Comparison

SwiftKanban vs Boards

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

SwiftKanban

Visualize your workflow and collaborate with your team on project cards and tasks from anywhere. Instantly create Kanban cards for new ideas and receive visual notifications on project events. Ideal for personal or business use, especially in IT/Software.

Highlights
  • Visual Kanban board
  • Instant Kanban card creation
  • Project event notifications
  • Real-time collaboration
  • Comment on discussions
  • Workflow visualization
Features
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Collaborative, Visual Kanban Board for Lean/ Agile Teams. Use the SwiftKanban App to manage your SwiftKanban boards on the go, any time, anywhere Key Features: - Have a sudden brilliant idea? Create a Kanban card and put it up on your Kanban board instantly! - Get visual notifications on project events. - Quickly interact and collaborate with your colleagues, partners and customers on project cards and tasks - Add your Comments to an ongoing discussion SwiftKanban helps you to visualize your workflow (business process) on a virtual white board (Kanban Board) and effectively collaborate with your colleagues, partners and customers. Use SwiftKanban for Personal Use or Business, IT/ Software. Use the SwiftKanban App to manage your work on the go!

About

Boards

Visualize and track your projects with a simple Kanban-style organizer. Create boards with lists and task cards to manage your workflow, capture details, and organize ideas. Works offline with full data control.

Highlights
  • Kanban board visualization
  • Customizable lists and task cards
  • Capture task outcomes with details
  • Offline functionality
  • Universal purchase for all devices
  • Open and accessible file format
Features
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Visualize your projects and tasks and track their path to completion: Boards is a new Kanban app to boost your productivity for your projects. SIMPLE PRICING / NO SUBSCRIPTIONS: Boards is a single universal purchase covering all devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac). It includes new feature updates for one year and lifetime bugfix and iOS/macOS compatibility updates. Includes: • iPhone app • iPad app • Mac app • iCloud sync Features: Collect your thoughts & ideas, plan your week, or just keep a board with links to your favorite recipes, the possibilities are endless. Each board can hold multiple lists. Each list can contain task cards, list items, or notes. You can further organize lists with subheadings to create sections within lists. Capture the outcome of a task, instead of merely crossing off a to do: Each entry on a board can have a dedicated cover image, a link, as well as notes. This makes it easy to record the results of a phone call or to keep meeting minutes. Implement your own workflow: Each list can represent a step in your workflow. By dragging an item from list to list, you see how it progresses towards completion. For example, track which tasks are still in the backlog, which are in progress, blocked, and completed. Or plan a party and keep track of invitations sent and replies yet to be received. Bonus: Local First Software • Works Offline, no Internet connection required. Everything is saved on your device. You have full control over your data. • Open and accessible file format: each “board” file can be opened even without having the app installed so that you can always access your data (each *.board file is simply a ZIP archive). No risk, try before you buy: You can download and try Boards for free for all devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac). All features are unlocked from the start, but boards are limited to 20 entries each. Once you a ready, you can buy Boards from within the app with a single In-App purchase covering all devices. What this app is not: This app is for personal projects or smaller work projects, this is not a full project management app. No Gantt charts anywhere to be seen.

Screenshots

SwiftKanban3 screens
Boards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: SwiftKanban at none against Boards's 4. Boards's advantage is review sentiment (82% vs 50%) and ratings volume (19 vs 2). On price, rating, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Boards sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. SwiftKanban asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SwiftKanban against 4.9 for Boards. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boards has 19 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 50% of SwiftKanban's written reviews are positive against 82% of Boards's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
SwiftKanban versus Boards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSwiftKanbanBoards
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.9 (19 ratings)
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews82.1% of reviews — better
Number of ratings219 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperDigité, Inc.Kitestack Software

Customer experience

SwiftKanban

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

Boards

All ratings19 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews28 reviews
Positive82.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative10.7%

In-app purchases

None

SwiftKanban

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Boards

One-time4
  • One Year Feature Updates$14.99
  • Boards Standard$29.99
  • Boards Extended$39.99
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  • Boards Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is SwiftKanban free?
SwiftKanban is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Boards free?
Boards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, SwiftKanban or Boards?
SwiftKanban is rated higher. SwiftKanban averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Boards averages 4.9 from 19 ratings.
Do SwiftKanban or Boards have ads?
Neither SwiftKanban nor Boards shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SwiftKanban or Boards?
SwiftKanban ships an update every 2 months, and Boards every 2 months. Most recently, SwiftKanban was updated on November 1, 2026 and Boards on November 7, 2026.

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