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A Vibe Kanban alternative that runs on your Mac
Vibe Kanban's company, Bloop, shut down on 10 April 2026, and its hosted features are being removed. If you want a kanban board for Claude Code, Codex and Gemini that stays local, Leftmark is a Mac app, now in beta, that your agents keep up to date themselves, with no account and nothing sent off your machine.
What happened to Vibe Kanban
On 10 April 2026, Bloop announced it was shutting down. Its notice says the Vibe Kanban project "will live on, open source and community maintained", that local workspaces keep working, and that hosted services stay up for 30 days before issues, comments, projects and organisations are removed from them. The latest version has a data export for that. (Read the notice.)
So Vibe Kanban still runs locally, but it no longer has a company behind it.
Leftmark vs Vibe Kanban
They solve different halves of the same problem. Vibe Kanban is a place to plan work and run agents in it. Leftmark is a board that the agents you already run keep current.
| Leftmark | Vibe Kanban | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A board your agents update over MCP while you keep working in your terminal | A planning and orchestration UI: each workspace gives an agent a branch, a terminal and a dev server |
| How you use agents | As you do now. Optionally @mention an agent on a ticket to start a run in its own worktree | From inside Vibe Kanban's workspaces |
| Agents | Claude Code, Codex and Gemini | 10+ coding agents, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Copilot, Amp, Cursor and OpenCode |
| Install | Mac app | npx vibe-kanban, opens in your browser |
| Runs on | Mac, Apple Silicon, macOS 13+ | Anywhere Node runs |
| Diff review and PRs | No: you review in your own tools | Yes: inline diff comments, built-in preview, PRs with generated descriptions |
| Data | One SQLite file on your Mac, no account, no telemetry | Local workspaces; hosted data is being removed after the shutdown |
| Maintained by | An independent developer, actively | The community, since April 2026 |
| Availability | Beta, invite only, not open source | Open source (Apache-2.0) |
Choose Vibe Kanban if
- You want agents to run inside a planning tool, with diff review, a preview browser and PR creation in one place.
- You use an agent Leftmark doesn't connect yet, such as Copilot, Amp or Cursor.
- You're not on a Mac.
Choose Leftmark if
- You'd rather keep running Claude Code, Codex and Gemini in your own terminals, and just see where everything stands.
- You lose track of which session did what, and want to resume the exact session from its ticket.
- You want questions and approvals from every agent in one Needs you lane.
- You want a tool that's actively developed, with your board in one local file.
Moving from Vibe Kanban
Export what you need from Vibe Kanban first. Then install Leftmark, connect your agents, and carry on working: new requests become tickets on their own. There's no importer, because the board fills itself from your next requests.
Try the board your agents keep
In beta. No account, nothing leaves your Mac.
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Is Vibe Kanban shutting down?
Bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, shut down on 10 April 2026. The project continues as community-maintained open source, local workspaces keep working, and its hosted features are being removed.
What is the best alternative to Vibe Kanban?
It depends on what you used it for. To run agents inside a planning tool, the open-source Vibe Kanban still works locally. To keep running agents in your own terminals and see all their work on one board, Leftmark is a Mac app, now in beta, built for that.
Can I import my Vibe Kanban issues into Leftmark?
No, there's no importer. Export your data from Vibe Kanban, then connect your agents to Leftmark: new requests become tickets on their own.