The Best Free Trello Power-Ups in 2026
15 Trello Power-Ups for automation, reporting, calendar, forms, and email that are free or have a usable free plan.
Trello's free plan supports unlimited Power-Ups, so any board can run as many as you like. Many of the best Power-Ups are free too, or offer free plans that let you start small and upgrade once they've proved their value. In this guide, we round up 15 free Trello Power-Ups worth adding in 2026, covering automation, reporting, board utilities, integrations, forms, and email.
Can you use Power-Ups on Trello's free plan?
Yes. Trello used to cap free boards at a single Power-Up, but that limit was removed years ago. Today every plan, including Free, can add unlimited Power-Ups from the Trello Power-Up directory.
What varies is the pricing of the Power-Up itself. Some are completely free (most of the ones made by Trello), and others are paid products with free plans that let you try them properly before you commit. Everything on this list is either fully free or has a free plan you can genuinely work with.
Free Trello Power-Ups for automation
Trello's built-in automation already handles rules, buttons, and scheduled commands on every plan; we cover the details in our complete guide to Trello automation. These Power-Ups pick up where it leaves off.
Card Repeater (free, made by Trello) creates recurring cards on a schedule you set: weekly meeting prep, monthly invoicing, quarterly reviews. Set it up once and the card appears when it's due.
Card Snooze (free, made by Trello) hides a card until a date and time you choose. Useful when a task can't move forward yet and you don't want it cluttering your list in the meantime.
Zapier (free plan) triggers actions in thousands of other apps based on activity in Trello, and the other way around. Zapier's own free plan covers light use.
Bulk Actions (free plan) lets you multi-select cards and change labels, due dates, members, and Custom Fields in a few clicks. A big time-saver on busy boards.
Free Trello Power-Ups for reporting
Dashcards (free, made by Trello) turns cards into live counters: overdue cards, cards per member, cards in a list. Great for keeping metrics visible right on the board.
List Limits (free, made by Trello) caps the number of cards in a list and turns the list red when you're over. A simple way to manage work in progress.
Card Aging (free, made by Trello) fades cards that haven't seen activity in a while, so stale work is easy to spot at a glance.
Swimlanes by Blue Cat (free) splits your board into horizontal lanes by member, label, or Custom Field, so you can see who's handling what at each stage. We've covered using swimlanes for a support workflow in Trello before.
Free board utility Power-Ups
Calendar (free, made by Trello) shows cards with due dates in a monthly calendar view, with drag-and-drop rescheduling. Trello's newer built-in Calendar view needs a Premium plan, which makes this Power-Up especially useful on Free and Standard boards.
Planyway (free plan) adds calendar and timeline views plus time tracking, with Google Calendar sync. A good next step when the basic Calendar Power-Up starts to feel tight.
Amazing Fields (free plan) adds extra card fields with customized formatting. Worth a look on the free plan, since Trello's native Custom Fields require a paid Trello subscription.
Voting (free, made by Trello) lets your team or your customers vote on cards. Handy for prioritizing feature requests or picking next quarter's projects.
Smart Fields (free plan) updates card fields with Excel-style formulas. Useful when your cards carry numbers, like sales values or hours logged.
Free integration Power-Ups
Slack (free) attaches Slack conversations to cards and sends alerts to your channels when things change on the board.
Google Drive (free) attaches Drive files and folders to cards, with live previews instead of static links.
Free email and forms Power-Up
Email is usually the first thing teams want to bring into Trello, and you can start without spending anything.
Email for Trello (free plan) turns a board into a shared inbox. Emails sent to your board's address arrive as new cards, and your team can reply from the card itself, so the conversation and the task live in one place. The free plan covers one board, unlimited users, and up to 50 emails a month.
Forms by Blue Cat (free plan) collects form submissions as new cards, with support for standard Trello fields and Custom Fields. The free plan covers up to 25 submissions a month.
💡 TIP A shared inbox in Trello works for support, sales, HR, and plenty more. See how to set up a shared inbox in Trello for your team.
How to install a free Power-Up
Click the 'Power-Ups' button (the rocket icon) at the top of your Trello board, then click 'Add Power-Ups' to open the directory. Find the Power-Up you want and click 'Add'. You'll be asked to grant permissions, and then you can configure it for your board.
💡 TIP Trello's layout has changed over the past year, and some Power-Up buttons have moved. Here's where to find Power-Up buttons in the new Trello layout.
Trial what works, then invest where it counts
Free plans make Power-Ups easy to test properly. Install one or two, run them on a real board for a couple of weeks, and see which ones your team keeps reaching for.
When a Power-Up proves itself, that's the moment to consider paying: either you've hit the free plan's limits, or the paid tier adds capabilities you now know you'll use. Email for Trello is a good example of the pattern. The free plan covers one board and up to 50 emails a month, enough to test a shared inbox with your team. The Essential plan adds sending from your own domain, variables, and auto-replies, and Pro adds Saved Replies and email automation with Butler.
The same test-first approach applies across the list, whether that's more form submissions in Forms by Blue Cat or more monthly tasks in Zapier. Let real usage tell you where paying adds the most value.
Free plans are the easiest way in, and the paid tiers are where these tools do their best work. For a wider look beyond free options, browse our full guide to Trello Power-Ups.
