Vibe Kanban alternatives after the Bloop shutdown

Why people look for an alternative

Bloop announced its shutdown on April 10, 2026. Vibe Kanban's remote issues, comments, projects and organizations remained available for thirty days, ending around May 10, while local workspaces continued as a free, open-source, community-maintained project. That is a specific switching trigger for teams that depended on hosted coordination, not evidence that the local tool stopped working. The right alternative depends on which lost capability mattered: shared agent orchestration, a continuously available workspace, or a URL where non-developers can review the output.

What to check before you switch

• Lost hosted state: identify which remote issues, comments, projects and organization records were exported before the service ended. Local source files do not recreate that coordination history.
• Orchestration versus publishing: running many agents and sharing what they finish are separate jobs. A team may need both Conductor or Vibe Kanban and Grain.
• Agent coverage: Vibe Kanban supports a broad list including Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, OpenCode, Cursor, Aider, Copilot and Windsurf. Verify your exact runner before moving.
• Workspace location: choose local Mac workspaces, continuous cloud environments or self-hosted enterprise infrastructure based on how developers connect.
• Reviewer experience: decide whether reviewers need code-level task state or only a public, password-protected or invite-only artifact with comments.

The shortlist

Conductor

Conductor is the closest alternative in this set for running several coding agents at once. Its free tier supports multiple agents in local Mac workspaces. Pro and Teams add multiplayer, workspace sharing and real-time agent prompting, replacing some of the team coordination lost with Vibe Kanban's hosted services.

• Fit: Mac developers coordinating parallel agent branches with developer-facing review.
• Price model: free local tier, monthly Pro, per-user Teams and custom Enterprise plans.
• Wins on: commercial multiplayer around parallel agent execution.

Vibe Kanban

Vibe Kanban itself remains an option because the local project continues. It is free and community maintained, and its broad bring-your-own-agent support may be more important than hosted project features for an individual developer. Staying also avoids changing an established local workflow.

• Fit: individuals and teams comfortable operating a local community project without the discontinued remote services.
• Price model: free local software, with no continuing hosted collaboration plan described after shutdown.
• Wins on: broad agent support and continuity for existing local workspaces.

Grain

Grain does not schedule or coordinate multiple agents. It gives their useful finished output a workspace, URL and access model. Apps may include Postgres, logins and scheduled jobs, while readers can comment directly on the artifact for an agent to address later. This replaces an outcome-sharing gap, not the Kanban board.

• Fit: teams that need non-developers to use or review pages, apps and reports made by agents.
• Price model: free unlimited published artifacts, ten sleeping sandboxes and one always-on workspace; Pro adds team spaces, capacity and domains per user.
• Wins on: durable published output and reader feedback outside the orchestration interface.

CloudCLI

CloudCLI provides continuously active remote environments for Claude Code, Cursor, Codex and Gemini CLI. Developers can connect by browser, mobile, VS Code or SSH. It does not provide agent Kanban, application databases or artifact publishing, but it handles the workspace-availability problem that a local tool cannot.

• Fit: developers who want existing agents and terminals to remain reachable away from one laptop.
• Price model: paid monthly environment tiers with a two-day Hobby trial and extra-environment charges on Growth.
• Wins on: continuous remote access and a self-hostable environment codebase.

Coder

Coder serves organizations that need self-hosted remote development workspaces on company infrastructure. The free Community tier supports unlimited workspaces, while Premium pricing is annual per user and unpublished. It provides the governed environment where agents run, not a task board or finished-output destination.

• Fit: platform teams standardizing agent-capable developer environments under enterprise controls.
• Price model: free Community software and paid annual per-user tiers with no public price.
• Wins on: self-hosted workspace governance for a development fleet.

Where Grain fits, and where it does not

Grain fits at the end of a Vibe Kanban workflow. An agent completes a task in its local workspace, then the files are pushed and checkpointed into an artifact other people can open. Grain has no Kanban board, does not launch multiple agents and cannot reconstruct hosted Vibe Kanban projects or comments. Choose Conductor if the missing capability is commercial parallel-agent coordination. Keep Vibe Kanban if its local community version is sufficient. Choose CloudCLI or Coder when the development environment must be remote. Choose Grain when the problem is that finished work still ends on localhost or in a screenshot.

Migration path

1. Collect exports of remote Vibe Kanban issues, comments, projects and organization data if they were saved before service closure. Preserve local repositories and worktrees separately.
2. Choose an orchestration replacement only if you need one. Recreate active tasks in Conductor or another board manually because coordination history is not source code.
3. For published outcomes, run grain init in each project whose output needs a stable home. The command writes configuration for supported CLI agents.
4. After an agent finishes a reviewable artifact, run grain push, grain checkpoint -m "agent task complete" and the required share mode. Send the resulting URL instead of the local preview.
5. Keep the orchestration record and published artifact linked in your own workflow. Grain comments belong to the artifact and do not replace Kanban status, assignment or historical issue data.

Frequently asked questions