A Trello alternative for startups
You do not have a process problem yet. You have a nobody knows what anybody is doing today problem, and those need different tools.
Why startups use Trello
Free, instant and nobody has to be trained. For the first ten people it is often the right answer.
Where it stops
It holds state and never hours, so the week it stops working is the week somebody first says we are all underwater.
The week startups actually have
Six people wearing eleven roles, priorities that changed on Tuesday because a customer said something, and a set of tools that arrived one at a time and now need somebody to keep in sync. The thing that hurts is not tracking. It is that half the week evaporates into work nobody planned.
You are running four tools and syncing them by hand
A tracker, a doc, a chat and a calendar, and a person who quietly spends an hour a week copying between them.
In UnaTask: Tasks, projects, dependencies, calendar, meetings and booking in one place, at one price with nothing held back in a tier above.
Priorities change and the plan does not
A customer conversation on Tuesday makes half of Wednesday wrong, and there is nowhere to see what got displaced.
In UnaTask: Move a block and see what it pushed. The plan is a thing you can rearrange rather than a list you rewrite.
Nobody wants to administer software
The tools that would answer this are platforms, and a platform is a rollout, and nobody at a six person company has a rollout in them.
In UnaTask: Useful on the first day, before anybody configures anything.
The founder is the bottleneck and it is invisible
Everything routes through one or two people and nobody can see how loaded they already are before adding to it.
In UnaTask: Team availability, so handing something over is a decision made with the week in front of you.
On the things startups asked about
| What it does | Trello | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | Core |
| See who has room | Partly | Core |
| A free plan | Yes | Yes |
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly, Trello is about $300 a year and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. The two are quoted in different currencies, so we have not subtracted one from the other.
Trello: Free up to 10 collaborators. $5 Standard and $10 Premium per user per month billed annually.
Common questions
Why do startups use Trello?
Free, instant and nobody has to be trained. For the first ten people it is often the right answer.
Where does Trello stop working for startups?
It holds state and never hours, so the week it stops working is the week somebody first says we are all underwater.
Should we leave Trello?
Not necessarily, and we would rather say so. Keep Trello if you want a board everyone gets instantly, for free, and tracking state is all you need. Move if the missing piece is the week itself: hours on a calendar, for everyone, before the work is promised.
How long before it is useful?
The same day. There is nothing to configure before it works, which is deliberate: a tool that needs a rollout is a tool a small team never finishes adopting.
What does it cost as we grow?
€10 per seat per month, or €8 billed yearly, plus VAT. One price, every feature. There is no tier above you holding the part you will eventually want.
Trello details checked 2 August 2026.