Trello vs Zenhub: which one fits your team?
Same idea, two weights. One is understood in four seconds by anybody; the other enforces a workflow and produces the reports. The step between them is usually a growth event, not a preference.
It turns on how much process your team needs enforced, and how much of it people will actually follow.
Pick Trello if
you want a board everyone gets instantly, for free, and tracking state is all you need. Where it stops: a board says what state something is in, never when it happens.
Pick Zenhub if
your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match. Where it stops: it is engineering shaped, and there is no calendar.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Trello is about $300 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Trello: Free up to 10 collaborators. $5 Standard and $10 Premium per user per month billed annually. Zenhub: Paid per user, with a free tier for small teams. Check their current tiers.
Where they part company
Zenhub does more on 4 of them
- dependencies and a timeline
- linking pull requests to the work
- portfolio and agile reporting
- showing who has room
Trello does more on 3 of them
- being the place the tasks actually live
- being useful before you configure it
- two way calendar sync
Side by side
| What it does | Trello | Zenhub | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | No | No | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Partly. A calendar power up on the board, not a calendar you plan a week on. | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Core | Partly. The issues live in GitHub. Zenhub is the layer that runs agile on them. | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Partly | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | No | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | Partly. Through a power up rather than natively. | Core | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | No | No | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Partly | Core. Burndown, velocity and story points, which is the reason to buy it. | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Yes. Butler rules on the board are genuinely good and free to start. | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | No | No | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Core | Partly | Core |
| A free plan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 9: time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, docs and a wiki inside, rules that fire on their own, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and having a free plan.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask is a third direction rather than a point on that line: keep the surface small, and add the calendar neither of them has.
It does more than both of them on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, two way calendar sync, showing who has room, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, docs and a wiki inside and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling.
Common questions
Trello vs Zenhub: which should I pick?
Pick Trello if you want a board everyone gets instantly, for free, and tracking state is all you need. Pick Zenhub if your team runs agile entirely on GitHub Issues and wants the reporting to match.
What is the biggest difference between Trello and Zenhub?
The clearest gap is being the place the tasks actually live, where Trello does more than Zenhub. Underneath that, Trello is a list or a board that everybody understands without being taught, and Zenhub is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Trello or Zenhub cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Trello is about $300 a year, Zenhub does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Trello and Zenhub have in common?
They answer the same on 9 of our 16 axes, among them time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and booking links. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Trello and Zenhub?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and two way calendar sync. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked 2 August 2026 and June 2026.