Termdeck vs Vibe Kanban: a Vibe Kanban alternative

Context

What Vibe Kanban is

Vibe Kanban is a tool for planning and reviewing agent work. You run npx vibe-kanban and it opens in your browser. You write issues on a kanban board, and when one is ready you create a workspace: an isolated git worktree on a new branch, with a built-in terminal and a browser preview that has devtools and device emulation. Inside it you pick one of more than ten agents, including Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor and OpenCode. You review the diff, leave inline comments the agent then works through, and open a pull request with a generated description. It is Apache-2.0 licensed. bloop, the company that built it, shut down on 10 April 2026, and the project carries on as open source and community maintained.

Side by side

Vibe Kanban vs Termdeck, feature by feature

Feature	Vibe Kanban	Termdeck
Agent CLIs supported	Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode, Droid, CCR, Qwen Code	Claude Code, Codex, and Grok; engine picked per chat
Where it runs	Locally, started with `npx vibe-kanban` and opened in your browser	Hosted web app; a small agent on each machine dials out to it
Machines on one screen	The one it runs on	Every connected macOS, Linux, or Windows machine in one sidebar
Planning	Kanban issues you write, prioritise, and assign	No issue tracker; you plan in the prompt
Git worktrees	Every workspace gets its own worktree and branch, automatically	Optional New worktree on Claude chats
Reviewing changes	Diff viewer with inline comments sent back to the agent	Diff panel, plus checkpoint restore and Branch from here on Claude chats
Pull requests	Create, describe, and merge from the app	Create PR through the GitHub CLI on that machine
From your phone	Remote Access paired devices through Vibe Kanban's cloud; the hosted part was kept for 30 days after the shutdown, and the cloud can be self-hosted with Docker Compose	Installable PWA; push notifications with Allow and Deny on the approval
Self-hostable	Yes, open source	No; hosted service, transcripts stay on your machines
Who maintains it	The community, since bloop shut down in April 2026	Termdeck LLC
Price	Free, Apache-2.0; paid team plans ended with the shutdown	14-day free trial, then $9.99/mo

Verified 10 October 2026 against Vibe Kanban's README at github.com/BloopAI/vibe-kanban, its documentation at vibekanban.com/docs, and the shutdown post of 10 April 2026. There is no row for answering permission prompts in Vibe Kanban because its documentation does not describe how it handles them; an unverified cell never ships. Tell us if a row is out of date.

Straight answer

Where Vibe Kanban wins

If your day starts with a backlog, Vibe Kanban fits it better. Termdeck has no issues and no board of tasks to plan on, and it does not put every task in its own worktree for you. Vibe Kanban also reviews more like a pull request: you comment on the lines of the diff and the agent picks the comments up, and its built-in browser preview lets you check a web app without leaving the workspace. It speaks to more agents, including Gemini CLI, Copilot, Amp and Cursor, which Termdeck does not run. And it is free and open source, so you can run all of it on your own hardware with no account at all.

The delta

Where Termdeck wins

Every machine, one sidebar

Vibe Kanban is a board for the machine it runs on. Termdeck connects your laptop, your desktop and a build server through a small outbound agent, so their sessions sit in one sidebar and one Approvals page in any browser.

Sessions you did not start here

Termdeck reads the transcripts the CLIs already write. A claude or codex you started in a terminal shows up once its project folder is added, and a session another process is driving opens view-only, so two writers never fork it.

Approve from your phone

Install Termdeck as an app and a waiting approval arrives as a push notification with Allow and Deny on it. A blocked run gets unblocked without opening the app, and without a tunnel or a server of your own.

Questions

Termdeck vs Vibe Kanban, answered

What is Vibe Kanban?

Vibe Kanban is an open source, Apache-2.0 licensed tool for planning and reviewing the work of coding agents. You start it with npx vibe-kanban, plan on a kanban board, and run each task in a workspace that gets its own git worktree and branch, with a diff viewer, inline comments and pull requests built in.

Is Vibe Kanban shutting down?

The company is. On 10 April 2026 bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, announced it was shutting down. The project continues as open source and community maintained. Hosted services such as cloud issues, projects and organisations were kept for 30 days, and local workspaces keep working.

Is Vibe Kanban free?

Yes. It is Apache-2.0 licensed and runs locally with npx. Its paid team plans ended with the shutdown, when subscriptions were terminated. Termdeck has a free plan for one machine, and paid plans from $9.99 a month that start with a 14-day free trial.

Does Vibe Kanban work with Claude Code?

Yes. You log in to Claude Code first, then start Vibe Kanban and pick Claude Code when you create a workspace. It also supports Codex, Gemini CLI, GitHub Copilot, Amp, Cursor, OpenCode, Droid, CCR and Qwen Code.

What is a good Vibe Kanban alternative?

It depends on which half of Vibe Kanban you used. If you want one local board that spins up a worktree per task, look at another worktree manager such as Conductor. If you want to see and answer Claude Code, Codex and Grok sessions on several machines from a browser or your phone, that is what Termdeck does.

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