CardBoard 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
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User Reviews

Overview

CardBoard

4.2

(170)

Pricing

Starting at $10.00 per month

About CardBoard

Cardboard is a collaboration solution suitable for businesses of all sizes across various industry verticals. Features include a kanban-style activity dashboard, content import and export tools, invites for remote team members and more. It can either be deployed on-premise or hosted in the cloud.

Cardboard helps users to explore and visualize product ideas, user experiences, customer journeys and more. Its drag and drop functionality allows users to add kanban-style cards to the workspace and organize them into story maps. Users can also move cards, change card colors or add annotations to them.

Additionally, Cardboard supports integration with multiple project management systems such as JIRA, VersionOne, Pivotal Tracker and Rally. Users can also send invitations to new users, enabling them to collaborate within specific workspaces.

Services are offered on a monthly subscription basis or per license. Support is offered via phone and email.

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CardBoard Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $10.00 per month

Free Trial

Free Version

Essential

$10.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

25 Private Boards
Access for Read-Only Users
Add Images to Boards
Comments
Dividers and Swimlanes
Realtime Collaboration

Professional

$12.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Access for Read-Only Users
Add Images to Boards
CA
Comments
Dividers and Swimlanes
Encryption of Data at Rest
Integration With Jira
Journeys
Pivotal
Realtime Collaboration

Enterprise

$15.00

per user, per month

Plan includes:

Access for Read-Only Users
Add Images to Boards
CA
Comments
Dividers and Swimlanes
Encryption of Data at Rest
Integration With Jira
Invoicing
Journeys
Onboarding for Your Team

AWS GovCloud

Pricing available upon request

Plan includes:

Access for Read-Only Users
Add Images to Boards
CA
Comments
Custom Training for Your Organization
Dividers and Swimlanes
Encryption of Data at Rest
Hosted on AWS Govcloud for Sensitive Data
Integration With Jira
Invoicing

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CardBoard Features

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Access Controls/Permissions
Alerts/Notifications
Calendar Management
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Discussions/Forums
Document Management
@mentions
Screen Sharing
Secure Data Storage
Task Management
Video Conferencing
More features of CardBoard
Activity Dashboard
API
Backlog Management
Brainstorming
Chat/Messaging
Commenting/Notes
Communication Management
Contact Management
Content Management
Customer Profiles
Customizable Templates
Data Import/Export
Drag & Drop
Gantt/Timeline View
Idea Management
Iteration Management
Mobile Access
Multi-board
Multi-Department/Project
Prioritization
Product Roadmapping
Progress Tracking
Project Management
Project Planning
Real Time Editing
Release Planning
Reporting/Analytics
Reporting & Statistics
Requirements Management
Roadmapping
Single Sign On
Sprint Planning
Status Tracking
Storyboarding
Supports Scrum
Tagging
Task Progress Tracking
Task Scheduling
Third-Party Integrations
To-Do List
Version Control
Visual Workflow Management
Whiteboard
Workflow Management

CardBoard Integrations

Confluence

Jira

Pivotal Tracker

CardBoard User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.2

Ratings Breakdown

38%

49%

12%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.3

Value for money

4.0

Customer support

4.4

Functionality

3.9

Peter B.

Verified reviewer

Financial Services

201-500 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

CardBoard

I stumbled upon CardBoard a long time ago (2011) when I wanted an easy way to capture a Story Map. I really liked how easy it was to drop cards, move them around, and add some comments. The Team really enjoyed the look and feel of it. It did what we wanted and nothing more. I'm not a heavy user of it, but when I do need to put together a Story Map, CardBoard is what I turn to.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The simplicity of the tool, it provided me with what I wanted and did not over complicate it with features I did not need.

Cons:

The export to excel option was pretty messy, but then again why export it? What I wanted was a way to capture the full board visually to put into a document or communication, to show the overall Story Map (which I could not get in screen shots) I realize I could provide a link to the board for people to access and see the actual Map, but sometimes you just want a picture of it to support a communication.

Sean F.

Verified reviewer

Retail

10000+ employees

Used weekly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Cardboardit for developing roadmaps and communicating with stakeholders

The tool is great for presenting the roadmap to leadership, stakeholders, and Engineers. I would highly recommend it, however, would also suggest getting enough licences for all folks on your team due to the limited export capabilities.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The application is intuitive and it's very easy to demonstrate the importance of technical debt to stakeholders.

Cons:

The export capability is limited. The description of the cards can not be exported without printing each card individually. The board view PDF export is not as user friendly/aesthetically pleasing as the actual application. Stakeholders are asking for PDF exports, however, I hesitate to share due to the aforementioned reasons.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used other for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

A great product if it's the only thing you were using.

I was attempting to bootstrap some existing teams so that they could start doing more end to end thinking about their products as we were designing and building them.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

I liked that it was very easy to use. Almost everything was very click and drag, which made it really easy to onboard new users who were new to story mapping. I also really appreciated that it let me share a story map across multiple locations. I work with teams in SF and Seattle. A physical board is a nice idea but just not possible with the way that we are distributed.

