Quickbase vs. Trello

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Quickbase
Score 8.8 out of 10
N/A
Quickbase helps users tackle any project, no matter how complex. Quickbase helps customers see, connect and control complex projects. Whether it’s raising a skyscraper or coordinating vaccine rollouts, the no-code software platform allows business users to custom fit solutions to the way they work – using information from across the systems they already have.
$700
per month
Trello
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
Trello from Atlassian is a project management tool based on a Kanban framework. Trello is ideal for task-management in a to-do list format. It supports sharing boards and cards across users or teams. The product offers a free version, and paid versions add greater automation, collaboration, and administrative control.
$12.50
per user/per month
Pricing
QuickbaseTrello
Editions & Modules
Enterprise
Full Customizable
per month/billed annually
Business
Starting at $2,200
per month
Team
Started at $700
per month
Business Class
$12.50
per user/per month
Enterprise
$17.50
per user/per month
Free
Forever Free
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
QuickbaseTrello
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
YesNo
Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
Additional DetailsQuickbase offers three key plans, with feature distinction, simple and consistent entitlements, and a flexible licensing model, giving users the option of either user based or usage based licensing across all 3 plans.
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Community Pulse
QuickbaseTrello
Considered Both Products
Quickbase
Chose Quickbase
I use Trello for my own projects. Our production team chose to use QuickBase after using Smartsheet for a while. I believe they like QuickBase but if I had to pick, I would pick Trello for ease of use, clean UI, and better functionality.
Chose Quickbase
Trello is a great project management tool, but ultimately did not perform as well with the CRM functions we needed.
Chose Quickbase
Quickbase is highly flexible for application development. Other vendors also provide customization options, but Quickbase is preferred because it is more flexible and provides more custom options. Also, Quickbase is preferred because it is easier for data handling. Other …
Chose Quickbase
We were using custom software that did much of what we wanted, however, creating new features or changing existing ones took a lot of time to implement and a full-time position to do it. We were also using Quickbooks in many departments, enough that we needed a 30 user license. …
Chose Quickbase
QuickBase is more versatile but less polished. My users really like "pretty" and "fast" user interfaces with live updates, which Google Sheets can provide. Google Sheets is my primary competitor internally vs. QuickBase due to the live updates. QuickBase does not really work …
Chose Quickbase
I would prefer to use Quick Base because it's customizable. I don't have to see what I don't want to see. I can make it look the way I want it to look. No other software does that as well as Quick Base.
Chose Quickbase
There’s nothing like Quick Base for the price. Nothing out there out of the box is 100% customizable.
Trello
Chose Trello
Evernote stores documents but donest help us manage workflows and delegate tasks like trello. Trello really helps us move agenda items along which we couldn't do in Evernote
Features
QuickbaseTrello
Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Trello
8.5
220 Ratings
11% above category average
Task Management00 Ratings9.5220 Ratings
Resource Management00 Ratings9.4183 Ratings
Gantt Charts00 Ratings7.273 Ratings
Scheduling00 Ratings9.0167 Ratings
Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.1141 Ratings
Team Collaboration00 Ratings9.0216 Ratings
Support for Agile Methodology00 Ratings8.7146 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology00 Ratings7.5114 Ratings
Document Management00 Ratings8.3157 Ratings
Email integration00 Ratings7.7145 Ratings
Mobile Access00 Ratings9.1191 Ratings
Timesheet Tracking00 Ratings9.587 Ratings
Change request and Case Management00 Ratings8.9101 Ratings
Budget and Expense Management00 Ratings8.072 Ratings
Professional Services Automation
Comparison of Professional Services Automation features of Product A and Product B
Quickbase
-
Ratings
Trello
5.8
71 Ratings
26% below category average
Quotes/estimates00 Ratings6.149 Ratings
Invoicing00 Ratings5.142 Ratings
Project & financial reporting00 Ratings6.557 Ratings
Integration with accounting software00 Ratings5.643 Ratings
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User Ratings
QuickbaseTrello
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(521 ratings)
9.3
(220 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew
9.9
(54 ratings)
9.9
(6 ratings)
Usability
8.7
(40 ratings)
9.3
(58 ratings)
Availability
9.0
(16 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Performance
9.0
(15 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Support Rating
7.9
(44 ratings)
9.9
(81 ratings)
In-Person Training
9.9
(4 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Online Training
10.0
(5 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Implementation Rating
9.7
(22 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Configurability
9.0
(10 ratings)
5.0
(1 ratings)
Contract Terms and Pricing Model
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Ease of integration
8.4
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Product Scalability
9.0
(15 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Professional Services
9.0
(1 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Vendor post-sale
9.0
(10 ratings)
10.0
(1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale
9.0
(10 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
QuickbaseTrello
Likelihood to Recommend
Quickbase
I no longer think that Quickbase is the way of the future. They do not fix major bugs in a timely manner, and are releasing basic functionality behind a paywall. I believe that Enterprise Level Tier should be given certain things, like SLAs on Support and up-time. However, as a low-code no-code platform the majority of the accounts, "builders", and users are not going to be able to justify the cost of an Enterprise Tier Plan, and won't be able to use the features that Quickbase continues to advertise.
