Our verdict
Huly and Leantime are both work-management tools for restaurants. On our independent rubric, Huly scores 4.2/5 versus 4.1/5 for Leantime. Choose Huly if you're Teams that want issues, docs, chat, and video in one self-hosted app or Engineering teams wanting two-way GitHub Issues/Projects sync; choose Leantime if you're Small teams and founders who are not formal project managers or Neurodivergent-friendly workflows needing clarity and reduced decision fatigue.
Side-by-side comparison
| Metric | Huly | Leantime |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial score | 4.2/5 | 4.1/5 |
| G2 rating | — | — |
| Capterra rating | — | — |
| Starting price | Free (self-hosted, EPL-2.0) | Free (self-hosted core, AGPL-3.0) |
| Free tier | ||
| Free trial | ||
| Integrations | 4 · GitHub (two-way Issues/Projects sync), Telegram, REST API… | 5 · REST/JSON API, Slack, Mattermost… |
| Best for | Teams that want issues, docs, chat, and video in one self-hosted app, Engineering teams wanting two-way GitHub Issues/Projects sync, Startups consolidating Linear + Slack + Notion into one platform | Small teams and founders who are not formal project managers, Neurodivergent-friendly workflows needing clarity and reduced decision fatigue, Teams wanting strategy + execution (goals, canvases) in one tool |
| Category | work-management | work-management |
| Founded | 2020 | — |
| HQ | — | — |
A teal check marks the stronger option on each measurable row. Ratings are sourced from G2/Capterra with attribution on each listing.
Huly
- Replaces several tools (Linear/Jira + Slack + Notion) in one platform
- Two-way GitHub sync for engineering workflows
- Permissive EPL-2.0 license with a dedicated self-host repo
- Very active development with daily commits
- Young project with a rapidly changing surface
- Broad scope makes self-hosting operationally heavier
- Some modules less mature than dedicated point tools
Leantime
- Built for non-project-managers and neurodivergent users (ADHD/autism/dyslexia)
- Combines strategy (goals, canvases) with task execution
- Free, self-hostable AGPL-3.0 core via Docker
- Founder-led support and active development
- Some advanced features and integrations are Cloud/Enterprise-only
- Smaller integration ecosystem than enterprise suites
- Less suited to large, heavily governed organizations
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