Choose ClickUp for a broad work platform. Choose Kanera for a complete project system built around connected boards and cross-project visibility.
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ClickUp combines projects with dashboards, goals, whiteboards, chat, time tracking, forms, Gantt, native AI, and a large integration ecosystem. Choose it when you want one platform for all of that.
Kanera combines powerful boards, cross-project work, reporting, notes, automation, API access, webhooks, and MCP in one polished project system.
Try the complete Pro product for 30 days, then choose Free or one full-featured hosted plan.
Both cover everyday project operations. ClickUp spans far more work categories; Kanera brings boards, reporting, context, automation, and integrations together in one coherent workflow.
| Feature |  ClickUp |  Kanera |
|---|---|---|
| Views & Planning | ||
| Board view | Included. Board view is one of many task views and can be grouped by status, assignee, priority, and fields. | Included. Kanban boards with drag-and-drop cards, collapsible lists, per-list sorting, list icons and colours, and card covers. |
| Table view | Included. List is ClickUp's primary task view with hierarchy, fields, grouping, filtering, and bulk actions. | Included. An editable table on boards and across Global Work, with filtering, grouping, custom columns, Sum and Avg calculations, second-dimension breakdowns, saved setup, and Excel or JSON export. |
| Calendar view | Included. Calendar is included across plans, with advanced options depending on plan. | Included. A calendar for dated cards with month and week ranges, Today navigation, filtering, due-time slots, and card actions in place, on boards and across Global Work. |
| Overview, health, and cross-project visibility | Included. Everything view, Home, dashboards, goals, portfolios, workload, and resource management provide several cross-space layers. | Included. Home covers daily focus. Every board adds automatic overdue, unassigned, inactive, due-soon, and per-list signals with card drill-downs. Global Work adds My Cards, Team Cards, Portfolio, and Work Done across accessible boards. |
| Personal and team priority queues | Included. Personal Priorities is the closest match: people can add, drag, move, and clear tasks without moving them from their Lists, and members, admins, or owners can manage another person's priorities. Availability and limits vary by plan and role. | Included. Up next keeps one ranked order across boards. Open your drawer anywhere, add, reorder, complete, or remove assigned cards in My Cards, filter to queued work, and manage permitted teammate queues from a focused dock or Team Cards grid and table views. |
| Cards & Work | ||
| Work item detail | Included. Tasks include subtasks, dependencies, relationships, time estimates, time tracking, fields, comments, and attachments. | Included. Cards hold markdown descriptions with change diffs, due dates and time slots, assignees, labels, custom fields, attachments, covers, comments, checklists, watchers, and attributed activity. |
| Custom fields | Included. Custom Fields span many field types; allowances and advanced uses vary by plan. | Included. Text, number, checkbox, date, URL, select, and user fields, with multi-value select and user fields, owned by one board or shared across a workspace. |
| Checklists | Included. Tasks support checklists, nested checklist items, assignees, and reusable templates. | Included. Reusable checklist templates with item assignees, due dates, descriptions, and one level of sub-checklists. Assigned items surface in Home, My Cards, and focused Team Cards. |
| Bulk editing | Included. The Bulk Action Toolbar handles assignees, status, tags, dates, dependencies, fields, moves, duplicates, and more. | Included. Selected cards can change dates, labels, assignees, custom fields, completion, location, copies, or archive state together. |
| Structure & Workflow | ||
| Independent projects | Partial or plan-gated. Work lives in a Workspace hierarchy of Spaces, Folders, Lists, tasks, and subtasks rather than independent boards. | Included. Standalone boards keep their own lists, labels, fields, templates, automations, permissions, and settings. |
| Shared structure | Included. Hierarchy and shared objects connect work across locations, with a larger administration model than Kanera. | Included. Workspace boards can reuse lists, labels, fields, checklist templates, automations, and reporting. |
| Automation | Included. Automations cover triggers, conditions, actions, integrations, and webhooks; monthly action limits vary by plan. | Included. Six card triggers drive ordered actions across labels, assignees, checklist templates, due dates, custom field writes, moves, and completion, at board or workspace level. |
| Reporting | Included. Dashboards, goals, workload, time reports, portfolios, and Business plan reporting provide several reporting layers. | Included. Table calculations and breakdowns, Portfolio rollups and drill-downs, Work Done history, saved Global Work views, and Excel or JSON export cover operational reporting. |
| One-way board syncing | Partial or plan-gated. Tasks in Multiple Lists shows the same task in several Lists, and edits or comments appear everywhere. It is shared placement rather than a one-way destination-owned copy. | Included. Selected source lists can feed linked copies on another board, keeping shared card content and mapped workflow context current one way. |
| Collaboration & Access | ||
| Collaboration | Included. Comments, mentions, assigned comments, clips, chat, docs, whiteboards, and realtime collaboration cover several collaboration modes. | Included. Comments with mentions, quote replies, and thumbs-up acknowledgement, plus attachments, realtime updates, presence, and an attributed activity history beside the work. |
| External access | Included. Guests with permission control are included from Unlimited; capacity and permissions depend on plan. | Partial or plan-gated. Pro keeps guests board-scoped: the first board is free, while a second or later board uses one purchased seat in total. Hosted Free has no guests, and self-hosted has no seat gate. |
