Trello is great until the boards get messy. Taskly keeps the open-it-and-go simplicity but adds priorities, subtasks, recurring tasks and a real team model, with Otto, an AI assistant that turns plain English into organized tasks you approve.
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Butler runs the rules you set up in advance. Otto starts from a sentence: describe the work the way you’d say it out loud and it drafts the actual cards, subtasks, priorities and dates. Then it stops. You get a before and after of every change and approve or discard it, whether that’s one card or fifty.
More on how it works on the AI task manager page, or meet Otto directly.
Boards get messy once you pass a handful of cards or people.
No real subtasks, priorities or recurring tasks without stacking Power-Ups.
Reporting and cross-board views are limited.
It’s hard to see who’s responsible for what across a whole team.
Butler automates the rules you write in advance, so the organizing itself is still yours to do.
Taskly keeps Trello’s open-it-and-go simplicity but adds the structure a board alone can’t give you (priorities, subtasks with progress, recurring tasks and a real team model), plus Otto, an AI assistant that turns plain English into organized tasks. Same speed, far less mess.
| Taskly | Trello | |
|---|---|---|
| Simplicity | Simple: with structure built in | Very simple: a board of cards |
| Subtasks, priorities, recurrence | Built in | Needs Power-Ups or workarounds |
| Views | Board + lists + filters + Otto’s prioritised order | Boards (other views require paid tiers) |
| AI assistant | Otto creates & edits tasks from plain English, approve-diff | Butler automation & some Atlassian Intelligence, not task drafting by chat |
| Team oversight | Personal buckets + admin Team views | Limited cross-board visibility |
| Getting a project set up | Describe it once, then approve the tasks Otto drafts | Build the board, then the lists, then every card, by hand |
| Free plan limits | The whole product, Otto included, while in early access | Up to 10 boards per Workspace, 10MB file uploads, 250 Butler runs a month |
| Entry price | Free during early access | Free tier (10 boards); Standard $5, Premium $10/user/mo billed annually (2026) |
Taskly is free for the whole product while in early access. As of 2026 Trello has a free tier (up to 10 boards), then $5/user/mo on Standard and $10/user/mo on Premium billed annually (about $6 and $12.50 billed monthly), with Enterprise from $17.50/user/mo at a 50-seat minimum. Check Trello’s pricing page for current rates.
We’d rather be honest than oversell: it’s your team’s call.
Moving from Trello is quick: your boards usually map to a single Taskly workspace. Recreate active cards in minutes, or describe a board to Otto and let it draft the tasks (with priorities, subtasks and due dates) for you to approve.
Taskly is a free Trello alternative with AI built in: the whole product, Otto included, costs nothing while Taskly is in early access, and the assistant is not sold as an add-on. Describe the work in plain English and Otto drafts the cards, subtasks, priorities and due dates, then shows every change as a before/after diff you approve. Trello’s automation (Butler) runs rules you configure yourself, and its free plan caps Workspace command runs.
Taskly is built for exactly the moment Trello starts to feel messy. It keeps a simple board but adds priorities, subtasks, recurring tasks and a real team model, plus an AI assistant (Otto). It’s free while in early access.
Taskly has a drag-and-drop Kanban board like Trello’s, with To-Do, In-Progress, Blocked and Done columns, reordering within a column, and a quick add on every column. Alongside the board you also get filtered lists and Otto’s prioritised order, so the same work reads either as a board or as a focused list.
Taskly is free for the entire product (including Otto) during early access. Trello also has a free tier, but features like subtasks, priorities and recurrence are built into Taskly rather than needing Power-Ups.
Trello is still the better choice when you only ever need one simple visual board for a few people and want no extra structure at all: it is familiar, fast and free to start. Taskly is for teams that have outgrown that point, where a board on its own stops answering who owns what and what happens next.
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