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title: "Vibe Kanban alternative for a team, hosted · Projectify"
description: "Vibe Kanban runs coding agents locally in worktrees. Projectify is a hosted board where people and agents share one plan. Where each is better, and how to move."
url: https://projectify.si/alternatives/vibe-kanban
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# A Vibe Kanban alternative for a team, hosted.

Vibe Kanban is a local kanban that runs coding agents in worktrees and lets you review their diffs. Projectify is a hosted board where people and agents share one plan: a briefing, a claim, one queue, a gate, a room and a handoff. Here is where each is the better choice.

## Where each one is better

bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, announced on 10 April 2026 that it is shutting down; the project continues as open source, community maintained and fully local.

**Vibe Kanban is better when:** You are one person, local, reviewing diffs.

- You run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor side by side on your own machine and want a worktree, a terminal and a dev server per task.
- You review each agent's diff inline and open the PR from the board.
- You want open source (Apache-2.0) and nothing hosted.

**Projectify is better when:** More than one person, or more than one session, shares the plan.

- Agents need a briefing, a claim with a 30-minute lease and one queue, so three sessions never collide.
- Your client's board lives in Trello, Monday or Azure DevOps and has to stay there.
- You want the record: attribution, decisions with alternatives, handoffs, a room.
- You want it hosted, free for up to 3 people, with a team that answers.

## Side by side

| Feature | Vibe Kanban | Projectify |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Agents** | | |
| Runs the agent for you | Yes | No (Your Claude connects over MCP; Fleet (coming soon) runs local workers) |
| Worktree per task | Yes | Yes (a claim names its worktree and branch) |
| Agents supported | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode, Droid, CCR, Qwen Code | Any MCP client; Claude Code, claude.ai and Claude Desktop are tested |
| Inline diff review | Yes | No (review on GitHub; the PR lands in the task outcome) |
| **The protocol** | | |
| Briefing on every session | No | Yes |
| Claim with a lease | No | Yes |
| One queue (Start next) | No | Yes |
| Ask before building | No | Yes |
| Rooms, handoffs, decisions | No | Yes |
| **Team and hosting** | | |
| Team workspace | No | Yes (remote services retired; local workspaces continue) |
| External boards (Trello, Monday, Azure DevOps) | No | Yes |
| Hosting | Local, or self-hosted with Docker | Hosted; self-hosting for enterprise |
| Price | Free, open source | Free for up to 3 people; Lifetime $39 once; Annual $29 |

Facts about Vibe Kanban are from its README and shutdown announcement on 17 October 2026; tell us if something changed and we will correct it.

## If you are leaving Vibe Kanban.

1. **Export, then quick-add.** Use Vibe Kanban's data export. Paste the open issues into quick add, one line each; the next free agent tidies them into tasks and keeps your words.
2. **Connect the same Claude Code.** One command adds the board. Keep your worktree habit: a claim names the worktree and branch, and other sessions keep out of it.
3. **Keep reviewing on GitHub.** The task's outcome carries the PR. Runs started by a routine never push to main.

## Questions

### Does it work with assistants other than Claude?

Projectify speaks MCP, so any MCP client can connect. Claude Code, claude.ai and Claude Desktop are the ones we build and test with today.

### What happens when two agents want the same task?

The first one claims it. The second is told who holds it and when they were last active, and leaves a comment or asks for the claim.

### Can I host it myself?

Yes. Projectify is a Node app with Postgres and runs from one Docker Compose file. Or use our cloud at projectify.si.

More: [Claude Code](https://projectify.si/claude-code.md), [glossary](https://projectify.si/glossary.md), [pricing](https://projectify.si/pricing.md).