monday.com vs. Trello

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
monday.com
Score 8.5 out of 10
Mid-Size Companies (51-1,000 employees)
monday.com Work OS is an open platform designed so that anyone can create the tools they need to run all aspects of their work. It includes ready-made templates or the ability to customize any work solution ranging from sales pipelines to marketing campaigns, CRMs, and project tracking.
$36
per month (3 seats)
Trello
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Trello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.
$6
per month per user
Pricing
monday.comTrello
Editions & Modules
Basic
$12
per month per user
Standard
$14
per month per user
Pro
$24
per month per user
Enterprise
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Standard
$6
per month per user
Premium
$12.50
per month per user
Enterprise
$17.50
per month per user
Free
Forever Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
monday.comTrello
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsYearly plan: Save 18% Monthly plan also availableA discount is offered for annual billing and for larger numbers of users.
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Community Pulse
monday.comTrello
Considered Both Products
monday.com
Chose monday.com
monday.com is much more versatile than Microsoft Teams. When it comes to getting work done, Teams couldn't stand a chance. Trello was our former tool and it just couldn't keep up with what we needed, especially when it came to having a clear picture of all projects.
Chose monday.com
Easier to use than JIRA. Assigning tasks and creating stories are easier. easier to view in Kanban compared to JIRA.
Asana comparison is about the same. But more visibility with status of tasks than Asana.
Interface is easier to use compared to Trello
Chose monday.com
Smartsheet does more than we needed it to do for our simple project management. JIRA is the same way. Asana and Trello are probably the closest comparisons for our needs. Both of these others are great, and I don't have any real complaints to compare on any of these. Monday.com …
Chose monday.com
monday.com has proven to have all the elements that define being well organized in short to medium term projects. The position of this software with respect to Trello is largely rigid, it cannot be compared because monday.com has many more features that make it a powerful tool …
Chose monday.com
I think monday.com is a more complete tool than Asana or Trello. It has many more features and help for many other things, such as integrations and automations.

I didn't select monday.com. The company where I work did it and I don't really know why.
Chose monday.com
Trello is much simpler, as it doesn't have the bandwidth to deal with much larger or complex projects. Notion - I do like it, but I find it more handy to store a base of shared knowledge. I think Monday is better for tactics/strategy/timelines/deadlines. If I had to choose one …
Chose monday.com
Trello is a lot harder to use; it has fewer integrations and becomes quite messy quite quickly You are forced to use only the available formats and cannot change to suit your needs, etc. It is a very basic tool in comparison to Monday.com. We struggled quite a lot to get on …
Chose monday.com
Actually, monday.com and Trello, although they are digital board systems, are both very different from each other. Trello is a simpler system that, although its function is also the organization of tasks, its visual system gradually overwhelms the user by "piling up" each post …
Chose monday.com
I feel monday.com is easier to use than the others listed. Specifically, I used to use Trello in the past and I really liked it. I even recommended others to use it but since working in monday.com, I found it has so many more features that meet our teams needs and we have found …
Chose monday.com
monday.com offer much of the standard tools and seems to be ever evolving. They seem to take feedback and constantly upgrade the tools. If all the tools are there, the differentiating factor might be the cost, any integrations you may need, and the visual "chemistry". To me, …
Chose monday.com
I also use the other selected. But I prefer monday.com because it is more clear (visually and intuitively), and also because I have been using it for longer than the others. However, there is the price factor that must be taken into consideration
Chose monday.com
monday.com is cleaner, offers more customization and is easier to design out with a team project focus in mind. With the ability to automate steps as well, it is super easy to move tasks along, have stages auto-update and to go through my personal to-do list of tasks to get …
Chose monday.com
Is far away the best!! With monday.com I find everything I need easily. As I said before, its user-friendly interface, which is intuitive and easy to navigate.
Chose monday.com
Although monday.com costs more than the other services, it can handle more as a platform. The functions, features, integrations, and automations allow you to do so much more than, than just keeping track of project & task deadlines.
