DevBoard：面向小型开发团队的轻量 ClickUp 替代品，原生应用并支持 MCP

Everything a small team needs to ship.
Nothing else.

devBoard is project tracking for freelancers and small dev teams — boards, epics, releases and time tracking in a native app that opens instantly and answers to your keyboard. No browser tab. No forty-field configuration screen you fill in once and never look at again.

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devBoard — Apollo / Board

Board

live

Todo 4

DEV-142 Onboarding

Invite flow drops the workspace on cold start

DBSep 2

DEV-147

Tabular figures for board counts

MKlow

In progress 2

DEV-151 Packaging

DMG signing + notarisation on the release runner

DBAug 28

DEV-149

Reconnect method streams after sleep

AShigh

Done 11

DEV-138 Realtime

Board refetches its shape on a remote move

DB2h 15m

DEV-131

Command palette opens on ⌘K

MK45m

Why another one

Your tracker was built for a 200-person org.

You are four people. You do not need portfolios, workload heatmaps, custom automations or six view types you switched on once. What you need is to know what you are doing today, what is blocking the release, and where the last three hours went — without the tool becoming a second job.

What's in it

Built for how small teams actually work

Boards that stay readable

A card shows four things: its key, its title, who is on it, and one contextual chip. Labels are a 2px colour bar, not a row of pills. Drag between columns is optimistic and survives a restart.

Epics, releases and labels

Three levels of work item — epic, task, subtask — plus releases and project-scoped labels, each with a screen of its own. The epic a card belongs to is visible on the board, not buried in a detail panel.

Time tracking that isn't a chore

Start and stop a timer on the item you are already looking at. Comments and an auto-logged activity feed sit beside it, so the record of what happened writes itself.

My Work, bucketed by when

Everything assigned to you as Overdue, Today, This week, Later and No date — plus a private scratch to-do list with reminders, for the errands that never deserved a ticket.

Saved views and filters

Build a filter once, save it, share it with the team. The same view drives the board and the list, so nobody has to rebuild a query to see what you were talking about.

Realtime, properly

Two people on the same board see each other's moves without refreshing — including work moving between columns and buckets, not just text changing in place. Drop the network and it catches up.

Keyboard-first

Drivable end to end without a mouse

The desktop app is built around a command palette and a set of bare-key shortcuts, with a reference sheet one keystroke away. Window size and position survive a restart. On macOS there is a real menu bar.

• ⌘K Command palette — jump to anything, run anything
• ? The full shortcut reference, generated from the bindings
• C New item, wherever you are
• ⌘1 My Work, Projects and Settings on the number row

> rele

Go to Releases project

Create release… action

DEV-151 · DMG signing + notarisation item

Filter: unreleased items view

Toggle theme action

Works with your AI assistant

Your board, inside Claude Code and Cursor

devBoard is an MCP server. Connect it once and your assistant can read the ticket it is working on, open new ones, comment, move the card and track the time. It acts as you, in one workspace, with your role.

• 1 Create a token in Settings → Developer
• 2 Add api.getdevboard.app/mcp to Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code or Claude Desktop
• 3 Ask it what is on your plate

claude

what's on my plate today?

devboard · my_work

overdue DEV-142 Fix push on unassign

today DEV-151 DMG signing + notarisation

start DEV-151

devboard · start_work

assigned you · moved to In progress · timer on

branch dev-151-dmg-signing-notarisation

done, it's notarised. close it out

devboard · finish_work

timer stopped at 47 min · commented · moved to Done

Native everywhere

Five real apps, not one web page in a wrapper

devBoard is a native Flutter app on every platform it ships to. The desktop build is tuned for a pointer and a keyboard; the phone build is not the desktop layout with the sidebar taken off — rows, sheets and tap targets are its own.

Available now on the App Store and Google Play, including macOS. Windows and Linux are next. There is no web version and there is not going to be one — the app is built to open in a fraction of a second and work with the network off.

FAQ

Questions, answered straight

Can I use it yet?

Yes — on the App Store and Google Play. macOS is also available on the App Store; Windows and Linux are still packaging.

Is there a web version?

No, deliberately. devBoard is a native app on all five platforms. A tracker you check twenty times a day should open instantly and keep working when the connection drops, and a browser tab is the wrong shape for that.

How is it different from ClickUp, Jira or Linear?

It is smaller on purpose. There are no portfolios, no automation builder, no custom field designer. You get boards, three levels of work item, releases, labels, saved views, comments, attachments and time tracking — and then it stops.

Does it work for a team, or just one person?

Both. Workspaces, teams, members and invites were in from the first version, not bolted on later. Freelancers running several clients get a workspace each; a small team shares one.

Does it work with AI coding assistants?

Yes. devBoard is an MCP server, so Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code and Claude Desktop can search and read your items, create and edit them, comment, move cards and log time, acting as you. Here is the setup; it takes about a minute.

What does it cost?

Pricing is not set yet. It will be posted here before paid plans begin, and it will be a plain number rather than a grid of seat tiers.

Who makes it?

App Tube — a small studio. devBoard is a sibling to dev.log, which solves the other half of the same problem: remembering what you actually did.