Vibe Kanban alternatives for teams after the shutdown
On 10 April 2026 Bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, announced its shutdown: paid subscriptions ended and, after 30 days, the remote services (kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations) were removed. Local workspaces keep working, and Vibe Kanban lives on as a local, open-source, community-maintained app. What teams lost is the shared part: issues, projects and organisations that several people worked from.
What teams need from a replacement
One shared task queue for people and AI developers
Everyone, human or AI, takes work from the same list, so nobody has to copy tasks between a personal board and the team's tracker.
Priorities and dependencies
The most important work goes first, and a task that waits for another one stays out of the way until its blocker is done.
Where the AI developers run
On a developer's laptop, in a vendor's cloud or on your own machines with your real database and tests: this decides what the AI can test and where your data lives.
A review and merge gate
Every change should arrive as a pull request, and nothing should reach the main branch before CI is green.
Cost control
Coding agents spend model tokens on every run, so a team needs a limit that stops runs when the budget is used up.
Side by side
What each tool's own website, docs or README says. “Not documented” means we found no statement either way.
| Vibe Kanban (today) | mcptask.online | Conductor | Claude Squad | Superset | Nimbalyst | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Runs where | Local app (npx vibe-kanban); self-hosting is described in the README | A runner on your own machines: a dedicated PC or Mac with your project, database and tests | Mac desktop app; cloud workspaces on paid plans | Terminal app (tmux) on your computer | Desktop app for macOS; Linux AppImage experimental | Desktop app (macOS, Windows, Linux) and iOS |
| Supported coding CLIs | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode and others | Claude Code, Codex CLI or OpenCode; model-agnostic, including local models | Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode | Claude Code, Codex, Gemini, Aider and other local agents | Claude Code, Codex CLI, OpenCode, Gemini CLI and any other CLI agent | Claude Code, Codex; OpenCode and Copilot in alpha |
| Shared team task queue | Remote issues, projects and organisations were removed after the shutdown | Yes: one queue for people and AI developers, a runner on every machine you add | Teams plan with live collaboration and an admin portal | Not documented | Pro plan with unlimited team members | Shared plans and trackers for teams |
| Priorities & blocker dependencies | Issues can be prioritised; dependencies not documented | Yes: priority, then bugs first, then oldest; blocked tasks wait on real blocker links | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Tasks with status, tags and priority; dependencies not documented |
| PR + CI gate before merge | Opens PRs with AI-written descriptions; CI gate not documented | Yes: every change is a pull request with local CI; auto-squash modes merge only after green checks | Opens and merges PRs; failed checks may block merging | Pushes branches to GitHub; CI gate not documented | PR workflows with the gh CLI; CI gate not documented | Not documented |
| Daily budget / cost control | Not documented | Daily budget for AI runs, read live; a run stops when it is exceeded | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented | Not documented |
| Pricing model | Free; paid plans ended in April 2026 | Per user, AI developers included: Starter 16 €/month for two users, Professional 12 €/user/month. 30-day free trial | Free plan; paid Pro, Teams and Enterprise plans | Free | Free for one user; paid Pro per user and Enterprise | Free for individuals; Teams free during beta |
| Open source | Yes (Apache-2.0), community-maintained since April 2026 | No, hosted service | Not documented | Yes (AGPL-3.0) | Source-available (Elastic License 2.0) | Yes (MIT) |
Sources, checked 2026-10-15
- Vibe Kanban (today): https://vibekanban.com/blog/shutdown https://github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban
- Conductor: https://conductor.build https://conductor.build/pricing https://www.conductor.build/docs/reference/checks
- Claude Squad: https://github.com/smtg-ai/claude-squad
- Superset: https://superset.sh https://superset.sh/pricing https://github.com/superset-sh/superset
- Nimbalyst: https://nimbalyst.com
Moving from Vibe Kanban to mcptask.online
There is no importer from Vibe Kanban. Vibe Kanban has its own data export; the steps below set up the team queue next to it.
- Create an account. The 30-day free trial needs no card.
- Create a project for the repository your team works on.
- Install the runner on your own machine — a dedicated PC or Mac with the project cloned: brew install jchsoft/tap/mcptask_runner, then mcptask_runner init (about 2 minutes).
- Choose Claude Code, Codex CLI or OpenCode for that machine and project during init.
- Put tasks into the queue with priorities and blocker links. The runner takes the next one, opens a pull request and runs local CI.
When another tool fits better
One developer, parallel sessions on a laptop
A local tool is enough: Vibe Kanban's local app, Claude Squad, Conductor, Superset or Nimbalyst sit next to your editor and need no team queue or extra machine.
Agents running in a vendor's cloud
Conductor's cloud workspaces run the agents for you, so no machine of yours has to stay on.
A software company with people and AI developers on one queue
mcptask.online fits here: one task queue for people and AI developers, a runner on your own machines with your real database and tests, every change as a pull request that passes CI and a daily budget for AI runs.
Frequently asked questions
Is Vibe Kanban shutting down?
Bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, announced its shutdown on 10 April 2026. Paid subscriptions ended and, after 30 days, the remote services — kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations — were removed. Vibe Kanban itself continues as an open-source, community-maintained project.
Does Vibe Kanban still work?
Yes, as a local app. The announcement says local workspaces continue to function and the project lives on as open source (Apache-2.0) maintained by the community. The shared team features that ran on Bloop's remote services are gone.
What is the best Vibe Kanban alternative for a team?
It depends on how your team works. For one developer running parallel sessions on a laptop, a local tool is enough. For a team that wants one task queue for people and AI developers, priorities and blocker links, pull requests that pass CI before merge and a daily budget for AI runs, mcptask.online is built for that.
Where do mcptask.online AI developers run?
On your own machine. The mcptask_runner runs on a dedicated PC or Mac with your project cloned, your real database and your tests, and drives Claude Code, Codex CLI or OpenCode. The AI model is usually a cloud service you choose, so your database stays with you.