Free kanban board
It is already working. Type into any column below and it is saved on this device — no account, no email, nothing to set up.
To Do
2Click a card to edit it
Give it notes, a colour, and a due date.
BAdd your own with the box below
Doing
1ADrag me, or press the arrow keys
Focus a card and use the left and right arrows to move it.
Done
1GExport the board when you are finished
Drag a card by its grip, or focus a card and press ← → to move it between columns. Enter edits, M opens the move menu.
Where your boards live
Unlike most online kanban boards, this one has no server behind it. Everything you type is stored in your own browser, in an area called local storage. Nothing is transmitted anywhere, no account is created for you, and there is no database somewhere holding a copy. That has two consequences worth being direct about.
The good one: your boards cannot expire. There is no field in the saved data that records a date after which a board stops working, so there is nothing that could switch it off, and no plan you could fail to renew. The board you make today will open in three years if you come back to this browser. Free kanban boards elsewhere usually mean a free tier running on somebody else's server, which is a decision they are allowed to revisit. This one is free because there is no server to pay for.
The honest one: local storage belongs to one browser on one device. Clearing your browsing data will clear your boards along with it, and a board made on your laptop will not appear on your phone by itself. That is the trade for having no account. The fix is the export menu, which is why it has six formats rather than one.
What each export is actually for
Most kanban board tools treat export as a checkbox. Here it is the point, so each format has a job it is genuinely good at.
PNG
A picture of the board for a status update, a slide, a message to someone who does not need the board itself. It is drawn from your data rather than screenshotted from the screen, so it is never cut off at the edge of the window, never affected by how far you have scrolled, and always comes out on a white background even if you are working in dark mode.
The same layout as a document, with real text you can select, search and copy— not a picture of text. A typical board is a few kilobytes. It is A4, landscape by default, and paginates sensibly if the board is wider or taller than one sheet. If your board uses characters the built-in PDF fonts cannot draw, such as emoji, it falls back to embedding the image so you still get a valid file.
CSV
One row per card, with the board, column, title, notes, label, due date and creation date. Notes keep their line breaks, and any commas or quotes inside your text are escaped properly, so a spreadsheet opens it cleanly instead of scattering half a card across three columns.
JSON
The complete, lossless copy — this is the backup format. It is exactly what the Import button reads back, so exporting and re-importing gives you an identical board rather than an approximation. "All boards" in the export menu writes every board you have to one file.
Markdown
Columns as headings, cards as checklist items, notes as indented quotes. Cards in a column called Done are exported already ticked. It pastes usefully into more or less any notes app or wiki.
Pressing Ctrl+P gives you the board, not a mangled web page. The site chrome disappears, the columns reflow to fit the paper, cards never break across a page, and the colour labels print as letter-coded chips so they survive a black-and-white printer. Useful for a wall, a standup, or working away from a screen — which is the one thing a digital kanban board usually cannot do at all.
Moving a board to another device
- On the device that has the board, open Export → All boards (JSON).
- Get that file to the other device however you normally move files.
- On the other device, open this page and press Import — or just drag the file anywhere onto the page.
- Choose Merge to add the boards alongside what is already there, or Replace all to restore the file as your complete set.
The file is checked before anything is changed. If it is damaged or truncated you get a specific error and your existing boards are left exactly as they were — an import can never half-succeed and leave you with less than you started with.
Moving cards without a mouse
Drag works, including by touch, using the grip on the left of each card. But dragging is not the only way, and the alternative is not hidden away. Every card has a visible button that opens a menu listing every column by name, so a card can always be moved in two clicks.
From the keyboard, press Tab until a card is focused, then use ← and → to move it between columns and ↑ and ↓ to move it within one. Enter opens the card, M opens its menu, and Delete removes it with an undo button. Every move is announced to screen readers, including the card's new position. Ctrl+Z undoes the last twenty changes.
Working offline
Once the page has loaded once, it keeps working with no connection. A kanban board app that has to check in with a server stops dead the moment the wifi does; this one has nothing to check in with. The font is served from this site rather than fetched from elsewhere, there are no analytics or tracking requests, and no part of the board needs to reach a server to save. You can put a laptop in flight mode and carry on.
Frequently asked questions
What is a kanban board?
A kanban board is a set of columns representing the stages your work passes through, with one card per task moving left to right as it progresses. The three classic columns are To Do, Doing and Done. Its value is visual: at a glance you see what is waiting, what is in flight and what is finished.
What does a kanban board do?
It makes the state of your work visible instead of remembered. Every task sits in exactly one column, so the board answers "what is actually in progress right now" without you having to reconstruct it. Seeing a column fill up is also the signal to finish something before starting anything else.
Is there a free kanban board with no sign up?
Yes — this one. There is no account, no email field and no free tier that expires, because there is no server behind it. Your boards are stored in your own browser, so there is nothing to bill for later and nothing to renew.
Do I need an account to use this kanban board?
No. There is no sign-up, no login and no account to create — the board on this page is already live and already saving. Because nothing is tied to an account, nothing follows you between devices either; the export menu is how a board moves from one device to another.
Where is my board saved, and will I lose it?
In your browser's local storage, on this device only. Nothing is uploaded and nothing expires, so a board will still be there in a year. It goes only if you clear your browsing data, or open the site in a different browser or on another device. Where your boards live explains the trade.
How do I export a kanban board as an image or PDF?
Open the Export menu above the board and choose PNG for an image or PDF for a document. Both are drawn from your data rather than screenshotted, so nothing is cut off at the edge of the window, and the PDF keeps real selectable text. What each export is actually for covers all six formats.
Can I print a kanban board?
Yes, and it prints the board rather than the web page around it. Press Ctrl+P: the site chrome disappears, the columns reflow to fit the paper, and cards never break across a page. How printing works covers what happens to colour labels on a black-and-white printer.
Where to go next
- Free kanban board templates — six ready-made layouts for sprints, personal to-dos, content, a job search, a house move and study. One click gives you a live board.
- Personal kanban board — a different setup for one person, with a work-in-progress limit on Today and a live meter that warns you when you go over it.
- Kanban board examples — six real situations, with the reasoning behind each set of columns and the failure mode it avoids.