The company (Bloop) shut down in April 2026 and terminated paid plans with refunds. The Apache-2.0 open-source code still works on a single machine but has had no visible maintenance since; community support is volunteer-based.

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dev-mux vs Vibe Kanban

Q: What is the closest replacement for Vibe Kanban?

It depends what you valued. For the single-machine parallel-agent workflow, tools like Sculptor or Conductor cover it. If what you actually wanted was to run and supervise agents across machines with a live status view — the direction Vibe Kanban gestured at — that's dev-mux's category: a self-hosted fleet control plane with attention signals and mobile surfaces.

Q: Can dev-mux import my Vibe Kanban setup?

There's nothing to import in the config sense — different execution models. But since dev-mux adopts plain tmux sessions on machines you already own, moving is 'run your agents in tmux, add the box as a spoke' rather than a migration project.

Vibe Kanban deserved its 27k GitHub stars: a kanban board where each card spawned coding agents in auto-managed worktrees, with status updates and inline diff review. It proved — with a claimed 30,000 active users and 100,000 generated PRs — that people want to orchestrate agents, not babysit terminals. Then Bloop, its company, shut down in April 2026. This page is for the people deciding what to run next.

TL;DR — The OSS code still works on one machine, unmaintained (last push April 2026). If you're staying local and self-supporting, that may be fine for a while. If you want a product with a company behind it — and a plane that spans every machine you own rather than one browser tab — that's dev-mux.

What Vibe Kanban was (and is)

npx vibe-kanban ran a local server and web UI; agents executed locally in managed git worktrees, cards tracked their progress, and you reviewed diffs with inline comments — vendor-agnostic across Claude Code, Codex, and friends, with MCP support. Bloop's shutdown note was candid: the vast majority of users were free, and no business model emerged. Paid plans were refunded; the Apache-2.0 repo remains, with no visible maintenance cadence since.

At a glance

As of July 31, 2026. If something here is stale, tell us.

	dev-mux	Vibe Kanban
What it is	Self-hosted fleet control plane	Local kanban UI for parallel agents
Status	Live product, company behind it	Company dead (Apr 2026); repo stale since
Scope	Every machine, repo, and agent — one live map	One machine, one browser tab
Sessions	tmux-native, persistent, attach from anywhere	Its own execution model; no attach-anywhere
Attention	Hook-level signals + push, fleet-wide	Board-status based, in the tab
Away from keyboard	iOS, TUI, browser, glasses, Telegram	—
Support	A company you can email	Community volunteers, no cadence
Price	Solo $25/mo · Team $100/mo	$0 (OSS only; paid plans refunded at shutdown)

What Vibe Kanban got right

The board metaphor — task cards spawning agents made parallel work legible to non-terminal people; it's still a great UI idea.
Vendor agnosticism — switching agent vendors per task was ahead of its time.
It proved the market — 27k stars and 30k users for “multiplex your agents” is why this whole category exists.

Where dev-mux is a different layer

Someone maintains it. The uncomfortable core fact: Vibe Kanban's hosted service is gone, its repo hasn't moved since April, and security or agent-CLI breakage lands on you. dev-mux ships weekly with a company behind it.
Machines, plural. The board ran agents on the box running npx. dev-mux spans your laptop, VMs, and Pis in one freshness-aware map, over your own tailnet.
Sessions you can grab. dev-mux work lives in tmux — attach from a terminal, the browser cockpit, or an iPhone mid-run. The board's execution model had no equivalent.
Sustainable on purpose. Bloop's own shutdown note named the failure mode: mostly-free users, no model. dev-mux is paid-only precisely so it's still here next April.

Common questions

Is Vibe Kanban dead?

Bloop shut down April 2026; paid plans were refunded. The Apache-2.0 code still works locally but has had no visible maintenance since.

What is the closest replacement for Vibe Kanban?

For single-machine parallel agents: Sculptor or Conductor. For supervising agents across machines with live status — the direction the board gestured at — that's dev-mux.

Can dev-mux import my Vibe Kanban setup?

Nothing to import — different execution models. But dev-mux adopts plain tmux sessions, so moving is 'run agents in tmux, add the box as a spoke,' not a migration project.

The board proved the demand. The fleet is what comes after.

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Written 2026-07-31 against the Vibe Kanban repo, Bloop's shutdown note, and archived product pages. Vibe Kanban is a trademark of its owners; no affiliation or endorsement implied. Corrections welcome.