Takt

Work tracking · Self-hosted

The best of Jira, YouTrack, GitHub and Azure DevOps Server. Running on your machine.

Takt is one work tracker for the whole organisation — from business and test to developers. Hierarchy, teams, boards and ceremonies are first-class concepts, without the admin tax. Not a cloud service: you run it, and your data stays with you.

Run it locally See what's inside
Takt board for the Platform team: To do, In progress and Done columns with stories, tasks and bugs such as “Pay invoice with Swish” and “Login fails when the BankID session times out”.

One tool, from business to developers

Everyone works in the same place, on the same items. No exports between a strategy deck, a test spreadsheet and a dev board.

Business

Strategy you can follow to delivery

Goals, portfolios, roadmaps and ideas. See how what the teams are building connects to what the organisation wants.

Test

Requirements and bugs, in context

Requirements, bugs and releases live next to the work that delivers them. Trace what was asked for, what broke and what shipped.

Developers

Boards, sprints and a CLI

Backlog, boards and sprints per team. Fast, keyboard-friendly, and a command-line client for the terminal.

A look inside

The same items, seen the way each role needs them: as a tree, as a backlog, and one at a time.

Work view showing requirements with nested epics and stories, each with points, team, status and assignee.
Hierarchy that holds. Requirement → epic → story → task, in one tree.
Backlog and planning view with epics expanded to their stories, points per item, and a button to create the next sprint.
Plan the sprint. Rank, fill, start. Nothing else in the way.
Work item “Pay invoice with Swish”: description, definition of success, children, comments and properties such as status, priority, owner and team.
One item, everything on it. Description, definition of success, children and comments.

Best of four tools. None of the baggage.

We took what people actually like about the big trackers and left the rest out.

From Jira

Real hierarchy and boards

Requirement, epic, story, task and subtask as a proper tree. Boards per team. Without weeks of scheme configuration.

From YouTrack

A fast issue tracker

Create, move and close work in seconds. The tool keeps pace with the team instead of slowing it down.

From GitHub

Simple for developers

A clean interface with nothing in the way, and a CLI so work can be picked up and updated straight from the terminal.

From Azure DevOps Server

Run it yourself

On your laptop or your own servers. No vendor account, no cloud dependency. The data never leaves you.

Local, not cloud

takta.app is just this website. Takt itself runs where you decide — on your machine with Docker and Node.js. Nothing is hosted by us.

  • No account with us, no sign-up in the cloud
  • Your PostgreSQL, your data, your backups
  • Runs on a laptop today, scales to your own servers later

Run Takt locally

Four commands. Then open the app in your browser.

  1. Start PostgreSQL in Docker.
  2. Copy the env file and set AUTH_SECRET.
  3. Install dependencies.
  4. Start the app. Migrations run automatically, then open http://localhost:3001.

Requires Docker and Node.js 24 or newer. Source: github.com/Queue-Online/takt 

git clone https://github.com/Queue-Online/takt.git
cd takt
docker compose up -d
cp .env.example .env   # set AUTH_SECRET
npm install
npm run dev            # http://localhost:3001