Vibe Kanban gives the work a board. Aura gives it a verdict.
Vibe Kanban puts your coding agents on a kanban board: plan tasks, run several in parallel with a worktree each, and review the results visually. It is open source, and after Bloop wound down in early 2026 the project has been community-maintained. Aura runs the same shape of work-loop and adds the check nobody else runs — did the commit actually deliver the task it was attached to.
What each one is for
What Vibe Kanban is great at
- The board metaphor
A kanban column is exactly the right shape for "queued, running, needs review". It makes a room full of agents legible at a glance.
- Worktree per task
Every task runs isolated, so parallel agents do not fight over the working tree.
- Engine-agnostic
Claude, Cursor, Copilot and Gemini all plug in. You are not buying into one vendor.
- Open source
Readable, forkable, and it survived its company. That is the argument for open source, working.
What Aura adds on top
- A goal per task, checked
A card that says "done" because an agent moved it is a card you still have to verify. Aura attaches the goal to the task and checks the commit against it.
- Semantic review
The visual review step reads an AST diff and a plain-language summary rather than raw hunks.
- A maintained product
Aura ships releases on all four platforms every cycle, with a company behind it. Vibe Kanban is community-maintained after Bloop shut down; its last release cadence reflects that.
- Dependency order
Crew works a real dependency graph — a task only becomes claimable when what it depends on has landed and been proved.
Dimension by dimension
Side by side
When to pick which
Pick Vibe Kanban if…
- The board is the interface you want and you are happy to self-maintain.
- You need something small you can read end to end and fork.
Pick Aura if…
- You want the "done" column to mean something a machine checked.
- You need support and a release cadence you can plan around.
- Your tasks have real dependencies and running them in the wrong order costs you.
Keep Vibe Kanban. Add the control layer.
If the board is what you like, keep it. Aura installs a commit hook, so a Vibe Kanban agent committing on your machine still gets the intent check and the deletion guard.
Aura & Vibe Kanban
Is Vibe Kanban still maintained?
Bloop, the company that built it, wound down in early 2026. The project is open source and community-maintained, which is a real answer but a different one from a supported product.
Does Aura have a board?
Yes — Tasks ships a list, board and map view, and Crew reads the same task graph. The difference is that a Crew completion is bound to the goal it delivered.
Ship with proof, not hope
Free public beta for macOS and Linux. Point it at a repo and keep driving Vibe Kanban, now with a semantic diff, a verdict and a record on every change.