OKRs & Goal Tracking

For day-to-day project management see Project Management for Ops. For engagement / pulse surveys see Surveys & Feedback. For HRIS-bundled performance see HR & HRMS.

Open source / self-host

• ★ OKR Tracker (oslokommune) — open source; Vue; built and used by City of Oslo. Apache 2.0. The cleanest OSS pick if you want a real OKR tool.
• OpenOKR / Wobjective / Plus — community projects; vet recent activity.
• Excel / Google Sheets — what most teams actually use; the ceremony-to-value ratio of dedicated OKR software is real, and a shared sheet is often enough.

Hosted (free tiers)

• ★ Mooncamp Free — small free tier; modern OKR tool.
• ★ Range Free — free tier; check-ins + goals + standups; popular for async teams.
• Lattice Free Trial — paid product, no permanent free tier.
• 15Five Free Trial — same.
• Quantive (formerly Gtmhub) — paid; OKR-focused; free trial.
• Ally.io (Microsoft) — folded into Viva Goals; free with M365 in some plans.
• Weekdone — paid; free for very small teams.
• Tability — modern OKR tool; small free tier.
• Perdoo — paid; free trial.

Performance review platforms (paid)

• ★ Lattice — modern incumbent; performance + OKRs + 1:1s + engagement; paid.
• ★ 15Five — competitor; weekly check-ins + reviews; paid.
• Culture Amp — engagement-survey-first; expanded into performance; paid.
• Leapsome — EU-favored; paid.
• Reflektive, Betterworks, Engagedly — alternatives.
• Workday Performance — enterprise; bundled with Workday HRIS.

1:1 / async check-ins

• Range — async standups / mood / goals; free tier.
• Friday — work-from-home async standup tool; paid.
• Hypercontext — 1:1 agendas; small free tier.
• Soapbox — same niche.
• Standuply — Slack-native standups; small free tier.

Engagement surveys

• ★ PostHog Surveys — bundled; see Surveys & Feedback.
• ★ Formbricks — OSS surveys; same page.
• Officevibe — pulse / eNPS; small free tier.
• Culture Amp — paid.
• Lattice Engagement — bundled.
• Glint (LinkedIn / Microsoft) — enterprise.

Patterns to know

• The OKR ritual is the work, not the tool. A shared doc + a 30-min weekly review beats a fancy tool that nobody opens.
• Quarterly cadence > monthly. Monthly OKRs become a status report; quarterly forces stretch.
• 3 objectives × 3 KRs is the ceiling. More than that and people don't remember them.
• Score 0.0–1.0; expect ~0.7. If you hit 1.0 on everything, the goals were too easy.
• Separate OKRs from review. Tying compensation to OKR scores breaks the system; people sandbag.

License watch-outs

• OKR Tracker is Apache 2.0 — fully permissive.
• Most other OSS attempts in this space are AGPL-flavored or inactive.

Pick this if…

• Default OSS: OKR Tracker (or Google Sheets — honestly).
• Free hosted, small team: Mooncamp Free or Range Free.
• Paid, performance + OKRs + reviews: Lattice or 15Five.
• Already on Microsoft 365: Viva Goals.
• Engagement / pulse: Officevibe or Culture Amp.
• Async-first team, want check-ins more than goals: Range.