Chose monday.com
Monday is much easier to use and learn. So far everyone has figured it out just by using it or after watching a brief training video. Most other tools have parts that we wouldn't use or be just too complicated for the average user. We feel with Mondayulse we are not struggling …
Chose monday.com
Monday.com's layout is closer to a spreadsheet, and has better features to categorize and search data. I can go deeper, adding more and more insight to a task, than I could with a card, even when I used premium add-ons. I couldn't get a good grasp on what was going on with Asana
Chose monday.com
I feel like I've tried almost every project management software out there ranging from Microsoft Project to Teamwork. monday.com is just nice because you log in and it works. There isn't a lot of set up. The controls are intuitive. When you want to do something like change a …
Chose monday.com
Monday.com makes team collaboration very easy and smooth.
Chose monday.com
We selected monday.com because it was easy to use, the team was very helpful in onboarding and it was easy to implement. Some other solutions didn't provide the variety and customization we needed, the team was also willing to work with us to get the features we needed on the …
Chose monday.com
Monday.com does not believe in Gantt charts therefore there is no built in Gantt chart that we missed a lot and we found those in other products. Pricing is also questionable, Monday.com seems to lag behind in competitive pricing. Monday.com does not have an in-built module for …
Chose monday.com
Monday.com has a lot of functionality and visibility that the other tech we've used did not. the notifications and ease of adding new tasks and projects are also better than the other tech we have used.
Chose monday.com
monday.com includes the basic features from most project management apps: task management, collaboration, boards, messaging and so on. Also, the app excels in making multiple technical tools available in a single app, like Gantt, Kanban, and task management. Where you cannot …
Chose monday.com
Monday.com has been the first task management/project management tool we have assessed that met every need our digital agency requires. And to top it all off, we've had an amazing time with the customer support team, who have been helpful and timely in their assistance. We …
Trello
Chose Trello
Trello is by far the most advanced and integrated program out there in the task management sector. Trello does what Basecamp and dapulse do and way more. Trello is great for teams that don't work right next to each other in an office. It's the best for virtual teams and offices.
Chose Trello
monday.com is by far my favorite project management tool out there. It's so powerful, customizable and the reporting is great. Trello works better for us currently because it's free. Asana is okay, but the overall UI is a bit confusing and boring. Airtable is good, but pales in …
Chose Trello
monday.com has some really good basic templates and offers more unique use cases. I think their platform is probably the better one but is more expensive. monday.com is more work to add task details to, which makes it more work in many cases. Trello is more basic but more …
Chose Trello
Okay, I have to say that at the organization where I work, we completely switched from Trello to monday.com, and it wasn't an easy decision. As I've mentioned throughout this review, I think Trello works perfectly for small and medium-sized businesses and/or entrepreneurs …
Chose Trello
Our business ended up using Monday due to the holistic nature of the tool. It allows us to collaborate amongst teams and see the project as a whole easier. Trello is for personal usage and task management. I use Monday to organize my overarching needs, and then put specific …
Chose Trello
Trello provides precise goal setting, targets, and activity tracking with minimal human intervention, while Trello provides tags and tasks to add users and communicate visual task organization. Trello also offers real-time updates, team collaboration, and project progress …
Chose Trello
Easier to use and easier to integrate with 3rd party software. Better design and we don't need to build everything from scratch.
Chose Trello
Trello offers more functionality and features for use before forcing you to purchase.
Chose Trello
We also use Monday, but it is for more complex projects where we need Gantt charts, major status updates that Trello doesn't interact well with. That isn't saying that Trello is bad, it's just saying that Trello is great for simple group work while Monday is better for …
Chose Trello
For the price, value, and support, Trello has always been the standard. What it doesn't have native, you can usually find a workflow plugin. I find Trello already in use, at many jobs before I even get there.
Chose Trello
I would say Trello is very well suited for my team's needs as we are relatively small in size but frequently scale up based on the project's size and needs. We tend to use it at a basic level for organizing internal tasks and to-dos, but also develop large complicated boards …
Chose Trello
Trello offers a free version, whereas other similar products don't. The upgraded version is also much cheaper than the other options I've found.
