gemboards Review, Pricing & Features

GemBoards is a WordPress plugin bringing Kanban boards, task checklists, subtasks, and Scrum sprints into wp-admin. See features, pricing, and who it's best…

Category
Project Management
Pricing
One-time purchase, licensed per number of sites (e.g. 10-site and 100-site tiers) rather than a recurring subscription; list prices observed at $299, $399, and $699 with promotional discounts at crawl time., from $200
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Last updated
August 6, 2026
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GemBoards is a project management plugin built to run natively inside the WordPress admin dashboard, rather than as a separate hosted app. Its homepage positions it as a way to "simplify your workflow," giving WordPress site owners, agencies, and freelancers a place to organize work without leaving wp-admin. Core functionality centers on drag-and-drop Kanban boards, task checklists, subtasks, and due-date reminders, and the marketing copy also references Scrum sprint support for teams that work in agile cycles. The plugin is made by Kodezen, which sells GemBoards as a licensed WordPress plugin through its own store (store.kodezen.com) with tiers scoped by number of sites rather than by user seat, and provides product documentation at gemboards.com/docs/.

Key Features

Pros & Cons

Pros

  • Runs natively inside the WordPress dashboard, so teams already working in wp-admin don't need to adopt a separate project management app
  • Covers a full task workflow in one plugin — Kanban boards, task checklists, subtasks, and due-date reminders, plus Scrum sprint support
  • Licensed as a one-time purchase scoped by number of sites rather than a recurring per-seat subscription, which can suit agencies managing several WordPress installs

Cons

  • Being a WordPress-only plugin, it isn't usable by teams whose projects live outside the WordPress ecosystem
  • Site-count-based licensing (e.g. 10-site, 100-site tiers) may be a poor fit for large teams with many users on a single site, versus per-seat pricing
  • Beyond a passing mention of Slack, the site's crawled pages don't document a clear list of third-party integrations

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