Simple kanban board
Trello is a simple, visual kanban board — cards and columns, nothing more, nothing less.
Trello's simplicity is the whole point. For small teams or personal projects, dragging a card across a board is genuinely faster to understand than Jira's workflow configuration screens.
Trello has basically no git awareness beyond a Power-Up that shows linked branches. There's no ticket-transition workflow to automate at all, because Trello's model doesn't really have the concept of a formal workflow like Jira does.
This is really the whole reason Jitly exists — it's not trying to replace Trello at what Trello is good at. Jitly's job is narrower and more specific: jitly start ABC-123 creates your branch and moves the Jira ticket to In Progress in one shot, jitly done commits, pushes, and updates the status to whatever your team's workflow has, fetched live so it never gets out of sync with how your Jira is actually configured.
Mainly small teams and personal projects that want a board with zero configuration. If that's not you, this comparison probably isn't that relevant to your day — Trello and Jitly solve different problems most of the time.