Prefer a more traditional Kanban experience? Toggle from bar view to box view with a single click. Each work item becomes a card showing its ID, name, owner, story points, and current status — giving the whole team an at-a-glance picture of who owns what and what stage each item is at.

Box and bar modes are interchangeable at any moment. Teams that do stand-ups in a meeting room often find the box view easier to read on a large screen, then switch back to bar view for detailed scheduling work.

Classic Kanban, with the scheduling engine underneath.

Generate a burndown chart with a single click. Agilebars calculates remaining work, velocity, and forecast completion automatically from the task data already on the canvas — no separate spreadsheet, no manual entry. The chart updates every time progress changes, so it always reflects the current state of the sprint.

Compare current performance against your planned baseline to spot velocity problems early. If the team is consistently under-burning, the chart makes that visible before the retrospective. Multiple baselines can be stored for the same sprint, so you can document exactly how the plan evolved across reviews and replanning sessions.

A burndown that builds itself.

Building a sprint backlog item-by-item through a web form is slow. Agilebars lets you do it in Excel, LibreOffice Calc, or OpenOffice Calc instead. The spreadsheet template covers all the fields Agilebars needs — work item ID, name, description, story points, owner, priority, sprint number, and more. Populate it using copy-paste, formulas, or bulk edits, then drag the file onto the Agilebars canvas and the entire backlog imports in seconds.

The same spreadsheet is used for export. Pull your current sprint data back out whenever you need an offline copy, share it with someone who does not have a licence, or run your own analysis in Excel. The round-trip is lossless — everything goes in and comes back out intact.

The fastest way to get data in and out.

Create new sprints and work items by dragging a creator bar from the menu and dropping it onto the canvas. Drop a sprint creator onto empty space and a green sprint bar appears. Drop a work item creator onto the sprint bar and a blue task bar is created underneath it, already linked to the right sprint. Agilebars enforces this two-level hierarchy so your backlog stays clean regardless of how quickly you build it.

You can also create relationships between work items by dragging one bar onto another. Successor tasks adjust automatically when predecessors move, and constraints can be pinned when you need to lock a date in place. For larger backlogs, the spreadsheet import is faster — but the creator is always there for quick additions during planning sessions.

Build your sprint in minutes, not hours.

When a backlog spans many sprints, finding the right items quickly matters. The Filter Panel lets you jump to any sprint instantly or narrow the canvas to show only items matching specific owners, priorities, statuses, or any other metadata field. Filters use the same picklist values defined in the Tags Table, so results are always consistent.

The Filter Panel also switches the canvas to a non-overlapping list layout — each item on its own row — which makes large backlogs much easier to scan and audit. Collapse the panel by clicking the pink FM tab when you want the full canvas back. Everything you were viewing is preserved.

Find any task in any sprint in seconds.

Agilebars runs entirely in the browser — nothing to install, no IT ticket to raise, no version to manage. Open the URL, and you are in. The free tier is available without registration: try a full sprint, generate burndown charts, and test the Kanban view before committing to anything. When your backlog outgrows the free data limits, purchasing a subscription takes minutes.

Data is stored in the browser's local IndexedDB by default, which means your sprint information never leaves your machine unless you choose to publish it to the Cloud Dashboard. This is a meaningful security advantage for teams working with commercially sensitive project data. There are no servers holding your backlog, no vendor data breach to worry about.

Running in minutes, on any machine, with no IT involvement.