Boards that stay readable
A card shows four things: its key, its title, who is on it, and one small chip. Tags are a thin colour bar, not a row of pills. Drag a card to another column and it stays there, even after a restart.
Everything a small team needs to ship.
Nothing else.
devBoard is a project tracker for freelancers and small dev teams. Boards, epics, releases and a timer, in an app for iPhone, Android and Mac. It opens at once and answers to your keyboard. No browser tab. No forty-field setup screen you fill in once and never look at again.
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Projects
Settings ⌘,
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Board
Epics
Releases
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live
To do 4
DEV-142 Onboarding
Invite flow drops the workspace on cold start
DBSep 2
DEV-147
Tabular figures for board counts
MKlow
In progress 2
DEV-151 Packaging
DMG signing and notarisation on the release runner
DBAug 28
DEV-149
Reconnect method streams after sleep
AShigh
Done 11
DEV-138 Realtime
Board refetches its shape on a remote move
DB2h 15m
DEV-131
Command palette opens on ⌘K
MK45m
Why another one
Your tracker was built for a 200-person company.
You are four people. You do not need portfolios, workload charts or six view types. You need to know three things. What am I doing today? What is blocking the release? Where did the last three hours go? The tool should answer, not become a second job.
What is in it
Built for how small teams actually work
Epics, releases and tags
Three levels of work: epic, task, subtask. Plus releases and tags for each project, each with a screen of its own. The epic a card belongs to shows on the board, not in a hidden panel.
Time tracking that is not a chore
Start a timer on the task you are looking at. Or add time you forgot to track. Comments and an activity feed sit next to it, so the record writes itself.
My Work, sorted by when
Everything assigned to you, as Overdue, Today, This week, Later and No date. Plus a private to-do list with reminders, for the small things that never deserved a ticket.
Saved views and filters
Build a filter once. Save it. Share it with your workspace. The same view drives the board and the list, so nobody has to rebuild a search to see what you saw.
Realtime, properly
Two people on the same board see each other's moves without a refresh. Cards moving between columns, not just text changing. If your connection drops, the app catches up when it is back.
Keyboard-first
Drivable end to end without a mouse
The desktop app is built around a command palette and a few bare keys. A reference sheet is one keystroke away. Window size and position survive a restart. On a Mac there is a real menu bar.
- ⌘K Command palette: jump to anything, run anything
- ? The full shortcut list
- N New item, wherever you are
- G My Work
- 1–9 Move the open item to a column
> rele
Go to Releases project
Create release… action
DEV-151 · DMG signing and notarisation item
Filter: unreleased items view
Toggle theme action
Works with your AI assistant
Your board, inside Claude Code and Cursor
devBoard is an MCP server. Connect it once. Then your assistant can read the ticket it is working on, open new ones, comment, move the card and track the time. It acts as you, in one workspace, with your role.
- 1 Create a token in the Mac app, under Settings → Developer
- 2 Add
api.getdevboard.app/mcpto Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop - 3 Ask it what is on your plate
what's on my plate today?
devboard · my_work
overdue DEV-142 Fix push on unassign
today DEV-151 DMG signing and notarisation
start DEV-151
devboard · start_work
assigned you · moved to In progress · timer on
branch dev-151-dmg-signing-notarisation
done, it's notarised. close it out
devboard · finish_work
timer stopped at 47 min · commented · moved to Done
An app, not a tab
Built for your phone and your Mac
devBoard is an app built for each platform, not a website in a window. The desktop build is made for a pointer and a keyboard. The phone build is not the desktop layout with the sidebar taken off. Rows, sheets and tap targets are its own.
On the App Store for iPhone and Mac, and on Google Play. Windows and Linux are next. There is no web version, and there will not be one. The app opens at once, even with no signal, and shows your My Work list. Boards and edits need a connection. More about the apps.
Compare
Next to the tool you use now
Fair comparisons. Each one says what the other tool does better, and who should stay on it.
- devBoard vs ClickUpClickUp puts tasks, docs, chat and automations in one tool. devBoard is a small tracker with a timer. What each one does better, and who should stay.
- devBoard vs JiraJira fits software teams of ten or more with someone to run it. devBoard is a small tracker with a timer. What each one does better, and who should stay.
- devBoard vs LinearLinear is a fast issue tracker that runs in a browser, with no built-in time tracking. devBoard is a small tracker with a timer. What each one does better.
- devBoard vs TrelloTrello is the simplest board there is. devBoard adds epics, releases and a timer for dev work. What each does better, and who should stay on Trello.
Guides
Short guides, one job each
- Connect devBoard to Claude CodeMake a token in the devBoard Mac app, add one command to Claude Code, and ask what is on your plate. It takes about two minutes.
- Connect devBoard to CursorAdd devBoard to Cursor's mcp.json with a token from the Mac app. Then Cursor can read your tasks, comment, move cards and track time.
- Connect devBoard to VS CodeAdd devBoard to .vscode/mcp.json. VS Code asks for your token once and keeps it out of the file, so the file is safe to commit.
FAQ
Questions, answered straight
Can I use it yet?
Yes. Get it on the App Store for iPhone and Mac, or on Google Play for Android. Windows and Linux are still being packaged.
Is there a web version?
No, and that is on purpose. A tracker you open twenty times a day should open at once and show your board. A browser tab is the wrong shape for that. devBoard is an app on every platform it ships to. Here is why.
How is it different from ClickUp, Jira or Linear?
It is smaller on purpose. There are no portfolios, no automation builder and no custom field designer. You get boards, three levels of work, releases, tags, saved views, comments, attachments and time tracking. Then it stops. We wrote fair comparisons: devBoard vs ClickUp, devBoard vs Jira and devBoard vs Linear.
Does it work for a team, or just one person?
Both. Workspaces, members, roles and invites were in from the first version. A freelancer with several clients gets a workspace for each client. A small team shares one.
Does it work with AI coding assistants?
Yes. devBoard is an MCP server. Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Desktop can search and read your items. They can create and edit them, comment, move cards and log time, acting as you. The setup takes about a minute.
What does it cost?
Free while in early access; paid plans will be one plain number, posted here first. It will not be a grid of seat tiers.
Who makes it?
App Tube, a small studio in Serbia. devBoard is a sibling to dev.log. That one solves the other half of the same problem: remembering what you did. More about us.