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Jira vs YouTrack: What are the differences?

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..

What is YouTrack? The issue tracker designed for agile software teams. A project management tool that can be adapted to your processes to help you deliver great products. Track tasks and bugs, plan sprints and releases, create workflows, and customize for your business processes.

Jira and YouTrack can be categorized as "Issue Tracking" tools.

Pinterest, Twitter, and reddit are some of the popular companies that use Jira, whereas YouTrack is used by Impossible Software, Covve, and WESEEK, Inc.. Jira has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2128 company stacks & 1530 developers stacks; compared to YouTrack, which is listed in 22 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.

Decisions about Jira and YouTrack

Jakub Olan

DevOps Engineer · Mar 6, 2020 | 4 upvotes · 73.8K views

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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 Jira

Pros of YouTrack

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Powerful
253
Flexible
146
Easy separation of projects
111
Run in the cloud
104
Code integration
56
Easy to use
50
Run on your own
37
Easy Workflow Configuration
37
Great customization
25
REST API
11
Great Agile Management tool
5
Integrates with virtually everything
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Confluence
2
Sentry Issues Integration
2
Complicated

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Cheap and well featured
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Good looking, well done, comfortable
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Cheap

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Cons of Jira

Cons of YouTrack

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Rather expensive
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Large memory requirement

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Poor ecosystem integrations (ex. Slack)

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What are some alternatives to Jira and YouTrack?

Trello

Trello is a collaboration tool that organizes your projects into boards. In one glance, Trello tells you what's being worked on, who's working on what, and where something is in a process.

Asana

Asana is the easiest way for teams to track their work. From tasks and projects to conversations and dashboards, Asana enables teams to move work from start to finish--and get results. Available at asana.com and on iOS & Android.

Confluence

Capture the knowledge that's too often lost in email inboxes and shared network drives in Confluence instead – where it's easy to find, use, and update.

Redmine

Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database.

Bugzilla

Bugzilla is a "Defect Tracking System" or "Bug-Tracking System". Defect Tracking Systems allow individual or groups of developers to keep track of outstanding bugs in their product effectively. Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being "free", Bugzilla has many features its expensive counterparts lack.

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