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This is nice, but what I really want is a native kanban app. Not Electron, and not web - native.

I would honestly like to know what’s the point of these comments. This person offers a free, open-source and cross-platform offline app in the most cost-effective way as a single developer not willing to make money and then one person comes and says “yeah cool but not native”.

No single person I know is going to work alone to deliver a native app with such features. Let this person have his/her minute of glory because it’s well deserved.

My comment was not meant to denigrate the creator of this app.

After posting my comment, I went out and did some searching and found exactly what I was looking for. As it happens, it's produced by a single individual.

So I'm not trying to sound rude but your original comment would've been much better if you included an alternative.

Also my point was that you'd not find a single person offering a free cross-platform app like this one, not that you'd find a single person offering a native app for a single OS as you've happened to find (edit: and just realized your alternative is $15 so hardly comparable to what OP offers).

What solution did you find?

It's called Boards, by Kitestack Software.

Boards dev here, thanks for mentioning the app! I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Not immediately obvious, but nice to know: the *.boards file format is simply a .zip file. It contains all resources/images and an HTML file with the contents of the board so that you can access your data even without the app (I'm strong on data accessibility after getting locked out of binary data formats once too many).

That's good to know.

Is there a public roadmap anywhere? I'd love to be able to add colored tags/labels to individual items.

So, as I understand it, you're fine with a native app which only works on a single OS, rather than one which is cross-platform and doesn't require any installation?

I honestly don't see the advantage here.

Your requirements are different from mine.

I AM fine with a native app that only works on a single OS. Cross-platform is not necessary, or even desired.

"Doesn't require any installation" doesn't even enter into my evaluation. The last time I cared about that was when my computer didn't have a hard drive.

The UI/UX of Boards is to my liking. Several design choices resonate with how my brain works.

That it stores its data in iCloud is to my liking.

That it doesn't require a browser is to my liking.

That's a cool looking app. But it's 15 USD.

Affordable, but Mac only.

Seems reasonable to me for a useful tool.

Yeah, that's ridiculously cheap.

Well I don't know about ridiculously cheap, but I do think it's reasonable. That's not the point.

The point is that GP posted a free, offline first, cross-platform, good looking tool and OP commented saying 'well, this isn't what I'm looking for' like HN is their own personal wishlist, and then eventually finds what they're looking for, and it's not free, it's not cross-platform.

HN is not my own personal wishlist. However, it is often how I discover new and interesting things. As a result, whenever someone posts a link to a new tool or service, I tend to react to it with a personal evaluation. I rarely post a comment with my reaction; usually, it's to make a critique about a particular feature, design element, or bug that I notice.

In this case, my original comment was too succinct to be useful to anyone else, which I believe is your point. Correct me if I'm wrong on that.

Fair summary - I think perhaps a few of us just felt that the comment was a bit abrasive given the time and effort that's clearly gone into this which is being offered for free.

It looks like you see and acknowledge that opinion, which is nice, and fairly uncommon on the Internet still :)

Hope you have a good weekend and a wonderful Christmas - and it's good you found a tool that does fit your needs in the end!

Native to Mac, Windows, or Linux? People use Electron because cross-platform desktop is not a solved problem unless you're willing to pay for QT. (I can name a dozen alternatives but they're frankly not as good as Electron, at least if you want Mac, Windows, And Linux.)

The other option for a developer-targeted, cross-platform app is TUI/curses. I did a recent search to see if something like that exists and the closest I could find were command line todo apps.

I’ve wanted something Kanban-ish that could be project-specific and store its data locally within the project’s directory, ideally with git integration on a dedicated branch so that existing cloud options for git could be used for simple synching.

wxWidgets is pretty good, and beats the alternatives because it actually uses native widgets where possible. Lots of language bindings too.

When you mean without electron, would you still consider using your own web browser as being native?

Syncthing has this. If you open the GUI, it opens up in your browser.

What do you think about it ?

Kanboard, Wekan, Restyaboard, TaskBoard

For windows:

choco install kamban

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