Export a Trello board and migrate — free plan included

For most people, leaving Trello fails at an unremarkable obstacle: the CSV export is only available on Premium and Enterprise workspaces. If you use Trello for free — and most do — you simply will not find it.

The route that works on every Trello board, free ones included, is the JSON export. That is exactly what Zuuna reads.

Export the board as JSON

Open the board, then the menu on the right, Share and Export as JSON. You get a file — that is everything there is to do on the Trello side.

Upload it to Zuuna

Create a new board in Zuuna and choose the import. Upload the JSON file, check the preview, commit. You do not have to build a column mapping by hand here: Trello's lists are already columns.

What comes across

Lists become columns — in Trello's own order and including the empty ones, so the board looks afterwards the way it looked before. Along with card titles and descriptions, labels, due dates, members, checklists with their tick state, and comments.

What does not

The attachment files stay in Trello. Also excluded: Power-Up fields, card covers, votes and Butler automations. Archived cards and lists stay behind too — what was archived was usually put away on purpose.

Zuuna tells you this before the import and shows a report of what was skipped afterwards. A migration where you notice the gaps weeks later is the worse migration.

One-time, not a sync

The import runs once. Zuuna does not watch your Trello board and writes nothing back to it.

What is different afterwards

Trello tends to end roughly where a board gets full. What you gain in Zuuna without bolting Power-Ups together: sprints and a backlog, time tracking and git on the board. The detailed comparison is at Zuuna vs Trello.