Boards vs Kanban
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
Kanban
This app helps you organize daily to-dos, work projects, and goals with a simple, intuitive interface. It offers extensive customization and various views to manage tasks efficiently and see your progress clearly.
- Folders, categories, and tags for organization
- Multiple task views (list, grid, board)
- Unlimited tasks and subtasks
- Sync across devices via iCloud
- Reminders and calendar integration
- Customizable home screen and widgets
- Dark mode and native design
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Meet Doneit, a feature-packed projects and tasks manager that focuses on simplicity and organization. With Doneit, you don't need to worry about your tasks lists ever being messy because we have designed the app to help you better organize all of your daily to-do's, work projects, and more, and its main goal is to help you become more efficient and start accomplishing all of your tasks and goals quicker, no matter how small or big they are, because Doneit will definitely help you see the full picture of what should be done now and what can wait until the later day. Doneit offers a delightful user interface that will feel right at home on your Apple devices. It's simple and intuitive, and it will let you start using Doneit at its full potential with no introduction needed and in just a matter of time. The app offers an extensive variety of different features that are designed to help you become more organized and efficient. Doneit features folders, smart categories, categories, tags, priorities, statuses, attributes, tasks, and subtasks. There are various tasks organization options available throughout the app, as well as quite a few customization options that will give you an incredible opportunity of making the app feel more unique to you. KEY FEATURES: - Up to 2 categories to help you better organize your tasks - 3 different tasks views that include list, grid, and board views - Unlimited number of tasks - Unlimited number of subtasks that can be added to help you accomplish your main tasks quicker - Sync across multiple devices connected to a single iCloud account - Sync with the system's Reminders app - Ability to schedule a reminder that will send you a notification when the task is due - Support for all-day reminders - Ability to add your tasks and subtasks as events in the system's Calendar app - Huge variety of tasks sorting options - Different filters for your tasks lists - Ability to import all of your reminders from the system's Reminders app - Ability to import all of your calendar events from the system's Calendar app - Ability to add notes to each of the tasks and subtasks, as well as to the tasks lists - Ability to add links to your tasks and subtasks - Just archive or hide unnecessary tasks that you don't want to delete yet - Various Home Screen customization options that will let you quickly hide sections that you are not interested in at all - Fully customizable screens for adding and editing the tasks & subtasks - Home Screen quick actions - Multiple swipe actions - Ability to pin important tasks and subtasks - Fully native design - Beautiful dark mode - Standalone watchOS app - Support for Siri shortcuts - Support for app shortcuts on iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 - Support for focus filters - More than 5 Home and Lock Screen widgets for you to view all of your tasks - Available on iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and macOS PREMIUM FEATURES: - Add an unlimited number of categories - Advanced board view - Timeline view for your tasks - List actions - Advanced tasks filters - Securely share and collaborate on your categories with others via iCloud - Get access to folders, smart categories, tags, priorities, statuses, and custom task & subtask attributes - Ability to add different attachments to tasks and subtasks, such as files, photos, scanned documents, and drawings - Schedule recurring reminders with custom repeat intervals - Ability to edit items in bulk - 10 different app icons for you to choose the one that you prefer the most - 15 amazing tint colors for the app's user interface - Ability to set a custom appearance (Dark, light or system) If you have any questions or concerns regarding our app, we are always here to help you! Just reach out to us at info@designtech.so. Privacy policy: https://designtech.notion.site/DesignTech-Privacy-Policy-18bc124eba40809eba48e6af249ebd2c. Terms of service: https://designtech.notion.site/DesignTech-Terms-of-Service-18cc124eba4080c58316f2ed81f84bff.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Boards at 82% against Kanban's 46%. Boards also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). Kanban's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (280 vs 19). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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
Both are free to download. Boards sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Kanban sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Boards holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kanban has 280 ratings behind it against 19, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 82% of Boards's written reviews are positive against 46% of Kanban's.
Boards ships an update every 2 months, Kanban fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Boards | Kanban |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better | 4.5 (280 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 82.1% of reviews — better | 46.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 19 | 280 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 202 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kitestack Software | DesignTech SIA |
Customer experience
Boards
Kanban
Bugs and requests
Boards
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Kanban
Reported bugs
25 issues- Tasks disappear or get lost during sync
- Sync fails between Mac and iPhone/iPad
- Subtasks not syncing across devices
- Kanban board columns duplicating
- Timeline view broken with tiny blocks and poor layout
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- iCloud sync errors (CKErrorDomain error 11)
- Categories and sections randomly appearing/disappearing
- Double-clicking tasks on Mac doesn't open edit dialog
- App freezes when switching between categories
- Slow performance and high CPU usage on Mac
- Sidebar freezing after one click
- Deleted items still showing after manual sync
- Badge count not clearing properly
- Drag and drop not working for timeline events
- Import from Apple Reminders loses folder structure
- Reminders integration only imports titles, not details
- Crashes when accessing Calendar or Reminders features
- Tasks moving to wrong categories unexpectedly
- Completed tasks not updating status properly
- Dialog boxes not closable with ESC key
- Attachment downloads not working
- Photo selection closing without attaching
- Premium features not accessible despite purchase
- Restore purchase feature broken
- Slow responsiveness on M1 Mac
Requested features
24 requests- Drag and drop functionality for tasks and boards
- Better Kanban board implementation with custom column ordering
- Sample templates for new users
- Improved timeline view with zoom controls
- Export functionality (PDF, XLSX, CSV)
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- Windows version
- Web version
- Better subtask management and creation
- Recurring task flexibility (specific days, custom patterns)
- Attachment support (images, documents, PDFs)
- Dark mode customization options
- Quick task creation shortcuts
- Email integration and drag-drop from email
- GitHub/GitLab integration
- Outlook integration
- Language options (English alternative to poor translations)
- Restore/undo functionality for archived items
- Improved Apple Watch support
- Live activities support
- Task filtering by multiple tags
- Ability to reorder boards and categories visually
- Shared collaboration features
- Backup to external cloud storage
- Keyboard shortcuts for faster workflow
In-app purchases
Boards
- One Year Feature Updates$14.99
- Boards Standard$29.99
- Boards Extended$39.99
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- Boards Lifetime$49.99
Kanban
- Monthly3 Days trial$3.991 Month
- Monthly$3.991 Month
- Yearly7 Days trial2 variants$14.991 Year
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- Yearly$14.991 Year
- Doneit Premium$29.99
- Premium Lifetime3 variants$29.99









