Trello Power-Ups in 2026: What’s Worth Installing and What’s Built In Now
Trello Power-Ups are add-ons that bring extra features or other apps into a Trello board: a calendar, a Gantt chart, time tracking, Google Drive files, reports. Every Trello plan, Free included, allows unlimited Power-Ups per board. Adding one costs nothing on Trello’s side, but Trello notes that some partner Power-Ups charge their own subscription fee.
So the real question isn’t how many you can add. It’s which gaps still need a Power-Up in 2026, because Trello has built a fair amount in since most “best Power-Ups” lists were written. Custom Fields, card mirroring and the Planner now come with Standard, and the old Jira Power-Up is gone entirely.
I implement work-management tools through SSPM, a Smartsheet Premier Aligned Partner, and Trello is often the board tool a team already has. Everything below is checked against trello.com/pricing, Atlassian’s Trello support docs and the Power-Up directory as of October 8, 2026.
How Power-Ups work on each plan
The Power-Up count is the same on every plan. What changes is how much Trello does natively, and that decides how many Power-Ups you actually need:
- Free ($0, up to 10 collaborators per Workspace): unlimited Power-Ups, up to 10 boards per Workspace, Inbox, a view-only Planner and 250 automation runs a month. No Custom Fields.
- Standard ($5 per user/month billed annually, $6 monthly): adds unlimited boards, Custom Fields, card mirroring, advanced checklists, full Planner access, AI features and 1,000 automation runs a month.
- Premium ($10 billed annually, $12.50 monthly): adds Calendar, Timeline, Table, Dashboard and Map views, unlimited automation runs and admin features.
- Enterprise ($17.50 per user/month, billed annually): adds organization-wide controls, including Power-Up administration.
A lot of Power-Ups exist to fill gaps on Free and Standard. If you’re on Premium, the built-in Calendar, Timeline and Dashboard views may cover what you were about to install. Our Trello pricing guide breaks down each plan in more detail.
The Power-Ups worth a look, by job
I’d pick Power-Ups by the gap you’re closing, not from a top-20 list. Here’s where each common job stands in October 2026. The install counts are what the Trello directory shows, which tells you how widely used a Power-Up is, not whether it’s right for you.
Calendar: start with Trello’s own
The Calendar Power-Up is made by Trello and shows 7,000,000+ installs. It shows a board’s cards with due dates in a week or month view, and you can drag a card to a new day to change its due date. It can also publish an iCalendar feed so the board’s due dates show up in Google Calendar or Outlook. Each board member gets their own feed URL. If you don’t see the feed option, a board admin has to enable it in the Power-Up’s settings.
On Premium you already have a Calendar view, and every plan has the Planner (view-only on Free). On Free or Standard, the Calendar Power-Up is still the simplest way to see a board’s dates on a calendar.
Gantt charts and dependencies: you’ll need a third party
Trello’s own support docs say it doesn’t have built-in task dependency management. Their suggested workaround is checklists, linked cards and automation rules. That works for simple chains, but if you want bars and arrows, you need a Power-Up.
The directory lists 14 results for “Gantt.” The most installed are Planyway’s calendar and timeline Power-Up (250,000+), TeamGantt (100,000+) and Placker’s Gantt chart (50,000+). They differ a lot in how they handle dependencies, which boards they pull from and what they charge, so try two on a copy of a real board before you commit. Premium’s Timeline view is a good-looking schedule, but it doesn’t link tasks to each other.
Recurring cards: Card Repeater or an automation rule
Card Repeater (made by Trello, 500,000+ installs) copies a card on a weekly, monthly or yearly schedule. For a daily card, set it to repeat on every day of the week. Two details from Atlassian’s docs are worth knowing:
- Archiving the original card doesn’t stop it repeating. Only deleting it, moving it to another board or cancelling the repeat does.
- The copy is exact, so due dates don’t move forward. Atlassian suggests an automation rule triggered “when a card is copied” into the list to reset the date.
You can also do recurring cards with Trello’s built-in automation. That uses your monthly runs, and the Free plan only has 250.
WIP limits: List Limits
List Limits (made by Trello, 1,000,000+ installs) highlights a list when it holds more cards than the limit you set. Trello has no native work-in-progress limit, so this is one of the few small Power-Ups I’d add to almost any team board.
Reporting and time tracking
For charts beyond Premium’s Dashboard view, Reports by Blue Cat (50,000+) is one Trello features on its Power-Ups page, with burndown-style charts and exports. For time tracking, the directory shows 23 results; Planyway (250,000+, which bundles time tracking with its calendar and timeline) and Everhour (25,000+) are among the most installed. Both are third-party products with their own pricing, so check their current plans before you roll them out.
