Boards vs Simple 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.
Simple Kanban
Streamline your projects and boost productivity with this agile task management tool. Visualize your workflow using the Kanban method, organizing tasks into "To Do," "In Progress," and "Done" stages. Effortlessly drag and drop tasks to update their status and stay focused.
- Kanban board visualization
- Task management
- Drag and drop functionality
- Workflow stages (To Do, In Progress, Done)
- Productivity enhancement
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Boost Your Productivity with Simple Kanban! Simple Kanban is the ultimate tool to supercharge your productivity and streamline your projects effortlessly. Manage tasks with ease using the powerful Kanban method, trusted by teams worldwide. With Simple Kanban, you can visualize your workflow and achieve exceptional results faster than ever before! Organize Tasks with Kanban Boards Visualize your tasks on Kanban boards. Create tasks for each stage of your workflow - "To Do," "In Progress," and "Done." Drag and drop tasks to update their status instantly. Stay focused, organized, and on top of your game.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Simple Kanban at none against Boards's 4. Boards's advantage is ratings volume (19 vs 1) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and iOS requirement 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. Simple Kanban asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Boards against 5.0 for Simple Kanban. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Boards has 19 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Boards | Simple Kanban |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (19 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 82.1% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 0 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Kitestack Software | MAES MADENI VE AGAC ESYA SANAYI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI |
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
Simple Kanban
No in-app purchases









