1In short
Morion is a desktop app with a local board and a notebook. Any MCP client, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and others, claims tickets from it and gets the related notes and decisions with them; Auto-code runs a ticket in a worktree through a workflow with a review by another agent and a gate that asks you in chat when the agent has a question.
Vibe Kanban was an open-source board with a free plan and paid team plans, where each card ran a coding agent in its own git worktree, with diff review and pull requests. Its company shut down in April, ended the subscriptions and switched the board off for everyone; volunteers keep a free local workspace runner going.
2What happened
bloop, the company behind Vibe Kanban, announced its shutdown on 10 April 2026 and added a data export. Version 0.1.44, two weeks later, removed the kanban and projects and replaced them with an export screen, for cloud, local and self-hosted users alike. Subscriptions ended and recent invoices were refunded.
The repository stays open under Apache 2.0, and a volunteer release shipped in September. What remains is the runner: workspaces with a branch, a terminal and a dev server per agent. The website still shows the old plans and prices.
3What users ask for now
In the community discussion about what to keep, two jobs came up: seeing which terminal is working on what, and knowing where you were when you come back.
The loudest request since April is a board that runs locally with no server.
4Side by side
| Vibe Kanban today | Morion | |
|---|---|---|
| Kanban board of agent work | — | |
| Runs locally, no server | ||
| Worktree per task | ||
| Agent CLIs supported | ||
| Inline diff comments and a dev server per task | — | |
| Tickets agents claim atomically | — | |
| Notes and decisions next to the tickets | — | |
| Memory across sessions, with sources | — | |
| Workflow with a second agent reviewing and a human gate | — | |
| Folder and per-note permissions for agents | — | |
| Actively maintained | ||
| Open source and free |
has it, has part of it, — does not. As of September 2026, current versions. Vibe Kanban runs about ten agent CLIs; Morion’s board works with any MCP client, and Auto-code runs claude, codex, pi and opencode. Vibe Kanban had a free plan and paid team plans until April 2026; since the shutdown the remaining runner is free under Apache 2.0 and kept alive by volunteers, with no roadmap. Morion has a Free plan; plans are on the pricing page. For Morion, 2.0 has a Free plan and is not open source; the earlier 1.5 line, Morion Community, is open source and free but frozen.
5The board in Morion
The two jobs people valued in Vibe Kanban are the board’s own: the board shows which column each ticket is in, and when you come back, the comments the agent wrote on the ticket tell you what it did and where things stand.
- No server. The board and the notes live in one file on your machine; the desktop app runs on macOS, Windows and Linux.
- Agents claim, you watch. Claude Code or Codex in your own terminal claims a ticket, one agent per ticket, and writes its progress as comments.
- Context with the card. The agent gets a work packet: the ticket, the related notes and decisions, the project brief. Nothing to paste after a session ends.
- Runs without you in the terminal. Move a card to Todo and Auto-code runs it in a worktree: one agent writes, another reviews, and a gate asks you in chat when the agent has a question. When the review passes, the card moves to Done with the diff on its own branch, ready to merge with one click; a failed run lands in Re-opened with the reason.
Moving over: export your tasks from Vibe Kanban and recreate the open ones as tickets, or ask Claude Code to create them in Morion over MCP. More in Running an epic.
6Which one fits you
if you only need the old board on one machine and accept no fixes.
if you want a maintained local board your agents claim from, with notes, decisions and a review workflow next to it.
if you keep the Vibe Kanban runner for its dev server and inline diff comments, and plan and track the work in Morion.
7Questions
Its company, bloop, shut down in April 2026 and switched the kanban off in version 0.1.44. A few volunteers keep the local workspace runner alive; the board itself is gone.
Only by pinning an older version. Since 0.1.44 the board shows an export screen for everyone, including local and self-hosted installs.
If what you used was the board, Morion keeps a local board that any MCP agent works from, with the notes, decisions and a review workflow next to it. Former users also pin version 0.1.43 or 0.1.8 to keep the old board, move to open-source boards such as kandev or Multica, or use Conductor for parallel sessions on a Mac.
No server. Morion is a desktop app with the board and notes in one file on your machine. You create a Morion account in the app for the trial and your plan; no Morion server holds your notes.
Sources: vibekanban.com (shutdown post, pricing), the Vibe Kanban GitHub repository, releases, issues and discussions, checked on 25 September 2026. More comparisons: all comparisons.