TallyWeek vs Trello
Trello is a well-known kanban tool with native apps and a large add-on ecosystem. TallyWeek gives every board a Kanban view plus Table, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard and Form, with a Free plan for 3 members. Here is how to choose.
Competitor information is general and may change; check their site. Last reviewed September 24, 2026.
Two different sizes of tool
TallyWeek
A work-management app for small teams. Every board has 6 views (Table, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard, Form), 19 column types, automations and a public form. Every member has a My Work page; the workspace has dashboards, docs, goals, sprints, recurring items, webhook and Slack integrations, a client portal, approvals, and time tracking with rates, budgets and invoices. Pro adds guests, private boards, a permissions matrix and a REST API and MCP server with scoped keys.
Free for up to 3 members. Pro is $8 per member per month, or $6 per member per month billed yearly.
Trello
An established product with a larger feature set, an integrations marketplace, native mobile apps and enterprise features. It has been around longer than TallyWeek and serves organisations of every size.
Pricing is per seat and published on their site: trello.com/pricing.
Where TallyWeek is a better fit
- Small teams: the Free plan covers up to 3 members, and Pro has no minimum beyond 1 seat.
- One simple per-seat price: $8 per member per month, or $6 per member per month billed yearly.
- Client-facing work without extra seats: a branded client portal with unlimited free contacts, and approvals clients give from an email link.
- Time that turns into money in the same tool: timers, rates, budgets, profit and margin, and invoices from billable hours, on every plan.
- No monthly cap on automation runs, on any plan.
- API and MCP server included on Pro, with scoped keys, so scripts and AI assistants work with the same boards.
- Week-focused planning: a My Work page for each person, sprints and a workload grid by week, and dashboards that count what shipped.
- Less to learn: 6 views on every board, 19 column types and automations you set up in a few clicks.
Where Trello is a better fit
- Large organisations with many teams, departments and admins.
- Teams that want native mobile apps from the app stores.
- Deep integrations through a marketplace of connected tools.
- Enterprise security and administration features.
- A larger feature set that has grown over many years.
What TallyWeek does not have yet
If any of these is a must for your team, Trello or another larger tool is the safer choice today.
- Native mobile apps (TallyWeek is an installable web app)
- An integrations marketplace (TallyWeek has webhooks, Slack messages, a calendar feed and email to board)
- SSO
- Accounting integrations (time and invoices export as CSV, or as JSON through the API on Pro)
- Online invoice payments or invoice emails (invoices are print-ready pages you save as PDF)
- A custom domain for the client portal (portals live on the TallyWeek domain with your client's logo and colour)
- Real-time co-editing in docs (docs are basic rich-text pages; the last save wins)
- CSV export (import exists; the API returns items on Pro)
- Chat
What you get in TallyWeek
This table lists TallyWeek features and the plan they are on. It does not rate Trello; their own site is the right place for that.
| Feature | TallyWeek | Trello |
|---|---|---|
| 6 views on every board: Table, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard, Form | Free | See their site |
| 19 column types | Free | See their site |
| Automations with 6 triggers and 7 actions | Free | See their site |
| Public forms that create items | Free | See their site |
| Updates, @mentions, files and notifications | Free | See their site |
| Installable mobile web app | Free | See their site |
| My Work: your items from every board, by due date | Free | See their site |
| Workspace dashboards: 7 widget types, several per workspace | Free | See their site |
| Recurring items, checklists and item templates | Free | See their site |
| CSV import, up to 5,000 rows | Free | See their site |
| Docs: rich-text pages in folders or on a board (basic editor, no real-time co-editing) | Free | See their site |
| Webhooks with HMAC-SHA256 signature and Slack messages, 7 events (Slack via incoming webhook, no slash commands) | Free | See their site |
| Calendar feed (iCal) of your items | Free | See their site |
| Email to board (once the operator has set up an inbound domain) | Free | See their site |
| Public read-only board links | Free | See their site |
| Estimates, sprints with burndown, workload by week | Free | See their site |
| Goals with progress computed from items | Free | See their site |
| Client portal per client: branded, email sign-in, comments and requests | Free | See their site |
| Client portal contacts: unlimited, not billed as seats | Free | See their site |
| Approvals in sequential or parallel steps, with outside reviewers deciding from an email link | Free | See their site |
| Time tracking: timers, manual entries, weekly timesheets | Free | See their site |
| Billable rates, cost rates, budgets with alerts, profit and margin reports | Free | See their site |
| Client invoices from tracked time (print to PDF; no online payment) | Free | See their site |
| Internal updates hidden from guests and clients | Free | See their site |
| Digest-first notifications: immediate email only for mentions, assignments and replies | Free | See their site |
| Automations with no monthly run cap | Free | See their site |
| Daily digest email | Free | See their site |
| Unlimited members | Pro | See their site |
| Guests with board-only access | Pro | See their site |
| Private boards | Pro | See their site |
| Role permissions matrix (4 workspace roles, 4 board roles) | Pro | See their site |
| REST API with scoped keys | Pro | See their site |
| MCP server for AI assistants | Pro | See their site |
Competitor information is general and may change; check their site. Last reviewed September 24, 2026.
TallyWeek plans, in one place
Free
For one person or a tiny team getting organised.
$0 for up to 3 members
Pro
For teams that need everyone in, with control over who sees what.
$8 per member per month, or $6 billed yearly
Business
For 25+ seats, invoicing and a custom agreement.
Contact us
Full details on the pricing page. For Trello, see their pricing page.
TallyWeek vs Trello, common questions
Is TallyWeek a cheaper alternative to Trello?
TallyWeek has a Free plan for up to 3 members and a Pro plan at $8 per member per month, or $6 per member per month billed yearly. Trello prices per seat and publishes its plans on its own site, so compare the two for your team size there. We do not quote competitor prices because they change.
Can I move my boards from Trello to TallyWeek?
Export a board from Trello as CSV and use TallyWeek's CSV import, up to 5,000 rows per file: names, groups, statuses, priorities, dates and people map onto TallyWeek fields, and other columns can be created during import. Comments and attachments do not come across. On the Pro plan the REST API and MCP server can do the same from a script or a conversation.
Does TallyWeek have native mobile apps like Trello?
Not yet. TallyWeek is a mobile web app you can install from your phone's browser to the home screen. There is no app in the app stores.
What is in the TallyWeek Free plan?
Up to 3 members; Unlimited boards and items; Table, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard and Form views; 19 column types; Automations on every board; Public forms; Updates, @mentions, files and notifications; Mobile web app (installable). Guests, private boards, the permissions matrix and API and MCP keys are on Pro.
Other comparisons
Or see how teams use TallyWeek in the solutions pages, and what a board can do on boards and views.
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