How to Connect Google Chat With Trello Easily 2026

Head to Trello's login screen and sign in with your email, or use one of the faster options underneath — Google, Microsoft, Apple, or Slack, plus a Passkey option if you've set one up. If your organization uses Atlassian for other tools like Jira or Confluence, this is the same account, so check whether you already have credentials before creating a new one.

From your Trello home, the Boards view lists Recently Viewed boards up top and everything under Your Workspaces below, organized by workspace. Pick the specific board whose activity you want streaming into chat — the Power-Up you're about to add applies at the board level, so a team juggling multiple boards will need to repeat this setup on each one that needs alerts.

Inside the board, open the Power-Ups menu from the top toolbar to bring up the Power-Ups directory. It opens on Featured, a grid of popular add-ons like cross-board field sharing, bulk card actions, and time tracking, with a left-hand sidebar to filter by category — Automation, Communication & Collaboration, IT & Project Management, and more. Use the search box at the top if you already know the name of what you're looking for rather than scrolling categories.

Search "Google Chat" and open its listing, published by Atlassian with an install base over 50,000. The description explains exactly what it does: it streams updates to Google Chat whenever activity happens on your Trello cards, lists, and boards, and you customize which types of alerts you actually want. The listing spells out concrete examples — someone adding themselves to a card or being assigned one, an attachment added that needs feedback, a card moving from one list to another, or a due date being marked done or shifted — which is worth reading before you add it so you already know what's configurable on the next screen.

Click Add to install it on the board, which prompts you to authorize the connection to your Google account and select the specific Google Chat space that should receive updates. This is also the point where Trello confirms its data handling is covered under its own privacy practices, worth a skim if you're rolling this out for a team rather than just yourself.

Once connected, open the Power-Up's settings from the board to check the specific boxes for the events you want — card assignments, new comments, list moves, due date changes, and so on. Resist the urge to check everything: a chat space that pings for every single card edit gets muted within a week, so start narrow with the events your team actually acts on and expand later if something important is getting missed.

Save your settings, then make a small real change on the board — move a card, add a comment, assign yourself to something — and check that the corresponding alert shows up in your Google Chat space within a few seconds. If nothing arrives, double back to the Power-Up's settings and confirm the correct space is still selected and at least one event type is checked.