Features
monday.comTrello
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
8.5
2235 Ratings
11% above category average
Trello
8.5
222 Ratings
11% above category average
Task Management9.32221 Ratings9.5222 Ratings
Resource Management8.71897 Ratings9.3185 Ratings
Gantt Charts8.31296 Ratings7.273 Ratings
Scheduling8.61854 Ratings9.1168 Ratings
Workflow Automation8.71927 Ratings8.2142 Ratings
Team Collaboration9.42178 Ratings9.1218 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology8.21155 Ratings8.8147 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology7.01 Ratings7.5115 Ratings
Document Management8.21796 Ratings8.3159 Ratings
Email integration8.61599 Ratings7.8146 Ratings
Mobile Access8.41775 Ratings9.1192 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking8.21038 Ratings9.388 Ratings
Change request and Case Management8.91153 Ratings8.8102 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management8.71026 Ratings7.773 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
monday.com
8.5
1005 Ratings
12% above category average
Trello
5.9
72 Ratings
25% below category average
Quotes/estimates8.9672 Ratings6.049 Ratings
Project & financial reporting8.5888 Ratings6.658 Ratings
Integration with accounting software8.0500 Ratings6.044 Ratings
Invoicing00 Ratings5.142 Ratings
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User Ratings
monday.comTrello
Likelihood to Recommend
8.7
(2238 ratings)
9.3
(221 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.0
(32 ratings)
9.9
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.5
(2166 ratings)
9.3
(59 ratings)
Availability
8.2
(8 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
8.6
(8 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
8.8
(1885 ratings)
9.9
(81 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.1
(1 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
9.1
(4 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.1
(7 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
8.2
(6 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Ease of integration
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
6.9
(8 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(6 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(6 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
monday.comTrello
Likelihood to Recommend
monday.com
The platform is very well suited for our nonprofit programs that serve low-income clients who need diapers, wipes, and period products. It has helped us run our programs, capturing information and allowing us to view the data for reporting purposes. The ability to filter data is very helpful by allowing us to categorize information to get a better picture of the progress of our programs.
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Atlassian
For teams or individuals with lots of individual tasks/details to track, Trello is perfect! It basically removes the need for a paper checklist. For those that need an overall project management tool that requires less tasks and more overarching goals, collaboration amongst various teams, and gantt charts I would suggest monday.com
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Pros
monday.com
  • I like summary of subitems, especially with subitasks as subitems and add item tracking for each subtask it can show total tracked in parent item. Similar with other columns, like numbers, status, date.
  • Dashboard features, Many kinds of dashboard view available, we can utilize on the basis of requirements.
  • monday.com workform is very powerful, easily share form link when submitted it will create line item in board with provided data.
  • monday.com automation is very helpful in order to automate steps with specific rules and easy setup.
  • monday.com also provides integrations in order to automate processes if need to integrate multiple app together. or need to transfer data between multiple apps.
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Atlassian
  • Helps track employees "to do before hire", "to do after hired," and "to do when employee leaves"
  • Provides important information on each employee like personal information along with data collected during the time of hire and during employment time
  • Allows more than one person to be assigned to a task per employee and will remain open until everyone involved has completed their task
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Cons
monday.com
  • The desktop app for Mac seems to have a few issues with visual glitches appearing on screen, it only seems to go away when I close the tool and reopen it
  • Subtasks don't show on the individual users to-do list, only main level tasks
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Atlassian
  • I use colour coding a lot so I would like a wider range of colour options.
  • Also as a visual thinker I would like to be able to easily add images to cards.
  • I would like to be able to attach a wider range of file formats to cards.
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Likelihood to Renew
monday.com
Teams involved in content creation, such as marketing or editorial teams, could use monday.com to manage the entire content lifecycle. Boards might track content ideas, assignments, drafts, reviews, approvals, and publication schedules, helping teams collaborate and keep content production on track.
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Atlassian
I am very likely to renew Trello, because it doesn't cost anything to do so. I am also very likely to use Trello's upgraded features in the future because a lot of my team's data is stored on there and they have already gotten used to the platform. Trello is very easy for new team members to pick up, making the onboarding and usability very streamlined.
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Usability
monday.com
I give monday.com a 10/10 because I almost never encounter any lag or connectivity issues despite all of the many templates, boards, and automations we have. As a matter of fact, I feel like the last issue I encountered was over a year ago... and I'm in monday.com every single work day. Not only is monday trustworthy, it is easy to find what I'm looking for... making the overall usability extremely hard to beat.
