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Basecamp vs Jira: What are the differences?
What is Basecamp? The leading web-based project management and collaboration tool. Basecamp is a project management and group collaboration tool. The tool includes features for schedules, tasks, files, and messages.
What is Jira? The #1 software development tool used by agile teams to plan, track, and release great software. Jira's secret sauce is the way it simplifies the complexities of software development into manageable units of work Jira comes out-of-the-box with everything agile teams need to ship value to customers faster..
Basecamp and Jira are primarily classified as "Project Management" and "Issue Tracking" tools respectively.
"Team collaboration (non-tech)" is the top reason why over 67 developers like Basecamp, while over 294 developers mention "Powerful" as the leading cause for choosing Jira.
According to the StackShare community, Jira has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2126 company stacks & 1528 developers stacks; compared to Basecamp, which is listed in 124 company stacks and 53 developer stacks.
A rapidly growing start-up in the biotech field. Main requirements not limited to, but include - cloud sharing, interacting through comments and messages, being able to specify deadlines, estimated time interval, time-lapsed/remaining, assign multiple tasks (task dependencies), and label their priority level, and have integration with a nice group of tools/apps (google and so on).
Basecamp is a great product for remote teams. It is a mindset. If you're looking for a standard project management tool with lots of features, ClickUp is a great choice. It's a bit slow (especially mobile), but in terms of features, it's unbeatable.
A good collaboration tool was always a big challene in the most team I've met. The main challenge is there are many tools with tons of features. They'r all great in the paper. But in practice, the team usually doesn't enjoy collaborating using them. This is the challenging part. The project management tools should be well designed to keep simplicity in combination with well-chosen features to bring the most productivity and activity among the team. I'm thinking about many of my stacks, ClickUp is one of the few choices which I've never thought about migrating about. I can't describe it in text, I just advise you to try it once and you'll understand. The team behind ClickUp is really active. They really care about delivering new features.
You are describing something close to issue tracker like redmine, jira+confluence, youtrack and etc. Redmine is absolutely free, for jira you should pay, youtrack has different licenses.
I have been using this for a while and recommended to my last 15 clients who were amazed by the flexibility of the platform. It has everything You need!
Last time we shared there information about our decision about using YouTrack over Jira actually we found much better solution that our team have loved. Linear is a minimalistic issue tracker that integrates well with Sentry, GitHub, Slack and Figma which are our basic tools. I would like to recommend checking out Linear as a potential alternative to "heavy" issue trackers, maybe at enterprises that may not work but when we're a startup that works awesome!
YouTrack feels much more lightweight than Jira and additionally have all of features that Jira have, of course lacks at some analytics features, but it's more powerful at permission management and agile workflow. Additionally YouTrack have awesome integration with other JetBrains products such as incoming JetBrains Space and all other IDEs such as GoLand.
Pros of Basecamp
- Team collaboration (non-tech)71
- It's simple and intuitive39
- Great UI24
- Plain, simple20
- Very fast15
- Clear pricing12
- Super fast task creation9
- Integration with external services7
- iPhone app4
- Frequent + awesome updates4
- Remote management1
- As close to an all-in-one tool that is client friendly1
- Team collaboration1
- Team and client collaboration1
- Plays nice with Google Apps1
Pros of Jira
- Powerful310
- Flexible254
- Easy separation of projects149
- Run in the cloud113
- Code integration105
- Easy to use57
- Run on your own52
- Great customization39
- Easy Workflow Configuration38
- REST API27
- Great Agile Management tool12
- Integrates with virtually everything7
- Confluence6
- Complicated5
- Sentry Issues Integration3
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Cons of Basecamp
- Basic3
Cons of Jira
- Rather expensive8
- Large memory requirement5
- Slow2
- Cloud or Datacenter only1
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