kloudboard vsTrello
love Trello's cards but tired of bolting on a proofing tool, a chat app, a payments service, and three Power-Ups just to ship creative work? kloudboard keeps the board you know and folds the rest of the stack into one place.
Start free — no card required
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Review video and images right on the card — no Power-Up required
Trello has no native proofing. To leave frame-accurate feedback on a video or mark up an image, creative teams bolt on paid third-party Power-Ups like Ziflow, GoProof, or PageProof, each with its own subscription and login. kloudboard builds frame-accurate video and image review in: timestamped comments, draw-on-frame spatial annotation, and guest reviewers who need no account.
Pay your freelancers without leaving the workspace
Trello can track tasks but can't move money — there's no payments feature at any tier, so you still reconcile invoices in PayPal, Wise, or a spreadsheet. kloudboard pays freelancers directly via Dots (PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, ACH, Payoneer, AirTM, crypto, and international bank transfer) at roughly a $1 flat fee plus a small percentage.
Talk to your team where the work lives
Trello has card comments, but no real-time team chat, so conversation lives in Slack or Discord while context lives on the board. kloudboard has built-in real-time Messages, and bridges Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp into one unified inbox so threads and tasks stay in the same room.
A calendar that doesn't cost $10 a seat
Trello's Calendar view (plus Timeline, Table, Dashboard, and Map) is locked behind Premium at $10/user/mo billed annually. kloudboard includes a calendar with two-way Google Calendar sync on the free plan, and Pro is a flat $20/member/mo for everything.
AI that's included, not a Premium upsell
Atlassian Intelligence in Trello is Premium-and-Enterprise only ($10/user/mo+) and focused on writing and summarizing card text. kloudboard includes Kloudie, an AI assistant powered by Claude Haiku 4.5, on every plan — 1,000 credits/month free, plus 10,000 more per seat on Pro.
See how your content actually performs
Trello has no analytics for social platforms — it's a task tool, full stop. kloudboard adds built-in social analytics for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook, so a content team can plan, review, and measure reach without a separate dashboard.
What kloudboard gives you that Trello doesn't
- Frame-accurate video and image review with timestamped comments and draw-on-frame annotation
- Built-in freelancer payments via Dots (PayPal, Venmo, CashApp, ACH, crypto, international bank)
- Real-time team chat plus Slack, Discord, and WhatsApp bridging into one inbox
- Social analytics for YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, and Facebook
- Included Kloudie AI (Claude Haiku 4.5) on every plan, not a paid add-on
- Free forever for 5 members with free guests who never consume a seat
Honest pricing
kloudboard
Free forever for up to 5 members, 3 projects, 10GB and unlimited free guests. Pro is a flat $20/member/mo ($180/yr) — video review, freelancer payments, and a free AI assistant all included.
Trello
Trello's Free plan covers up to 10 boards and 10 collaborators per Workspace with a 10MB per-file attachment limit and 250 automation runs/month; paid tiers start at Standard $5/user/mo billed annually ($6 monthly), Premium $10/user/mo ($12.50 monthly), and Enterprise $17.50/user/mo with a 50-user minimum.
where Trello is the better fit
If you want the simplest possible Kanban board with a massive Power-Up marketplace and Atlassian's ecosystem (Jira, Confluence, Atlassian Guard SSO), Trello is hard to beat. Its free plan is genuinely generous for small, task-only teams, its automation (Butler) is mature, and at $5/user/mo Standard it's cheaper per seat than kloudboard Pro. If you don't need video review, payments, chat, or social analytics, Trello's focus is a feature, not a gap.
Frequently asked questions
Can I migrate from Trello to kloudboard?
Yes. kloudboard has a one-click Trello board import, so your boards, lists, and cards come across without manual rebuilding.
Is kloudboard really free?
Yes — the free plan is free forever and covers 5 members, 3 projects, 10GB of storage, 1,000 AI credits/month, and unlimited free guests. Pro is $20/member/mo (or $180/member/yr) for unlimited projects plus 50GB and 10,000 extra AI credits per seat.
Does Trello support video and image review?
Not natively. Trello has no built-in proofing, so creative teams add paid third-party Power-Ups like Ziflow or GoProof. kloudboard includes frame-accurate video and image review with timestamped comments and draw-on-frame annotation out of the box.
Do guests or clients cost a seat in kloudboard?
No. Guests and clients are always $0 in kloudboard and never consume a paid seat. On Trello, single-board guests are a Standard feature and multi-board guests require Enterprise.
kloudboard vs Trello for creative and content teams?
Trello is a clean task board, but creative teams end up adding proofing, chat, payments, and analytics tools around it. kloudboard is an all-in-one workspace built for creative teams — board tracking, frame-accurate review, chat, freelancer payments, and social analytics in one tool — so you replace the stack and pay for one thing.
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