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Leantime vs Tability

A side-by-side editorial comparison of Leantime and Tability — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

Leantime vs Tability: at a glance

FeatureLeantimeTability
SectorPMPM
Velocity score6.37.5
Sparks · 30d01
Top themesproject-management, self-hosted, api, permissionsokr-management, strategy-graph, ai-agents, org-hierarchy
Last editorial update1mo ago1d ago
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What is Leantime?

Leantime is stabilizing its big 3.9 rewrite while extending cross-project planning and a mobile API

Leantime is deep in a modernization cycle. The 3.9.0 release rebuilt the app around a native, fail-closed permission engine, a JSON-RPC API, and a consolidated Blueprints domain; the releases since then mostly stabilize that foundation. Recent point releases fix regressions (repeated Bearer/PAT auth fixes) while adding cross-project program views and a mobile app backend.

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What is Tability?

Tability is building the org graph its AI agents will need to act on.

Tability is an OKR and strategy platform that has spent 2026 turning a plan hierarchy into a queryable graph. The Strategy Map now organises by people as well as plans, the Dependencies Map traverses up to parent context and down through downstream work from any object, and a workspace-wide filtering layer with saved segments sits over goals and initiatives. Running alongside is an agent track: an AI Importer that reads OKR and KPI spreadsheets into reviewable proposals, and AI managers that can be assigned to a goal and must route decisions back through an approval flow.

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Leantime vs Tability: editorial side-by-side

L6.3

Leantime is stabilizing its big 3.9 rewrite while extending cross-project planning and a mobile API

◆ Current state

Leantime is deep in a modernization cycle. The 3.9.0 release rebuilt the app around a native, fail-closed permission engine, a JSON-RPC API, and a consolidated Blueprints domain; the releases since then mostly stabilize that foundation. Recent point releases fix regressions (repeated Bearer/PAT auth fixes) while adding cross-project program views and a mobile app backend.

◆ Where it's heading

The work is consolidation over expansion: hardening the new auth/permission and API layers, closing security IDORs domain by domain, and building the surface a mobile app and program-level planning need. The steady stream of small patch releases reflects shaking out regressions from the 3.9.0 refactor rather than opening new product directions.

◆ Prediction

Expect continued point releases fixing regressions from the permission-engine and JSON-RPC migration, plus buildout of the Leantime Mobile app now that its Bearer-authenticated backend API is landing.

T7.5

Tability is building the org graph its AI agents will need to act on.

◆ Current state

Tability is an OKR and strategy platform that has spent 2026 turning a plan hierarchy into a queryable graph. The Strategy Map now organises by people as well as plans, the Dependencies Map traverses up to parent context and down through downstream work from any object, and a workspace-wide filtering layer with saved segments sits over goals and initiatives. Running alongside is an agent track: an AI Importer that reads OKR and KPI spreadsheets into reviewable proposals, and AI managers that can be assigned to a goal and must route decisions back through an approval flow.

◆ Where it's heading

The two tracks are converging, and the sequencing tells the story. Delegating goals to AI agents shipped first; the releases since have been building the structure those agents need to reason over — who reports to whom, what depends on what, which slice of a busy workspace a question is actually about. Overflow controls on large maps and a refreshed Initiatives view point at customers with enough plans and people for readability to become the constraint, which is a different buyer than the small-team OKR tool this category started as. Import friction is being attacked from the same direction: an AI-assisted path out of spreadsheets, with review gates before anything is created.

◆ Prediction

Expect the agent features to start consuming the graph the recent releases exposed — dependency-aware and reporting-line-aware agent actions rather than per-goal delegation — and the scheduled-prompt mechanism behind executive summaries to widen into other recurring outputs.

Alternatives to Leantime and Tability

Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Leantime or Tability.

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Recent activity from Leantime and Tability

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 2d agoTabilityKeep large Strategy Maps readable with overflow controls
  2. 2d agoTabilityReview initiatives faster from the refreshed Initiatives view
  3. 2d agoTabilityBuild custom views with the new filters
  4. 2d agoTabilityImport OKRs faster with the AI Importer
  5. 2d agoTabilityTrace complete dependencies from any objective, key result, or initiative
  6. 2d agoTabilityOrganise the Strategy Map by people, not just plans
  7. 1mo agoLeantimeLeantime 3.9.8: milestone reporting and MCP endpoint fixes
  8. 1mo agoLeantimeLeantime 3.9.7 adds cross-project program views
  9. 1mo agoLeantimeLeantime 3.9.6: security hardening plus content templates
  10. 2mo agoLeantimeLeantime 3.9.5 adds mobile notification and calendar APIs
  11. 2mo agoLeantimeLeantime 3.9.4 fixes cross-project 'My Work' loading
  12. 2mo agoLeantimeLeantime 3.9.3 fixes Bearer-token API authentication

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between Leantime and Tability?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Tability is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 6.3), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is Leantime better than Tability?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Tability is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 6.3), with 1 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to Leantime?

Top Leantime alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Leantime alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/leantime for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to Tability?

Top Tability alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Tability alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/tability for the full list with editorial commentary on each.