Cool Kanban
An offline-first Kanban app for macOS with local SQLite storage and an MCP server for AI agents.
About Cool Kanban
Cool Kanban (named Kanban in its repository) is an offline-first project management app for macOS, built with Tauri 2, Rust and React. Projects, epics, tickets and notes are stored locally in SQLite, and the app collects no telemetry. Boards have custom status columns, work-in-progress limits, priorities, subtasks and dependencies, with ticket IDs prefixed by the project code and Markdown descriptions. It also includes a focus timer, a scratchpad, daily todos and a Cmd+K command palette. A built-in Model Context Protocol server lets Claude Desktop, Cursor and other coding agents read the backlog, create tickets and move them between columns. It installs from a DMG on GitHub Releases and is MIT licensed.
Alternatives to Cool Kanban
Cool Kanban in brief
Is Cool Kanban open source?
Yes. As of November 14, 2026, GitHub reports the MIT licence, an open source licence, for the code at github.com/devvvvvX/kanban.
Share this tool
More tools like Cool Kanban
HotRepo
LaunchedDiscover trending GitHub projects with bilingual AI reviews and historical rankings
IconVectors
LaunchedDesktop SVG icon editor with a built-in MCP server.
Lattice
BetaA separate Mac desktop for each project’s terminals, coding agents and browser preview