Redmine vs YouTrack: What are the differences?
Redmine: A flexible project management web application written using Ruby on Rails framework. Redmine is a flexible project management web application. Written using the Ruby on Rails framework, it is cross-platform and cross-database; 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.
Redmine belongs to "Project Management" category of the tech stack, while YouTrack can be primarily classified under "Issue Tracking".
Some of the features offered by Redmine are:
- Multiple projects support
- Flexible role based access control
- Flexible issue tracking system
On the other hand, YouTrack provides the following key features:
- Agile Boards
- Reports
- Dashboards
Redmine is an open source tool with 3.41K GitHub stars and 1.86K GitHub forks. Here's a link to Redmine's open source repository on GitHub.
Weebly, WebbyLab, and Coach United are some of the popular companies that use Redmine, whereas YouTrack is used by Impossible Software, Covve, and WESEEK, Inc.. Redmine has a broader approval, being mentioned in 72 company stacks & 34 developers stacks; compared to YouTrack, which is listed in 22 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.
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.