Crewdesk vs Trello
Trello made the Kanban board famous, and it is still one of the simplest ways to see work move. Crewdesk keeps a board at its centre too, and puts the team's conversation and the requests arriving from your website in the same place.
Side by side
| Crewdesk | Trello | |
|---|---|---|
| Task views | Board, list and calendar views of the same tasks, plus My Tasks across every project | Boards on every plan; calendar, table, timeline, dashboard and map views on the Premium plan |
| Team chat | Built in: a channel for every project, group chats and direct messages, with threads | Comments on cards; real-time chat usually comes from a separate app |
| Website forms to tasks | Built in: website forms whose submissions become tasks on your board | Through Power-Ups or third-party integrations |
| Calls and meetings | Built in: audio calls and video meetings from any channel, with screen sharing | Not built in; video calls come from other tools |
| Mobile | iPhone and Android apps in development; the web app works in any phone browser | Apps for iPhone and Android |
| Price | Free during early access | See Trello's pricing page |
Based on public information about Trello, last checked November 2026. Products change — check Trello's own site for current features and prices.
When to choose each
Choose Crewdesk if
- You want the board, the team's chat about it and incoming leads in one app with one sign-in.
- Website enquiries should land on the board as tasks without a third-party connector.
- You want to call a teammate from the conversation the task lives in.
Choose Trello if
- You want a board and little else, and you are happy to add features one Power-Up at a time.
- Your team already lives in Atlassian tools.
What Crewdesk doesn't do yet
So you can decide with the whole picture.
- Gantt charts or timeline views
- Custom fields
- Automations, webhooks or a public API
- Time tracking
- Single sign-on (SAML)