See the next thing to do without opening the card.
Up to five unticked checklist items, named on the front of the card, plus how far each checklist has got. A finished checklist reads “✓ its name”, items past their due date turn red, and one board button counts every overdue item on the board.
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Unticked items named on the front, per-checklist progress, and the board’s overdue count on one button.
How it works
Authorize once, then the board reads itself.
Four short clips from a real Trello board: one read-only click, the fronts it fills in, a tick on the card, and the four settings.
One read-only click, and the fronts fill in
Until you authorize, the fronts stay as Trello draws them. The board button opens the prompt, the same one enabling it opens, and one click grants read access. As it closes, every card with checklist items names what’s next.
Read-only: it changes nothing
The token stays on your Trello account
Each member authorizes once
The next items, named on the front
Unticked items are read in checklist order, then item order, until the count is filled. Cards with more than one checklist get each one’s progress, a finished checklist reads ✓ and its name, and an item past its due date is red.
Three names by default, up to five
Overdue items counted on the board button
Cards with no checklist items get nothing
Tick an item, the front follows
Tick an item on the card and the front has redrawn by the time you close it: the item drops off, the next one takes its place, and a checklist with nothing left reads ✓ and its name, in green.
No reload
Progress per checklist, not one total
The board button’s count catches up on the next board load
Four fields, three of them shared
The board button opens the settings: how many items to name, from 0 to 5, per-checklist progress, hiding finished checklists, and only the items assigned to you. Save, close, and every front follows.
Count, progress and hiding: the same for the whole board
“Assigned to me” is yours alone
Item due dates and assignees need a Standard board or better
Features
Why Checklist Front?
Up to five unticked items, by name
Not a count — the actual next things to do, read in checklist order then item order. Set it anywhere from 0 to 5; the default is 3, and long names cut at 40 characters.
Per-checklist progress, not one total
“Copy 4/6”, “Access 2/5” — each checklist gets its own badge on cards that have more than one. With a single checklist Trello’s own ☑ already says it, so nothing is added.
Overdue items turn red
An item past its own due date is badged red on the card front, and the board button counts every one of them across the board. That is the part Trello’s checklist badge cannot do at all. Due dates on checklist items are Trello’s advanced checklists, so this one wants a Standard board or better.
Only the items assigned to you
One checkbox filters the item badges — and the board button’s overdue count — to items assigned to you. It is stored per member, so your answer never changes anyone else’s board. Progress counts stay whole-checklist. Assignees on checklist items are advanced checklists too, so this one also wants Standard or better.
Six badges, and it stops
A hard cap of six badges per card, progress first. On a card with six checklists the summary survives and the item names give way — a front that pastes the whole checklist onto the board is no longer a summary.
Nothing of yours is stored, and it is free
Badges are assembled in your own browser, straight from Trello’s API, and the settings live on the board itself. No card, checklist or item name is ever written down on our side — which is also why it can stay free.
Good to know
Frequently asked questions
Short answers about installing it, the authorization step, and what ends up on the front of a card.
Find it in the Trello Power-Up Marketplace and click Add. Enabling it opens the authorize prompt right away — one click there and the defaults (three items, per-checklist progress on) are already the working settings. There is no account to create and nothing to pay for.
Trello does not hand a card front the contents of its checklists, only the total — so the item names are read from the Trello API with a read-only token of your own. It is granted once, it stays in Trello’s own member-private storage, and it is never sent to us. Until you authorize, the fronts simply stay as Trello draws them.
The item names, the per-checklist progress and the green tick on a finished checklist all work on any board, free included. The two that need more are the red overdue badge and “only items assigned to me”: due dates and assignees on checklist items are Trello’s advanced checklists, which start at Standard. Without them there is nothing to match — the board button reads as its plain name and every other badge is unaffected.
It walks the checklists in their board order, then the items in theirs, taking unticked items until your count is filled — so what you see is the next work, top to bottom. Set the count to 0 and you keep only the per-checklist progress badges. Whatever the settings say, one card never gets more than six badges from this Power-Up, and progress badges are kept ahead of item names.
Yes — a tick changes the card, and the front redraws with the new count and the next item. The overdue number on the board button is counted at board load and stands until the next one, while the badges underneath stay live.
The item count, the progress badges and hiding finished checklists are stored on the board, so those three read the same for every member. “Only show items assigned to me” is the exception: it is saved for you alone, so each member can narrow their own fronts without touching anyone else’s. A member who has not authorized yet sees no badges at all until they do.
Free, with no trial to run out and no card to enter. It runs in your browser against Trello’s own API and keeps none of your cards, so there is nothing to charge for.
Ready to read the work off the board?
Install Checklist Front and every card says what is left on it.
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