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Pealboard and ClickUp

ClickUp does far more than Pealboard, and it does it in a database of its own. Pealboard does one thing. It makes your GitHub issues readable by people who are not engineers, and reachable by people who are not on GitHub.

Which one fits your team?

ClickUp is a better fit if…

You want one platform for docs, whiteboards, goals and work, not a view of a tracker.
You need Gantt charts, workload views, portfolios or dashboards.
You want a no-code automation builder and are comfortable with a run limit per tier.
Your work does not live in GitHub Issues.

Pealboard is a better fit if…

Your engineers stay in GitHub and never have to sign in anywhere else.
You see your issues the day you connect a repository. There is nothing to set up first.
Customers without an account can send requests that become GitHub issues.
You pay for the people who read and triage, not for everyone who takes part.

What ClickUp offers

Every line below comes from ClickUp’s own pages. Each footnote names the page and the date we read it.

The unit is a task, with subtasks to seven levels, Epics, and custom task types and statuses.^[2]
More than fifteen view types are offered: list, board, Gantt, calendar, table, whiteboards, mind maps, canvas, map, portfolios, workload, box and activity.^[4]
Custom fields include dropdowns, currency, text and AI-filled fields.^[2]
Bulk editing is available through the Table view.^[4]
Free is $0 with 60 MB of storage, unlimited tasks, unlimited members and guests, 5 Spaces, 1 Form and 100 automation runs a month, with the basic custom field manager only. Gantt, timeline, dashboards and proofing are trial-only, not in Free.^[1]
Unlimited is $10 per user per month billed monthly and $7 billed annually. Business is $19 monthly and $12 annually. Enterprise is a custom price.^[1]
Automation is a no-code builder with an AI variant, capped at 100 runs a month on Free, 1,000 on Unlimited, 5,000 on Business and 250,000 on Enterprise.^[3]
More than a thousand templates across fourteen categories, and more than a hundred prebuilt automation templates on Free.^[5]
There are iOS, Android and desktop applications.^[6]
ClickUp confirms a REST API, webhooks and an MCP integration. It was the only product in this research confirmed to ship an MCP surface.^[7]
SAML single sign-on, SCIM provisioning, session management and the audit log are Enterprise only.^[1]

Side by side

Pealboard	ClickUp
Three layouts: list, board and table. Each one is a way of reading the same GitHub issues.	More than fifteen view types, several of them — Gantt, timeline, dashboards — reserved for paid tiers.^[4]
The work item is the GitHub issue. There is nothing to import and nothing to export.	Every general tool in this research stores the work item in its own database. A team already in GitHub Issues has to keep two systems in step, or move off GitHub.^[8]
Four fixed behaviors, with no run limit on any plan.	A no-code automation builder metered by runs: 100 a month on Free, 1,000 on Unlimited, 5,000 on Business, 250,000 on Enterprise.^[3]
Twelve MCP tools, on every plan, opened with an ordinary API key.	An MCP integration is confirmed. ClickUp was the only product in this research confirmed to ship one.^[7]
People with no account send requests in a portal and follow them. They are never billed.	Unlimited members and guests are offered on Free; every participant is still a person inside the tool.^[1]

What we could not check

We could not confirm these details on ClickUp’s own pages, so we make no claim about them either way.

Whether ClickUp has a command palette or keyboard shortcuts. We checked three ways and found no mention, which may be a real gap rather than a confirmed absence.
ClickUp’s import and export. The pages that cover them returned 403, most likely to an automated fetch rather than to a person.
Which tier Enterprise Search belongs to. The feature page implies a higher tier without stating one.

What Pealboard leaves out

Pealboard has no whiteboards, no mind maps, no docs, no goals module, no time tracking and no Gantt chart. None of them is planned.

Each one would be data GitHub does not hold, and then part of your work would live in Pealboard. Canceling would start to cost you something, and engineers would start needing accounts. A tool that stores nothing of yours has to be a small one.

Try it on your own repositories

The Free plan connects three repositories and needs no card. Nothing is imported. Nothing in GitHub changes.

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Sources

clickup.com/pricing — the free-tier limits, the tier prices, the automation execution caps by tier, and that SAML SSO, SCIM and the audit log are Enterprise only. Fetched 2026-09-09.
clickup.com/features — the task model with subtasks to seven levels, Epics, custom task types and statuses; custom field types; Enterprise Search; the Inbox; and "REST API, webhooks, and an MCP integration". Fetched 2026-09-09.
clickup.com/features/automations — the no-code automation builder and the AI Automation Builder. Fetched 2026-09-09.
clickup.com/features/views — the view types, per-view sort, filter and group, and bulk editing through the Table view. Fetched 2026-09-09.
clickup.com/templates — 1,000-plus templates across 14 categories, and 100-plus prebuilt automation templates on the Free tier. Fetched 2026-09-09.
clickup.com/apps — iOS, Android and desktop applications, with store identifiers. Fetched 2026-09-09.
platform/research/category-and-table-stakes.md §1.3 — the finding that ClickUp was the only product in this research confirmed to ship an MCP surface. Fetched 2026-09-09.
platform/research/category-and-table-stakes.md §3.2 — the report's own synthesis across the ten general work-management tools it examined. Fetched 2026-09-09.

Our notes are in platform/research/category-and-table-stakes.md and platform/research/portals-and-feedback-tools.md. ClickUp is a trademark of its owner. Pealboard is not affiliated with it.