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Fibery vs Planka
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Fibery and Planka — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Fibery vs Planka: at a glance
What is Fibery?
Fibery is letting AI build the entity page itself, not just the apps around it.
Fibery ships weekly, and most releases now extend Custom Apps, its AI-built interface layer that went public in August. Over two months that layer was added to rich text, rebuilt on a versioned platform and opened to external agents via MCP. With this release it can replace the default entity view. A rebuilt single-agent AI with a model picker, AI-readable whiteboards and suggestion mode bring AI into more of the workspace.
What is Planka?
Planka's release feed tracks its Helm chart, not the board app itself.
The four entries tracked for Planka, the self-hosted Kanban board, are Helm chart releases for deploying it on Kubernetes, from 2.0.2 in February to 2.2.0 in August. Each carries the same one-line chart description and no notes about what changed.
Fibery vs Planka: editorial side-by-side
Fibery
8.8PM
Fibery is letting AI build the entity page itself, not just the apps around it.
◆ Current state
Fibery ships weekly, and most releases now extend Custom Apps, its AI-built interface layer that went public in August. Over two months that layer was added to rich text, rebuilt on a versioned platform and opened to external agents via MCP. With this release it can replace the default entity view. A rebuilt single-agent AI with a model picker, AI-readable whiteboards and suggestion mode bring AI into more of the workspace.
◆ Where it's heading
The product is moving from configurable views toward views you describe in a prompt. Users and external agents (Claude, Codex via MCP) build the interface, and Fibery supplies the data model and permissions. The cost side keeps showing up too: usage dashboards, extra-usage billing and new per-workspace AI credit caps show that AI consumption is now something Fibery has to manage commercially.
◆ Prediction
Expect App Views and Custom Apps to spread into more surfaces (templates, sharing, field-usage tracking) and further AI credit pricing changes as usage grows. Whether suggestion mode will cover tables and embeds depends on user feedback, which the team says it is waiting for.
Planka
0.0PM
Planka's release feed tracks its Helm chart, not the board app itself.
◆ Current state
The four entries tracked for Planka, the self-hosted Kanban board, are Helm chart releases for deploying it on Kubernetes, from 2.0.2 in February to 2.2.0 in August. Each carries the same one-line chart description and no notes about what changed.
◆ Where it's heading
The chart moved through two minor versions in six months, which points to ongoing support for Kubernetes deployments. The entries say nothing about changes to the Planka application itself.
◆ Prediction
Unclear from these entries; another chart release is likely when the app ships a new version, but its content can't be predicted.
Alternatives to Fibery and Planka
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Fibery or Planka.
Camunda
Camunda's 8.10 RC train turns into a bug sweep while 8.7 Optimize stays on CVE duty.
SmartSuite
SmartSuite opens its workspace to AI assistants through a hosted MCP server that acts as the user.
Float
Float is moving from who's-free scheduling toward staffing on experience and pricing on rate cards.
Tracecat
Tracecat is turning its agent runtime into enterprise infrastructure: sandbox limits, SCIM, unified executors.
NocoBase
NocoBase keeps wiring its AI employees into real data, citations and model choice.
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Recent activity from Fibery and Planka
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 3d agoFiberyOctober 1, 2026 / 🔥 Custom Apps as Entity Views, Suggestion mode for rich text ⚡
- 10d agoFiberySeptember 24, 2026 / :french_fries: Better tables in Rich text, See where a field is used before you delete it
- 17d agoFiberySeptember 17, 2026 / New Fibery AI Agent, Whiteboards and AI, Space templates with files and images, OAuth Applications ⚡
- 24d agoFiberySeptember 10, 2026 / Hide parents without children in filters, Color coding for cards and text styles on Whiteboard
- 1mo agoFiberySeptember 3, 2026 / Custom Apps updates, Set a load limit for Lists and Tables on Entity View, Multi-window support in the desktop app ⚡
- 1mo agoFiberyAugust 27, 2026 / Usage dashboard, manually edit custom apps
- 1mo agoPlankaPlanka Helm chart 2.2.0
- 6mo agoPlankaPlanka Helm chart 2.1.0
- 7mo agoPlankaPlanka Helm chart 2.0.3
- 7mo agoPlankaPlanka Helm chart 2.0.2
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Fibery and Planka?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Fibery is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 8.8 vs 0.0), with 2 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Is Fibery better than Planka?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Fibery is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 8.8 vs 0.0), with 2 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
What are the best alternatives to Fibery?
Top Fibery alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Fibery alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/fibery for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Planka?
Top Planka alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Planka alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/planka for the full list with editorial commentary on each.