Why do teams look for a Trello alternative?
Trello made kanban mainstream, and for personal task management it’s still hard to beat. But in 2025 Atlassian relaunched Trello as a personal productivity app — an Inbox for your todos, a Planner for your calendar — and publicly described it as “becoming an entirely different product.” Team features were removed or buried, and the message to growing teams is to move up to Jira. For a small business that just wanted a shared board, neither direction fits: Trello is drifting toward individuals, and Jira is built for enterprise engineering. AmazingBoards was built for exactly the gap in between — kanban work management for small and medium teams.
Is AmazingBoards easier to use than Trello?
They’re comparably easy — and that’s the point. AmazingBoards deliberately keeps the model Trello taught everyone: boards hold lists, lists hold cards, and you drag cards as work moves. A new teammate understands an AmazingBoards board in minutes. The difference is what happens as your workflows get real: instead of stacking metered Power-Ups and Butler rules on top of a personal-productivity tool, custom workflows, automations, and extensions are the core of the product.
What about Trello’s automation limits?
This is the wall most teams hit first. Trello’s Butler is genuinely likable — but it’s capped at 250 command runs per month on the free plan and 1,000 per month on Standard, pooled across your whole workspace. A five-person team with a rule that moves cards and notifies owners can burn 1,000 runs in a couple of weeks, and then automation simply stops until next month or you upgrade to Premium. AmazingBoards treats automation as core infrastructure: trigger-based rules that move cards, assign owners, set due dates, and send reminders are included on paid plans with no monthly run caps. A rule that works on day 1 still works on day 300, no matter how busy the board gets.
How do extensions compare to Power-Ups?
Trello’s Power-Up marketplace is mature — 200+ integrations built over a decade — and if you depend on one specific Power-Up, that’s a real reason to stay. But many popular Power-Ups charge their own subscription on top of Trello’s, and they can only bolt onto the card model Trello gives them. AmazingBoards’ extensions marketplace connects the tools small businesses actually run on (chat, email, calendars), and extensions can be customized to your workflow rather than taken as-is. The goal is different: not a bigger catalog, but a tighter fit to how your business works.
Switching from Trello
Moving is deliberately boring: AmazingBoards imports your Trello boards, lists, and cards, so the board your team sees on day one is the board they already know. Rebuild nothing; rename nothing. Most teams import, invite everyone, and turn on their first automation the same afternoon.