Leantime vs Hive
Side-by-side trajectory, velocity, and editorial themes.
Leantime swaps its rich-text engine, ships experimental PostgreSQL, and spends a month fixing the fallout.
Leantime just landed 3.7, which replaced TinyMCE with a Tiptap-based editor across every rich-text surface, redesigned the wiki, and added experimental PostgreSQL support beside MySQL/MariaDB. The three follow-up patches in three weeks are real bug-fix work — PostgreSQL ROUND/GROUP BY errors, ticket PATCH 500s, session lifetime regressions — not cosmetic tidying. The team also pushed accessibility to WCAG 2.1 AA in the prior 3.6 line.
Leantime is mid-modernization: editor stack, database portability, and design-system tokens are all moving at once. The volume of PostgreSQL-specific bug fixes since 3.7.0 suggests Postgres is being driven by real users hitting real edges, not just a checklist item. Editor-related fixes show Tiptap migration is still settling in.
Expect 3.7.4 within a couple of weeks closing the remaining migration-era bugs, then a clearer 3.8 push around design-token rollout or PostgreSQL going non-experimental.
Hive's quarter is mobile parity, with chat and dashboards getting tidied on the side.
Hive is in a steady incremental polish phase. The dominant thread is pulling more of the desktop experience onto mobile: workflow visibility, time tracking from action cards, Gantt views, and a beefed-up universal search all landed within a week of each other. Chat got a parallel set of refinements (inline video, file gallery, history preservation when members leave), and dashboards picked up median aggregation.
Hive looks focused on closing the desktop-mobile gap rather than opening new product surface area. Each mobile release individually is small, but together they push Hive toward being usable as a primary-not-secondary work surface on phones, which matters most for project managers who actually move around. Expect this cleanup arc to continue for at least another release cycle before strategic capabilities (AI, automation depth) reappear.
Next likely additions on mobile: editing or creating actions/workflows (currently view-only) and richer dashboard interaction. On the desktop side, a feature touching AI or workflow authoring is overdue given the cadence of small fixes.
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