Free boards for anyone with Open Boards
What the free Boards page is, how to make a board from a template, and how it connects to a PGB Business workspace.
Boards are not only for PGB Business workspaces. Where free boards are switched on, anyone can sign up and make boards without a company mailbox or domain. You work in your own personal space of boards, and can invite others.
Make your first board
- Open Boards. If you are not signed in, you can pick a template first and then sign in or create a free account.
- Under Your boards, choose New board. The page says No boards until you make one, and shows how many boards and how much storage you have used.
- Enter a Name, for example
Website launch. - Under Start from, pick a blank board or a template.
- Choose Make board.
The template gallery shows ready-made boards for sprints, bug tracking, roadmaps, content calendars, sales pipelines, hiring, onboarding, events and study, with columns, labels and example cards. You can rename, reorder and add columns later. For what to do next, see Plan work with boards, lists and cards.
What free boards include
Cards, checklists, comments, attachments, sprints, epics, reports, timesheets, calendar feeds and the mobile app are available on free boards. There are limits on how many boards you can have, how many people can be on a board (pending invitations count), and how much attachment storage you have. The page shows your usage, such as how many boards you have out of your limit. When you reach the board limit, the New board button is disabled with You've reached the free board limit. Archived boards still count.
Some features are part of PGB Business: the assistant, links from boards to mail, chat, documents, meetings and the calendar, and developer connections.
Upgrade or move
The page offers Upgrade to PGB Business for unlimited boards and bigger teams, plus mail on your own domain, chat, docs, calendar, meetings and the assistant. If you already have a PGB Business workspace, the page says Your boards are in your PGB Business workspace.
Good to know
- Only the board's owner changes its settings, columns and members. Members who can edit add and move cards. Members who can view see everything but cannot change it.
- If free boards are paused, the page says so and asks you to check back later.
- Boards shared with you from another workspace appear in Tasks under Shared with me.
Next steps
More guides in Tasks & Boards
Plan work with boards, lists and cards
Create a board, add cards with quick-add shortcuts, move them across columns and open a card for details, checklists and labels.
Run sprints with the backlog, epics and reports
Turn on sprints for a board, plan work from the backlog, start and finish a sprint, and read burndown and velocity.
Track time on cards and review your timesheet
Start a timer or log hours by hand on a card, then review your week in Timesheet.
Invite people outside your workspace to a board
Send email invitations to a board as editor or viewer, approve join requests, and understand what an outside guest can see.
Share a board with a public link
Turn on a read-only link anyone can open, choose whether names show, control search engines, and turn it off again.