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 Menu 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.

The Personal Dashboard gives every user a single screen that cuts straight to what matters to them. At a glance you can see every task you own across all active projects, their current status, progress percentages, and upcoming deadlines — without having to open individual project plans or ask a project manager for an update. Your work is presented cleanly, ranked by priority and due date, so you start each day knowing exactly where to focus.

Unlike portfolio views designed for managers, this screen belongs to the individual. Overdue items surface automatically at the top, colour-coded so critical slippage is impossible to miss. As you complete work and update progress, the dashboard reflects the change immediately — giving you a real-time record of your own contribution across the organisation's entire project portfolio. No separate task list, no email chains, no status meetings needed just to know where you stand.

Your workload, your deadlines, your status — one screen.

The built-in Help Assistant puts the entire application knowledge base at your fingertips, powered by Google Gemini. Every help article, feature guide, and workflow explanation has been integrated directly into the AI model, so when you ask a question you get an answer that is specific to this application — not a generic response drawn from the open web. Ask how to set a baseline, how to configure a custom field, or how dependencies behave when a constraint is applied, and the assistant responds with accurate, contextual guidance drawn from the same documentation the support team uses.

The assistant is available without leaving your current view, so you never lose your place in a planning session to go searching through help pages. Type a question in plain language — as you would ask a colleague — and get a direct, actionable answer in seconds. For new users getting up to speed, it replaces the need to read documentation cover to cover. For experienced users hitting an unfamiliar corner of the application, it is faster than any search index. The more specific your question, the more precise the answer.

Ask anything. Get answers from someone who knows the app.

The Bulk Update Form is available on the Publishing page and lets you apply a field change across multiple pubsets in a single operation. Choose the update mode, select the target store, define the value to apply, and confirm — the change propagates across every selected pubset immediately, without opening each one individually. Whether you are correcting a status field that was set incorrectly across a programme of projects, updating an owner after a team change, or resetting a metadata value at the end of a reporting period, bulk update turns a repetitive manual task into a single form submission.

The form is deliberately focused: one field, one value, one operation at a time. That constraint is what makes it safe to use across large numbers of pubsets without risk of unintended side effects. Select your target store carefully, preview what will be affected, and apply with confidence. For administrators managing a large project portfolio, this is the tool that keeps data consistent across the estate without requiring individual project managers to make the same change in each of their own plans.

One change. Every pubset. Done.

The Bulk Manage Bars form gives administrators and project managers the ability to manipulate project structures at scale without touching the canvas directly. Transfer bars between projects to restructure a portfolio after a reorganisation, duplicate entire work packages to use a proven task structure as the foundation for a new project, or create bars in bulk by importing structured data from JSON or CSV. Operations that would take considerable time bar-by-bar on the canvas are resolved in a single form submission.

The import path from JSON and CSV is particularly useful for organisations that generate project structures from external systems — contract management tools, bid management software, or planning templates maintained outside the application. Rather than manually recreating that structure on the canvas, feed the data directly into the form and the bars are created with hierarchy, metadata, and sequencing intact. Combined with the duplicate and transfer functions, the Bulk Manage form gives you the full toolkit for keeping a large, evolving project portfolio organised without disruptive manual rework.

Restructure, duplicate, and build at scale — not one bar at a time.

The Enterprise Dashboard consolidates data from multiple pubset sources into a single analytical environment, giving senior managers and portfolio leads a unified view across the entire organisation. Rather than reviewing projects one at a time, the dashboard aggregates published data and presents it across dedicated analytical lenses: Project status and progress, Facilities and physical resource utilisation, Resource capacity and demand, Agile sprint performance, and Portfolio & Programme Management metrics. Each view draws from the same underlying pubset data, so figures are consistent regardless of which lens you are looking through.

Access is personalised — the dashboard recognises the signed-in user and surfaces the consolidated data relevant to their portfolio scope. The Settings menu allows administrators to configure data sources, adjust display preferences, and control which pubsets feed each view. For executives and programme directors who need to answer questions about the state of the portfolio without drilling into individual project plans, the Enterprise Dashboard is where that conversation starts — reliable, consolidated, and always reflecting the latest published data.

Every project. Every resource. One dashboard.

The Notifications system allows administrators to configure automated text message delivery to up to five target users, with thresholds and delivery parameters set individually for each recipient. Each user's notification profile defines what triggers a message, at what threshold values, and through which delivery channel — giving precise control over who gets alerted, when, and under what project conditions. Configuration is handled centrally by the administrator, so notification behaviour is consistent and governed rather than left to individual users to set up themselves.

Before enabling automatic delivery, the manual send function lets administrators initiate a test notification to verify that delivery parameters are configured correctly for each user. Send a message, confirm receipt, adjust the settings if needed, and only then turn on automated delivery — eliminating the risk of silent failures or misconfigured alerts reaching users at the wrong time. For organisations where timely escalation of project thresholds is business-critical, this is the tool that ensures the right people are informed the moment a trigger condition is met.

The right alert, to the right person, at the right threshold.