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Add a visual kanban board to the task manager you already use.
TickTick ships with a built-in kanban view — but it only works with TickTick tasks. Flowcus adds a visual kanban board to the task manager you already use: OmniFocus, Things, Todoist, or TaskPaper.
Both apps give you columns to drag tasks between. The difference is what sits underneath the board — and whether you have to migrate your tasks to get it.
| Feature | Flowcus | TickTick |
|---|---|---|
| Task manager sources | OmniFocus, Things, Todoist, TaskPaper | TickTick only |
| Platforms | macOS 13.0+ (native) | macOS, iOS, iPadOS, Android, Windows, Web |
| Kanban features | Custom columns, swimlanes, drag-and-drop, automation rules | Built-in board view with custom columns |
| WIP limits | Per-column limits with visual alerts when exceeded | |
| Blocked tasks | Mark tasks as blocked with a reason | Task dependencies |
| Stale task detection | Ghost Detection flags vague, neglected, and slipping tasks | |
| LLM integration | Sidekick AI assistant for task triage and focus suggestions | Algorithmic Suggested Tasks (not LLM-based) |
| Analytics | Per-task history and audit trail | Basic task and habit statistics |
TickTick is a complete task manager. If you don't already have a task system you're committed to, and you want kanban, calendar, habits, and Pomodoro all under one roof and synced across every platform you own, TickTick covers a lot of ground in a single app.
Flowcus is for people who already have a task manager they like and don't want to leave it. If your tasks live in OmniFocus, Things, Todoist, or TaskPaper, Flowcus gives you a kanban board on top of them — plus visual signals (WIP limits, Radar focus scoring, Ghost Detection of stale tasks, blocked-task tracking) that TickTick's board view doesn't offer. You don't migrate. You don't maintain two systems. Your existing task manager stays the source of truth.
If you're already using one of these task managers, Flowcus connects directly:
Add a visual kanban board to the task manager you already use.