Trello
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
2recommend
5warn against
Nov 3, 2025first mention
Oct 25, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“we use Trello to track everything in our house”
“I use a single Kanban board in Trello to manage my entire life. It works precisely because it is digital.”
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Caveats and dissent
“Trello was great but got heavier too with all those fancy stuffs and colors.”
“tbh Trello is also slower”
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“I was a huge trello fan until atlassian ruined it.”
“In comparison Trello is a bloated PoS.”
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“Trello allows 'aging' for tasks.”
“a Visual Studio Code extension for LLM Agentic development and Trello integration”
“Project Management: Jira, Kanban Boards, and Trello”
“Tools: Xcode, Github, Figma, Jira/Linear/Trello, Cursor/ChatGPT/Claude”
“Trello was great but got heavier too with all those fancy stuffs and colors.”
“I used to use Trello which was ok”
“I use Trello from time to time”
“we use Trello”
“tbh Trello is also slower”
“Tools: Xcode, Github, Figma, Jira/Linear/Trello, Cursor/ChatGPT/Claude”
“we use Trello to track everything in our house”
“we use a Trello board to track all of our house jobs, projects, reminders and issues”
Ironically I use a vibe-coded Trello clone with some tweaks for my specific workflow...
“I use a single Kanban board in Trello to manage my entire life. It works precisely because it is digital.”
“I was a huge trello fan until atlassian ruined it.”
“Trello”
“trello for ideas and tasks”
“Things I've used along the way: trello, wiki, pen and paper, various apps like todoist, etc.”
“I go back to outlook and jira and excel and trelli or whatever”
“In comparison Trello is a bloated PoS.”
“Trello is not open source, so its not an option for me anymore.”