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Kanban board software for growing teams that run their own workflow
You're comparing kanban board software, and every product page you've opened shows the same columns with the same sample cards. The differences sit under the board: which statuses you can actually run, whether the backlog and the reports come with the plan or wait on a higher tier, and what happens to the invoice as the team grows. This page runs that comparison honestly. Taskora is a task management workspace that keeps the board and the docs side by side. It's free to start, no credit card, then one flat plan at $10/seat/mo billed yearly.
No credit card, and early members lock in up to 70% off at launch.
What any kanban tool should carry
Those differences decide whether it survives your team's second month. Every online kanban board on your shortlist can draw columns and move cards, and the demo accounts ship with sample work that flatters them. This is the checklist we would hand a friend comparing tools this week. If the method itself is new to you, the plain-language kanban guide covers it, and the task board page covers the generic shape without the kanban vocabulary.
A digital kanban board is the shared one. Your remote hire and the person joining next month see the same columns, which is the entire reason to move the board off the wall.
Statuses are the real test. A tool that ships a fixed set of columns will look clean in the demo and meet your first In review or Handoff stage with a shrug. Check that custom statuses, and the moves allowed between them, come on the plan you would actually buy.
A backlog, because the board only holds the week in flight. Everything you haven't started needs a place the whole team can see, and that place should be the tool rather than a spreadsheet tab.
Reports are how the board stays honest after the novelty fades. How long a card takes, what is aging, and who has too much on their plate should come out of the tool without anyone building a separate tracker for them.
Where Taskora fits
We build Taskora for growing teams, and we can describe it without a feature grid. A stream is a project with its own board, and the docs sit where the work happens. Everything on this page is in the one flat plan.
Each stream sets its own statuses and its own allowed moves between them, so a card cannot skip a review step, and the launch board never imposes its columns on the ops board.
Docs and a wiki with version history live in the same workspace as the board. The decision behind a card sits next to the card, and you won't need a second subscription to hold it.
With custom cycles you set the length, from a week to a month, and name each cycle what your team already calls it. Unfinished tasks land in the Backlog, and the next sprint picks them up.
Comments live on the task and the activity log keeps its history, so whoever picks the card up later can see why it moved without scrolling a chat log.
The price, in full
Kanban software is billed per seat almost everywhere, and the advertised rate usually buys the bottom tier. Taskora has one plan, so there is no tier math to run. Everything about the price fits in four lines.
One plan: $10/seat/mo billed yearly, or $13 monthly, and paying yearly saves 23%. That is the entire price list.
Every seat costs the same whether you're four people or forty. There's nothing extra to buy later.
Ten seats come to $100 a month on yearly billing, and twenty come to $200.
Every feature is in that plan: the board, the custom statuses, the docs with version history, the reports, and the cycles. Nothing here is a preview of a tier you don't have yet.
When the heavier kanban tool is the right answer
Taskora ships no automations, no workload view, and no integrations today, and pretending otherwise just sets up a disappointing second month. If your week leans on any of the three, the kanban tool you already pay for is doing work we can't, and it should keep the job. This section names the cases where staying beats switching, and the compare-before-commit article we wrote runs the same test on the wider market.
A week that leans on automations should stay where the automations live. Taskora ships none, and the board alone won't quietly absorb a process a robot was running.
If the daily question is who can take what, you need a workload view, and Taskora doesn't ship one. Capacity planning is a different job from flow, and the tools built for it exist for a reason.
If the board is the hub of a connected stack, with the repo, the support desk, and the CRM feeding it, stay where you are. Work that arrived automatically there would have to arrive by hand here, and Taskora is export-only today.
When the work is date-locked across several teams, a Gantt-style timeline models it better than any board. And if what you need is audit trails and compliance controls, the heavier tools are the honest answer. If you need enterprise terms, email hello@taskora.ai and we'll work them out with you.
Questions
- What should kanban board software include?
- At minimum, a shared board with cards and columns, custom statuses with control over the moves between them, a backlog for the work you haven't started, and reports that show how much work got done. Docs next to the board are what turn a tracker into a workspace. Everything on that list ships in Taskora's one plan.
- How much does Taskora cost?
- Free, no credit card needed. After that, one flat plan from $10/seat/mo (yearly, save 23%) or $13/seat/mo (monthly). Every feature is in that plan.
- Is there a free plan or a trial?
- Free to start until November 1, no credit card. After that, there's a 14-day free trial. We don't offer a permanent free tier today.
- Does Taskora have WIP limits and swimlanes?
- Taskora gives you the board, the custom statuses, and the transitions between them. It doesn't ship WIP limits or swimlanes. They're kanban practices, so treat them as advice for how you run any board. To pick a first limit, count the cards in your busiest column for a week.
- Can we move our tasks from the kanban tool we use now?
- No tool moves it for you. Taskora is export-only today, so you export from the old tool and rebuild the live work by hand. Once the work is here, you can request a full export of your Taskora data at any time.
Try Taskora.
Pick one real project and run it here for two weeks, with your own statuses and the docs beside the cards. The board either carries your team's actual week or it doesn't, and the free start is the cheapest way to find out which.
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