Introducing Kan Do: A Fast, No-Subscription Kanban App for Your Apple Devices

I just launched a brand new task app for all your Apple devices. It is called Kan Do. If you love Kanban boards and hate ongoing subscriptions, this might be exactly what you have been looking for. It is available across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and even Apple Vision Pro.

A Kanban experience built for speed

Kan Do is a project management app entirely focused on Kanban boards. It is built natively in Swift, making it lightning-fast whether you are swiping across columns or rearranging tasks. The main navigation keeps things simple with smart lists for your Inbox, Today, Upcoming, and Flagged items. Below that, you can create broad Spaces and nest specific Projects underneath them.

Customizing your boards

1. Open any project to view your tasks in a standard Kanban column layout.
2. Tap the view button at the top to toggle into a traditional list view if you prefer it.
3. Open the project settings to adjust the icon and color for quick visual grouping.
4. Drag and drop a task directly into a new column, or drag a divider line to cleanly separate different groups of tasks.

Pro tip: You can customize exactly how the app behaves in the settings. Choose whether to hide or show task counts, pick your default view, and decide if completed tasks should stay on the board or move to the archive.

Rich text and attachments for every task

Apple Reminders is great, but it limits your notes and attachments. I needed a single place to manage video projects with rich text, PDFs, and multiple links all attached to a single task. Kan Do was built to fix this exact problem.

Here is how to use it

1. Tap on any task to expand the note screen.
2. Type in Markdown, or use the styling menu to manually add formatting like Bold, Italic, or a To-Do checklist.
3. Drag and drop PDFs, documents, or multiple images directly into the task. Double-click any attachment to open it in a quick preview.
4. Add multiple web links using the Add Link button in the task details screen.

Pro tip: You can add a specific subtitle and a header image in the task details. Both of these will display beautifully right on the main column view.

Deep support for Apple Shortcuts

Many task apps skimp on automation. Kan Do comes with robust Shortcuts actions right out of the box. You can completely automate your project management without even opening the app.

Setting up an automation

1. Open the Apple Shortcuts app and search for Kan Do.
2. Choose an action like Add Task, Complete Task, or Open Project.
3. For a new task, set the exact destination by choosing the Space, Project, and Column.
4. Apply Tags, a Priority, or a Due Date right from the shortcut.

What this unlocks for you

• Build custom templates that automatically generate recurring project columns.
• Rapidly capture ideas into your inbox from anywhere on your device.
• Automatically mark tasks as complete when you finish a specific workflow.

Import your existing Reminders

Moving to a new task manager should not mean starting from scratch. You can import your tasks directly from Apple Reminders into your Kan Do boards.

How to bring your tasks over

1. Open Kan Do's settings and tap Import from Reminders.
2. Choose the specific list you want to pull from.
3. Select an existing project destination, or choose New Project to land the tasks in a fresh board.

Keep in mind that Apple limits third-party access to some data. Images and URLs attached to your Apple Reminders will not carry over during the import process.

How I built this using Claude

Here is the craziest part about Kan Do. I do not know how to code in Swift. I built this entire app using Claude.

I opened Xcode, created a new project, and connected the Claude agent directly to my workspace. By talking to Claude and feeding it prompts, the app slowly came to life. I used the Fable model and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to handle the heavy lifting. When I hit walls, like a stubborn bug where tasks refused to drop into an empty column, I collaborated with other developers to push past it.

It was a wild process, but it proves exactly how far AI-assisted coding has come for independent creators.

No subscriptions, just $3

Let's talk pricing. There is absolutely no subscription for Kan Do. It is a simple, one-time purchase of $3. That gets you the app everywhere. You buy it once and use it across your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Vision Pro with seamless iCloud sync keeping everything up to date.

You can grab it on the App Store right now. I have plenty of features planned for future updates, including support for collaboration. Give it a spin and see how it speeds up your workflow.