Wakapi
A critical auth bypass lands in the middle of Wakapi's slow identity rebuild.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of Kanri and Resource Guru — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
An offline-first kanban app whose solo maintainer has been quiet for ten months.
Kanri is a desktop-only, offline-first kanban board built on Tauri and maintained largely by one developer with community translation help. The last three releases pushed it past the basics into territory where it can replace a hosted board for a single user: tags, due dates, property-filtered search, and multilanguage support. Nothing has shipped since September 2025.
Resource Guru is teaching its scheduler to place work for you, not just record where you put it
Resource Guru's feed mixes product updates with marketing articles, and the product half has been consistently substantive. Total Hours bookings let a user commit a number of hours across a date range and have the tool fit them around existing commitments, rather than placing each block by hand. Around that sit a run of view-shaping features — colour-coding bookings by custom field, choosing and reordering Projects columns, a daily digest of unassigned placeholder bookings — plus a Trello integration and an MCP server for querying account data from AI tools.
Kanri is a desktop-only, offline-first kanban board built on Tauri and maintained largely by one developer with community translation help. The last three releases pushed it past the basics into territory where it can replace a hosted board for a single user: tags, due dates, property-filtered search, and multilanguage support. Nothing has shipped since September 2025.
The arc from v0.5 to v0.8 is a march toward parity with Trello for the local-first case — import paths from Trello and GitHub Projects first, then the tags and due dates those imports carry, then search that filters on them. Release intervals stretched from weeks to months to nearly a year, and the maintainer said v0.8.2 was held back by dependency migrations and Linux compatibility work.
The visible pattern is a long silence followed by one bundled release, so a v0.8.3 or v0.9 collecting deferred fixes and new translations is the likeliest next move. Ten months without a tag gives no basis for a date.
Resource Guru's feed mixes product updates with marketing articles, and the product half has been consistently substantive. Total Hours bookings let a user commit a number of hours across a date range and have the tool fit them around existing commitments, rather than placing each block by hand. Around that sit a run of view-shaping features — colour-coding bookings by custom field, choosing and reordering Projects columns, a daily digest of unassigned placeholder bookings — plus a Trello integration and an MCP server for querying account data from AI tools.
Two threads are running. The scheduler is becoming constraint-aware: the product is moving from a canvas where humans place every block toward one that resolves intent against availability. Separately, the data is being opened up — MCP for natural-language querying, Trello for booking creation from cards — which treats the schedule as something other systems read and write rather than a destination app. The view customisation work is the connective tissue, letting teams shape what they see as the underlying data grows richer.
Expect the automatic-fitting logic behind Total Hours to extend to other booking types, since the hard part is the placement engine rather than the entry form. More integrations in the Trello mould look likely given the MCP groundwork already laid.
Other PM products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either Kanri or Resource Guru.
A critical auth bypass lands in the middle of Wakapi's slow identity rebuild.
Process Street's public feed is an SEO content engine, not a changelog.
NocoBase runs two release lines at once while the v3 client rewrite absorbs the AI work
Hive ships in batches, and this one is all planning accuracy and admin control.
Plane ships a fortnightly digest, and the AI layer is where the real work is going.
Ever Teams shipped ten tags in twelve hours and one of them touched the product
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. Resource Guru is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 0.0), with 2 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. Resource Guru is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 7.5 vs 0.0), with 2 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other PM products to evaluate alongside.
Top Kanri alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Kanri alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/kanri for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top Resource Guru alternatives in PM are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "Resource Guru alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/resource-guru for the full list with editorial commentary on each.