How it works
From the first card to the terminal
Kanban Planner needs no setup, no assistant and no account. Open it, create a plan, get going. If you want, hang Claude Code on the same board afterwards.
First steps
Three moves and the board is standing
There are three levels — plan, bucket, card. There is no more structure than that, and none is needed.
Create a plan
A plan is an undertaking: “Projects”, “Household”, “Taxes 2026”. The free tier comes with one; Pro gives you as many as you like.
Cut your buckets and colour them
Buckets are your columns. Whether Backlog → In progress → Done or Monday to Friday is your call. New cards take on the colour of their bucket, so the board stays readable at a glance.
Fill the cards
A title is enough. Checklist, dates, priority, labels, attachments and a goal come along when you need them. Dragging changes more than the position: move a card to “Done” and it closes.
Day to day
The day, the week, the goal
Morning: fill My Day
You decide once what counts today. The rest stays on the board and keeps out of it. By evening the day’s list is empty again — the board is exactly as it was.
In between: tick off from the widget
On the Home and Lock Screen and in Notification Center, the checklist is tappable. One tap does it; the app can stay closed.
Sunday: let the week lay itself out
The week plan takes due date, goal, priority and size and builds a week that fits the capacity you set. You correct instead of sort.
Model Context Protocol
Hang Claude on the same board
The MCP helper is a small program for the Mac. It opens the same data store as the Mac app — nothing travels through anyone else’s server, because there is none. Whatever Claude changes is on your iPhone seconds later, through iCloud.
Install the Mac app and open it once
On first launch the app creates its data store and signs in to iCloud. Only then does the helper have anything to read.
Download the MCP helper
The helper is downloaded separately from the app — Developer ID signed and notarised by Apple. macOS 15 or later.
Register it with Claude Code
One command in the terminal, and Claude knows your plans. For Claude Desktop and other MCP clients, put the same path into their configuration.
Talk instead of type
From here on Claude reads and writes straight into your plans — no export, no clipboard, nothing copied out of a chat window.
Claude cannot delete. The helper has no tool for removing or archiving cards — that stays with you. An assistant that tidies up is an assistant that loses things.
Where data lives
Where all of this sits
On your device and — if you use syncing — in your own private iCloud database. There is no point along the way where your cards would pass us.
Get it. Open your terminal.
The free tier needs no account — your first board can be standing in two minutes.