Kaniban
Board
Columns you name yourself, drag to reorder, and cards that move between them. The view you will keep open all day.
A kanban board that stays on your machine.
Local-first and offline by design: no signup, no board uploads, no sync. Four views, a timer on every card, and a desktop app for Windows.
Free. It opens straight into a board.
What's inside
One set of cards, seen four ways.
Most tools make you choose between a board and a calendar and then keep two copies of the truth. Kaniban keeps one. It is a personal kanban board, built for one person's work rather than a team's, and every view below is the same cards, arranged differently.
Calendar
Drop a card on a day to reschedule it. Scroll the heading to travel by month or by year. Anything undated waits in a tray instead of disappearing.
Timeline
Every dated card as a bar, packed into lanes that never collide, so a crowded week is obvious before you are standing in it.
Summary
Tracked hours as a heat grid, thirty-day trends, and how much runway is left before the due dates land. This board, or all of them at once.
Cards that carry their weight
Markdown notes written in place with no preview to toggle, an automatic ticket code
(LNCH-014) that never changes, tags, a due date, and a timer, so
time tracking lives on the card instead of in a second tool.
Command deck
Ctrl K finds any card by title or ticket code, jumps between views and workspaces, or moves a result to another column without leaving the keyboard.
Your data
Your work stays on the device.
Kaniban is local-first: it saves your boards in this browser and lets you export them whenever you want. Paid features verify your purchase and browser registration with our licensing service. That check includes no board contents.
- It stays in this browser
- Your cards, columns, notes, tags, pictures and tracked time are saved by the browser itself, on this computer. Close the tab, restart the machine, and it is all still there.
- Yours to take out
- Export saves the whole board as one file you keep. Import brings it back. That is also how you move it to another computer when you decide to. Licence keys and access tokens stay out of these files.
- Runs where you want it
- In a browser tab, installed as an app from the address bar, or as a desktop app for Windows. Each keeps its board on your own machine; export and import carry a board between them.
- Works offline
- Once the app is loaded, your board works without a connection. Paid access checks online daily while used, with up to seven days of offline grace after verification, bounded by your pass's expiry. Opening or reloading the site may need internet.
- What we can see
- Page views, performance and limited in-app events are measured without analytics cookies. Paid activation also uses your purchase email and named browser registrations. On the free tier Google serves ads; inside Europe they wait until you say yes. None of these flows sends board contents.
Pricing
Free forever. Paying is for the extras.
Nothing is ever locked behind a payment that you have already written down. Your cards stay readable, exportable and yours on every tier. What you buy is more room and a quieter screen.
Free
$0
- Board and calendar views
- Two workspaces
- Notes, tags, due dates and timers
- Command deck and filters
- Export and import, always
- Ads, kept out of the work grid
Supporter
From $3 · 30 days
- No ads, anywhere
- Timeline and summary views
- Five workspaces, in your own colours
- Pictures and steps on cards
And focus mode, which shows one column at a time.
Plus
$10 once, forever
- Everything in Supporter
- Unlimited workspaces
- Archive, column limits and card templates
- Auto-backup to a folder you choose
- The summary goes deeper: cycle time, effort, rhythm
- Kani's wisdom
And a desk lamp effect that follows your cursor.
Questions
Asked and answered.
Is Kaniban free?
Yes. The free tier is $0 and stays free. It has the board and calendar views, two workspaces, and ads that are kept out of the work grid. Nothing you have already saved is ever locked behind a payment.
Where is my data stored? Does it leave my device?
Your cards, notes, pictures and tracked time are saved in this browser. Kaniban never uploads board contents or syncs them to a server. Paid activation sends licence information to our licensing service; see the privacy policy for details.
Does Kaniban work offline?
Once the app is loaded, you can use your board without internet. Paid access checks online daily while used and continues offline for up to seven days after verification, or until the pass expires. Opening or reloading the site may require a connection.
Do I need an account?
No signup or password is needed to use the board. Paid access requires your licence key and a code sent to your purchase email. Your licence can register up to two browser profiles.
How do I move my board to another computer?
Export saves your boards in one file, and import brings them back on the other machine. This is available on every tier. Files contain no licence keys or access tokens; paid features on another browser need activation there.
Is there a desktop app?
Yes. On Windows, this page offers an installer and Kaniban runs as its own desktop app. In any modern browser you can also install it as an app from the address bar. Both work offline once loaded, and both keep the board on your machine.
How is Kaniban different from Trello?
Trello and most kanban apps are team tools: an account, a server copy of every board, and a subscription for the useful parts. Kaniban is a personal kanban board. There is no account and no server copy; the board is saved on your machine, exports to a file you keep, and the top tier is a one-time purchase.
What do the paid tiers add?
Supporter starts at $3 for 30 days. It removes the ads and unlocks the timeline and summary views, five workspaces, and pictures and steps on cards. Plus is $10 once, forever, and adds unlimited workspaces, archive, column limits, card templates, auto-backup to a folder you choose, and a deeper summary. Each paid licence covers up to two named browser profiles. Approve registrations by email, then replace or revoke them from the app.
From people who use it
What they told us.
Sent from inside the app, and shown here with permission.
There is nothing to sign up for.
Open it, name a board, and start. If you do not like it, close the tab. You have not given anyone anything.