Trello Voice Commands: What Works in October 2026

Short answer: yes, a little. You can get words into Trello by voice in a few ways, and all of them create a card or fill in a text box. None of them let you run the board by talking: moving cards between lists, assigning them, marking them done, or asking what's blocked. If that's what you were hoping for, you're looking for a different kind of tool, which we describe in what voice kanban means and build in Tarsen Voice.

This post sets out what Trello offers as of October 2026, with a source for each point. Trello changes often, so check the linked pages if you're reading this much later.

What Trello offers for voice today

1. Siri on iPhone: "Hey Siri, add a card to Trello"

This is the only voice feature Trello builds itself. On iOS, you say "Hey Siri, add a card to Trello", Siri asks for a card name, and the card lands in your Trello Inbox. Atlassian's Siri capture guide says you need version 2025.13 or later of the Trello iOS app, and you can also set it up as a shortcut in Apple's Shortcuts app. The Trello Inbox docs give a shorter form: "Add [card name] to Trello".

What it does: creates one card, with a title, in your Inbox. Your Inbox is private to you and separate from your boards, so the card still has to be dragged onto a board later.

What it doesn't do: the Siri guide describes creating cards only. There's nothing about moving, updating or finding existing cards. And it's iPhone only. Neither page mentions an Android equivalent.

2. Your phone's keyboard dictation

Every Trello text field accepts dictation, because dictation belongs to the phone's keyboard, not to Trello. On iPhone, Apple says you can dictate text anywhere you can type it, and that many languages are processed on the device. On Android, Google's Gboard voice typing works "in most places where you can type with a keyboard".

For most Trello users this is the most useful voice option: tap into a card title, description or comment, press the microphone, and talk. But it's typing with your voice. You still find the card and do every move, label and assignment by hand.

3. Inbox capture from email, Slack and Teams

Not voice, but often what people are really after: getting things into Trello without opening Trello. The Trello Inbox docs list forwarding email to inbox@app.trello.com and saving messages from Slack, and Atlassian's announcement of the new Trello adds Microsoft Teams. Cards captured from email or Slack can be summarised with AI to pull out due dates, write a title and turn action items into a checklist.

4. Trello's AI features

Trello has added a good deal of AI. In July 2026 it added seven AI features for paid plans, including creating a board from a description, generating checklists, suggesting focus time, and setting a due date from the date written in a card's title. Earlier, Atlassian Intelligence brought writing, summarising and action-item tools to card descriptions and comments.

None of these are voice features; that reporting doesn't mention speech, dictation or Siri.

5. Google Assistant, only through automation tools

There's no native Google Assistant integration for Trello that we could find. Zapier has a template where you say "Okay Google, talk to Zapier" and then dictate a card (Zapier's Google Assistant to Trello zap), but Zapier now labels that Google Assistant integration "Legacy". So test it before you rely on it.

6. Third-party voice assistants for Trello

A few independent products sit on top of Trello. Voiact, for example, takes voice notes and chat messages from WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, a web app or a Trello Power-Up, and turns them into Trello actions, including creating and updating cards and querying boards. It's metered by request, with a small free allowance.

If you want to stay on Trello and get closer to voice control, this is the route to look at. The trade-off is another service with its own account and access to your boards.

So, can you run a Trello board by voice?

Not with Trello alone. Here's the honest picture:

Voice in Trello covers capture. Everything after that still needs your hands.

How talking to a board is different

The gap isn't speech recognition. It's what happens to the words. Dictation puts text where your cursor is. A board you talk to understands what the sentence means and acts on it.

In Tarsen Voice, you press ⌘J and say things like:

• "Move the billing migration to In Review."
• "New card: chase the design feedback, due Friday, high priority."
• "Comment on TAR-142. The client approved the copy."
• "What is blocked, and who am I waiting on?"

Each of those changes the board, or answers from it, while your hands stay where they were. Voice can read the board, create, update, move, assign and label cards, comment, work through checklists, archive work, and open any screen in the app. It acts with your permissions, so it only sees the projects you can see. Two things wait for a spoken yes before anything is written: deleting a card and creating a project. Each change records the sentence that caused it, so a teammate can see why a card moved.

The longer explanation of why this matters, and how to tell the two kinds of "voice" apart, is in our guide to voice task management.

There are limits, and you should know them before you move. Voice needs a browser, a microphone and a connection; it doesn't work offline. Minutes are metered because live audio costs us by the minute: the Free plan includes 15 minutes once, so you can hear it work, and paid plans include a monthly allowance (the voice page has the numbers). Tarsen also has no equivalent of Trello's Power-Ups or Butler automations, and it installs as a web app rather than native mobile apps. If those matter more to you, Trello plus dictation, or Trello plus a third-party assistant, may be the better fit.

Moving a Trello board into Tarsen

If you want to try a board you can talk to with your real work in it, rather than a demo board, the move takes a few minutes and doesn't change anything in Trello:

1. Export the board from Trello. Open the board, then Menu, More, Print and Export, Export as JSON. If you haven't done it before, our guide to exporting a Trello board to JSON walks through it.
2. Open the importer in Tarsen. Workspace, Integrations, Import from Trello.
3. Drop the file in. You'll see what was found (lists, cards, labels) before anything is created.
4. Confirm. Tarsen creates a new project with your lists as columns and your cards in them.

Lists, cards, descriptions, labels, checklists, due dates, comments and archived cards come across. Power-Ups, Butler rules and uploaded files don't (files arrive as links back to Trello), and cards arrive unassigned because Trello's export can't be matched to people reliably. The full import guide lists exactly what transfers, and the Trello comparison covers what Trello still does better.

Once it lands, press ⌘J and ask "what's due this week?"

Frequently Asked Questions

Does Trello have voice commands?

Trello's own voice feature is Siri capture on iPhone: "Hey Siri, add a card to Trello" creates a card in your Inbox. You can also dictate into any Trello text field using your phone's keyboard. There's no native way to move, assign or complete cards by voice.

Can I use Google Assistant with Trello?

Not natively, as far as we could find. Zapier offers a Google Assistant to Trello template, but labels that integration as legacy.

Is there a Kanban board I can run by voice?

Yes. Tarsen is a Kanban board built around voice: you can create, move, assign, label and comment on cards by speaking, and ask the board questions like "what's blocked?". You can import a Trello board to try it with your own cards.

Want to hear what it's like to talk to your board? See how Tarsen Voice works.