Twelve projects. One calm overview.
Contals gives every client project its own board and you a dashboard across all of them – clients join free as guests.
Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.
Website relaunch – Bakery Huber
Backlog
- Client
Photos of the new shop
Opening hours page
NK
In progress
- Design
Design: product pages
Jun 46AL - Dev
Online ordering form
Jun 11MS
Client review
- Feedback
Home page draft
3
Done
Kick-off and sitemap
The work is billable. The chasing isn’t.
Status hides in e-mails, calls and three spreadsheets – and every client asks on a different channel.
Contals keeps every client project on one clear board.
- Clients free as guests
- Live for everyone
- One dashboard across all boards
- Data stored in the EU
Every project on one dashboard
Open, overdue and done cards of every board – with the status your team sets.
Feedback right on the card
Clients comment where the work is; the checklist shows what is left to do.
Learn more – Feedback right on the card
Live on every device
A change in the office shows up at the client’s a moment later, and on every phone.
Learn more – Live on every device
Up and running in three steps
Sign up free
Two minutes, no credit card.
One board per client project
Your phases as lists, each deliverable a card.
Invite clients
As guests on their board only – free.
Made for teams with many client projects
For agencies, studios and teams that bring in clients and freelancers – without a portal and without extra seats.
- Client projects
- Internal work
- Freelancers
- Weekly overview
Time tracking and invoicing aren’t part of Contals – you keep your tools for that.
Ready-made templates for this
Project
5 lists · 7 cards
Editorial calendar
5 lists · 7 cards
Onboarding
5 lists · 11 cards
The catch? Contals is new.
Only people who create and organize boards pay – clients as guests and viewers are free on every plan.
Guests see only their boards, so internal work belongs on separate, private boards.
The full picture: costs, export, cancelling, where data lives
- What it costs
- Full members (people who create and organize boards) pay per month. Volunteers, guests and viewers are free on every plan, forever. A small team uses Contals for free: up to 5 full members and 10 active boards. On the free plan, notifications arrive in the app, by push and in the weekly summary e-mail. A free organization nobody uses for 90 days is paused until an owner signs in again. Prices are early-access prices and become final before the public launch.
- Your data stays yours
- Export a board or a workspace as JSON at any time, on every plan – cards, comments, Power-Up data and the activity of the last 13 months; the whole organization in one file on Team and Business. No support ticket, no fee.
- Leaving is easy
- Cancel any time; paid plans run to the end of the period, then the organization continues on the free plan – nothing is deleted. An organization is deleted only when an owner asks for it, 30 days later; deleting your account removes your personal data after a 30-day grace period. Billing records are kept only as long as tax law requires.
- Where your data lives
- Board data, the database and backups are stored in Cloudflare’s EU jurisdiction; a second, encrypted copy of the backups lies at DigitalOcean in Frankfurt (Germany). Cloudflare is a US company; we say “EU data residency”, not “sovereign”. Details on the security page.
- How we make money
- From full members on paid plans. No ads, no selling or sharing of data, no tracking cookies, no metered AI credits. Visits to the website and the sign-in pages are counted with privacy-friendly, cookieless statistics (Fathom); signed-in pages load none.
Ten pay. Twelve client contacts don’t.
Client contacts join as guests and never cost a seat.
Example: 8 team members, 2 freelancers, 12 client contacts
Contals TeamEarly-access price
10 full members × CHF 4.50€4.50$4.50; 12 client guests free
CHF 45€45$45
Trello Standard
10 × $5; single-board guests free (Premium for timeline and calendar: ≈ $100)
≈ $50
Asana Starter
10 × $10.99; guests free
≈ $110
monday.com Standard
10 seats × €12; guest rules depend on the plan
≈ €120
Mondays for work, not status meetings
What a week can look like – an invented example.
Mon 09:00
“My cards” shows four deliverables for this week.
Mon 11:30
The client comments on the draft – the designer sees it right away.
Wed 15:00
Search finds the ordering form in another project.
Fri 17:30
No status report to write: the client has seen the board.
Without one place
- Status lives in e-mails and calls.
- Feedback arrives on five channels.
- Every client contact costs a seat.
With Contals
- Status is on the board, visible to clients.
- Feedback is on the card.
- Clients take part free as guests.
Questions and answers
Do clients pay or need a seat?
No. Clients join as guests on the boards you invite them to. Guests are free on every plan; they comment and can mark the cards assigned to them as done.
Can clients see our internal discussions?
Guests see only the boards they are invited to, and a board’s activity only from the day they joined. Comments on the cards are visible to everyone on the board, so keep internal work on separate private boards.
Is there time tracking?
No. Contals does not track time; many teams keep their time tracker and link it from the card.
Is there an API?
Yes. A public REST API with an OpenAPI description and an MCP server for AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT, both used with personal API tokens that can never do more than you can. The docs list every operation.
Create your first client board.
Free for small teams. Volunteers and guests are always free. No credit card.