Trello: visual project management for freelancers

Trello is a visual project management tool made by Atlassian. The idea fits in three words: boards, lists, cards. One board per project, lists for the stages (To do, Doing, Waiting on client, Done) and cards for each task, which you drag from one column to the next. Each card carries a description, dates, checklists, attachments, comments and labels. It is Kanban in its most accessible form, on web, mobile and desktop.

For freelancers who want to see at a glance where each project stands, and possibly show it to their clients. A writer tracking articles from "brief received" to "delivered", a designer sharing a board with a client to approve mockups, a consultant breaking an engagement into stages. If you just want a simple personal to-do list, Todoist is faster day to day. If you run complex projects with dependencies, time tracking and reporting, ClickUp or Asana go further. And if you want to keep notes, documents and projects in one place, Notion replaces Trello for many independents.

• Organize a project in Kanban: unlimited cards, checklists, due dates, color labels, attachments.
• Automate without code: every board includes automation (move a card when a checklist is done, assign, notify), with 250 runs per month on the free plan.
• Plug in your tools: 200+ Power-Ups, including Slack, Google Drive, calendar, and the other Atlassian products.
• Collaborate: up to 10 collaborators per workspace on the free plan, guests per board, comments and mentions.
• Switch views: with Premium, the Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views, plus views that span the whole workspace.
• Create a board with AI: describe your goal and Trello generates a ready-to-use board, from the Standard plan.

• Free: $0, up to 10 collaborators per workspace. Unlimited cards, 10 boards per workspace, unlimited Power-Ups, unlimited storage (10 MB per file), 250 command runs per month.
• Standard: $5 per user per month billed annually ($6 monthly). Unlimited boards, card mirroring, AI-generated boards, 250 MB per file, 1,000 runs per month.
• Premium: $10 per user per month annually ($12.50 monthly). Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views, unlimited runs, admin controls, priority support.
• Enterprise: $17.50 per user per month annually ($210 per year per user). Unlimited workspaces, SSO via Atlassian Guard, dedicated support.

A free Premium trial is offered to any workspace. Pricing checked on trello.com in November 2026.

At FreelanceKit, we picked Trello because it is the project management tool that is easiest to get adopted, even by a client who has never used this kind of tool. You share a board, they understand it in a minute, and you follow the project in the same place. The free plan is one of the most generous in its category, with unlimited cards and Power-Ups.

The weak point to know about: Trello remains a Kanban. No time tracking, no invoicing, no task dependencies. The views that really transform the tool (Calendar, Timeline, Dashboard) are reserved for Premium, which is $10 per user per month billed annually. And the 10-board limit on the free plan is reached quickly if you open one board per client.

If you are hesitating between Trello, Asana, ClickUp, Notion or Todoist, take a look at our dedicated page on alternatives to Trello.