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Kanri vs Resource Guru
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Kanri and Resource Guru — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Kanri vs Resource Guru: at a glance
What is Kanri?
An offline-first kanban app whose solo maintainer has been quiet for ten months.
Kanri is a desktop-only, offline-first kanban board built on Tauri and maintained largely by one developer with community translation help. The last three releases pushed it past the basics into territory where it can replace a hosted board for a single user: tags, due dates, property-filtered search, and multilanguage support. Nothing has shipped since September 2025.
What is Resource Guru?
Resource Guru opens its scheduling data to AI assistants with an MCP server.
Resource Guru ships small, steady scheduling changes on a blog that also carries search-oriented content. The recent product work is view-layer control: reorderable Projects columns including custom fields, colour-coding bookings by custom field value, and an opt-in daily digest of placeholder bookings. The MCP server is the first move outside that pattern, exposing account data to AI assistants through plain-language questions.
Kanri vs Resource Guru: editorial side-by-side
Kanri
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An offline-first kanban app whose solo maintainer has been quiet for ten months.
◆ Current state
Kanri is a desktop-only, offline-first kanban board built on Tauri and maintained largely by one developer with community translation help. The last three releases pushed it past the basics into territory where it can replace a hosted board for a single user: tags, due dates, property-filtered search, and multilanguage support. Nothing has shipped since September 2025.
◆ Where it's heading
The arc from v0.5 to v0.8 is a march toward parity with Trello for the local-first case — import paths from Trello and GitHub Projects first, then the tags and due dates those imports carry, then search that filters on them. Release intervals stretched from weeks to months to nearly a year, and the maintainer said v0.8.2 was held back by dependency migrations and Linux compatibility work.
◆ Prediction
The visible pattern is a long silence followed by one bundled release, so a v0.8.3 or v0.9 collecting deferred fixes and new translations is the likeliest next move. Ten months without a tag gives no basis for a date.
Resource Guru opens its scheduling data to AI assistants with an MCP server.
◆ Current state
Resource Guru ships small, steady scheduling changes on a blog that also carries search-oriented content. The recent product work is view-layer control: reorderable Projects columns including custom fields, colour-coding bookings by custom field value, and an opt-in daily digest of placeholder bookings. The MCP server is the first move outside that pattern, exposing account data to AI assistants through plain-language questions.
◆ Where it's heading
Two tracks are running at once. The visible one is incremental configurability, letting schedulers reshape existing views around their own custom fields rather than introducing new planning concepts. The MCP server points elsewhere: if asking who is free and who is overbooked moves into whatever assistant a manager already has open, the product's own interface stops being the only way in. The recent Trello and ClickUp integrations and external Gantt links read as the same widening of access from a different angle.
◆ Prediction
Expect custom fields to reach further into filtering and reporting next, and the MCP surface to grow from read-only questions toward creating or amending bookings.
Alternatives to Kanri and Resource Guru
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 Kanri or Resource Guru.
Planify
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GanttProject
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Super Productivity
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Notion
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Akiflow
A time-blocking client spending its releases on calendar correctness and crash fixes
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Recent activity from Kanri and Resource Guru
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 1d agoResource GuruConnect Resource Guru to AI tools: Introducing our MCP server ⚡
- 2d agoResource GuruCapacity planning guide: Definitions, strategies, and formulas
- 8d agoResource GuruGet a daily summary of placeholder bookings
- 9d agoResource GuruCustomize the Projects view
- 18d agoResource GuruColor-code bookings by custom field
- 25d agoResource GuruResource Guru Reviews: What Real Customers Have to Say
- 10mo agoKanriSystem theme following, completable due dates, emoji sidebar pins
- 10mo agoKanriFive community translations and property-filtered search
- 1y agoKanriMultilanguage support and GitHub Projects import
- 2y agoKanriTrello imports carry tags and due dates
- 2y agoKanriCard tags, due dates, and search land together ⚡
- 2y agoKanriHotfix for unsaved card task checkboxes
Frequently asked questions
What is the difference between Kanri and Resource Guru?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Resource Guru is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 0.0), with 1 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 Kanri better than Resource Guru?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Resource Guru is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 6.3 vs 0.0), with 1 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 Kanri?
Top Kanri alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Kanri alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/kanri for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
What are the best alternatives to Resource Guru?
Top Resource Guru alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Resource Guru alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/resource-guru for the full list with editorial commentary on each.