TillyGen vs Trello

What Trello is for

Kanban board tool often used as a lightweight production tracker.

Very small teams with simple, linear jobs.

General-purpose tools are unbeatably flexible and expensive for exactly that reason: every piece of production logic a specialist tool ships with has to be built here by hand — and maintained afterwards, including after that person leaves.

Where Trello is strong

A comparison that only lists your own upsides is not one. This is what speaks for Trello:

• Almost no learning curve
• Free tier covers a small team
• Good for a short, linear job

Where the limits are

And these are the points where teams run into limits in practice — not as a flaw, but as a consequence of the design:

• Breaks down as soon as dependencies matter
• No path from cards to production paperwork

Where TillyGen takes a different route

Cards do not become a call sheet. TillyGen's plan does.

TillyGen turns a brief into a shoot-ready package: shot list, storyboard, schedule and call sheet that stay connected. Change the creative direction and the affected shots are flagged rather than quietly left behind.

Which tool when

In short: Very small teams with simple, linear jobs. If your bottleneck is instead getting from a brief to a plan that holds, that is where TillyGen starts.

The useful question before switching is not which tool does more, but where the process stalls today. Three bottlenecks come up again and again in production teams, and they call for different tools:

• The plan comes together too slowly: days pass between the brief and a shoot-ready shot list, with the client already chasing.
• The paperwork drifts apart: shot list, schedule and call sheet live in three files, and after the second change none of them agrees with the others.
• Distribution eats the time: the plan is done, but every version has to be sent to twenty people by hand and chased up.

What to check before switching

Usually outgrown rather than replaced deliberately.

Switching tools mid-production almost always costs more than it saves on that job. The sensible moment is between two projects, with a pilot small enough to run twice if it comes to that. Check first whether the export formats match what post and accounting expect — migrations fail there more often than on features.