Kanban Tool

RATING:

4.7

(152)

About Kanban Tool

Kanban Tool is a project management platform that enables users to visualize and organize their workflow. The solution offers real-time team collaboration tools and helps organizations to manage project tasks, track deadlines and allocate resources using digital kanban cards. On-premise and cloud-based deployments are available, with complimentary Android and iOS mobile applications. Kanban Tool includes easy task management, time tracking, process automation, team collaboration features, file sharing and automatically generated analytics. Users can organize tasks into backlogged items that require completion, in-progress tasks and completed objectives, in a way that best suits their specific workflow. Kanban Tool can also help predict project completion dates...

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Kanban Tool Pricing

ENTERPRISE Plan: $11 per user a month TEAM Plan: $6 per user a month FREE plan: free for 2 users, 2 boards, no file attachments. No extra fees, no credit card required for trial. You can upgrade, downgrade or cancel at any time. Learn more details at https://kanbantool.com/pricing We also offer offline software for companies to deploy on their local server: KANBAN TOOL ON-SITE ENTERPRISE: $1320 per 10-user pack/year. Mirrors the features of kanbantool.com Enterprise, except for web-based integrations. KANBAN TOOL ON-SITE TEAM: $720 per 10-user pack/year. Mirrors the features of kanbantool.com Team, except for web-based integrations. Learn more at https://kanbantool.com/kanban-tool-on-site/

Starting price: 

$6.00 per month

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Available

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Kanban Tool Reviews

Overall Rating

4.7

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Kanban Tool

1 - 5 of 153 Reviews

User Profile

Isaiah

Verified reviewer

Telecommunications, 51-200 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed April 2022

Kanban Tool user of 5 years

My overall experience has been good, quick setup, customization, and the support group was very responsive to any challenges I experienced with the product.

PROS

When I became a project manager, I originally discovered Kanban Tools and wanted a visual way of tracking small sub-projects with short life cycles. It was easy to set up and adjust to the project's demands.

CONS

Today, I can't think of any cons, as most of them have been worked out. However, I will suggest more ideas to improve Kanban Tools with continued use.

Reason for choosing Kanban Tool

Kanban Tools met my primary goal of visual tracking with the flexibility to adjust the tasks boxes and swim lanes.

Reasons for switching to Kanban Tool

Excel was just too rigid and non-visual. My engineering colleagues were using Excel to track tasks of a project that I despise.

Alex

Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed March 2022

Excellent Light-to-Medium Weight Tool

I love this tool. It's exactly what I need, and customization is a breeze. If you're new to task boards and/or have a smaller, simpler team or workflows, start with this before you dive into the deep end with Atlassian or other products, especially if your focus is more on "seeing the big picture" than keeping a detailed log of work across a large number of team members

PROS

It does everything I need from a Kanban Board out of the box, does so intuitively, and does not get bogged down in optimizations/extra features. However, if you want them, they're easy to implement.

CONS

It feels more like it was designed and documented by engineers rather than sales staff, and its no-frills design is a big selling point for me, but others may disagree. It's "simple out of the box, opt-in to additional features" also means a little more upfront configuration, but I still think it's good design. A few minor nice-to-have features (colored tags, saving multiple filtered views) might be missing or paywalled, but I haven't explored all the possibilities in their documentation yet.

Reason for choosing Kanban Tool

Free out of the box use of swimlanes, expand/collapse swimlanes and columns, easy filters, splitting columns into sub-columns, expanding width of columns to be more than 1-card wide, etc. A lot of the clever visualization ideas I've seen in books like "Making Work Visible" and "Personal Kanban" are possible here that would be impossible or a nightmare to configure in other products I've tried.

Soumalya

Information Technology and Services, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed July 2021

Kanban Board

Better than Leankit board or other project management tools on licensing and management perspective

PROS

Organized way of managing cards dedicated board and proper lanes More controlled way of Moving cards More scalability to add subtasks and metrics

CONS

Its not very intuitive in designing Should be more user centric on access level

Reasons for switching to Kanban Tool

More robust and scalable

Michael

Education Management, 10,000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed April 2022

Excellent Tool for the Size

So far having used Jira for almost two decades, this tool is refreshing in its lightness and simplicity. This is not sacrificed in feature or function just overhead and noise which is appreciated. I find it very helpful for my own personal use and management of family and work projects in parallel to at work tools that are exclusive to enterprise tasks and hard to privatize.

PROS

I like that the interface is clean and fluid. The core features as compared with a much larger tool like Jira is there and functions equally well and, in some cases, better. The product is light, able to maintain a single interface without too many page changes taking you out of the element. It has potential for growth, but it doesn't try to replicate Jira which is a plus.

CONS

There isn't something that I don't like per se, just perhaps unable to test since I am on the free tier. The fact that they have a free tier is a plus. Some of the desired features lacking in free tier feel like they should be included. The function of some powerups are hard to understand as they are not explained. When you do activate them, it is not readily clear how they should work, better onboarding would be welcome. The right column where the calendar, recurring and postponed tasks are located are fixed in size and not fluid, so if you have more in one and less in others, you have a ton of wasted space.

Reason for choosing Kanban Tool

I like the best balance of feature and simplicity with the lightweight approach that fit my personal needs.

Trineka

Primary/Secondary Education, 11-50 employees

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed August 2020

Excellent

I can't believe how user friendly Kanban Tool is. We have used the physical Kanban board in the past, but using it online is great when one of us is offsite, we can easily check or add to our boards.

PROS

Having completed the Agile Foundation Course a few years ago, the Kanban Tool was a real find. It is quick, effective and good use of both our time. We have a quick 'stand-up' every day to look at the board and what each of us have added. We love the fact it is easy to move tasks around, add check lists, due dates and new boards and assign tasks to each other.

CONS

It may just be a feature I haven't discovered, but I would like to make the actual board wider across the page.

Reason for choosing Kanban Tool

We had completed the Agile Foundation course a couple of years ago and have introduced Kanban throughout the school to other teams. So discovering this online version was a real find!

Reasons for switching to Kanban Tool

Being a school, we were looking to cut costs and were very happy to find Kanban Tool.