Empty every morning
You decide once what counts today. The rest stays on the board and keeps out of it. By evening the list is gone — the board is not.
MCP server · iPhone · iPad · Mac
Kanban Planner is a native task app for iPhone, iPad and Mac that Claude Code can work directly. Add cards, tick them off, plan the week — from the terminal or with your thumb. Your data stays in your own iCloud.
Structure
Kanban Planner is a board for one person — no teams, no roles, no sharing. What is left is the machinery that actually carries the day.
“Projects”, “Household”, “Taxes 2026”. One comes with the free tier; with Pro, as many as you like.
Backlog → In progress → Done, or Monday → Tuesday → Wednesday: you name them and you colour them. New cards take on the colour of the bucket they land in.
Checklist, dates, priority, colour, labels, attachments. Dragged from column to column — with a finger, with a mouse, or by Claude.
Features
All of it is built native in SwiftUI — no webview, no Electron. It opens at once, it scrolls like iOS, and it works on a plane.
You decide once what counts today. The rest stays on the board and keeps out of it. By evening the list is gone — the board is not.
Due date, goal, priority and size all count. What comes out is a week that fits into a working day. You correct instead of sort.
Put cards under a goal and you can see what moves you forward — and what merely kept you busy.
Daily, weekly, on the last working day of the month. Ticking one off creates the next, in the right bucket.
Weekly · next card on Wed 3 Sep
Open issues and pull requests show up as cards. Read-only — your board stays your board.
On the Home Screen, on the Lock Screen and in Notification Center. The checklist is not just visible there, it is tappable — one tap, ticked, done.
Model Context Protocol
Kanban Planner comes with an MCP server of its own. Connect it once and Claude reads and writes straight into your plans. No export, no clipboard, nothing copied out of a chat window. And because it all travels through iCloud, the result is on your iPhone seconds later.
list_plansRead plans, buckets and their colourslist_cardsFilter cards — by bucket, goal, date or statuscreate_cardAdd a card, with checklist, date and priorityupdate_cardChange title, bucket, priority or statusset_checklist_itemTick off single itemscreate_goalCreate a goal and let cards count towards itupdate_bucketRename a bucket or change its colourplan_weekSpread open tasks across the weekClaude cannot delete. Archiving or removing cards stays with you. An assistant that tidies up is an assistant that loses things.
Turn the three TODOs in this diff into cards and hang them on the “Version 2.0” goal.
Claude is reading your code anyway. Now it writes down what is still open.
Push everything that will not happen today to tomorrow — except the release.
One sentence instead of twelve drags. The board then looks the way you planned it.
Plan my week and tell me what I should drop.
The week plan does the spreading. Claude explains why Thursday does not add up.
Where data lives
Kanban Planner writes to your own private iCloud database. There is no server of ours, no sign-up, no analytics, no tracking pixel. We could not read your cards even if we wanted to — there is simply no point along the way where they would pass us.
Price
No subscription, no tiers, no price rise next spring. You buy the app and then it is yours — on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Enough to run a project in earnest. And enough to find out whether the app suits you.
No card, no email address
Everything unlocked, for good, on all your Apple devices. Family Sharing included.
Pay once · nothing to cancel
Kanban Planner runs on iPhone, iPad and Mac. The free tier needs no account — your first board can be standing in two minutes.