Gript vs. Trello

Trello is great at Kanban. Gript is great at the rest.

Real Gantt. Real time tracking. Real invoicing. Eight views on every plan. No Power-Up store, no five-vendor stitch-together, no monthly automation quota.

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Every view, every plan.

Eight views on every plan. Yes, Kanban is one of them.

Kanban
Table
Calendar
Gantt
Dashboard
Timesheet
Workload
Zen

Trello Standard ships Kanban. Table, Calendar, Dashboard, and Timeline gate to Premium. Workload and Timesheet don't exist at any tier.

The five-vendor Trello stack

Trello Standard is $5. The real bill is not.

Trello Standard, with Power-Ups for real work
$22 /user /mo
5 vendors. 5 logins. 5 support queues.
Trello Standard$5
Gantt Power-Up~$3
Time tracking Power-Up~$5
Reports Power-Up~$5
Forms Power-Up~$4
$14 saved per seat per month
Gript Business, native everything
$8 /user /mo
One product. One login. One support inbox.
Gript Business$8
Gantt with dependenciesIncluded
Time tracking, timesheetsIncluded
Board dashboards, 20 widgetsIncluded
Forms with signature, paymentIncluded

Trello Standard at $5 ships Kanban, custom fields, and 1,000 automation runs a month. Timeline, Calendar, Dashboard, and Table are gated to Premium at $10. By the time you've stacked the Power-Ups a real PM workflow needs, you're paying more for less integration.

Power-Up prices are typical marketplace ranges, 2026. Verify against your stack at checkout.

What you'd bolt on. Built in.

One product. Not a marketplace.

The Power-Up store is great when you need one thing. The problem is when you need five. Each one is a separate vendor, a separate auth flow, a separate support ticket, and a separate UI that doesn't know about the others.

Premium-only on Trello Timeline view (Gantt)
Premium-only on Trello Calendar & Dashboard views
Paid Power-Up on Trello Native dependencies
Paid Power-Up on Trello Time tracking & timesheets
Not on Trello, at any tier Native invoicing
Not on Trello, at any tier Approval workflows
Not on Trello, at any tier SLA tracking
1,000/mo cap on Trello Standard Automations, no cap
The five reasons people outgrow Trello

Everything past the card.

Ranked by what real Trello users hit the wall on. Each one ships in Gript by default.

01 / Eight views. Not one.

Kanban is one of the views, not the only view.

Switch from Kanban to Gantt to Calendar to Workload to Timesheet on any board, one click. Save layouts per person or per team. Filters travel with the view. Timeline isn't a tier-upgrade purchase, it's a tab.

On Trello: Standard at $5 ships Kanban and Custom Fields. Timeline, Calendar, Dashboard, and Table all gate to Premium at $10. Workload doesn't exist at any tier.
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Gript board toolbar showing view tabs for Table, Kanban, Calendar, Gantt, Dashboard, and Timesheet
02 / Dashboards across every board

Roll up the portfolio. Without a BI tool.

Total tasks, completion rate, status breakdown, priority distribution, team workload, recent activity, goal tracker. Twenty widget types. Click any widget to drill into the items. Date filters travel with the click.

On Trello: Dashboard view exists on Premium but only reports inside one Workspace. Cross-workspace portfolio rollups require Enterprise or a third-party BI integration.
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Gript dashboard showing status overview, priority distribution, and team workload widgets
03 / Time tracking. Invoicing. Same tool.

Track the hours. Send the invoice. No Power-Up.

Start a timer on any item. Mark hours billable. Tag client, category, retainer. Filter billable time by date and client. Draft an invoice, send a PDF. P&L and portfolio financials roll up. No second vendor, no second login.

On Trello: no native time tracking, no invoicing. You stack a paid time tracking Power-Up, then export hours to a separate billing tool. Three vendors for one workflow.
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Gript invoicing modal sitting over a timesheet with live invoice preview
04 / Automations that don't expire on the 15th

No 250-run cap. No 1,000-run cap. No 10,000-operation cap.

Workspace Automation Hub across every board. Retry, dead-letter queue, idempotency. Filter by trigger, action, status, creator. See per-automation success and failure counts on one screen. No monthly action limit.

On Trello: Butler caps at 250 runs/month on Free, 1,000/month on Standard, and what Premium markets as unlimited is 10,000 operations per user, capped at 250,000 per workspace.
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Gript automation wizard showing trigger and action step with trigger type dropdown
05 / Forms that finish a transaction

Signature. Payment. Calculated. Conditional. Native.

