Comparison

Trello vs Code Cards

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Trello

Organize your personal and work tasks with a visual, flexible system. Capture ideas, manage to-do lists, and plan your day with customizable boards and reminders. Integrates with calendars and other work apps for a streamlined workflow.

Highlights
  • Visual task boards
  • Customizable to-do lists
  • Calendar integration
  • Task reminders and notifications
  • Cross-app message saving
  • Offline access
Features
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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.

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Code Cards

Features
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The line is moving. Your card should be ready before it is your turn. Code Cards keeps membership cards, loyalty cards, and the barcodes you use every day together on your iPhone. Add a card once, make it easy to recognize, then open the right barcode in a tap—from the app, the Home Screen, or Today View. ADD A CARD IN SECONDS • Scan a barcode with the camera • Read a barcode from a photo or screenshot • Enter the code manually when that is easier • Supports QR Code, Code 128, Aztec, PDF417, EAN-13, UPC-A, and Code 39 FIND THE RIGHT CARD • Search by card name or barcode content • Choose a color that makes the card easy to spot • Add a photo for instant recognition • Leave a note for the details you want to remember READY TO SCAN • Open a large, clear barcode with one tap • Screen brightness rises automatically while you view a card, then returns to your previous setting • Put a favorite card on the Home Screen or in Today View • Choose from multiple widget sizes • Switch between cards directly in the Quick Switch widget YOUR CARDS STAY YOURS Card data is stored on your device. No account is required. The free version includes up to three cards, with scanning, photos, colors, notes, search, and widgets included. A one-time Code Cards Pro purchase unlocks unlimited cards.

Screenshots

Trello4 screens
Code Cards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trello at none against Code Cards's 1. Trello also leads on chart position (#186 vs unranked). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Code Cards sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Trello asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard2 real differences · 9 level
Trello versus Code Cards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTrelloCode Cards
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews52.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings7K — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
Best chart rank#186 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS18.617.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size220 MB6 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTrello, Inc.Sheng Ping Li

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

Code Cards

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Trello

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

Code Cards

One-time1
  • Code Cards Pro$2.99

Questions

Is Trello free?
Trello is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Code Cards free?
Code Cards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Trello or Code Cards have ads?
Neither Trello nor Code Cards shows ads.

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