wmux · comparison
Migrating off Vibe Kanban?
Vibe Kanban gave thousands of developers their first taste of orchestrating multiple coding agents from one board. With Bloop's wind-down announced in April 2026, the project moved to community maintenance — and many of its users are now looking for an actively developed home for the same workflow.
wmux covers the same job with a different center of gravity: instead of a kanban board over headless executors, it is a workspace multiplexer — your agents are live terminal panes you can watch, interrupt, and talk to, grouped into workspaces with a fleet cockpit, channels, and git worktree fan-out built in.
| wmux | Vibe Kanban | |
|---|---|---|
| Actively developed (as of Aug 2026) | ✓ | partial |
| Open source | ✓ | ✓ |
| Parallel tasks in isolated git worktrees | ✓ | ✓ |
| Multi-vendor agents | ✓ | ✓ |
| Live terminal access to each agent * | ✓ | partial |
| Fleet overview of every agent + approval inbox | ✓ | partial |
| Per-hunk adoption of task diffs | ✓ | ✕ |
| Agent-to-agent channels | ✓ | ✕ |
| Keep processes on app quit; recover saved work after reboot | ✓ | ✕ |
| Built-in browser agents can drive (CDP) | ✓ | ✕ |
| Kanban-style board UI | ✕ | ✓ |
* Live terminal access to each agent: Vibe Kanban drives agents as executors behind cards; wmux gives every agent a real PTY pane you can type into at any moment.
What Vibe Kanban got right
- The kanban mental model — a queue of agent tasks you triage — was a genuinely good idea, and the project stayed agent-agnostic from day one.
- It is still open source; the community fork continues under a permissive license.
What you get by moving to wmux
- The same fan-out: one prompt → up to 8 tasks, each in its own worktree with its own agent pane and a private mission channel.
- A harvest step Vibe Kanban never had: side-by-side diffs where you tick the hunks you want and adopt them in one atomic git apply — or open a PR in one click.
- Fleet View: every agent across every workspace in one panel, blocked ones floated to the top, with a unified approval inbox.
- A daemon that keeps terminal processes running when the app closes, with saved workspaces and agent conversations available for recovery after an OS reboot.
- Native Windows and macOS apps, auto-updating, MIT-licensed.
If the board itself was the part you loved, the community fork of Vibe Kanban still exists. If what you actually needed was the outcome — many agents working in parallel, safely, with a fast way to review and land the good parts — wmux is built for exactly that, and it ships every week.