Kanboard vs Taiga.io

Kanboard (Kanban project management software) and Taiga.io (Your Agile, Free and Open Source Project Management Tool) both appear on the Smoower Developer Ecosystem Index.

Kanboard (rank #625) holds a narrow lead over Taiga.io (rank #668) on the overall Smoower ecosystem score (33 vs 32). The gap of 1 points reflects composite signals across code, docs, community and reach.

On code quality (the state of repositories, tests, releases and polish), Kanboard is ahead of Taiga.io. On education (docs, guides and learning material for developers), Taiga.io is slightly ahead of Kanboard. On community (issue response, PR reviews and discussion health), Kanboard is clearly ahead of Taiga.io. On reach (how visible the ecosystem is beyond its own repos), Taiga.io is clearly ahead of Kanboard. On momentum (release cadence and how fast the ecosystem moves), Taiga.io is slightly ahead of Kanboard.

Kanboard carries 10,509 GitHub stars across 52 public repos, with 4 repositories active in the last 90 days and 15 external contributors on record. Taiga.io shows 3,466 stars across 19 public repos, 11 active in the last 90 days and 9 external contributors. The star gap on its own does not decide the comparison, but Kanboard's footprint is roughly 3.0x larger, which usually shows up in downstream signals like inbound issues and third party integrations.

Kanboard is the stronger read for anyone weighting community. Taiga.io looks better where reach is the deciding factor. The table below breaks the scores down pillar by pillar; the linked profiles cover the underlying repos, docs and community signals in full.