Issue tracking that moves in real time.
Nimbus is a realtime kanban board for teams — cards, comments, and assignments land on every screen the moment they change.
Set up in under a minute — invite your whole team
Migrate auth to PKCE flow
Bulk-assign issues via cmd+k
Workspace audit log export
Realtime presence indicators
JWT refresh token rotation
RBAC role inheritance model
Sub-issue dependency graph
Webhook delivery retries
Multi-tenant workspace isolation
Invite flow + magic links
Keyboard shortcut layer
Everything a team needs to track work.
One board for planning, tracking, and shipping — with the plumbing handled.
Realtime board
Move a card and everyone sees it — same moment, same screen. Presence, comments, and assignments sync over WebSockets without a refresh.
Migrate auth to PKCE flow
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Bulk-assign issues via cmd+k
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Realtime presence indicators
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JWT refresh token rotation
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Sub-issue dependency graph
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Webhook delivery retries
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Synced over WebSockets — no polling, no page reloads
Workspaces & roles
Every workspace is an isolated tenant with its own members and permissions. No shared state, no leakage.
Roles: owner · admin · member
Issue tracking & search
Every bug, task, and feature lives in one searchable backlog — found in a keystroke, not a meeting.
Full-text search across every issue
Auth & access control
Session-based auth with rotating refresh tokens, scoped to each workspace. Who can see what stays explicit.
JWT access + rotating refresh
Migrate auth to PKCE flow
Bulk-assign issues via cmd+k
Workspace audit log export
Realtime presence indicators
JWT refresh token rotation
RBAC role inheritance model
Sub-issue dependency graph
Webhook delivery retries
Multi-tenant workspace isolation
Invite flow + magic links
Keyboard shortcut layer
Every change lands on every screen.
Drag a card, assign an issue, drop a comment — teammates see it the moment it happens. No refresh, no polling, no “did you get that?”
Read the API docsFrom empty workspace to shipped.
Four steps, one loop — set up the tenant, bring the team in, triage the backlog, ship.
Create a workspace
Spin up an isolated tenant with its own boards, members, and roles — in seconds, not sprints.
Invite the team
Send invites with the right role attached. Owner, admin, member — each scoped to what they need.
Triage and assign
Pull work into the backlog, tag and search it, then assign owners onto the live board.
Ship
Move cards through to done and watch it land on every screen in realtime — then start the next loop.
Nimbus vs the tools you are already paying for.
Honest, dated feature and pricing comparisons. If another tool is a better fit, the page says so.
$0
Forever, with no per-seat pricing
No trial · no card · no catchUnlimited
Boards, issues, and team members
No caps, no gatesRealtime
WebSocket sync, no refresh or polling
Live the moment it changesMIT
Open source on GitHub
Read it, run it, fork itQuestions teams ask before switching.
Straight answers about pricing, open source, and what Nimbus does — and what it deliberately does not.
Nimbus is a free, open-source realtime kanban issue tracker for teams. Boards, cards, comments, and assignments sync to every screen over WebSockets the moment they change, with no refresh and no polling. Nothing to install — it runs entirely in the browser.
Yes. Nimbus is free for every team with no trial clock, no per-seat pricing, no board or issue limits, and no feature gates. There is no paid tier today and no credit card required — sign up with your email and start tracking.
Yes. Nimbus is open source under the MIT license, with the full source available on GitHub. You can read the code, run your own instance, or contribute to the roadmap.
No. Nimbus is a hosted web app — sign up, sign in, and start tracking from any browser. There is no download, no server to run, and no infrastructure to maintain. Nimbus handles hosting, storage, and access control for you.
Nimbus combines live presence and realtime sync with $0 pricing. Jira free caps at 10 users, Linear free caps at 250 issues, and Trello free caps at 10 boards — Nimbus has unlimited boards, issues, and members at no cost, and everyone on the board sees changes the moment they happen.
For teams that track work on a kanban board, yes. Nimbus is kanban-first and deliberately simple: workspaces with roles, full-text search, labels, presence, and an activity log. Teams that need scrum sprints, burndown reports, or a large integration ecosystem should compare carefully first.
Last updated August 2026. Pricing and limits reflect the current release.
Ship your first sprint today.
Create a workspace and invite the team — the board is live the moment you open it.