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Atlassian
Trello is incredibly intuitive, both on desktop and mobile right away. It is also full of helpful features that make it even easier to use, and is flexible enough to suit almost any organizational need. Onboarding for the software is thorough, but concise, and the service is frequently updated with even more QOL improvements.
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Reliability and Availability
monday.com
There have only been 2 instances in the past year where monday.com was down.
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Atlassian
yes always support available when I need it!
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Performance
monday.com
Everything performs fairly well. Every now and then there are user errors where an employee will not click "ok" on a note they've created and simply exit out (I do wish that something was in place to prevent this, such as a pop "are you finished?")
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Atlassian
Never experienced issues with the above!
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Support Rating
monday.com
monday.com only really care about accounts that have 20 seats or more. While this is great for monday.com, it pushes smaller organisations to evaluate alternatives. We rate monday.com highly in our organisation because key staff have already got good experience with the application and we know we will get to 20+ seats one day. But, till then the billing model and lack of permanent enterprise features is a dread.
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Atlassian
I haven't reached out to their support very often and their support is very limited anyway for the free users. They do have tons of great articles and videos in their Help Center and constantly send emails with updates and add-ons to the product. The fact that I've barely ever had to contact their support team means that they've developed a great product.
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In-Person Training
monday.com
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
It was helpful and informative! It was back before the pandemic in 2019 so I'm not sure if they still do it but I really enjoyed the experience
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Online Training
monday.com
To have someone walk you thru the features and capabilities of Monday.com is priceless. Someone also coming along later in the contract to see if you are maximizing the program to suit your company needs is beyond helpful. The staff that have provided this training are fun, creative and very patient.
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Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
monday.com
We signed up for the accounts. Created the accounts. Ran the trial version and tested it live while we were running multiple projects and found that it was fitting our needs perfectly. When the trial ended and we were asked to purchase the full version, we did. We have found other ways to use it and it's a breeze.
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Atlassian
For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.
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Alternatives Considered
monday.com
monday.com is simpler and easier to grasp, apply and navigate than ClickUp, but the ClickUp free version has so much more functionality available than the monday.com free / low-cost options (sorry, but it's true!). Google Tasks is really simple and I shouldn't really compare them - it's just really nice to be able to see my tasks right next to my Google Calendar or Gmail (widget) - the "all on one" view on the screen is really nice ease of access, but the power of monday.com outweighs the nice-to-have of an all-in-one screen layout - it feels clumsy to bring in all my Calendar items from Google to monday.com, so an integration app to the Google screen where you can see monday.com tasks would be amazing.
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Atlassian
Trello is more simple and not as "robust" as the other tools, but it's easier to use and manage and understand and ACTUALLY get stuff done with. It's simplicity is part of the beauty of using it. You don't need a million options that nobody uses, you just need to get stuff done.
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Scalability
monday.com
For it to work across multiple departments and sites, I would like to see improvements made with integrations and automation. For this question, I am acknowledging not only the addition of internal triggers/automation, but also an expansion on external ones.
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Atlassian
Feels like anyone across the org (no matter their location) can use the tool easily!
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Professional Services
monday.com
No answers on this topic
Atlassian
Not sure if we use those
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Return on Investment
monday.com
  • >25% of our org is using monday.com to build Boards & projects. Only 5% used our prior Work Management System.
  • 100% of project communication is kept within monday.com. Which means we don't have to search Slack, Email, or other places to find a message.
  • 100% of our project files are kept or linked with monday.com. So, we don't have to find missing files in other locations.
  • monday.com integrates with Salesforce, so we don't have to manually duplicate data
  • 3rd-Party solutions are linking to our monday.com data and producing reports as humans read reports.
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Atlassian
  • Trello keeps me organized, focused, and on track. I could filter the Trello board to only see my issues and understand what I needed to work on and when.
  • Trello helped our team implement an agile structure. It's a very simple kanban method of viewing all of your team's tasks and statuses. You can completely customize the columns to your team's specific workflow and create tags relevant to your work.
  • Trello helps reduce unnecessary communications between teams. When I want to request translations, I simply create a card on the localization Trello board -- no need to directly message anyone on the team, and I can watch the status of the card change from "in progress" to "in review" to "translated," all without having to directly ask for updates.
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ScreenShots

monday.com Screenshots

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