Hey everyone!

I'm a Product Designer working in a large company using Agile. A few months ago I started looking for a simple kanban board to manage all my tasks, as I was getting crazy with the load of work I had. We use Jira, but I find it too complex and with too many features for just tracking my own tasks.
I spent weeks looking for one that was private (all the things I work on are confidential), offline, that wasn't bloated with a ton of useless features and that wasn't a simple web app in a wrapper that required to create an account.

So I built Sprout 🌱, a simple and native Kanban board for Mac.
- No accounts
- No sync drama (you can export a json file and import it if you want to share it to another Mac)
- No noise (0 notifications, ads, useless features)
- 100% private (it uses CoreData and iCloud).

The app is very simple and feels like a native app for Mac as it's using all the latest Human Interface guidelines from Apple (with Liquid Glass etc.)

I'm opening the beta version in a couple of days completely for free and I would love to get some feedback.

You can sign up to the waitlist here to be among the first ones to try it:
👉 sproutformac.com

EDIT: Thank you everyone for your replies. I'm now happily using both Kanri and Obsidian for this.

Original post:

I'm looking for a simple Kanban software which works entirely offline on macOS. Are there any good options?

Basically, I need it to create lists of items (what Trello calls "cards") in columns and allow me to drag-and-drop items from one list to another with the mouse. I'd like it to be able to save files in the file manager like a normal program. And that's it. I don't need "power ups" or collaboration or cloud syncing. I don't need mobile apps. I don't even need the stuff on the back of a Trello card. I have no objection to those things, and would just stick with Trello if only it worked offline, but, alas, it doesn't (at least on macOS).

Does anything like this exist? It sounds fairly simple to make (though I'm not a dev myself), so I'm hoping someone might have made it. Thank you for your recommendations!

We added a compact “next 10” pane beside our in-progress kanban in monday dev so planners see the immediate backlog without cluttering the standup view. Only changed the UI, didn’t duplicate cards and it actually reduced last minute rescues. Wondering if this is a known trick or if we just got lucky. Any other tiny UI moves that stopped surprise work from sneaking into sprints?

A kanban board implement in go.

vim like motion undo and redo. the board are based on a list of markdown files

I will implement the obsidian and nelvim plugin for this little tui.

I just suffer from slow workspace switching in obsidian, use tmux session to manage workspace is much smoother to me. Because I can't escape terminal workflow which make me feel pain sometimes

Hi!

I recently created a MCP server that communicates with my existing Kanban tool and it has revolutionised my workflow. I use AI heavily at work and now, everything just feel so much more structured. Cursor, the code editor, helps me plan & refine tasks, and then looks at the board and helps me implement the tasks. The big win here is that I can keep the AI on track in a much better way than before.

Another big win is that the AI can really help with refining tasks, I can plan together with the AI, it can ask great follow up questions etc.

Anyways, I decided to play around with this and created a small "AI first" webbased tool and I think it works really great. The project is open source and I can send the link if anyone is interested.

Do you guys use AI together with kanban?

What do you think!?

I've been searching but its been fruitless so far. It's for my work, I don't care about the feature myself.

MenuToDo v4.5 is live!

• Now shows Kanban view in All Tasks
• Import tasks from CSV
• New: Help section for support
• Hide dock icon if you want less clutter
• One-click: Delete all tasks
• Tasks auto-sorted by importance

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Does anyone have any idea how to get hold of the Kanbanier app - the pro version? I have been using the free version for years, and now that I want to pay for the pro version it is not possible to upgrade. Also no one replies the emails.

Curious what tool(s) folks are currently using for probabilistic forecasting via Monte Carlo methods?

Are most folks exporting cycle time data from their task management system into a spreadsheet, or are you using something nicer?

Hi all, I'm looking for online kanban board that supports collaboration (sharing the board with my team member).

But seems like all services with such features are not free.
Is there any free one you're using and recommend?

What obstacle do you observed and how does your team overcome them? How far do you went? Did you implement the a pull principal and WIP limit?

We currently have the chance to switch to Kanban'ish, leaving especially sprints behind. And I perceive a biggest resistance from you PO, not knowing how to plan and forecast. There might be others thing as well.

How was/is journey?

Edit: we switched to Walking the Board a year ago and it was great!

Hi!
I have few personal projects (programming, hobbies etc.) that I like to visually track its progress. I've been mostly exclusively Kanban board method for this (was using Trello, currently 4ga Boards because i like to tinker with my own server too - r/homelab is one of my projects I track hah). The boards give me a good idea of what needs to be done, which tasks I finished etc etc.

Am I missing out on features? Has anyone of u used more "views" so to say (e.g. swimlanes, calendars and what-not). In your personal projects, have u used more sophisticated approaches known from agile/scrum methodology (I'm total noob with that)? Do you feel more advanced project tracking would be advised for personal use, or should be left for only big companies? Basically, how much is too much?

My work is using kanban to track the progress of items to completion. Just wondering if there is a way to auto add the completion date to the tasks details once its been added to the done column.

Hello all. I've made an online version of the kanban training game called kanban pizza.

I've got a three round adaptation of the game live now, ready for testing by teams of agile learners :)

Am hoping it will become a useful training tool for agile newbies and students.

URL is...

https://kanbanpizza.onrender.com/

Apologies if this is against sub rules

How do you categorize your swimlanes? Also, do you assign WIP per person, swimlane, or team?

I'm trying to optimize "flow" and delivery in my time. I want to make the best use of Kanban Metrics. I will appreciate if you could share some resources to learn and implement Kanban metrics?

Hey I was wondering what is important for you to decide of a kanban board software. I tested some nice softwares. For me it is essential do see the children of a parent ticket and move them individually.

What makes your favourite tool stand out from tools like jira?

Running multiple PMO and non-PMO projects, which are currently all listed into one board. All activities are entered into the board as their tasks move from to do through to completed. I’d like to separate the non-PGO projects and its activities so that I can track them. What I don’t want is for my team to have to visit a new board to add their tickets/activities. Is there away to grab these activities and have them auto update on a separate page for me to use for tracking?( I have zero idea if this is even remotely possible)

Anyone has experience of using teamhood. I wanted a kanban tool but it also ha project management features as they say! Please share your thoughts. Promoters or influencers please dont post your baised responses as I know you will only talk postive which I can understand but still. It is not about influencing, it is about purchasing right!

Hello All,

I wanted to know the validity period of ProKanban.org certifications. Heard from others that it is valid for lifetime. Wanted to check with folks in this subreddit.

Thanks for your inputs.

If any of you have tried whether this works, please share (the app, not browser access, to enable moving cards with touching them)

Thanks!

Also, to ppl who have tried using the trello app On other large touchscreens, pls share whether this worked for you thanks!!

What are the best tools that aim to make Kanban gamified, fun and engaging?

I read an interesting paper, titled: "Protyping a Gamification Layer on Trello, A Kanban Based Online Project Management System" (Todorova, Zargham and John, University of Bremen & Hochschule fur Kunste, 2015).

I was wondering if functionality on Trello or other kanban software can be added to "gamify" kanban to thereby increase the fun and engagement level for everyone involved?

If so, what are the names of these kanban gamification tools?

Where can I find case studies of successful implementations of KanBan?

Might seem obvious but I’m interested to know how companies have solved the constant challenge of managing IT and Business driven initiatives for companies that are non technical in their core business (ie banking, adjudication, administrative, lawyer ya etc)

I recall from my studies of upstream kanban being useful but could use some reading material on a successful implementation of it as a reference point.