
Kerika is rated by Top Business Software

Kerika continues to be a Category Leader for Sourceforge’s list of Task Management Apps.
Kerika is a project management and collaboration software designed to help teams work together more efficiently. It offers a range of tools to manage tasks, projects, and workflows, particularly for distributed teams. Key features of Kerika include:
Kerika is particularly popular among teams that require a high level of collaboration and transparency, such as remote teams, consultants, and organizations with complex workflows. Its user-friendly interface and focus on visual project management make it a versatile tool for various industries.
Note: the part about integrating with Slack is not true. At least, not yet.
Kerika is a project management and collaboration software designed to help teams work together more efficiently. It offers a range of tools to manage tasks, projects, and workflows, particularly for distributed teams. Key features of Kerika include:
Kerika is particularly popular among teams that require a high level of collaboration and transparency, such as remote teams, consultants, and organizations with complex workflows. Its user-friendly interface and focus on visual project management make it a versatile tool for various industries.
Note: the part about integrating with Slack is not true. At least, not yet.
We previously used to grant free Academic Accounts to students, teachers, and administrators who asked for them, but after seeing how popular these accounts were, worldwide, we made it the whole thing super simple:
Anyone signing up from a domain with “.edu” or “.ac” to automatically get a free Academic Account
Nonprofit & Academic Accounts allow people to have up to 10 Team Members free, working on any number of boards in their accounts. Visitors, of course, are free.
So if you are already benefiting from a free Academic Account, spread the word on campus!
We made it easier to make changes to the workflow of a Task Board: now a Board Admin can simply drag a column on the board to the left or right to reorder the board.
Here’s how it looks:
We had some incidents recently where hackers stole the Microsoft credentials from some folks in Europe and North America (there’s been a lot of that lately), and then used these stolen credentials to sign up as Kerika users.
Once they signed up, they created Whiteboards that were made to look like they included official links from Microsoft to download documents. Here’s what one of them looked like (we have obscured some information):
The link in the image shown above led to a phishing site where people might inadvertently enter their Microsoft credentials in order to read this document, which would have looked like it came from a Kerika board that was owned by a trusted colleague.
To make this more convincing, they used a very old feature of Kerika’s Whiteboards that’s called VIEW AS WEBPAGE:
This feature was originally built to help nonprofits and open-source teams share their work with people who weren’t Kerika users: the Board Admin could create an ordinary Web page that contained everything that was on the Whiteboard. This page was then sent to the contacts of the person whose credentials were stolen.
To deal with this, we have made some important security updates throughout the Kerika app, on the desktop and on mobile devices:
We have disabled the VIEW AS WEBPAGE feature for Whiteboards while we evaluate the results of these security improvements. Once we feel confident we have dealt with this situation we will consider re-enabling that feature. (Let us know if this feature is important to you.)
We are using Google Web Risk service to help screen URLs entered by our users. Google has been dealing with malicious websites since they started, and we think they have some great resources that we can leverage to improve security for our own users.
A ton of bug fixes, most of them so obscure that no end-users ever spotted them, but since we track our error codes seriously we make sure we fix stuff that no one even knew fixing. Some of the bug fixes are truly obscure, here’s a few from our latest version that’s easier to explain:
When we started, we made a big strategic decision to integration with the Google Apps platform: letting users sign in with their Google IDs — which meant they didn’t need to remember a password just for Kerika — and, more importantly, letting users store their files in their own Google Drive, where they remained under their own control.
This proved particularly popular with the IT departments of our users, because it meant that any corporate policies the IT folks were implementing on content management worked great on everything the users did with Kerika as well.
The ability to control how files were to be shared (e.g. not with anyone outside the domain), and how long files were to be retained (important for regulated industries) is super important to IT departments who are charged with guarding the corporate assets, and Kerika is the only task management tool that works seamlessly with a user’s existing Google Workspace.
We then implemented the same functionality for users of the Box platform: people could sign up with their Box IDs, and have their files stored in their own Box accounts. Once again, this means that the content management policies that their IT departments were implemented would remain respected thanks to Kerika being the only task management tool that works so well with Box.
To complete the range of options for our users, we now have Kerika+Microsoft as an option: you can sign up with your Microsoft ID and have your files stored in your own OneDrive account.
But we didn’t stop there: we recognize that there are some folks out there who would prefer to use a cloud service that’s different from the one they originally signed up with: for example, someone who signed up using a Google ID, or signed up directly using an email address, might want to switch to using Microsoft OneDrive.
That’s easy, free, and painless: go to your Manage Account page from inside the Kerika app on your desktop, and select the OTHER SETTINGS tab:
Click on the CHANGE button and you will see your storage options:
The above example shows the options available for a Kerika+Microsoft user: she can choose to have her files stored in her own Google Drive, in her own Box account, or use Kerika’s Google Drive.
Once you initiate this process it can take some time to complete, depending upon how many files you have in your account, and how large they are. There’s a file size limit of 200MB that’s imposed by the cloud service providers.
If you need help making a decision, or in making a switch, feel free to schedule a call with us.
Kerika was featured in The CEO Magazine. From the article:
Remote work is here to stay, and global teams can offer enormous benefits. But the right tools are essential for improving your team’s ability to collaborate across timezones, explains Kerika’s Arun Kumar.