Comparison

Kanban Board vs mdr

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

Head to head
About

Kanban Board

Manage tasks and projects with flexible workflows like Kanban, Scrum, and Gantt. Plan your day, track progress, and leverage AI for summaries and task generation. Your data stays private on your device with optional iCloud sync.

Highlights
  • Multiple workflow options (Kanban, Scrum, Gantt, List, Scrumban)
  • AI Project Summary and Task Generation
  • Rich task details with subtasks, priorities, and time tracking
  • Today screen for focused daily planning
  • Optional iCloud sync across Apple devices
  • PDF export and Share extension
Features
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Kanban — flexible task and project management for iPhone and iPad. Organize work your way with Kanban, Scrum, Gantt, List, and Scrumban workflows. Plan your day, track progress on rich boards, and stay focused without unnecessary complexity. WORK THE WAY YOU WANT Choose the right workflow for every project: • Kanban — drag-and-drop boards with customizable columns • Scrum — sprints, backlog, and review stages • Gantt — timeline view for scheduled work • List — clean table-style task lists • Scrumban — flexible mix of Scrum and Kanban Pin important projects, customize board colors, and switch views as your work evolves. PLAN YOUR DAY The Today screen brings due tasks, priorities, and smart tips into one focused view. See what needs attention now and what can wait. APPLE INTELLIGENCE On supported devices, Kanban uses on-device Apple Intelligence: • AI Project Summary — instant insight into progress and next steps • Generate Tasks — turn an idea into a practical plan with due dates and columns Your data stays on your device. No account required. RICH TASK DETAIL Go beyond simple to-dos: • Subtasks and acceptance criteria • Priorities, tags, and story points • Due dates, reminders, and recurring tasks • Built-in time tracking • Photos, files, and PDF attachments STAY IN THE LOOP • Activity timeline — see what changed across projects • Per-task reminders and optional daily digest notifications • Search and smart lists • PDF export for project snapshots WORKS ACROSS YOUR APPLE DEVICES • Optional iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad • Home Screen widgets — Today and board at a glance • Apple Watch companion • Share extension — save into Kanban from other apps • Siri Shortcuts support PRIVATE BY DESIGN Tasks are stored on your device. iCloud sync is optional and uses your personal Apple ID. No sign-up, no data collection.

About

mdr

Features
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Markdown, the way you actually read it. Free, with no ads and no account. mdr opens a Markdown file and shows you the document — not a text editor, not a browser tab, not a half-rendered preview. Mermaid diagrams are drawn. Tables line up. Japanese, Chinese and Korean text gets the right glyph shapes. It opens instantly, because the renderer is a native Rust core rather than a web app in a wrapper. Built for the way people write now: AI tools produce Markdown constantly — specs, analyses, documentation, all of it full of diagrams and tables. mdr is a fast way to read that on a phone. WHAT IT DOES • Mermaid diagrams rendered natively — flowcharts, sequence, class, state, ER, Gantt, pie • Pinch to zoom any diagram. Large ones stay readable; small ones stay small • Table of contents built from your headings, one tap away • Search within a document • Edit and save in place — your file, not a copy of it • Opens files from Files, iCloud Drive, and anywhere the document browser reaches • Share sheet support: send Markdown to mdr from any app • GitHub-flavoured Markdown: tables, task lists, footnotes, strikethrough, fenced code FREE, AND PRIVATE BY DEFAULT mdr is free to use. Every feature listed above is in the app from the moment you install it — there is no trial, no subscription, no paid tier and nothing held back. It collects nothing either. No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Documents are rendered on your device. Images that a document links from the web stay off until you turn them on. Plain http is refused for public sites and permitted only for localhost, private addresses and *.local — so a NAS or a development server still works, and nothing else does. JAPANESE, CHINESE AND KOREAN The document language is detected from the content, declared per document in front matter, or chosen in Settings. This selects glyph shapes and fonts — the difference between CJK text that reads naturally and text that looks subtly wrong. OPEN SOURCE mdr is MIT-licensed and developed in the open at github.com/oxgenet/mdr, based on the original mdr by Clever Cloud (MIT). BUYING THE DEVELOPER A COFFEE If mdr turns out to be useful, Settings has an optional tip — the price of a coffee, once, if you feel like it. It unlocks nothing. There is deliberately no feature behind it, no badge, no "supporter" mode, and the app never asks twice. It is a thank-you, not a purchase.

Screenshots

Kanban Board4 screens
mdr4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Kanban Board at none against mdr's 3. mdr's advantage is update cadence (every 8 days vs every 3 weeks) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads and device support 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. mdr sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Kanban Board asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Kanban Board ships an update every 3 weeks, mdr every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 10, 2026 and November 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Kanban Board versus mdr: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKanban Boardmdr
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.5 (4 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings4 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 8 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB11 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNextPixel appsOPUSIFY IT SOLUTIONS PRIVATE LIMITED

In-app purchases

None

Kanban Board

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

mdr

One-time3
  • One Coffee$1.99
  • Two Coffees$3.99
  • Give Development a Boost$5.99

Questions

Is Kanban Board free?
Kanban Board is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is mdr free?
mdr is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Kanban Board or mdr have ads?
Neither Kanban Board nor mdr shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Kanban Board or mdr?
Kanban Board ships an update every 3 weeks, and mdr every 8 days. Most recently, Kanban Board was updated on November 10, 2026 and mdr on November 13, 2026.

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