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Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?
by TutleCpt 8mo ago
Where are the most popular alternatives to Jira?
- fsloth 8mo agoLinear is pretty nice IMO otoh have not experienced it at megacorp scale.
- hlpn 8mo agoLinear is great
- TutleCpt 8mo agoThanks. Checking them out now https://linear.app https://linear.app.
- pm90 8mo agoSecond this. Funnily, their AI is pretty good... recently I accidentally created a dupe ticket; linear AI realized that, labeled it as a dupe instantly after I created an issue. Fuck JIRA and confluence to hell.
- tombert 8mo agoI don't know if it's "popular", but I use Clickup at work and I think it's generally fine. At least when I have used it it's less laggy and horrible than Jira.
- antonymoose 8mo agoWhat do you need out of Jira? Most any firm I’ve worked for could replace it with Trello or any Kanban style tool in a heartbeat.
- MikeNotThePope 8mo agoIt's worth pointing out that Trello has been owned by Atlassian since 2017.
- Retz4o4 8mo agoThey own Trello.
- kilroy123 8mo agoLinear
- Spixel_ 8mo agoNotion is nice
- itomato 8mo agoUntil you try to leave with your data.
- computomatic 8mo agoHave you tried nothing at all? Had great success with this on a 150+ dev team. Much preferred to jira. Admittedly does require a different approach to work than a jira-centric team is going to be familiar with.
- moron4hire 8mo agoI 100%, sincerely agree that "nothing at all" is really a great option compared to Jira. I actually hired a whole person onto my project to make them responsible for ticket tracking, telling them they could use whatever they wanted so long as I never had to look at Jira again. They used Jira for a while because it's what other people were pressuring them to use, but ultimately they started using MS Planner. MS Planner! I mean, Planner is garbage too, but at least it's not Jira.
- 000ooo000 8mo agoWhere do you put the story points????
- quicklime 8mo agoAccording to this survey, Linear: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-engineer-2025-survey https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pragmatic-eng...
- ipaddr 8mo agoMantis is awesome
- plagiarist 8mo agoI'm interested in OSS alternatives, even if not as popular.
- lousken 8mo agoRedmine comes to mind? Or if you use jira for helpdesk then Request tracker
- swed420 8mo agoAlso possibly OpenProject, which is an "open core" fork of Redmine
- swed420 8mo agoToo late to edit the above, but for anyone curious, here's a year old exchange about a Jira -> OpenProject migration tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42931780 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42931780
- openprojectgmbh 8mo agoThanks for the mention. Just to clarify: OpenProject is a fork of Redmine and fully open source, so not open core.
- swed420 8mo agoThanks, but just to confirm, there is a free tier of OpenProject as well as a paid tier with more features. This is often referred to as "open core." I'm not complaining, as the free tier seems feature rich by itself. Just wanted others to know, especially if this has a chance of changing over time once people have committed to using it.
- zie 8mo agoRequest Tracker(rt): https://github.com/bestpractical/rt https://github.com/bestpractical/rt
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- falcor84 8mo agoI like Clickup's way of allowing arbitrarily nested subtasks and easily promoting/demoting a task across levels, without having this hard distinction that Jira has between levels. I understand that some coporate managers like the rigidity, but in practice, it's just very hard to know the scope of a story early on, and I found this flexibility really valuable.
- bamboozled 8mo agoExcel spreadsheets, because that's what every project manager ends up using to actually get work done.
- jemmyw 8mo agoLinear is great if you fit into its workflow. It's very dev orientated. I work on Aha! Develop https://www.aha.io/develop/overview https://www.aha.io/develop/overview which I obviously think is a great tool, especially if you're a team with a product manager.
- tayo42 8mo agoWhat do you mean by fit into it's work flow?
- jemmyw 8mo agoThat was the wrong word. Something about the UI for it feels quite constraining, and that isn't necessarily a bad thing once you're used to it, but at the start of using it I struggled to get what I felt was a broader view of how a project was going. I've only used it on a side project though because I really wanted to get to know it. I know plenty of teams really love it.
- jamesfinlayson 8mo agoI used ClubHouse years ago. https://todo.vu/ https://todo.vu/ is pretty good too.
- pokstad 8mo agoI prefer GitLab issues
- SoftTalker 8mo agoA pad of Post-It notes.
- grantith 8mo agoI do not understand why Jetbrains Youtrack is not more widely used. It's affordable, supports markdown, has a better vcs integration, fast & easy API...
- jamesfinlayson 8mo agoI'll say this is the first time I've heard of YouTrack. Smart move from JetBrains - many companies will already be paying them for their IDEs.
- 1313ed01 8mo agoThe problem is "no one was ever fired for choosing Jira" (or Confluence). I can't imagine there is a single company that would keep using those products the moment some alternative exists that managers dare to switch to without the slightest risk of having to explain to their managers why they didn't just go with the "industry standards".
- stevekemp 8mo agoI bailed out of the interview process last summer when the company told me they use Jira, Confluence, and Bitbucket for their source code. Sure maybe nobody got fired for choosing them, but it certainly killed my enthusiasm for the potential position.