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Atlassian
Trello is great for cross-team communication and intra-team organization. It's simple to get setup, with flexible tools that give businesses control over how to make Trello work the best for them. It is an amazing platform for operations tracking, project management, and even organizing customer service requests for a smaller business.
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Pros
Quickbase
  • Rapidly bring new ideas to life
  • Great authentication and authorization system out of the box
  • Connects with many major third-party services (via Pipelines)
  • Reporting and Dashboards are awesome
  • Excellent emails notification system to keep us in the loop when data changes
  • Intuitive UI for building forms and reports
  • Nice playground to test new ideas
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Atlassian
  • Helps track employees "to do before hire", "to do after hired," and "to do when employee leaves"
  • Provides important information on each employee like personal information along with data collected during the time of hire and during employment time
  • Allows more than one person to be assigned to a task per employee and will remain open until everyone involved has completed their task
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Cons
Quickbase
  • I'd like to see a link on email notices that take you directly into said notice. On an app that only has 1 or 2 email notices firing, there's no issue. However, we have some tools that are so complex that they have about 20 email notices firing at any given time based on the action users take. In this case, if we have to go in to modify a notice, we have to guess or scroll down the long list of notices to see which one we need to customize. It would be great if Quickbase had the URL of said notice somewhere at the footer of that notice so when Administrators click on it, it takes them into the exact notice they need to update.
  • When filling out or reviewing a lengthy form, I'd like to see the Save & close button, as well as a Save & next option at the bottom of the form rather than having to scroll back up to the top of those forms just to click on those choices.
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Atlassian
  • I use colour coding a lot so I would like a wider range of colour options.
  • Also as a visual thinker I would like to be able to easily add images to cards.
  • I would like to be able to attach a wider range of file formats to cards.
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Likelihood to Renew
Quickbase
For our use-case of QuickBase, there really aren't any other products out there that can offer us the same out-of-the-box solutions they provide to us. We're also so integrated with it in our daily processes that to move away from it abruptly would cause mass chaos, so it's going to be renewed for at least the next several years.
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Atlassian
I am very likely to renew Trello, because it doesn't cost anything to do so. I am also very likely to use Trello's upgraded features in the future because a lot of my team's data is stored on there and they have already gotten used to the platform. Trello is very easy for new team members to pick up, making the onboarding and usability very streamlined.
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Usability
Quickbase
Quick Base has done everything we have asked it to do and then some. Our original goal was to have one system for CRM that encompassed both the sales process and the customer management. We have gone w-a-y beyond that with analytics, project management, system bug logging, and historical effort reporting.
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Atlassian
I am technology illiterate, it's my Achilles heel and this program is so easy to use. I have been utilizing it for a decade now. It makes organizing and prioritizing my life, my work, my business, my kids life, etc so much more manageable and without having to hold on to a bunch of into in my head. I can find it and locate it quickly and easily in Trello.
