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Kanri vs Super Productivity
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Kanri and Super Productivity — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Kanri vs Super Productivity: 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 Super Productivity?
A solo-focused task manager grows a plugin layer and, quietly, a collaboration story
Super Productivity is a cross-platform task and time-tracking app shipping every one to two weeks. The recent stream is dense with planning ergonomics — recurring task settings folded into the planner's schedule dialog, add-task short syntax highlighted as you type, existing tasks appearing in tagged board columns, archived tasks restorable to Today, a single-day view on the Schedule tab. Underneath that, sync has become a named priority: concurrent edits to different fields of the same task now merge instead of one silently overwriting the other.
Kanri vs Super Productivity: 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.
A solo-focused task manager grows a plugin layer and, quietly, a collaboration story
◆ Current state
Super Productivity is a cross-platform task and time-tracking app shipping every one to two weeks. The recent stream is dense with planning ergonomics — recurring task settings folded into the planner's schedule dialog, add-task short syntax highlighted as you type, existing tasks appearing in tagged board columns, archived tasks restorable to Today, a single-day view on the Schedule tab. Underneath that, sync has become a named priority: concurrent edits to different fields of the same task now merge instead of one silently overwriting the other.
◆ Where it's heading
Two structural changes sit beneath the feature churn. Built-in issue providers are being converted into plugins — Azure DevOps and Trello have moved, and Todoist import arrived as a plugin rather than as core code — which turns integrations into a surface others can extend. In parallel, Plainspace integration has introduced shared projects, task creation and polling into an app whose design assumptions have been single-user and local-first. The sync merge work reads as a prerequisite for that: shared data makes silent last-write-wins a real data-loss risk rather than a rare annoyance.
◆ Prediction
Expect more built-in integrations to migrate to plugins and Plainspace collaboration to keep expanding, with continued sync-conflict work as the multi-user surface widens.
Alternatives to Kanri and Super Productivity
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 Super Productivity.
Planify
A GNOME task app that has turned CalDAV interoperability into the product.
GanttProject
A desktop Gantt tool on a multi-year cadence, tethering itself to its own cloud
Notion
Notion is turning itself into the place other companies' agents come to work.
Akiflow
A time-blocking client spending its releases on calendar correctness and crash fixes
Roadmunk
Roadmapping tool in slow, presentation-focused upkeep with a scrambled release feed
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Recent activity from Kanri and Super Productivity
Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
- 6d agoSuper ProductivityRecurring task settings move into the planner's schedule dialog
- 13d agoSuper ProductivityConcurrent edits to different task fields now merge instead of overwriting
- 17d agoSuper ProductivityDevelopment tag carrying a project-move sync fix
- 20d agoSuper ProductivityTodoist import, drag-and-drop task creation and an Android widget
- 29d agoSuper ProductivityPlainspace collaboration expands and wallpapers gain per-context overrides
- 1mo agoSuper ProductivityIssue providers become plugins and Plainspace brings shared projects ⚡
- 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 Super Productivity?
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Super Productivity is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 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 Super Productivity?
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Super Productivity is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 5.0 vs 0.0), with 0 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 Super Productivity?
Top Super Productivity alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Super Productivity alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/super-productivity for the full list with editorial commentary on each.