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AI that drafts the sprint for you
Spryn's AI looks at your backlog and team capacity and drafts a sprint plan. OpenProject has no AI sprint drafting — you're filling in Gantt bars and backlogs manually.
Spryn vs OpenProject
OpenProject can do budgets, wikis, roadmaps, and portfolio management. That's the point — and the problem, if all you need is to plan, run, and ship a sprint.
$99 one-time · Unlimited seats · Setup in 10 minutes
OpenProject
Gantt charts, budgets, time tracking, wikis, roadmaps, portfolios — a full project management suite built for regulated industries and dedicated PMO teams. 20M+ downloads, GPLv3 open source.
Spryn
One job: help your dev team plan, commit to, and ship a sprint. AI drafts the plan, surfaces risk mid-sprint, writes the retro — all included from day one.
The right fit
OpenProject: teams that need budgets, portfolios, or compliance-grade audit trails across many projects. Spryn: dev teams that want sprint execution handled, not configured.
Where Spryn wins
OpenProject's breadth is a feature for PMOs and a tax for dev teams. Here's where that difference shows up week to week.
Spryn's AI looks at your backlog and team capacity and drafts a sprint plan. OpenProject has no AI sprint drafting — you're filling in Gantt bars and backlogs manually.
Spryn's execution signals flag tasks that run too long, missing owners, or scope creep while the sprint is live. OpenProject shows status — it doesn't tell you what's about to go wrong.
Spryn generates a standup summary — who's moving, what's blocked, what's at risk — before you open the call. OpenProject gives you a board view; someone still has to read it and summarize.
At sprint close, Spryn generates the retro narrative — what shipped, what slipped, why. OpenProject has no retro tooling — you're back to exporting data and writing your own summary.
OpenProject's flexibility comes with real setup cost — projects, workflows, custom fields, permissions. Spryn works out of the box; most teams are planning their first sprint in under 10 minutes.
OpenProject's Enterprise on-premises edition requires a 25-user minimum — a 10-person team pays for seats they don't have. Spryn's self-hosted license is unlimited seats, one flat $99.
Where OpenProject wins
OpenProject is a genuinely deep tool. Here's when it's the better call.
Use OpenProject if you need any of these
OpenProject is the right call if your organization runs budgets, portfolios, and multi-project programs alongside your engineering work — Gantt charts, resource planning, and time tracking across dozens of projects. Its Enterprise on-premises edition adds real compliance features: audit trails, LDAP, 2FA, and EU-hosted options that regulated industries specifically ask for. If you need a full PMO suite and are willing to configure it, OpenProject's depth is hard to match. Spryn doesn't try to do any of that. It does one thing: helps small dev teams run better sprints. If your team's problem is sprint execution, not portfolio governance, Spryn fits. If you need the rest of what OpenProject does, keep OpenProject.
Feature comparison
Focused on sprint planning and execution — not a full PMO feature dump.
| Feature | Spryn | OpenProject |
|---|---|---|
| Sprint Planning | ||
| AI-drafted sprint from backlog | ✓ | — |
| Backlog import (Jira, Asana) | ✓ | Jira Migrator only |
| Story point / estimation support | ✓ | ✓ |
| Opinionated sprint defaults (no setup) | ✓ | — |
| Duplicate / overlap detection | ✓ | — |
| Execution | ||
| Execution board (sprint view) | ✓ | ✓ (via boards) |
| Automatic risk signals | ✓ | — |
| AI standup summary (pre-meeting) | ✓ | — |
| GitHub / GitLab live sync | ✓ | ✓ |
| Slack notifications | ✓ | ✓ |
| Sprint Close | ||
| AI-generated retro narrative | ✓ | — |
| Sprint velocity tracking | ✓ | ✓ (via reports) |
| Setup & Pricing | ||
| Setup time to first sprint | ~10 minutes | Hours to days |
| Free tier | Up to 3 members | Community edition (self-managed, no enterprise features) |
| Self-hosted pricing | $99 one-time | $7.25/user/month, 25-user minimum |
| Configuration required | None | Significant (workflows, types, permissions) |
Pricing
OpenProject's Enterprise on-premises edition has a 25-user minimum. Spryn self-hosted is $99 once — unlimited seats, no recurring bill.
25 users minimum · billed annually
Self-hosted
Unlimited seats · your infrastructure
Prefer managed hosting? Cloud Team is $6/user/month — $720/year for a 10-person team.
— Engineering lead, 12-person product team (switched from OpenProject)The aha isn't less process. It's realizing you've been paying a tax every sprint — hours building a sprint that AI could draft in seconds, standups that exist to discover status instead of unblock work, retros spent reconstructing the sprint instead of improving the next one.
Switching from OpenProject
Spryn doesn't replace OpenProject's portfolio or budget tooling. It replaces the sprint planning layer — and connects to the tools you're already using.
Step 01
Free forever for teams up to 3. 14-day trial for full features. No credit card required.
Step 02
Import from Jira, Asana, or CSV. Your issues and priorities carry over cleanly.
Step 03
Live commit sync works with code you already write. Slack for sprint notifications. Both take under 2 minutes each.
Step 04
Spryn suggests a sprint from your backlog and capacity. Edit, lock, and ship. No blank board to fill.
Ready to switch
Self-hosted, one-time license. Or start on Cloud if you prefer managed.