Best Project Management Software With Kanban Boards

Trello is the purest kanban tool on this list. Boards hold lists, lists hold cards, and cards hold checklists, due dates, attachments, and comments. A new team can open a board and start moving work in minutes, with no training and no setup project. The free plan covers up to 10 collaborators per workspace, while Standard at $5 per user per month billed annually adds unlimited boards, card mirroring, and more automation. Premium at $10 per user per month billed annually adds timeline, calendar, dashboard, and table views, plus admin controls.

Trello suits teams that want a board and little else. The limit shows up when a team needs portfolio reporting, workload views, or time tracking.

Price: $5 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes

Website: trello.com

Asana treats a kanban board as one view of a project, beside list, timeline, calendar, and Gantt views. Cards carry custom fields, dependencies, subtasks, and comments, and the board can be filtered by assignee, due date, or priority. The free Personal plan covers up to two users, while Starter at $10.99 per user per month billed annually removes seat limits and adds timeline and Gantt views, reporting dashboards, forms, custom fields, and unlimited automations.

Asana fits teams that need boards plus structure. The Advanced plan at $24.99 per user per month billed annually adds resource management, capacity planning, and time tracking. Asana is the pick when boards must sit inside a planned, goal driven workflow.

Price: $10.99 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes

Website: asana.com

Monday.com builds projects as boards with groups of items, status columns, and people columns, so progress reads as color at a glance. The kanban view turns any board into columns by status, and the same data can be seen as a timeline, calendar, or dashboard. The Basic plan starts at $9 per user per month billed annually with a 3 user minimum, and a 14 day free trial of the Pro plan lets a team test dashboards and time tracking before paying.

Monday.com suits teams that like visual work and fast setup. The trade off is cost at scale, since every seat is priced and the plan minimum is three users. For a team that wants a bright, flexible board with solid reporting, Monday.com is a strong choice.

Price: $9 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes

Website: monday.com

Jira is the standard kanban tool for software teams. Boards show work items in columns, with swimlanes, quick filters, and a backlog that feeds the board. Teams can run scrum sprints or a continuous kanban flow, set work in progress limits, and track cycle time with built in reports. The free plan covers up to 10 users with 2 GB of storage, while Standard at $8.48 per user per month adds 250 GB of storage and 400 automation steps per user per month. Premium at $15.56 per user per month adds unlimited storage, cross project planning, and a 99.9 percent uptime service level.

The weakness is fit outside software. Marketing and operations teams often find Jira heavy, with too many settings for a simple board. A software team that lives in agile rituals will get more from Jira than from any general board tool.

Price: $8.48 per user/month

Free plan: Yes

Website: atlassian.com

Wrike pairs kanban boards with formal project controls. Boards carry custom workflows, so a card moves through the exact stages a team uses, from intake to review to done. Request forms feed new work onto a board, and proofing lets reviewers comment on files without leaving the task. The free plan covers basic team work, and the Team plan at $9.80 per user per month billed annually adds Gantt charts, dashboards, and integrations. Business adds automation, time tracking, and AI actions, and is sold as an annual subscription.

The seat model needs care: subscriptions are sold in groups of five for up to 30 seats, so a team of seven pays for ten. A 14 day free trial covers the Team and Business plans, which gives a team time to test the board, the Gantt view, and the approval flow before committing.

Price: $9.80 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes

Website: wrike.com

Teamwork organizes work by client, which makes it a natural fit for agencies and consultancies that run many projects at once. Boards sit beside list, Gantt, and table views, and every task can carry time entries, files, and comments. The free plan covers up to 5 projects and 5 users, while Basics at $9.99 per user per month billed yearly covers 300 projects, unlimited templates, billable time tracking, and custom fields. Accelerate at $24.99 per user per month billed yearly adds workload planning, live capacity views, time budgets, retainers, and invoicing from logged time.

Teamwork suits a team that bills by the hour and needs a board that connects to money. Time logged on a board task flows into reports, budgets, and invoices, so a lead can see margin without exporting data.

Price: $9.99 per user/month (billed yearly)

Free plan: Yes

Website: teamwork.com

Smartsheet starts from a grid, and its card view turns any sheet into a kanban board with columns by status, owner, or priority. Because the board is a view of a sheet, formulas, conditional formatting, and cross sheet rollups keep working behind it, so a lead can sum budgets, count overdue tasks, and roll up status across projects. Pro starts at $9 per member per month billed annually for 1 to 10 members, with unlimited contributors who can view and edit without a member seat. Business at $19 per member per month billed annually adds more automation and controls.

Smartsheet fits teams that plan in spreadsheets and want a board without losing the grid. There is no free plan, only a 30 day trial with no card needed, so a small team should test the card view and the automation limits during the trial.

Price: $9 per member/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Free trial (30 days)

Website: smartsheet.com

Notion builds kanban boards as views of a database, so the same tasks can be seen as a board, a table, a calendar, or a timeline. Cards carry any property a team needs: owner, status, priority, dates, and linked records. The free plan covers individual use with a trial of Notion AI, while Plus at $10 per user per month billed annually adds unlimited file uploads, custom sites, charts, and collaborative blocks. Business adds Notion Agent, AI meeting notes, and enterprise search.

Notion suits a team that wants one workspace for notes and tasks. The board is flexible, but it is not a dedicated project tool: there is no native time tracking, no workload view on lower plans, and reporting needs manual setup. For docs first teams that need a light board, Notion is hard to beat.

Price: $10 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes

Website: notion.com

Airtable treats a project as a database, and its kanban view groups records into columns by any single select field. Cards can hold attachments, linked records, dates, and formulas, so a board can track a content pipeline, a hiring flow, or a product launch with real data behind each card. The free plan covers small teams with core building blocks, while Team at $20 per user per month billed annually adds more records, automation runs, and interfaces. Business at $45 per user per month billed annually adds scale, admin controls, and advanced sync.

Airtable fits teams that need a board plus a database. The price is the main limit: at $20 per user per month, a team of 20 pays $400 per month before add ons.

Price: $20 per user/month (billed annually)

Free plan: Yes

Website: airtable.com