Orbyt vs Trello.
Trello was built for tasks. Orbyt was built for careers.
Kanban board adapted for job tracking
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Feature coverage.
What Trello is.
Trello is a general-purpose kanban project management tool created in 2011 by Joel Spolsky and Michael Pryor at Fog Creek Software, then acquired by Atlassian in 2017 for $425 million. Trello's Free plan supports 10 boards per workspace with unlimited cards, which is more than enough capacity for a job-search tracker. The job-seeker pattern is to create a board with columns like Saved, Applied, Interviewing, Offer, and Rejected, then drag cards between columns as applications progress. This is how Trello has been used for tracking almost any list-based workflow for fifteen years. It works for job search in the same way a kanban board works for anything else: you get a visual pipeline, no more, no less.
Pricing, head to head.
On pricing, Trello Free gives you 10 boards with unlimited cards. Trello Standard, the first paid tier, is $5 per user per month billed annually or $6 per month monthly. Orbyt Free tracks 10 active jobs with the full CRM, follow-up reminders, mood check-ins, and interview prep, all shipped working. Orbyt Unlimited is $19.99 per month. Trello is cheaper at the subscription line, but the unit you are paying for is a kanban board, not a job-search system. Orbyt at $19.99 includes tools Trello does not ship at any tier: AI resume tailoring, ATS keyword scoring, interview prep for 700+ companies, salary data for 3,445 roles, financial runway, wellness, and smart follow-up reminders tied to contacts.
Orbyt wins.
A board, or a brain.
Built AI-native from the ground up. Not a chatbot bolted onto a feature list.
Built-in agents that think, reason, and act on your search in real time. A living system, not a stack of dumb screens.
A purpose-built pipeline. Zero setup. Ready the second you sign up.
Resume tailoring for every application, built in. No plugins, no Power-Ups.
Smart follow-up reminders that already know how job searches work.
A contact CRM with AI capture straight from LinkedIn profiles.
Wellness system that watches for burnout while you hustle.
Runway planner that projects your burn and your buffer, week by week.
Trello is a blank board waiting for instructions. Orbyt already knows how to run a job search.
Feature by feature.
Trello and Orbyt sit in different categories. Trello is a kanban surface for anything: content pipelines, project tasks, wedding planning, sales stages, and yes, job applications. Orbyt is a job-search system. When you open Trello for your job search, you see cards arranged in columns and that is the whole experience. Fine. When you open Orbyt, the pipeline is visible, the next action is surfaced, the follow-ups you forgot are highlighted, the interview you have tomorrow gets prep material generated automatically, the resume tailored to the job is linked to the card, the salary data for the role and city is one click away. These are product features, not Trello-template features. A board can show you where things are. It cannot tell you what to do next.
Game. Point. Match.
Side by side.
| Feature | Orbyt | Trello |
|---|---|---|
| Job pipeline tracker | ||
| Drag-and-drop Kanban board | ||
| Offer tracking & comparison | ||
| Activity timeline & history | ||
| Browser extension | Chrome & Safari | |
| Stale job & deadline alerts | ||
| AI resume tailoring | ||
| ATS keyword scoring | ||
| AI job search assistantDecisive | ||
| AI job description parsing | ||
| AI contact capture | ||
| Semantic search (AI) | ||
| AI persona customization | ||
| Contact CRM | ||
| Smart follow-up reminders | ||
| Email template library | ||
| Interview prep tools | ||
| Offer negotiation tools | ||
| Calendar integration | ||
| iCalendar feed subscription | ||
| Push notifications | ||
| Career wellness coachDecisive | ||
| Mood tracking & journaling | ||
| Financial runway plannerDecisive | ||
| Goals, streaks & badges | ||
| Shareable milestone cards | ||
| Morning Brief (daily mood-adaptive greeting) | ||
| Quiet Mode (auto-adapts on rough days) | ||
| Week in Review (Sunday summary) | ||
| Career Mode (post-hire retention) | ||
| AI coaching emails | ||
| Shareable coaching insights | ||
| Weekly career tips | ||
| Application timing intelligence | ||
| Cross-device sync | ||
| Dark & light themes | ||
| Multi-language (8 languages) | ||
| Full data export & backup | ||
| Passkey (WebAuthn) login | ||
| Free plan | Free forever | Limited |
Based on publicly available feature lists. Updated regularly.
Who each tool is for.
Use Trello if you already use Trello at work for other projects and want one visual tool for everything. The switching cost is zero because you are already in the product. If your search is small (under 15 applications) and you mostly just want to see which stage each role is in, Trello free is adequate. Use Orbyt if your search is serious: 30-plus applications, multiple recruiters per role, follow-ups that cannot slip, a six-month timeline where financial runway and mental health matter. Orbyt is optimized for running a job search campaign. Trello is optimized for visualizing any pipeline. The tool you pick should match the scope of the work.
The bottom line, in 2026.
As of April 2026, Trello is the right tool if you want a kanban surface and nothing more, and Orbyt is the right tool if you want a job-search system. The honest question is whether you are running a real search or a light one. Small searches fit on a Trello board. Full searches need a tool that knows it is a job search. Trello does not know anything about your search; it is a set of columns and cards. Orbyt is built for the specific problem, ships every core feature in working form, and costs slightly more per seat but vastly more per value delivered.
Common questions.
How to migrate from Trello to Orbyt.
Moving from a Trello job-tracker board to Orbyt takes about fifteen minutes. Trello exports boards as JSON, but Orbyt accepts CSV, a quick intermediate step.
- In Trello, open your job-search board, click Show Menu, select More, then Print and Export. Choose Export as JSON and save the file.
- Convert the Trello JSON to CSV using any free converter (or paste the card names into a spreadsheet manually, usually under 10 minutes for a typical tracker).
- Sign up for Orbyt at orbytjobs.ai on the free tier.
- From the Orbyt Getting Started panel, click Import CSV. Map Trello's list names (Saved, Applied, Interview, Offer) to Orbyt's stage column. Orbyt preserves stage semantics.
- For any contacts you had noted on Trello card comments, add them to Orbyt's Contacts tab tied to the relevant job. Contacts live with their role so follow-ups land in the right thread.
- Archive the Trello board. You do not need to delete it; Orbyt works independently and Trello's free board count is generous enough to keep it around.
The migration is a lunch-break task. Most users are fully running their search from Orbyt within an hour.