Cons:

I had some challenges with user management. I work in a large enterprise so adding users individually was a bit of a pain and it was challenge to move users from regular viewer to user or admin roles on multiple boards. I also found that bulk moves of cards was difficult. If I wanted to pick up several cards and put them between two existing rows that wasn't really possible without spending 8 or 10 minutes rearranging the other cards around it to keep the map coherent. Also our org runs on-prem JIRA and I had no way to connect JIRA and confluence together, which made it nearly impossible to keep the two in sync. This is ultimately why I stopped using the product.

Mark L.

Verified reviewer

Information Technology and Services

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for free trial

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Good but with some hiccups

I found the software quite useful for basic storyboarding and brainstorming new projects. Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the JIRA integration and the nature of the work I'm doing, it just wasn't useful for anything other than large/complicated projects that need a fair amount of planning and it could only be used in the initial stages. Once I had the list of story "slugs" it was better to manually migrate the list over to JIRA and cease using Cardboard.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

I quite liked the intuitive interface and ease of storyboarding things.

Cons:

The JIRA integration left something to be desired. The software did not do a good job of informing me of what it would do when I synced the two. It was also not clear to me that this was not a constant sync. Changes in one product were not automatically migrated over to the other. This was especially problematic because later syncs of the stories and epics caused duplicates of the previously synchronized items to appear because the system did not identify previously sync'd stories.

Veselin M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

2-10 employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

The easy way to Story Mapping

It's a useful tool which gets the job done. You sign up, and create a board without even thinking about the functions. It's that easy. Especially after they updated the interface. Keep in mind the tool is more in the freeform category - you can place anything anywhere in a grid - it won't require you to put specific things in specific slots. The drawback of it is that while it is comfortable, it can't fully integrate with task/issue tracking tools.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

While working with paper and stickies is the most quick tool to adopt, sometimes a digital one is required, as it provides certain benefits (quick editing; sharing; remote collaboration). I liked that it required zero learning for the basics. I just did the storymaps without a hitch, no wondering how I can do this or that. Of course, it provides some advanced functionality, but for the pure, basic, stickies-on-the-wall, experience, you there isn't a learning curve. Just plug and do.

Cons:

The free version is said to work like the GitHub model - all boards are public. Everyone can see them and browse them. So far so good. However, unlike GitHub where you can use one of several ways to get your repository to other people (sharing a link, inviting them, telling them the name of the repo...) I didn't find any of it here. I could not share the free board to my colleagues (even for viewing). There is a workaround with exporting, which can get the job done. I understand this is their business model, but then the site should not describe it working as GitHub's public repos, as it, in practice, differs as an end result.

Spencer W.

Verified reviewer

Machinery

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Great for planning, JIRA integration needs work

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

The simplicity of the boards are fantastic and have caused several others in my company to adopt the product as well. It is great for visualizing plans to stakeholders, and for them to see the breakdown of the features and when development will happen

Cons:

The JIRA integration needs work. We use JIRA extensively, with multiple boards for various work streams. The integrator on the Cardboard side does not allow for customization over what is being pulled, and therefore cannot filter out technical tasks when I only want the user stories coming through. This needs to be fixed for it to get 5 stars.

Russell K.

Verified reviewer

Security and Investigations

1001-5000 employees

Used weekly for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Best I've found so far

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It's open ended with what I can do. I like being able to move the cards anywhere I want, the user journey functionality is a great idea, and it creates a good visual.

Cons:

The number one issue is the navigation and use of the software. Moving cards around quickly and moving around the board (especially when sharing my screen) needs a lot of work. If it the use of this software improved, it would be my main story board. I still use a physical board for working sessions because of this.

Vendor Response

Feedback allows us the opportunity to see what our customers think, and improve the process! Thank you so much for taking the time to review.

Replied October 2018

Anna B.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

11-50 employees

Used other for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed August 2018

Like digital post-its

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

- Allows you to keep your story map and edit it ongoing, unlike having it on the wall where it often has to come down and all you have left is a photo - Great for distributed teams

Cons:

- The lmitations are only those of doing anything on a screen, you can't step back and see the bigger picture

Sean A.

Verified reviewer

Entertainment

Self-Employed

Used other for free trial

Review source

Reviewed July 2018

Functional But Not Robust

It was functional, but it felt like there were too many obstacles in the way to be an efficient replacement for index cards and a camera. I can see it being useful for other teams but not for ours.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The learning curve was short, so picking up CardBoard and using it was fast. Creating cards and laying them out was easy.

Cons:

The cards, as displayed, were much too small. In order to even include all of the information that a User Story requires for one side of the card much of the text was hidden. The back was always hidden. The grid layout was much too rigid, I had hoped for the ability to overlap cards. If these features were present they were not obvious. Laying out cards initially was easy, but the UI resisted efforts to move cards very far (especially using a touch interface). If I needed to move a card to a different part of the board it was almost easier to delete and recreate it than move it.