Trello review. The most famous Kanban productivity tool!

Trello Review. It is the most popular productivity tool. It's probably used by every developer out there. it uses the Kanban style, and the downside is that it's the only one, but the upside is that it's incredibly powerful.
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Trello review. Probably the most famous of all productivity apps and services.

It is the most famous among apps with similar functions. Honestly, it’s pretty clunky at first, and it’s relatively modest compared to the apps that come out with all kinds of features these days. So I was a little reluctant at first, but when I actually used it, I realized, “Oh, this is why they use it…”. This is a Trello.

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Trello Review. The Most Famous Kanban Productivity Tool! 1

Trello is more about function than looks.

Trello is a Kanban-style productivity tool. It is also called ‘issue tracker’ in Wiki, etc., but since I lack knowledge about issue tracker, I will call it for my convenience.

At first, it was called ‘Kanban’, so I wondered why the Japanese word came out here too. But I did some research and found out that we have used frequently the word in the past after Toyota implemented a productivity technique which is now known as ‘kanban’ and achieved remarkable outcomes. If Hyundai or Samsung had used this Kanban method first, it would have been called a ‘blackboard’ or something like that instead of Kanban.

Of course, there are other productivity styles besides Kanban, such as Agile, Scrum, and Manda, and as I mentioned at the beginning of this article, tools these days come with all kinds of methods, but Trello has steadfastly maintained the Kanban board style, and nowadays it seems to change in its own way, but the basic methodology is always using the Kanban board. If you look at the official blog, you’ll see people making all sorts of things in the shape of Kanban…

Anyway, the first impression of Trello was quite simple, but when I actually used it, I felt that I focused on performance in all parts instead of the first impression. The design is just plain blue, but the degree of freedom is quite high. This means that the app is quite flexible. You can change the background and do all sorts of productivity things within the confines of Kanban. Also, the Kanban board itself is very well done, so it’s almost like you’re magnetizing things to the board, and the app is fast overall.

You might be wondering if these aren’t all the same. But I’ve used a lot of apps that support Kanban boards, including Notion, clickup, todoist, BeCanvas, Zenkit, and a few whiteboard apps like Microsoft Whiteboard and Miro. All the whiteboard apps have Kanban boards. However, Trello has the highest level of perfection as a Kanban than all the above apps. Fastest, fluffiest, and most flexible.

For example, I like the function itself of Notion, but the speed is very slow on mobile. Also, Clickup itself has a lot of functions, but it is not intuitive at all. So even if I want to give it, it’s hard to give it… Whiteboard apps such as Miro are not bad overall, but personally, whiteboard apps are not easy to reach on the desktop… Todoist also has a very good Kanban function, but Trello is a little bit better…

Another indispensable part of Trello seems to be the extension function. As a popular app, it connects to a ton of apps and has a ton of plugins, which makes up for some of Trello’s shortcomings. However, with the free version, you can only use one extension… Only one… Of course, you can use extensions from your own company, but it’s difficult to use these friends as easily…

It’s a little disappointing that Trello only focuses on the Kanban function.

But even though Trello says he loves Kanban and does all kinds of things with it, Trello is just Kanban. Of course, there are plenty of other apps like Asana that cater to different tastes. Of course, Trello seems to have realized the reality these days and is trying to add more tools, but almost all of them are only available in the paid version. And somehow, even simple, uncomplicated writing, while it’s nice to have markdown support, doesn’t feel like writing something. It’s like, “If you’re going to do this, why do you support this feature…”.

But if you think about it a little, Trello has now been gained by a company called Atlassian, and they already have a bunch of popular tools, and I think they’re trying to specialize in those tools for different purposes. I actually used a tool called “Confluence” for a while to create a sort of team wiki, and it was pretty good at writing.

Probably, if the functions overlap, they kill each other… I wonder if they also used Trello for some kind of publicity (?) because the basic Kanban functions are all free. Start with Trello, and if it’s not good enough, try some of our others… something like that. I had never even heard of Atlassian, but I found out when I used Trello.

Trello makes the mobile version pretty good too

The Android version of Trello seems to have been pretty bad in the past, but it seems to have improved a lot in the meantime. I used to think it was just a bland app with no personality, but now I’m pretty happy with how the Android version of Kanban has made it easier to manage. I especially like it because it looks good even though there are many elements of the Kanban board.

I also like the iPad version because the interface is as clean as the PC. It has an overall iOS app-like interface, but it also has a Trello feel to it, which immediately made me think it was pretty good. I like it because I feel like I can use it like a to-do app on Android, but on the iPad, I can be as productive as I am on a real PC.

Although Trello’s shine is a little faded these days because of rivals, you can use all the basic functions for free, so you can think of it as a good cost performance. For reference, the paid version is about 10 dollars per month, so it is more expensive than its rivals. That’s why there is also a rather cheap paid model of about 5 dollars, but I didn’t feel that way.

Trello was actually pretty good, it’s really good for organizing your own database of something, and like I said, he’s a performance-focused guy, and for Kanban, it’s pretty good value for money, so I liked it a lot.

I thought about it while writing, but it sounds obvious to focus on performance, but it seems to be surprisingly harder than I thought. The various tools mentioned earlier are competing with Trello with diversity as a weapon, but there is probably a reason why Trello is never pushed. Honestly, I want to use another friend, but the performance difference is… Still, it’s hard if you use everything… It makes me conflicted even now.

Trello Summary

Good things

  1. Kanban performs best
  2. Lots of extensions
  3. Great value for money if you only use Kanban features

Downsides

  1. The free version effectively only allows you to use Kanban boards
  2. The paid version is quite expensive
  3. The design is generally modest
  4. There are quite a few competitors these days
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