Vibe Kanban alternatives in 2026: 6 apps for running coding agents in parallel

Disclosure: Enjoy is our product. We checked every app below against its maker’s own pages on October 30, 2026, and we say where another app is the better pick, Vibe Kanban included.

Vibe Kanban alternatives compared

Vibe Kanban, from bloop, let you plan work on a board, hand each card to a coding agent in its own Git worktree, and review what came back. On April 10, 2026, bloop announced it was shutting down. These are the apps people move to, side by side.

App	Best for	Price, checked October 30, 2026	Runs on	Agents
Vibe Kanban	Local workspaces, as before	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode, Droid, CCR, Qwen Code
Nimbalyst	A board, free and open source	Free; Wiki Teams $20 a user a month, free in beta	Mac, Windows, Linux; iOS companion	Claude Code, Codex; OpenCode and Copilot in alpha
Orca	The most agents, free and open source	Free	Mac, Windows, Linux	41 in its docs, and any command-line agent
Enjoy	Every lab’s agent, across all your projects	A monthly subscription, free for 7 days, with your phone and other computers (pricing)	Mac, Windows, Linux	Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, OpenCode
Conductor	Mac users who only need its four agents	Free; Pro $50 a month; Teams $60 a user a month	Mac	Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, OpenCode
Paradev, formerly Superset	Teams on Macs	Free; Pro $20 a user a month; Team $60; Ultra $200	Mac; Linux experimental	Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and any command-line agent
Claude Code Desktop	Only Claude	Included in Claude Pro ($20 a month), Max (from $100), Team and Enterprise	Mac, Windows; Linux in beta	Claude Code

Prices are per month as each maker lists them, before tax. Every app here runs agents on your own Claude, ChatGPT or other plans and API keys, which those companies bill for separately, except Claude Code Desktop, which comes with Claude’s plans.

What happened to Vibe Kanban

bloop’s announcement said “the vast majority are free users and we couldn’t find a business model that we could get excited about.” What it changed, in its own words:

• The hosted parts went away. “Remote services will remain available for 30 days, after which Vibe Kanban will transition to a fully local architecture.” Those services were “kanban issues, comments, projects and organisations.”
• Local work kept going. “For the avoidance of doubt, local workspaces will continue to function,” and “the latest version of Vibe Kanban includes a data export feature.”
• The project stayed open. “The Vibe Kanban project will live on, open source and community maintained.”

Its releases show what that meant. Version 0.1.44, on April 24, 2026, “Sunset project routes to an export-only page,” and it is still the latest release on GitHub and npm six months on. It pins Claude Code 2.1.119 and Codex 0.124.0. Commits were still landing on GitHub on October 28, but there hasn’t been a release since.

Nimbalyst

Best for: people who want a board, free and open source.

Nimbalyst, formerly Crystal, calls itself “The open-source visual workspace for Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode.” Its GitHub page says it’s a “Free, MIT-licensed desktop app for macOS, Windows, Linux.” Parallel sessions each run “in its own git worktree,” and a session kanban lets you “track every session on a board.” Its task tracker is the closest thing here to Vibe Kanban’s cards: “Have the agent edit tasks, add them, move them, and execute them.” An iOS companion shows which agents need input and lets you reply and review diffs.

Price: free. Its pricing says the app needs “No account and no credit card,” and you bring your own Claude Code or Codex subscription, API key or local models. Wiki Teams, a shared wiki, is $20 a user a month, or $200 a year, and “Free during Beta.”

Watch for: Codex and Claude Code are its main agents. Its README lists “Opencode (alpha)” and “Copilot (alpha),” and says “Alpha builds are rougher and may break.”

Orca

Best for: the widest choice of agents, free.

Orca, from Stably AI, is “Free and open source,” under the MIT license, on macOS, including Intel Macs, Windows and Linux. Its supported agents page lists 41 agents “Orca ships with out of the box,” from Claude Code and Codex to Gemini, Amp, Droid and Qwen Code, most of what Vibe Kanban ran. Instead of a board, its Tasks view pairs with GitHub and Linear, and you can “Browse PRs, issues, and Project boards in-app.” A mobile companion for iOS and Android shows agent status and usage.

Price: free.

