One Swiss Knife in the exact shape of your life.

A Trello alternative that stays on your machine.

Trello is great for boards you share. Planner's Compass is for the board you don't — the plan for your own week, kept on your own laptop.

Solo Trello users are quietly the biggest cohort, and they're paying for a collaboration tool they don't collaborate in. The Compass is the tool that assumes you were mostly using it alone.

What you're comparing
Trello
Planner's Compass
Price
$5 / user / month Standard, forever
$95 once (Swiss Knife)
Where boards live
Trello / Atlassian cloud
One HTML file on your machine
Kanban board
Yes
Yes — in-file, drag-to-reorder
Power-Ups
Many, tiered
None. The tool is the tool.
Team sharing
Native
Share the file / gift-forge a second copy
Offline
Weak
Full

What the Compass has that Trello doesn't

Time-blocking, habit tracking, goals, and a weekly review — one file that covers most of what a personal planner needs, not just the card wall.

What Trello has that the Compass doesn't

Shared boards, Butler automations, and the Atlassian ecosystem. For a team of ten, Trello is still the right answer.

Common questions

Can I import my Trello board?

Trello exports JSON; a small paste-in accepts card titles into a list. Attachments and comments don't migrate — deliberately.

Board per project?

Yes — the Compass supports multiple boards in-file.

For a team?

Not a team tool. The Founder's Engine is closer to what a small team wants.

How is this different from Tasks the tool?

The Compass is a full planning Blade; Tasks is a single list.