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Vibe Kanban vs Aperant: catalog facts
Vibe Kanban	Aperant
Free Free to download from GitHub; the coding agents you connect may have their own costs.	Free Free and open source under AGPL-3.0.
Self-hosted, Command line	macOS
Works with Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents Board view for tracking and reviewing several agents' work	Several agents work on separate tasks at the same time Covers planning, coding and testing, not only code generation
Needs separately installed and paid-for coding agents to do any work Aimed at developers comfortable with command-line setup	2.x app is in maintenance mode while 3.0 is rebuilt Pull requests are paused and 3.0 has no release date
Downloadable app, Self-hosted	Downloadable app
Closed source	Open source
License not stated	License: AGPL-3.0
Not stated if an account is needed	Not stated if an account is needed
Not stated if it works offline	Not stated if it works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 26, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked October 2, 2026

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