Watch for: agents keep running away from your laptop only on a machine you run. Its ways to run page says “Orca does not sell managed VPS hosting,” and its Cloud VM option, on your own provider’s account, is “labeled Cloud VM under Settings → Experimental.”

Enjoy

Best for: running every lab’s agent across all your projects, without stopping when one plan runs out.

Enjoy runs Claude Code, Codex, Grok Build, Antigravity, Muse Code, and local models through OpenCode, on Mac, Windows and Linux, on the AI plans you already have. Each conversation runs its own agent, so several work at once, and an agent can work in a worktree, a separate copy of your project on its own branch. What it adds:

• Switch agents mid-conversation. When one lab’s agent is the wrong fit or out of usage, another picks up the same conversation.
• Keep going through limits. When an agent runs out of usage, Enjoy switches to another of your accounts that still has usage, or waits for the limit to reset, then continues.
• Review and preview. View changes shows what each commit changed, line by line, and agents open your site beside the conversation and click through it.
• See what needs you. The conversation list shows Working and Needs you for every conversation, and JOY watches all your projects at once.

Price: Enjoy is one monthly subscription, and the first seven days are free, with a card to start. It includes your phone and any browser and your other computers, and each teammate you invite needs a subscription of their own. See pricing.

Watch for: Enjoy has no kanban board: work lives in conversations, not cards. It isn’t open source, and it’s a monthly subscription on top of your AI plans once the free week ends. Scheduled workflows run only while your computer is awake with Enjoy open. And it runs six agents, where Vibe Kanban ran ten.

Conductor

Best for: Mac users who only need its four agents.

Conductor, from Melty Labs, runs each agent in its own workspace, and you review and merge what it did. “Conductor can run Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and OpenCode sessions in isolated workspaces,” its harnesses page says. Its free plan covers “Run multiple coding agents in parallel” and “Local workspaces on your Mac,” with your own subscriptions and keys. Pro, at $50 a month, adds “Conductor Cloud and a bunch of cloud workspace hours,” multiplayer, its API and the “Conductor mobile app.” Teams is $60 a user a month.

Watch for: “Conductor is not available for Windows or Linux yet,” says its installation page. For more options, see Conductor alternatives.

Paradev, formerly Superset

Best for: teams on Macs who want automations and integrations.

“Superset is now Paradev,” its homepage says. “Use Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, or any coding agent for each task,” each in its own Git worktree, and “An app for iPhone and iPad on the App Store lets you check on agents and review their diffs away from your desk.”

Its pricing has a free plan for one user, with local workspaces, the desktop app and its command line. Pro, at $20 a user a month or $16 billed yearly, adds remote access, automations, Linear and Slack integrations and mobile. Team is $60, or $54 yearly, with cloud workspaces in beta; Ultra is $200; and Enterprise is priced on request. Its code is public “under Elastic License 2.0 (ELv2),” which isn’t an open-source license.

Watch for: “The desktop app runs on macOS, with an experimental Linux AppImage; Windows is not yet available.”

Claude Code Desktop

Best for: people who only use Claude.

Claude Code is the Code tab of Anthropic’s Claude desktop app. The sidebar “lets you run several in parallel,” and in a Git project you can “turn on Worktree before you start a session to run it in its own Git worktree.” It runs on Mac and Windows, with Linux in beta, and Anthropic’s pricing says “Claude Code is included in all paid plans”: Pro at $20 a month, or $17 billed yearly, Max from $100, Team and Enterprise.

Watch for: it runs only Claude, and “by default, Worktree is off and Claude works in the project folder itself,” so parallel sessions share one folder unless you turn it on.

When to stay with Vibe Kanban

If you used it for local workspaces, its agents cover you, and you’re content to wait on volunteers when Claude Code or Codex changes, it still works: it’s free under Apache 2.0, it runs on Mac, Windows and Linux with npx vibe-kanban, and “local workspaces will continue to function.” Export your data first if you haven’t.

Move when you relied on its hosted kanban issues, projects or organisations, which are gone, or when you want an app that ships releases on a schedule you can count on.

How we compared

We read each maker’s homepage, pricing, installation and docs pages, and Vibe Kanban’s announcement, GitHub releases and npm package, on October 30, 2026, and every one is linked below. We quote their own words for the limits, and we don’t count features a maker hasn’t documented. This category changes weekly, so we recheck this guide against its sources at least once a month, and the date at the foot of the page says when we last did.