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Vibe Kanban

Kanban-minded users who accept community maintenance.

Weighted feature assessment69.0range 69.0 to 69.0doc coverage 100% / Launchedmeasured: Boot only
Maker
Bloop AI (company wound down Apr 2026; community-maintained)
License
Apache-2.0
Pricing
Free (paid subscriptions refunded at shutdown, sec)
Stars
28399
Open issues+PRs
544
Latest release
v0.1.44-20260424091429 2026-04-24
Scores by category

Rubric breakdown

  • AAgent breadthweight 154
  • BIsolation and parallelismweight 154
  • CReview, merge and PR flowweight 153
  • DRemote, cloud and mobile reachweight 102
  • EOpenness and licenseweight 105
  • FMaturity and momentumweight 152
  • GLinux setup friction (measured)weight 104
  • HPricing and BYO modelweight 55
  • IDocs and transparencyweight 53
Good worktree-per-card idea and instant npx boot; vendor shut down in 2026.
Verdict

Strengths and weaknesses

Strengths

  • Boots from npx in seconds
  • Worktree per attempt

Weaknesses

  • Vendor shut down in 2026; last release Apr 24
  • Analytics on by default
Evidence

What we saw and where it came from

Hands-on (this box)
Booted from cold npx in about 10 s, HTTP 200, ~684 MB RSS. Default config has analytics_enabled=true.
Known issues
Sources disagree on scope after shutdown: one says the kanban board was retired, another that the project continues as local OSS.
Notes
Last release v0.1.44 (Apr 24 2026); last push Sep 19 2026.

Sources

Feature facts

From docs, repos and our probes

Platforms
Cross-platform via `npx vibe-kanban` (Rust binary + web UI)
Supported agents
sec: 10+ CLIs; default recommended executor on our box: CLAUDE_CODE
Parallelism
Card -> attempt in its own worktree
Isolation
Git worktrees
Review, merge, PR
Diff + PR flow via GitHub (config has PAT/OAuth fields)
Remote, cloud, mobile
Bloop-hosted cloud features removed (sec)
MCP
sec: MCP server for planning tickets
Cost visibility
unknown
Model choice
Via agents
Setup
`npx vibe-kanban` (downloads a 49.9 MB binary)

"unknown" means we found no source and did not guess.