Frello - A simple Trello alternative. Free. No hidden costs.Manifesto<br>A small revolt<br>against bloated software.<br>Frello is what Trello used to be — reduced, opinionated, and built to move work forward. It's free. Forever.
01Frello moves work forward — it's not another dashboard to maintain.
02Frello is free. Forever. No seats. No "Standard / Premium / Enterprise". Free means free.
03A Frello board is not a report. If your tool is reporting up, it's not helping down — Frello helps down.
04Frello deletes more than it ships. Less is the feature. Calm software, on purpose.
05If you want workflows, automations and 40-person enterprise readiness — Frello is not for you. And that's fine.
Signed the manifesto<br>1,004<br>people who stopped managing software and started moving.<br>Join the revoltWhy all this?
Built by one person.<br>Free for everyone.<br>Karsten Biedermann<br>Founder, Frello · May 18, 2026
I hate productivity tools. Not in a cute, ironic way. I mean I genuinely hate how they look, how they feel, and what they've turned into.<br>They're bloated . They're ugly . And they're built for reporting, not for work.<br>Before Atlassian bought Trello, it wasn't pretty — but it was reduced. It did one thing. And it didn't pretend to be enterprise-ready. Since then, everything seems optimized for big organizations that confuse visibility with progress. More workflows. More dashboards. More pricing tiers. Less clarity.<br>At some point, I wasn't moving projects forward anymore.<br>I was managing software. That's when I stopped looking for a better tool — and started building one.<br>Productivity doesn't need frameworks. It needs space.<br>It needs restraint. Most tools fail at that because they're afraid to say no. I didn't build this for enterprises. I didn't build it for managers. And I definitely didn't build it to scale pricing per seat.<br>I built it for people who actually do the work — designers, developers, small teams — who want a calm place to think and move things forward.<br>Built-in time tracking. Free forever. No add-on, no upgrade, no per-seat math.<br>Reduced to what matters. Why it's free?<br>Because focus isn't a luxury.<br>Because simplicity doesn't need monetization gymnastics.<br>And because collaboration shouldn't get more expensive the moment it starts working. If you're happy managing tools, this isn't for you.<br>If you miss software that gets out of the way — welcome.