A Vibe Kanban alternative for teams

Short answer: Vibe Kanban still works as a free, local app for one person, but the shared team boards went away when Bloop shut down in April 2026. If you work alone, keep using it or try Emdash, Claude Squad, T3 Code or Coagy Local. If your team used Vibe Kanban to see each other's agents, Coagy is built for that: every teammate's Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor sessions in one shared workspace, free for up to 4 developers.

What happened to Vibe Kanban

Vibe Kanban is an open source (Apache-2.0) kanban board for coding agents, made by Bloop (GitHub). You put tasks on a board and hand them to Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode and others. Each workspace gets its own branch, terminal and dev server through git worktrees.

On April 10, 2026, Bloop announced it was shutting down (Goodbye bloop). The post said most users were on free plans and the team didn't find a business model it wanted. Subscriptions were ended and recent invoices refunded. Remote services ran for 30 more days. After that the product became fully local: cloud kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations were removed. Local workspaces kept working, and a data export was added.

Vibe Kanban "will live on, open source and community maintained," according to that post. The v0.1.44 release on April 24, 2026 added a "Vibe Kanban is sunsetting" banner to the README (releases). The repository isn't archived, and commits picked up again from September 2026 after a quiet summer.

So today Vibe Kanban is a local, single-user tool. The part a team relied on, a shared board in the cloud, is gone.

What to move to

It depends on whether you used it alone or with a team.

If you used it alone, you may not need to move at all. npx vibe-kanban still runs, and local workspaces still work. If you want something with an active company or a bigger community behind it, the options below are good.

If your team shared boards, you need a place where more than one person can see what the agents are doing. That is what Coagy does.

Coagy for teams

Coagy is a shared workspace for a team's coding agents. Each developer keeps running Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor on their own computer, with their own AI account. A small connector mirrors their sessions into the team's workspace.

• Every task gets its own git worktree and branch, like Vibe Kanban's workspaces.
• Sessions are private by default. The owner picks what to share.
• Teammates can watch an agent live, ask it a question (the owner approves the answer), and steer it. Every edit or command from someone else's message asks the owner first.
• Hand a session to a teammate with its context attached.
• Shared project memory that every agent can search.
• The connector runs on macOS, Linux and Windows 10 or 11 without admin rights. Agents can keep running in Coagy cloud when your laptop is closed.

	Vibe Kanban today	Coagy
Parallel agents, each in its own git worktree	Yes	Yes
Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor	Yes	Yes
Shared team boards in the cloud	Removed in 2026	Shared team workspace
Teammates watch each other's agents live	No	Yes
Ask or steer a teammate's agent, with the owner's approval	No	Yes
Maintained by	The community	Coagy
Price	Free	Free for up to 4 developers

Other Vibe Kanban alternatives

Coagy is for teams. If you work alone, one of these may suit you better:

• Emdash: an open source desktop app for macOS, Windows and Linux that runs many CLI agents, each task in its own worktree, and pulls issues from Linear, GitHub, Jira and more (GitHub). Closest to Vibe Kanban's task-first feel.
• Claude Squad: an open source terminal app that runs several agents in tmux, each in its own worktree (GitHub). Good if you live in the terminal.
• T3 Code: an open source control plane for coding agents from Theo and the Ping team, with desktop, web and phone apps that all see your own agents (t3.codes).
• Coagy Local: our free single-player app. No account. Runs Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode and more side by side on your own computer, each task optionally in its own worktree. macOS on Apple Silicon and Linux.

Pick Coagy when more than one person on your team runs agents and you miss having one place to see them all. See how to run several agents at once without collisions and how teams run Claude Code, Codex and Cursor together.

Questions

Is Vibe Kanban shutting down?

Bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, announced its shutdown on April 10, 2026. Remote services ran for 30 more days, then the cloud kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations were removed. The app itself still runs locally and is open source and community maintained, with a sunsetting notice in its README.

Does Vibe Kanban still work?

Yes, as a local app for one person. Local workspaces kept working after the shutdown and a data export was added. The shared cloud boards that teams used are gone.

What is the best Vibe Kanban alternative for a team?

Coagy, if several people on your team run coding agents. Every task gets its own git worktree like in Vibe Kanban, and teammates can watch each other's Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI or Cursor sessions live, ask them questions and steer them with the owner's approval. It is free for up to 4 developers.

What is a good Vibe Kanban alternative for a solo developer?

Emdash, Claude Squad, T3 Code and Coagy Local are all free options that run several coding agents in their own worktrees on your own computer. Pick Claude Squad for a terminal tool, Emdash for an issue-driven desktop app, and T3 Code or Coagy Local for a desktop app that runs many agents side by side.