video calls. It also handles recruiting and a small CRM. You install it on your server with Docker, under the EPL-2.0 license, with no per person pricing. The limit, and it is a big one: since September 2026 the repository has been frozen and is no longer maintained, and the hosted version shut down on November 9, 2026. The app still works on your server, but nobody fixes its security holes anymore. It also needs a strong server (8 GB of memory at least), and video calls and AI require LiveKit and OpenAI accounts.

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Versus Monday: the match

  • Price

    Huly

    €0 on your server

    Monday

    €9/month per person (Basic), 3 minimum

  • Team

    Huly

    Unlimited

    Monday

    Each person pays for a seat

  • What is inside

    Huly

    Projects, chat, documents, planning, video calls

    Monday

    Project management on boards

Monday ↗

How to install it (even from zero)

A heavy app, to install on a Linux server with Docker and nginx, with at least 2 processors and 8 GB of memory. Read my take below first: the project no longer gets updates.

  1. 1

    Paste this prompt into Claude (Code or Desktop)

    It installs Huly from the official self-hosting repo, puts it online over HTTPS and creates your workspace:

    Installe Huly sur mon serveur : c'est l'appli tout-en-un open source (projets, chat, documents) qui remplace monday.com (dépôt GitHub hcengineering/platform, installation avec le dépôt hcengineering/huly-selfhost). Préviens-moi d'abord clairement : le dépôt est gelé depuis septembre 2026 et ne reçoit plus de mises à jour, même de sécurité. Vérifie ensuite que le serveur a au moins 2 processeurs et 8 Go de mémoire. Installe Docker et nginx comme l'indique le README de huly-selfhost, clone ce dépôt, lance ./setup.sh avec mon nom de domaine, active la configuration nginx qu'il génère, puis démarre Huly avec docker compose. Mets-le en HTTPS avec un certificat Let's Encrypt. Aide-moi à créer mon compte et mon premier espace de travail, puis à inviter mon équipe. Montre-moi comment sauvegarder les données avec le guide de sauvegarde (backup-restore) du dépôt hcengineering/platform. Les appels vidéo demandent un compte LiveKit et l'IA une clé OpenAI : ne les active que si je le demande. Explique chaque étape simplement, je débute.

Review the GitHub repository and check whether it is safe to install given my machine and my infrastructure. Ask me as many questions as possible, using widgets, to clarify my request and be as precise as you can.
  2. 2

    Back up every week

    Without updates, a breakdown or a security hole will not be fixed. Export your data regularly so you can leave at any time.

  3. 3

    For a team, look at Plane

    If you want a maintained tool for your team's projects, Plane, in the library, also replaces monday.com.

What you actually do with it

Track your projects like on monday.com

Your tasks on a kanban board, in a list or on a timeline, with milestones to see where each project stands.

Chat with your team in the same place

Channels and direct messages, right next to the tasks: no need for a separate chat app.

Write your documents next to your tasks

Shared documents, like in Notion, linked to your projects.

Project health, at a glance

Before installing an open-source tool, one question matters: is the project alive? These scores are computed from public GitHub data. They are not made up.

82/100

Excellent

Very active, well-maintained project: go ahead with confidence.

Activity
100

Is the code moving? (commits in the last 30 days)

Maintenance
100

How fresh is the latest update? Fresher is better.

Community
91

Stars and contributors: people around means help and fixes.

Maturity
100

Project age. Old enough to be solid, still alive.

Momentum
19

Current pace versus its usual pace: speeding up or dozing off?

The repo in numbers

GitHub stars
28.1k
Forks
2.2k
Contributors
123
Commits
9k
Project age
5.3 yrs
Last commit
4 d ago
Size
321.5 MB
License
EPL-2.0

Built with

  • TypeScript 61.7%
  • Svelte 33.5%
  • JavaScript 1.5%
  • SCSS 1.1%
  • Rust 0.9%

Scores computed automatically from the GitHub API (last-30-days activity, update freshness, community size, project age). Refreshed daily.

Loucash’s take

5/10

Huly was a great idea: monday.com, a team chat and Notion in a single app, free on your server. Kanban projects, chat, documents, planning, video calls: it is all there, with no per person pricing. Why only 5/10? Because the project is frozen. Since September 2026 the repository is no longer maintained, and the hosted version shut down on November 9, 2026. The app still works on your server, but nobody fixes its security holes anymore. And it needs a real server, with 8 GB of memory at least. My advice: try it for a personal project, or to see what a true all in one looks like, and keep backups. For your team day to day, pick Plane instead, which is maintained.

It’s for you if: You want to try an all in one app for projects, chat and documents on your server, for a personal project. For a team, prefer a maintained tool like Plane.

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