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Reliability and Availability
Quickbase
Once we did get Quick Base configured and customized it was reliably available when we needed it. We may have had one or two occasions when the product was inaccessible but those were few. The greatest challenge with its availability was its difficulty with integrating with our systems.
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Atlassian
yes always support available when I need it!
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Performance
Quickbase
Some of our tables that hold over a million records are starting to perform poorly, with some summaries taking over 20 seconds to load. This may be an indication that it is best to archive old data when reaching large volumes like this.
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Atlassian
Never experienced issues with the above!
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Support Rating
Quickbase
If you utilize the community, the support is amazing. Unfortunately, I find their actual support system a bit underwhelming. They don't seem to have a great process for interacting directly with an issue and often sweep significant issues under the rug by categorizing them as "Enhancement" ideas or legacy items.
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Atlassian
I haven't reached out to their support very often and their support is very limited anyway for the free users. They do have tons of great articles and videos in their Help Center and constantly send emails with updates and add-ons to the product. The fact that I've barely ever had to contact their support team means that they've developed a great product.
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In-Person Training
Quickbase
It is very easy to get training from their University portal and still if we don't know their, then we can ask their support too.
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Atlassian
It was helpful and informative! It was back before the pandemic in 2019 so I'm not sure if they still do it but I really enjoyed the experience
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Online Training
Quickbase
Quick Base already is having a separate portal of providing training to customers and it is very easy to use and updates as per the new features added in to the application
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Atlassian
No answers on this topic
Implementation Rating
Quickbase
I was not directly involved with the initial account implementation, only a bystander. For the app I directly implemented for my department only, I wish I had know to create an app diagram first. I don't remember if that was suggested. I think that would be a great help tip tool when a new app is created, to have a page with a check list of what is needed or how to get started. If you are a regular app builder, then you can bypass it or have the ability to turn it off in the app settings.
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Atlassian
For our small business, getting a few of us started well on Trello was the key, I think. As long as a couple of us were really comfortable with the interface, we could lead others and help them with any questions. From now on, anyone who works with us just naturally uses Trello for information sharing - it's just part of what we do.
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Alternatives Considered
Quickbase
Well, there's a plethora of low-code tools out on the marketplace and, you know, there's a reason that we've decided to partner with QuickBase because it has all the right balance of the ability to integrate with the ability for a citizen developer to create apps successfully. So if you look at something like Zo Ho's low-code offering, for example, yes, there are some similarities there, but they're really dependent on all of their other licensed products to get you where you want to be, where with QuickBase you have the ability to truly create something custom.
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Atlassian
I also use Whatsapp chat as a task management tool. Whatsapp group chat is very convenient for assigning tasks and making follow-ups. Trello currently lacks here. Whatsapp chat is also way more handy and user-friendly than Trello, because of its better interface and engagement. But Trello has better task organization than WhatsApp chat task management.
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Scalability
Quickbase
It has evolved really well with our company, but there is a hard limit to the table size that has begun to affect us and not let us grow. The table size limit is set at 500 MB and we have had to jump through quite a few hoops to be able to get by.
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Atlassian
Feels like anyone across the org (no matter their location) can use the tool easily!
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Professional Services
Quickbase
For clients we use Qucik base to develop application
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Atlassian
Not sure if we use those
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Return on Investment
Quickbase
  • ROI is HUGE. Our company saved over 3.5 million in one year alone based on developments that year in Quickbase that saved time for many teams
  • Less user error - implementing automations and standardized workflows has led to less user error as was previously seen by maintaining spreadsheets or Smartsheets
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Atlassian
  • Trello keeps me organized, focused, and on track. I could filter the Trello board to only see my issues and understand what I needed to work on and when.
  • Trello helped our team implement an agile structure. It's a very simple kanban method of viewing all of your team's tasks and statuses. You can completely customize the columns to your team's specific workflow and create tags relevant to your work.
  • Trello helps reduce unnecessary communications between teams. When I want to request translations, I simply create a card on the localization Trello board -- no need to directly message anyone on the team, and I can watch the status of the card change from "in progress" to "in review" to "translated," all without having to directly ask for updates.
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