In September 2025 I wrote about Signboard and had started scratching away at making an app that I had wanted for a long time.
Since then, I’ve been using the app and I’m so happy that it exists and it is really fun to work on. At each opportunity, I’d add a feature, fix a bug, add a feature, fix a bug. You keep doing that enough times in a row and months later you have something usable. And Signboard is definitely very usable.
Last week Signboard hit 1.0.0. I made a landing page for the app. The app has all of the major features I had originally envisioned and a bunch more.
Here are a few highlights above and beyond just a kanban app:
- Calendar and This Week views – Inspired by my years long use of a custom Bullet Journal setup, these views give me a bird’s eye view of my week and month in a unique way. I love to be able to see what I’m doing on Tuesday or Thursday. (zoom into the screenshots on the landing page)
- MCP and CLI – Back in September I never would have predicted that Signboard 1.0.0 would ship with MCP (a way for AI agents to interact with your Boards and Cards) and a fairly full featured CLI. This has proven to be useful in ways I never could have planned for.
- Cross platform – I wanted Signboard to run on all desktop OSes since the beginning. But I had no idea that it would work so well. Signboard on Ubuntu is 👌.
- Custom Themes per board – This is just fun and will be getting much more fun in upcoming releases.
I waited a week after release to write more about it here just in case there were some big issues (which I sort of expected?). But, from what I can tell, it is very solid and today – with the release of 1.0.1 that was purposely meant to help make Signboard even faster and more reliable – it is even more solid. If you have it installed use the “Check for updates” feature.
I have no expectations for Signboard other than that I will be using it every single day as I have been since I began. I really like it. And that is good enough for me.
I added a way from within the app for people to support its development and for those that make money using it to do so. Otherwise, it is free for personal use. Enjoy!