Twenty-four field types: signature, consent, file upload, rating, calculated, hidden, and the usual short text and dropdowns. Build a contract intake, a quote builder, a client onboarding flow. Submissions land as items in the right board. No second vendor.

On Trello: Forms are a paid Power-Up. Real conditional logic, signature, and payment fields mean a second tool entirely.
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Gript form builder showing advanced field types including signature, consent, and calculated fields
The shift Trello fans noticed in 2025

Atlassian repositioned Trello as a personal companion.

Trello is pivoting from a project management app to a personal productivity companion. It will no longer support team features the way it used to.
Source: Atlassian product direction, May 2025 redesign and community statement.

If your team uses Trello as a team tool, the platform's own roadmap is no longer pointed at you. New PM features are not on the table. Gript is built for teams, the way Trello used to be. We're ready when you're ready to move.

And the rest

Six more things you stop installing.

The features Trello sends you to a Power-Up to get. Native in Gript.

Native Gantt with 4 dependency types

Finish-to-Start, Start-to-Start, Finish-to-Finish, Start-to-Finish, with lag. Real critical-path logic, not a Power-Up workaround.

Trello: no native dependencies; third-party Power-Up required.

Multi-stage approval workflows

Sequential or parallel stages. Define who approves what, what happens on reject. Reusable across boards with audit trail.

Trello: not a feature.

SLA tracking

Set a response and resolution clock per item, on business hours. See risk before the customer does. Every breach logged.

Trello: not a feature.

Update Requests

Send a secure link to a client or freelancer. They update the items you choose, no login, no seat. You see the changes live.

Trello: not a feature.

Public board share, live and themed

Share a real-time, themed board with a client. Updates land the second you make them. Mirrored columns, files, and updates included.

Trello: public link to a snapshot, no theming, no live mirroring.

Notebooks with live embeds

Meeting notes, briefs, knowledge base, all in one notebook environment. Embed live tasks and boards in the page. Diagrams included.

Trello: Confluence, at extra cost, on a separate login.
Switch in an afternoon

Bring your Trello boards over in one wizard.

Authorize once, pick the boards, map the labels and lists to statuses and groups. Cards, checklists, attachments, due dates, members. Keep working while it runs.

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Gript board showing multiple view tabs including Kanban, Gantt, Calendar, and Dashboard
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What you get on each plan.

Gript Business at $8 per seat compared to Trello Premium at $10 per seat. The plans most teams actually use.

FeatureGript BusinessTrello Premium
Pricing terms
Price per seat per month, annual$8$10
Power-Ups required for real PM workflowsNone3 to 5 typical
Project views
Kanban
Table, Calendar, DashboardPremium tier
Gantt / Timeline viewPremium, weak
Timesheet view
Workload and resource view
Zen focus mode
Planning depth
Native dependencies (FS, SS, FF, SF) with lagPower-Up
Cross-board portfolio dashboardsEnterprise or BI tool
Bulk Date Shift, skip-weekend, preview
Recurring tasks with pattern flexibilityButler rules
Time, money, capacity
Native time trackingPower-Up
Billable hours, categories, timesheetsPower-Up
Native invoicing, P&L, retainers
SLA tracking with breach alerts
Multi-stage approval workflows
Forms and intake
E-signature field
Calculated fields, conditional logic
Inbound email to board and to My WorkPower-Up
External collaboration
Update Requests, public update portal
Public board share, live and themedSnapshot only
Platform
Monthly automation action capNone10k/user, 250k/workspace
Workspace automation hub, one screen
Retry, dead-letter, idempotency
Migration
One-click import from Trellon/a

Trello Standard is $5 per seat per month, annual, but ships Kanban only. The views and PM features above land on Premium at $10.

Pricing

One flat seat price. 14 days to try it.

Annual billing shown. Monthly is $7 and $10. Two-year is $4 and $6.40.

Private
$5
per account, billed annually

For one person who runs a lot of work.

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  • Unlimited boards, items, notes
  • 20 GB storage
  • All views, all column types
  • Time tracking, recurring, reminders

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Keep what works. Replace what you bolted on.

Import your Trello boards in the trial. Open the Gantt. Send your first invoice. Decide on day 14.

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