Alternatives to Trello
A web-based Kanban board app for organizing tasks and projects alone or in teams. The listings below can replace it for an important use case. Each note says what changes if you switch.
The original
Trello
A web-based Kanban board app for organizing tasks and projects alone or in teams.
Replacements
Listings that take over the same core job as Trello.
Asana
A hosted work and project management app for planning tasks, projects and team workflows.
Asana adds project tracking and no-code automations with a desktop app, but its free tier is limited to two users.
ClickUp
A web-based work management app combining tasks, docs, chat, whiteboards and AI features.
ClickUp offers list, board and Gantt views plus docs, chat and time tracking in one hosted workspace, with a larger feature set to learn.
Vikunja
Manage tasks through a self-hostable project workspace.
Vikunja is open source under AGPL-3.0 and self-hostable, so boards and tasks can stay on your own server instead of a hosted service.
Taskade
An AI workspace for projects, notes, mind maps, AI agents and automated workflows.
Taskade combines projects, notes, mind maps and AI agents with mobile apps and browser extensions, in a hosted service that needs an account.
Linear
A keyboard-first issue tracker and product planning tool for software teams, with built-in AI agents.
Linear replaces boards with a keyboard-first issue tracker built around cycles and triage, aimed at software teams rather than general task lists.
Odoo Community
The open-source edition of Odoo, a suite of business apps covering CRM, sales, inventory and projects.
Odoo Community is a free open-source self-hosted suite whose project module sits alongside CRM and inventory, with real setup effort involved.
Wekan
An open-source Kanban board built with Meteor that you host on your own server.
Wekan is an open-source MIT-licensed Trello-style board that you host on your own server with no telemetry, though you maintain it yourself and community support is limited.
PLANKA
A self-hosted Kanban board for teams, with real-time collaboration and paid Pro editions.
PLANKA offers a Trello-like board with real-time collaboration for unlimited users, self-hosted via Docker or managed cloud, but it is source-available and SSO needs a paid edition.
Also worth comparing
These listings name Trello as their own alternative, so the relationship runs both ways.
Basecamp
A web-based project management and team communication app with to-dos, schedules and message boards.
Trello focuses on simple visual Kanban boards with templates, without Basecamp's message boards and schedules in one place.
Kanboard
A minimal self-hosted Kanban board for managing projects with drag-and-drop tasks.
Trello is a hosted Kanban board with templates and email and Slack capture, but it cannot be self-hosted and the free plan limits boards and collaborators.
Leantime
Open-source project management software designed for non-project managers and people with ADHD, dyslexia or autism.
Trello offers simple hosted Kanban boards with templates, but it has no self-hosting and the free plan caps boards and collaborators per workspace.
MeisterTask
A hosted task and project management platform for teams built around shared visual project boards.
Trello offers simple hosted Kanban boards with templates and an inbox capturing items from email and Slack, with a free plan limited to 10 boards.
Microsoft Planner
A task and plan management app for Microsoft 365 that brings to-do lists, plans and projects together.
Trello offers simple hosted Kanban boards that do not need a Microsoft 365 subscription, with a free plan limited to 10 boards and 10 collaborators.
monday.com
A hosted work management platform for projects, tasks, CRM and team workflows with AI agents.
Trello offers simpler visual Kanban boards with templates, and its free plan is limited to 10 boards and 10 collaborators per workspace, with no self-hosting.
Taiga
An open-source agile project management tool with Scrum and Kanban support for cross-functional teams.
Trello offers simple hosted Kanban boards with a free plan limited to 10 boards, but has no self-hosting and no Scrum-specific tools.
Similar software
Related functionality, not a direct replacement.
Todoist
A to-do list and task manager with natural-language task entry, projects, labels and filters.
TickTick
A to-do list app with calendar views, a Pomodoro timer and a habit tracker built in.
Miro
An online collaborative whiteboard where teams plan, diagram and brainstorm on a shared canvas.
Whimsical
A collaborative whiteboard for diagrams, wireframes, flowcharts and mind maps aimed at product teams.
Notion Calendar
A free calendar app, formerly Cron, that works with Google Calendar and Notion workspaces.
