iKanban vs Boards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
iKanban
Visualize your tasks with a "Todo, Doing, Done" board. This app helps you track project progress and understand what you're currently working on, especially when juggling multiple tasks or projects. It offers a simple yet effective way to manage your workflow.
- Three-column board (Todo, Doing, Done)
- Visual progress overview
- Task color customization
- Keyboard shortcuts for Mac/iPad
- List visibility control
- Archive of completed reminders
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iKanban turns your Reminders into a beautiful, focused Kanban board. Every Reminders list becomes a project. Every reminder becomes a card you can drag between To-do, Doing and Done. Because Reminders is the data source, your cards sync seamlessly across iPhone, iPad and Mac via iCloud — no extra account, no extra subscription, no vendor lock-in. KEY FEATURES • Native Kanban board on top of Reminders • Drag & drop cards between To-do, In-Progress and Done • Areas: group your lists by colored areas for a clean overview • Contexts, tags and full-text search across all your boards • Attachments, GIFs and PDFs directly on cards • Inbox for quick capture, batch entries for bulk planning • Light and dark color schemes • iPhone, iPad and Mac (Catalyst) — one universal app • Fully localized: English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Japanese, Simplified Chinese • Free — no in-app purchases, no subscriptions, no ads iKanban is a focused tool for people who already live in Reminders and want a visual board on top of it. If you can use Reminders, you can use iKanban. PRIVACY iKanban stores everything in your own Reminders database. We have no servers, no analytics, no tracking. The app only asks for the Reminders permission it needs to function.
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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Boards at 4.9 against iKanban's 4.3. Boards also leads on review sentiment (82% vs 63%) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.6). iKanban's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. iKanban sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Boards sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Boards holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 19 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of iKanban's written reviews are positive against 82% of Boards's.
iKanban ships an update weekly, Boards every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | iKanban | Boards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7 ratings) | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 82.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 19 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Matthias Hennemeyer | Kitestack Software |
Customer experience
iKanban
Boards
In-app purchases
iKanban
- Unlimited access$3.991 Month
- Unlimited access7 Days trial$29.991 Year
Boards
- One Year Feature Updates$14.99
- Boards Standard$29.99
- Boards Extended$39.99
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- Boards Lifetime$49.99





