Vibe Kanban is an open-source kanban board for running coding agents. Its maker, Bloop, announced on 10 April 2026 that it is shutting down, and that the project will live on as open source and community maintained. If you want a board for coding agents that you can run today, Friday is a free, MIT-licensed desktop app with a task board, agents that can each work in their own git worktree, and line-by-line review. Facts about Vibe Kanban are from its own site and README, read on 4 November 2026.
Why would you look for a Vibe Kanban alternative?
Your work shouldn’t own your day, and the tool that runs your agents shouldn’t be one more thing you worry about. Vibe Kanban is a good idea well executed: issues on a board, a workspace for each agent, and diffs you can comment on. The reason people look elsewhere now is its future, not its design.
Bloop’s shutdown post says the company is closing, that the remote services (kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations) are removed after 30 days, and that local workspaces keep working. The README and home page carry a sunsetting notice, and the project’s latest GitHub release is v0.1.44 from April. Its pricing page still lists Free, Pro at $30 per user per month and Enterprise, which does not match the post, and we could not tell which is current.
None of that stops you using it. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and community maintained, so it will go on as long as people keep it going. If you would rather move to something that is shipping releases, here is how Friday differs.
How does Friday compare with Vibe Kanban?
| Friday | Vibe Kanban (from its own site and README) | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A free desktop app that runs your coding agents side by side on your own computer | A local app to plan work on a kanban board and run coding agents in workspaces |
| Board | A task board that agents take tasks from | Kanban issues you create, prioritise and assign; the team issue tracking ran on its cloud side |
| Isolation | Each agent can work in its own git worktree | Each workspace gives an agent a branch, a terminal and a dev server |
| Agents | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 13 more by name, plus any ACP agent | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode, Droid, CCR and Qwen Code |
| Agents working together | Agents message each other, and when one hits its usage limit the task moves to another with a record of what the first did and changed | We did not find this in its README |
| Review | Each run’s changes line by line, with notes sent back to the agent, and git built in | Diffs with inline comments, a built-in browser with devtools, and pull requests with AI-written descriptions |
| Install | The desktop app for macOS, Windows or Linux, or npx github:splashxmoon/friday | npx vibe-kanban; its README’s build-from-source steps are for macOS |
| Licence and price | MIT; free, no account; anonymous usage counts you can turn off | Apache-2.0; see the pricing note above |
| Who keeps it going | Open source on GitHub, with new releases and merged pull requests from outside contributors | The community, after Bloop’s shutdown |
Last checked: 4 November 2026
Check vibekanban.com and its GitHub page for what has changed since 4 November 2026, and our changelog for Friday’s releases.
Where is Vibe Kanban stronger?
Its README describes a built-in browser with devtools for previewing the app an agent is building, a dev server in each workspace, pull requests created with AI-written descriptions, and issues you can prioritise and assign. If those are what you use most, they are things to check Friday for before you switch.
It is also much larger on GitHub, with tens of thousands of stars, so more people have used it and written about it.
When is Friday the better pick?
If you want agents that work as a team, not only a board: they message each other, share what they found, and hand a task on when one hits its usage limit. If you want a free MIT app with no account on macOS, Windows or Linux, a wider list of tools than the ten above, and an app that is still shipping releases.
See how to run multiple coding agents at once, and the other comparisons.
What is Friday?
Friday is a free, open-source (MIT) harness for coding agents that work as a team. It runs on your own computer with no account: the desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux, or one command with Node.js 22 and Git.
- Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and 13 more coding tools (16 by name, plus any ACP agent) run side by side on their own plans and sign-ins.
- One agent splits a job into a task board, the others pick up tasks, and every finished task is checked before it counts as done.
- Agents message each other as they work, and each can work in its own copy of the repository.
- When a tool runs out of usage mid-task, the task moves to the agent best placed to finish it.
- Review each run’s changes line by line, with git built in.
- No account; anonymous usage counts you can turn off; it listens on 127.0.0.1 only.
Install it with npx github:splashxmoon/friday or from GitHub; see the docs. Friday Team, the hosted version for several people in one session, is available to companies: talk to us.