| Notes and context | Included. Docs, wikis, whiteboards, and connected search form ClickUp's knowledge layer. | Included. Scratchpad keeps autosaved work in progress private to one person. Personal and shared Notes add nested trees, attachments, search, and card backlinks for durable context. |
| Notifications | Included. Inbox, email, browser, desktop, and mobile settings provide granular notification control. | Included. An in-app drawer plus per-type delivery to email, browser push, ntfy, Gotify, or your own signed webhook, with per-workspace pause and scoping rules, card and board watching, mentions, assignments, and due dates. The drawer, email, push, and rules are on every plan; ntfy, Gotify, and personal webhooks need Pro or self-hosted. |
| Data & Migration | ||
| API and webhooks | Included. A public API, webhooks, integrations, and automation webhooks support custom connections. | Included. Scoped API keys, a REST API, event-selective webhooks, and built-in Slack, Discord, Telegram, and Zulip chat destinations, all with delivery history, retries, pausing, and secret rotation. Included in Pro and self-hosted; hosted Free has none of them. |
| AI integration | Included. ClickUp Brain and AI features are offered as separately packaged capabilities. | Partial or plan-gated. A native MCP server with OAuth gives compatible AI clients scoped access to live Kanera context and documentation search; AI is not built into the app. |
| Deployment | Not available. ClickUp is cloud hosted and does not offer a self-hosted edition. | Included. Hosted plans, or a source-available Docker Compose deployment under Elastic License 2.0 with full feature parity and no Kanera per-seat self-hosting fee. |
| Import and export | Included. ClickUp has importers for several tools and exports for tasks and views. Kanera has no native ClickUp importer. | Partial or plan-gated. Reviewable Trello JSON, CSV, and Kanera archive import; Excel and JSON export; plus APIs for custom migrations. |
| Where each tool draws the line | ||
| Timeline, Gantt, and dependencies | Included. Gantt views are included from Unlimited, and dependencies and relationships are part of the task model. | Not available. Not included. Kanera plans with due dates, Calendar, and Table. There are no Gantt bars, baselines, or dependency links between cards. |
| Time tracking and workload | Included. Native time tracking is included from Unlimited, Business adds portfolio workload management, and higher tiers add resource management. | Not available. No timer and no capacity planning. Numeric custom fields hold estimates or hours, and Table can sum or average them by group. |
| Request forms | Included. Form view is native: one form on Free and unlimited forms from Unlimited. | Not available. No form builder. Intake arrives through cards, one-way board syncing, or the REST API. |
| Sign-in and provisioning | Included. Business adds Google SSO. Enterprise adds SAML SSO and SCIM provisioning. | Partial or plan-gated. Email and password sign-in with organisation, workspace, and board roles. No SAML, OIDC, or SCIM for user accounts yet; AI clients authenticate to MCP with OAuth. |
| Apps and offline use | Included. Native desktop and mobile apps. | Partial or plan-gated. Installable PWA on desktop, iOS, and Android with offline board browsing, push notifications, and share-to-card. No native app-store builds. |
| Interface languages | Included. A localised interface is available in several languages. | Not available. English only today. |
Competitor details checked August 11, 2026. ClickUp pricing, ClickUp Personal Priorities, ClickUp features, Tasks in Multiple Lists. Features and packaging can change.
Work Done shows a 60-day daily history of created, moved, and completed cards plus finished checklist items.
Use Home for today, per-board health for local risk, My Cards and Team Cards for execution, and Portfolio for cross-board drill-downs.
Open one keyboard palette to create a card, navigate, change theme, or search cards, notes, comments, and attachment names.
Use Scratchpad for private work in progress, then move durable material into personal or team Notes.
Keep boards fully independent, or reuse lists, labels, fields, checklist templates, and automations across a workspace.
Map source lists into another board so an internal team gets working copies, with local assignees and dates and no custom API bridge.
Use scoped API keys, managed webhooks, and MCP, and export reports to Excel or JSON. Self-host the same product when deployment control matters.
Start with a CSV export for cards, lists, people, dates, labels, comments, checklists, and fields. Plan a custom move when folders, history, dependencies, or attachments also need to survive.
Both manage tasks, views, assignments, comments, fields, automation, and integrations. Kanera brings board-led planning, cross-board execution, reporting, nested notes, API access, managed webhooks, and MCP into one coherent team workspace.
No. Standalone boards keep their lists, labels, fields, templates, automations, and access independent. Workspaces are optional.
Kanera includes Board, Table, Calendar, My Cards, Team Cards, Portfolio, and Work Done. Home opens on your ranked Up next queue, and Team Cards adds grid and table views for coordinating work order across people.
ClickUp adds Gantt charts and dependencies, native time tracking and workload management, Form view intake, docs, whiteboards and chat, built-in AI, native desktop and mobile apps, and SAML SSO with SCIM provisioning on Enterprise.
Kanera deliberately stays narrower: boards, Table, Calendar, Global Work, Portfolio, Work Done, notes, automations, and integrations, with much less to configure and administer.
Yes, when the work is available as CSV. Map task rows, statuses, people, dates, labels, comments, checklists, and custom fields in Kanera before confirming the import.
Folders, history, dependencies, attachments, and other platform-specific data may need a scoped API migration.
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