The best Trello alternatives

Listed alphabetically-neutral, not ranked — we compete with these tools, so a ranking from us would not be impartial. Planoda is ours and is marked as such.

• Asana

  Asana is great for tasks, thin for engineering. Asana is friendly for general work but lacks a real issue tracker. Planoda keeps the approachable boards and adds cycles, estimates, and PR links engineers need. Asana's 2026 AI Studio agents are powerful for ops/marketing, but they run on metered AI Studio credits (Starter bundles ~50K/billing account) on top of the seat — Planoda includes AI per seat with a per-workspace cost ledger.

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• Notion

  Notion is great docs, weak tracking. Yes — Planoda is a strong Notion alternative for the work-tracking half of what teams use Notion for. Notion's 2026 push — Custom Agents, an External Agents API that turns the workspace into an orchestration layer (routing tasks to Claude/Codex with approval steps), plus Workers and a developer CLI — is impressive for docs and automation, but its databases still buckle as a real tracker: no native cycles, estimates, or code links, a hard 10,000-row ceiling, and multi-second loads as pages grow. Planoda ships purpose-built tracking — sub-100 ms at thousands of issues, with write-capable agents under a propose/approve broker and an immutable audit log — so most teams keep Notion for long-form knowledge and move work-tracking to Planoda.

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• Basecamp

  Basecamp is calm PM, not a tracker. Basecamp is a calm home for to-dos, messages, and docs, but it isn't an issue tracker. Planoda keeps work organized and approachable while adding the cycles, estimates, dependencies, and code links software teams need. Basecamp's 2026 stance on AI is deliberately anti-hype: instead of an in-app assistant, it shipped an "agent-accessible" API + CLI (March 2026) so external AI coding/ops agents can manage to-dos and files — included at no extra charge, but there's no native AI triage or semantic search the way Planoda ships per seat.

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• Todoist

  Todoist is personal and small-team task manager. Todoist is a fast, friendly task manager for personal and small-team to-dos, but it isn't built for shipping software. Planoda keeps work organized and quick to capture while adding cycles, estimates, dependencies, roadmaps, and code links. Todoist raised prices in December 2025 (Pro to $5/user/mo annual) and shipped Ramble, a voice-to-task AI assistant, in January 2026 — both AI Assistant and Ramble stay gated to Pro/Business, where Planoda includes AI triage and semantic search per seat on every plan.

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• Planoda

  Our product

  One schema for issues, boards, roadmaps, and no-code automations, with one AI agent that reads across all of it — not a bot walled inside a single tool — under a propose/approve broker for anything destructive. Where Trello is friendly kanban, thin tracker, Planoda is the consolidation play: one login, one data model, AI billed by seat rather than metered credits. We are pre-launch, so the honest caveat is that the tools above have years of production track record we do not yet have.

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