Trello vs Microsoft Planner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Trello
Capture tasks, ideas, and notes as cards and organize them into flexible boards. Centralize your work, integrate with calendars, and receive timely reminders. Work offline and sync automatically when back online.
- Task capture and organization
- Customizable kanban boards
- Calendar integration
- Push notification reminders
- Offline work capability
- AI summarization for tasks
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Work smarter and do more with your personal productivity powerhouse, Trello. Capture, organize, and tackle your to do checklist from anywhere. No more chaotic schedules, lost sticky notes, or searching for bookmarked messages across apps. Stay organized and efficient with Trello Inbox, Boards, and Planner. Every personal or work-related to-do, idea, or responsibility—no matter how small—finds its place, keeping you at the top of your game. Smarter task list management, all from your mobile device. Trello lets you create a daily planner of tasks, ideas, and notes right from your phone into a Trello board, card, or to-do list. Add due dates, comments, checklists, descriptions, files, and more to your task dashboard. Save messages from popular work apps like Slack or Microsoft Teams, snap a photo, and forward emails within Trello. Paid subscriptions have access to features that use AI to summarize your saved to-dos into a Trello card so that nothing slips through the cracks. Everything captured lands as a card in your Trello Inbox, making it easy to review, prioritize, and organize your work across boards. Plan your day around your schedule; view what’s booked on your Google or Outlook calendars right from your task board. Standard and Premium users can also enable Planner to schedule focus time for completing saved to-dos. Get reminders that work for you by setting up push notifications for your personal tasks and daily to dos. Get timely alerts for the updates you care about, like due dates or changes to your card. Create beautiful, flexible Trello boards. Organize your captured cards into customizable kanban boards and lists, tailored to your workflow. Trello’s tactile, visual mobile interface, with drag-and-drop gestures and smooth transitions between boards offers a natural way to plan your work on a mobile device. TASK MANAGEMENT MADE EASY - Capture, edit and sort your to do checklists. - Seamlessly enable Trello with your Google or Outlook calendar. - See what you have scheduled with your daily planner (and set aside focus time on what you’ve captured in Trello cards to get done later). - Use the Trello widget to add more to your checklists without ever opening the app. - View all your to-dos from multiple boards in one place. SCHEDULE ORGANIZER & DAILY PLANNER - Add reminders, forward emails, and save messages in your Trello Inbox. - No-code automation is built into every Trello board for intelligent task management. - Place your top tasks into your calendar, and make time for what truly matters in your daily planner. - Custom Kanban board views to visualize your way. - Get timely alerts for the updates you care about, like due dates or changes to your card. - Capture notes or ideas, and update boards even without internet. Your changes sync automatically when you’re back online for seamless task management. - Subscriptions can unlock features that summarize your saved to-dos into a Trello card and streamline daily planning. PERSONAL PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS - Task dashboard tools allow you to manage tasks with ease. - Create a plan of action, a checklist, or simply gain clarity on what needs to be done. - Generate, summarize, and improve spelling and grammar of work, copywriting, or personal content. - You can even go beyond a daily planner and task organizer. Paid subscriptions can access AI tools that allow you to brainstorm new content based on topics you provide. Download Trello and experience a new era of personal productivity management. It’s free! When you use features that require your device’s photos, camera, microphone, or contacts, we will request permission before accessing that data.
Microsoft Planner
Organize teamwork visually with a simple, interactive board. Assign tasks, track progress, and collaborate with your team through integrated conversations and file sharing. Stay updated on all your tasks across different plans and devices.
- Visual task boards
- Task assignment and tracking
- Team collaboration and chat
- File sharing
- Cross-device synchronization
- My Tasks view
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Microsoft Planner requires an eligible Office 365 work or school subscription. This app does not support Office 365 personal accounts (for example: name@outlook.com or name@hotmail.com). If you are not sure about your company’s subscription or the services you have access to, please contact your IT department. Planner provides a simple, visual way to organize teamwork. Planner makes it easy for your team to create new plans, organize and assign tasks, share files, chat about what you’re working on, and get updates on progress. -- Organize work visually -- Each plan has its own board, where you can organize tasks into buckets. You can categorize tasks based on their status or on whom they’re assigned to. To update the status or change assignments, just drag and drop tasks between columns. -- Visibility -- The My Tasks view provides a comprehensive list of all your tasks and their status across all your plans. When working together on a plan, team members always know who is working on what. -- Collaborate -- Built for Office 365, Planner lets you work together on the same tasks, attach captured photos directly to them, and even have conversations around tasks without switching between apps. With Planner, all your team’s discussions and deliverables stay with the plan and don’t get locked away across disparate applications. -- Works across devices -- Planner works across all your devices. And with Planner, everyone is always on the same page. Continue conversations and updates tasks while on-the-go or at your desk. Terms of service: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=846830 Privacy policy: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=521839 To learn more, please visit https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=849067 The Microsoft Planner app will request permission to access your photos and your camera: When you try to attach a photo to a Planner task, the app requests permission to access your Photos app in order to select images. If you choose to take a photo to attach to a Planner task, the app will request permission to access your Camera app.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Microsoft Planner at free against Trello's free with in-app purchases. Microsoft Planner also leads on rating (4.6 vs 4.3). Trello's advantage is review sentiment (53% vs 29%) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 6 weeks). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Microsoft Planner holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7K and 13K respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 53% of Trello's written reviews are positive against 29% of Microsoft Planner's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Trello ships an update every 2 weeks, Microsoft Planner every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on October 14, 2026.
| Parameter | Trello | Microsoft Planner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (7K ratings) | 4.6 (13K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 52.8% of reviews — better | 29.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7K | 13K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #186 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 219 MB | 158 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Trello, Inc. | Microsoft Corporation |
Customer experience
Trello
Microsoft Planner
User reviews
Trello
From 7K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great app for organizing
- 👍 Flexible and customizable
- 💡 Excellent collaboration features
- 🚀 Seamless cross-device experience
- 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
Room to improve
- 🐛 Sync issues and data loss
- 🐛 Buggy and unstable at times
- 🐛 Unintuitive interface changes
- 🔒 Difficult to cancel subscription
- 🐛 Notifications not working properly
Microsoft Planner
From 13K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Great for team collaboration
- 👍 Easy to use and intuitive
- 🚀 Helpful for personal organization
- 👍 Good integration with Microsoft 365 suite
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and unstable
- 🔒 Limited to work/school accounts only
- 🔒 Lack of customization options
- 🐛 Slow performance and sync issues
- 🔒 Missing key features like calendar view
Bugs and requests
Trello
Reported bugs
5 issues- Cards disappearing or not updating
- Checklists not functioning as expected
- Inability to delete or remove accounts
- Sync issues between mobile and desktop
- Frequent crashes and freezes on mobile
Requested features
5 requests- Add calendar view
- Improve mobile widgets
- Allow more customization of boards
- Provide better notification controls
- Add option to delete boards/cards easily
Microsoft Planner
Reported bugs
5 issues- Freezing on login screen
- Inability to create or edit plans
- Tasks disappearing or not syncing properly
- Compatibility issues on older devices
- Comments not saving or editable
Requested features
5 requests- Recurring tasks and calendar integration
- Ability to copy/move tasks between plans
- More flexible labeling and filtering options
- Offline mode and export/import functionality
- Deeper integration with Outlook and Teams
In-app purchases
Trello
No in-app purchases
Microsoft Planner
No in-app purchases







