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A Vibe Kanban alternative for teams who relied on it
Vibe Kanban earned its following by putting a board in front of the agents. In April 2026 its maker, bloop, announced that it was shutting down, and the project continues as open source and community maintained. This page is for anyone who built a habit around it and now has to decide what comes next.
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Last checked October 2026.
What Vibe Kanban does, fairly stated
Vibe Kanban is a board for planning agent work and a workspace for running it. Each workspace gets its own branch and its own git worktree, created when you add a repository, and an agent launches into it. It runs ten coding agents, among them Claude Code, Codex, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode, Droid, Claude Code Router and Qwen Code.
Its review flow is the part people remember. You read the diff, hover over a line, leave a comment, and send the agent back to work through your notes. Vibe Kanban opens a pull request from the same workspace, writes the description for you, and can rebase a branch or flag a conflict before you hit it.
Vibe Kanban also ships a built-in browser for previewing the app an agent just changed, with devtools and desktop, mobile and responsive views. Slash commands run agent commands straight from the chat input, and an extension brings the same workspace into VS Code, Cursor or Windsurf. The whole thing is Apache-2.0 open source and installs with a single npx vibe-kanban command.
Everything here about Vibe Kanban comes from its own site, its documentation and its public repository as of October 2026, and it is quoted rather than paraphrased wherever the wording matters. Products change, so their own pages are the better source.
Where it stands today
On 10 April 2026, bloop announced that it was shutting down. In its own words: "Today we're shutting down bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban. The Vibe Kanban project will live on, open source and community maintained."
The same announcement says remote services stay available for 30 days, after which kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations are removed as the project moves to a fully local design. It also says refunds were issued for invoices paid in the previous 30 days and that subscriptions were terminated.
The newest release on GitHub's releases page is v0.1.44, from 24 April 2026 (a v0.1.45 tag exists from 19 September 2026 with no release published). A short run of commits landed in mid-September 2026 and nothing has landed since. The banner on Vibe Kanban's own site reads: "Vibe Kanban is sunsetting. The project will continue as open source and community maintained."
None of that is a reason to bolt. If the tool still does what you need, keep using it: it is open source, it runs locally, and the community edition continues. The question is what happens the first time something breaks that nobody is paid to fix.
How Omniscio approaches the same job
Omniscio is a desktop app for running many coding-agent sessions at once, and it is the tool we make, so read this section with that in mind. It is a different shape from a board. Where Vibe Kanban organises work as issues and launches an agent per workspace, Omniscio is built around the session list: what is running, what is waiting on you, and what has just finished.
Worktrees, when you want them
Omniscio offers the same isolation as an option rather than a rule. Turn it on per session, per project or for the whole app, and each session runs on its own branch and worktree with the branch merged back when you are done. It is off by default. The diff viewer shows the uncommitted changes with an AI summary before you keep any of them.
A picker full of engines
Every harness is in the picker from day one, including Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, Devin, Pi and Hermes. The model providers behind them sit in the same list: Gemini, DeepSeek, Kimi, GLM, MiniMax, Cursor and more. Switch on the ones you use in Settings and add the key or sign-in for each, so planning can run on a frontier model while the mechanical work runs on a cheaper one.
Being told, rather than looking
Sessions carry eleven statuses, and the ones that need a person float above the ones that do not. Everything reaches one attention inbox, and Plain Speak rewrites a finished reply into a card you can read at a glance. The app also mirrors itself to a phone browser over the web, so a run that finishes while you are away can reach you. It is off by default, and you switch it on in Settings.
Keeping the spend and the work under control
A daily spend cap on each API-key account stops a runaway bill, and an agent that was running when the app crashed resumes on the next launch. Each session's cost and context sit beside it, so a long pass that is burning money is visible before it becomes a surprise.
Working on a timetable, or on another machine
Cron jobs put an agent on a schedule, and an automation can be described in plain English and then built, tested and scheduled for you. Sessions can also be launched on your own servers over SSH, so a job that will run for hours does not have to sit on your laptop.
What it costs
Omniscio is free to use during early access, with Pro at $20/month or $192/year, and model calls are billed by whichever provider you point a session at. The pricing page sets out both plans.
Where Vibe Kanban is further ahead
A comparison that lists only our own advantages is not worth the read, so here is the other column.
- Its agent list is longer in places. Vibe Kanban's ten include GitHub Copilot, Amp, Droid, Claude Code Router and Qwen Code, and none of those is a harness Omniscio offers.
- Worktrees are the default there. Vibe Kanban gives every workspace its own git worktree with no setting to find, where Omniscio asks you to switch isolation on.
- Several repositories in one workspace. Vibe Kanban documents working across multiple repos in a single workspace, which is not something Omniscio documents today.
- Diff comments that go back to the agent. In Vibe Kanban you hover a line, comment, and the agent works through your notes. That specific loop is not something Omniscio documents.
- The built-in preview browser. Vibe Kanban previews the app an agent changed, with devtools and device views, in the same window. Omniscio's equivalent is still in development.
- It is Apache-2.0 open source. Omniscio is proprietary software, and for some teams that difference decides the question on its own.
- A much larger community. Around 28,000 people have starred the Vibe Kanban repository, which is a real answer to "who fixes this next".
Five questions to ask before you move
- Are there still releases? Check the repository's releases page and the date on the newest one, not the date on the newest blog post. A project can look alive on its homepage and be quiet in its commits.
- Where does your plan live now? If your board held the actual plan, Vibe Kanban's own announcement says the hosted issues, comments, projects and organisations were removed 30 days after 10 April 2026, so export or migrate whatever you still can.
- Which agents do you really run? Write down the two or three engines you use this week and check the new tool's list before you install anything. A longer list is worth less than the one name you actually need.
- What happens when an agent needs you? Make one block on a question and walk away. If you find out by coming back and reading, the tool has not solved the problem you bought it for.
- Can you get the work back out? Confirm you can export your sessions and your configuration before you commit a week to something new.
Common questions
Is Vibe Kanban still maintained?
Vibe Kanban is sunsetting. Its maker, bloop, shut down in April 2026 and the project continues as open source and community maintained. The newest release on GitHub's releases page is v0.1.44, from 24 April 2026 (a v0.1.45 tag exists from 19 September 2026 with no release published). A short run of commits landed in mid-September 2026 and nothing has landed since.
What should I move to instead?
It depends on what you used the board for. If the planning board was the point, look for another tool that keeps issues attached to agent sessions. If you mostly wanted many agents running at once and a clear view of which one needs you, Omniscio is ours and covers that ground: sessions in one list, an attention inbox, and native builds for Windows, macOS and Linux.
Does Omniscio have a kanban board?
It has boards, and they are off by default. Mission Control adds alternate views including a kanban, and you switch it on in Settings. If a board is the main thing you want, treat that as a bonus rather than the reason to move.
Do the two tools run the same agents?
Both run Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor and OpenCode. Omniscio also runs Hermes, Grok Build, Kimi Code and DeepSeek, while Vibe Kanban's own list adds GitHub Copilot, Amp, Droid, Claude Code Router and Qwen Code.
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Try it on the work you have this week
A feature list will not tell you whether running eight sessions at once suits how you work. Ten minutes on a real repository will. The features page lists what is in the app today.