Productivity tools / Kanboard
Kanboard
Kanboard is a free and open source Kanban project management software.
Where it stands
3.4 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health3.5 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.7 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Kanboard yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
Disclosure: agathox makes some of the tools listed here. They are labelled and scored by the same method as every other tool.
Should you use Kanboard?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
Nothing is clearly stated yet.
Check first
- Its pages do not state: pricing, signup, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Kanban board
Measured signals
3.5 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Kanboard's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 63 ms.
- Security2 / 50 of 5 protective headers set.
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency1 / 5No privacy policy linked; no pricing page linked.
Community feedback
3.7 / 5 · 12 commenters92% of the 12 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Kanboard; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“I used Kanboard for a year or so and still host an instance. But I haven't stuck with it. I'm trying out Kanboard-like tracking on Obsidian, so far it's good. Doesn't have the same level of detail, but the superior…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“Kanboard is featureful, simple to use, and very fast to load. Hosting wekan was a pain and the UX just sucked compared to Kanboard. I highly recommend Kanboard or Gitea’s kanban issue boards if you’re already using that.”
Read in the thread - Critical
“We use Kanboard in our institute, but its UI/UX is among the worst I've experienced. It's reliable, but extremely unintuitive, causing people to avoid using it”
Read in the thread
Threads: Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software (2023, 183 comments) · Kanboard – Kanban Project Management Software (2020, 34 comments)
- Free tier
- Not stated.
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- Not stated.
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Kanboard is self-hosted software. The page says: “Self-hosted. Super simple installation.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
Read automatically by a program, not by a person. Each fact quotes the sentence it came from, and a fact is shown only if that sentence is on the page. Where a page did not say, it reads “Not stated.”
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Tasks and scores
- Kanban boardNot tested yet
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