Custom fields on the Free plan
Native Custom Fields start on Standard. If you’re staying on Free, Amazing Fields (250,000+), which Trello lists under its essential Power-Ups, adds fields to cards. If you’re already paying for Standard, you probably don’t need it.
What happened to the Jira Power-Up
If you searched for the Trello Jira Power-Up, here’s why you can’t find it. Atlassian removed the Jira Power-Up from the directory in October 2025 and began removing it from existing boards on November 21, 2025. Existing Jira links stayed on cards as Smart Links showing the issue key, title and status.
In its place, Trello has native Jira features: attach a Jira issue to a card, and add Jira lists to a board that pull in issues by JQL or filter. Atlassian updated the announcement on August 25, 2026 to say you can now create Jira work items right from Trello, something users had asked for in the comments. If your team splits work between the two tools, our Jira vs Trello comparison covers when each one fits.
How to add a Power-Up
From Atlassian’s Power-Up setup guide:
- Open the board and select the Power-Ups menu in the board header. You can also get there from the board menu.
- Select Add Power-Ups.
- Search for the Power-Up.
- Select Add and follow its setup steps. Some will ask you to sign in to another service.
Some Power-Ups can put a button in the board header. Toggle those on or off from the same Power-Ups menu so the header doesn’t fill up.
When a Power-Up asks to connect to another service, connect it with an account your team controls, not one person’s personal login. If that person leaves, the connection goes with them.
How to remove one without losing data
- Open the Power-Ups menu in the board header.
- Select the Power-Up’s Settings button and choose Disable.
- Decide on the Keep all Power-Up data checkbox. Check it if you might reinstall the Power-Up later. Leave it unchecked to remove its saved data.
- Select Disable Power-Up.
Data a Power-Up stores in its own service (time logs, Gantt settings, reports) lives with that vendor, not in Trello. Export it from the Power-Up first. If one is misbehaving, Atlassian’s docs also suggest Remove personal settings in the same Settings menu, which clears your private saved data for that Power-Up.
Power-Ups and automation share a budget
Power-Ups and Trello’s built-in automation are separate things, but anything you build with automation counts against a monthly quota, including recurring-card rules. Atlassian’s automation quotas are pooled across every board in a Workspace and reset on the first of each month at midnight GMT:
| Plan | Automation runs per month | Operations per month |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 250 | 2,500 |
| Standard | 1,000 | 20,000 |
| Premium | Unlimited | 150,000, plus 10,000 per user, capped at 250,000 |
| Enterprise | Unlimited | 150,000, plus 10,000 per user, capped at 250,000 |
If rules stop firing late in the month, the quota is the first thing to check. Our Trello automation troubleshooting guide covers that and the other common causes.
Admin controls for Enterprise
On Enterprise, admins can turn on Power-Up Administration from the Power-Ups tab of the Enterprise dashboard. It’s off by default, which means any member can add any Power-Up to any board.
Turning it on does two things at once. Every Power-Up already in use somewhere in the Enterprise stays allowed, and every Power-Up not in use is immediately disallowed. Admins can then allow or disallow Power-Ups one at a time or in bulk. It also shows which Power-Ups are in use and on how many boards, which is reason enough to switch it on and look.
When Power-Ups aren’t the answer
My rule of thumb: if a board needs four or more Power-Ups just to plan the work (a Gantt chart, time tracking, cross-board reporting and dependencies), the team has probably outgrown Trello for that project. Our Trello review covers where Trello still shines and where it starts to strain.
FAQ
Are Trello Power-Ups free?
Adding Power-Ups is free on every Trello plan, including Free. Trello’s pricing page notes that some Power-Ups made by its partners require an additional subscription fee, so check the listing. Trello’s own Power-Ups, like Calendar, Card Repeater and List Limits, come from Trello rather than a partner.
How many Power-Ups can you have on the Trello Free plan?
Unlimited. Atlassian’s documentation says there’s no limit on the number of Power-Ups a board can have, regardless of plan.
Is there a Trello Gantt chart Power-Up?
Yes, several. Trello doesn’t make one, but the directory lists 14 Gantt results, including Planyway, TeamGantt and Placker. Premium’s built-in Timeline view shows a schedule but doesn’t link dependent tasks.
Where did the Jira Power-Up go?
Atlassian removed it from the directory in October 2025 and from boards starting November 21, 2025. Jira links on cards became Smart Links, and boards can now use Jira lists and create Jira work items directly from Trello.
Can admins block Power-Ups in Trello?
On Enterprise, yes. Turn on Power-Up Administration in the Enterprise dashboard to allow or disallow specific Power-Ups across the organization.
Plan details checked on trello.com/pricing; Power-Up setup, Card Repeater, Calendar, dependency, automation quota and Enterprise admin details checked in Atlassian Support; install counts from the Trello Power-Up directory; all on October 8, 2026.
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