Trello vs Slack – which tool is right for your team?

In the blue corner, making it easy for teams to manage projects, it’s Trello. In the red corner, a communication champ that keeps context switching under control, it’s Slack. In this three-part blog series, we take a look at how these two awesome apps stack up and help you figure out if they’re a good fit for your organisation.

In part one (right here, right now), we’re getting better acquainted with Trello and Slack, finding out what they can do and how they can help your teams be more productive. And we’ll compare the two so you can figure out which one meets your needs.

In part two, we dig a little deeper, looking at the best options to use these apps together, add-ons built by Trello and Slack specifically for this purpose.

And in part three, we’ll fill you in on some other tricks and tips to integrate Trello and Slack, turning your team into a productivity powerhouse.

Trello helps teams manage and make progress with projects, up their productivity, and collaborate, even when they’re miles apart. This kanban-based tool can be adapted for a variety of uses, from personal organisation to planning advanced software development sprints.

Its ease of use and flexibility make it a firm favourite for many. Part of its popularity stems from the simple UI and fun aesthetics – such as the ability to customise the board’s background and card covers.

In your Trello workspace, you can create project- or team-specific boards. Then you add lists to your boards that contain collections of cards. Cards are where you typically store tasks. Within each card, you can also store sub-tasks in the form of checklists, as well as any extra information you need.

Trello enables easy collaboration by allowing team members to join a board and make real-time updates to cards (depending on permission levels). This means everyone is instantly in the know about all the latest project developments. Users can comment on cards to further discuss or clarify the current status of a particular task.

Trello’s Butler feature lets you speed up repetitive tasks straight out of the box. You can create rules and buttons that take control of actions in just one click, automating whatever you like. Use this no-code automation to surface upcoming deadlines, schedule teammate assignments, and create custom card buttons to build processes quickly.

For planning meetings, organising events, setting goals, or getting on with projects, Trello makes setting up and customising workflows simple and intuitive, whatever you’re working on.