Trello is a free but powerful project management app. It's widely used across industries and has allowed countless teams to operate smoothly.

However, Trello is just one cog in the productivity machine. So to make working much smoother, the team behind Trello made Power-Ups. These are additional features and third-party integrations you can use to simplify and automate your processes.

So if you want to make your Trello boards more efficient and better integrated with your other tools, take a look at the five best Trello Power-Ups to maximize your team's collaboration.

1. Voting

Sometimes, when making a team decision, you have to set a meeting or ask your colleagues individually just to get everyone's opinion. However, this is time-consuming, and you won't get results right away. So instead of using outside tools to create a poll, use the Voting Power-Up directly on your Trello board.

This simple applet adds a Vote on the sidebar of a card. While it doesn't offer any other advanced functionality, this little tool can help you create decisions. For example, if you're picking between three final product designs, you can create a Product Design Poll list, upload each chosen idea to its own card, and ask everyone to decide which one they like best.

You can see the number of votes directly on the card's preview, right beside the like icon. And if you want to follow up with the voters about why they chose that product, you will know who to message by clicking on the Votes badge on the card and looking through the list of voters.

2. Miro

If you need to brainstorm with your team, but you're all working remotely, it would help to have a virtual whiteboard platform like Miro. However, it's good to have instant access to your original idea board when the time comes to execute your idea.

So instead of going back and forth between Miro and Trello, you can instead use the Miro Power-Up to link your virtual whiteboard directly to your project management tool. Once you've installed the applet, you can then proceed to any card, and under the Power-Ups menu in the sidebar, click on Miro to integrate any virtual whiteboard you have.

With the whiteboard now readily available on the card, you can directly access whatever ideas you've hatched without leaving Trello. You can even edit and manipulate your whiteboard in the window that will launch, allowing you to quickly document your brainstorming activity and assign tasks as needed.

3. Whereby

Remote teams can be more productive if they see each other during meetings. It also gives a sense of teamwork, especially in this era where you might not even get the chance to physically meet the people you're working with.

However, one challenge of video conferencing is that there are a million and one video conferencing apps out there, some of which even require third-party apps. So, to make meetings smoother, why not launch them directly from Trello?

With the Whereby Power-Up, you can conduct video conferences directly on the app—no need to open other software. You can even set the applet to open automatically, allowing any board member accessing Trello to instantly connect to your video call and turn your Trello board into a virtual office.

4. Crmble

Sales are the lifeblood of any business, and to help you make efficient use of your leads and data, the Crmble Power-Up turns your Trello board into a powerful CRM and lead management tool.

This applet is more than just a customer tracking tool. You can also get insights and even directly find your lead's contacts on this Power-Up. Furthermore, this Power-Up lets you add further integrations. For example, you can directly email your leads from your Trello cards by adding the Gmail topping.

You can even automate lead entry by integrating Typeform, Google Forms, and Facebook Leads into the applet. It's also compatible with Zapier integration for more powerful functions.

And if you want to use this tool for other departments in your company, you can easily do so with its handy templates. You can also use this power-up for Customer Support, Hiring & Recruitment, Order Management, and even as a Teacher Tracker.

5. Email for Trello

As much as you love doing everything on Trello, most of the world still uses emails for communications. So to ensure that everything that comes into your inbox gets attention, you can use the Email for Trello Power-Up, made by SendBoard, to automatically create a card for every new message that arrives.

For example, if you have a shared customer service inbox, you can link this to your Trello account to ensure that each new concern or issue is documented on your customer support board. And if you need to get more details, you can reply to the email directly from Trello—no more need to switch apps and lose focus.

Once you have everything you need to work on the issue, you can manage everything on your Trello board, ensuring that tasks get done efficiently. This Power-Up also works with Trello Automation, so once you've resolved the problem and set the card as done, you can use this applet to automatically email inform your client of the good news.

Making an Already Mighty Tool Even More Powerful

Trello's simplicity and flexibility are what make it powerful. The fact that it's free to use, has tons of integrations, and is pretty much customizable to fit any business, project, or workflow makes it popular among thousands of companies.

And when you add all these Power-Ups that integrate Trello into whatever other systems you use, you're turning this project management tool into a one-stop-shop app that you can use to run your business.

So whether you're using Trello for lead generation, sales, marketing, customer service, client approvals, or even just as your personal workspace, you will find a Power-Up that will perfectly suit your needs. And in case you want something a bit more specific, you can even build one yourself.