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Overview

Jira is project tracking software that helps every team collaborate to plan, track, and release work by breaking down big ideas into achievable steps. Jira offers features like task organization, work alignment to goals, customizable workflows, and real-time data insights to optimize outcomes.

GitHub is a place to share code with friends, co-workers, classmates, and complete strangers, helping individuals and teams to write faster, better code

  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials
  • Platforms supported
  • Web-based
  • iPhone app
  • Android app
  • Windows Phone app
  • Typical customers
  • Freelancers
  • Small businesses
  • Mid size businesses
  • Large enterprises
  • Customer support
  • Phone
  • Online
  • Knowledge base
  • Video tutorials

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Pricing

Starting from

7.91

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

Starting from

4

/user

Per month

  • Free trial available
  • Credit cardless trial
  • Free account
  • Subscription based

User reviews

4.4

15.7K

5

4

3

2

1

8.7K

5.6K

1.1K

149

67

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
75%
would recommend this app

4.8

6.2K

5

4

3

2

1

4.8K

1.2K

98

7

2

  • Value for money
  • Ease of use
  • Features
  • Customer support
92%
would recommend this app

Pros

“The way we use Jira is primarily for campaign builds: building websites for refresh tasks, email sequences, changing paid search stuff or the occasional client journey diagram.”
ET

Edward T.

Founder and Marketing Strategist

“It provides the structure and accountability needed to scale Agile practices effectively across an organization. When configured well, it creates total transparency between product, engineering, and management.”
BB

Bea B.

Instructional Designer

“What I like most about Jira is that it is a very useful and structured tool for organizing team tasks, managing requests coming from different departments, and keeping track of the progress of each activity.”
CR

Carmine R.

Software developer

Pros

“We run pull requests through it daily for our backend services, and the review flow (inline comments, suggested changes, required approvals before merge) makes it easy to keep code quality high even when we're shipping fast.”
KS

Kaynan S.

Software Engineer

“The platform improves visibility into code changes, simplifies collaboration between technical teams, and helps ensure deployments are organized and traceable.”
DR

Dave R.

Manager

“GitHub provides a centralized platform for version control, pull requests, code reviews, issue tracking, and CI/CD automation, making the entire software development lifecycle more efficient.”
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Himanshu G.

AI Engineer

Cons

“For new users, the platform can seem crowded with many menus, boards, filters, projects, and configuration options, so it takes some time to understand where to look and how to navigate efficiently.”
CR

Carmine R.

Software developer

“I also remember encountering situations between 2023 and 2025 where I did not receive expected email notifications, and because of keyword-related rules, some tickets were missed. While these issues were not frequent, they could occasionally affect workflow efficiency.”
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Komal G.

Process Associate

“Although the reporting within Jira supports the general tracking of work status and development and release cycle metrics, it does not natively support many of the metrics/KPI reporting required for project oversight or executive information analysis.”
KG

Kregg G.

Agile Team Lead

Cons

“GitHub has tried to simplify things over the years, but it still lacks a genuinely user-friendly, abstracted environment for non-developers who just need to collaborate on data or check progress.”
MC

Mark C.

Membership Secretary, Trustee and Designer

“If wanting to use it with other things you have to have a public repo which can be a little annoying, for example if i want to use it with Claude, i need to make it public which i dont like”
LP

Luke P.

Head of Support

“The UI can feel a little cluttered sometimes, especially when you’re jumping between repos, issues, and pull requests.”
MV

Manuel V.

Primary Care Coordinator

  • Vendor responds to reviews
  • Last review5 days ago
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  • Last review5 days ago

Key features

  • Total features180
  • @mentions
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Management
  • Application Security
  • Approval Process Control
  • Approval Workflow
  • Assignment Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Authentication
  • Automated Testing
  • Backlog Management
  • Bar Chart
  • Budget Management
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Bug Tracking
  • Bug/Issue Capture
  • Build Log
  • Business Process Automation
  • Calendar Management
  • Campaign Management
  • Campaign Scheduling
  • Campaign Tracking
  • Capacity Management
  • Change Management
  • Charting
  • Checklists
  • Cloud Computing
  • Code Development
  • Code Editing
  • Code Review
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborative Development
  • Color Codes/Icons
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Communication Management
  • Compatibility Testing
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customization
  • Dashboard
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Visualization
  • Debugging
  • Deployment Management
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Due Date Tracking
  • Email Alerts
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Tracking
  • Employee Database
  • Employee Management
  • Employee Scheduling
  • Feedback Management
  • File Sharing
  • Filtering
  • For Developers
  • For IT Project Management
  • For Small Businesses
  • Forecasting
  • Forms Automation
  • Forms Management
  • Game Development
  • Gantt/Timeline View
  • Goal Management
  • Goal Setting/Tracking
  • Graphical User Interface
  • HR Management
  • Idea Collection
  • Idea Management
  • Ideation
  • Incident Management
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Inventory Management
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Scheduling
  • Issue Tracking
  • Iteration Management
  • Kanban Board
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Log Collection
  • Marketing Automation
  • Marketing Calendar
  • Media Planning
  • Messaging
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile App
  • Mobile Development
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Multi-Language Scanning
  • Multiple Projects
  • Online Time Clock
  • Percent-Complete Tracking
  • Personalization
  • Planning Tools
  • Portfolio Management
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Prioritization
  • Private Dashboards
  • Process Change Tracking
  • Process Management
  • Process Modeling & Designing
  • Product Data Management
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Productivity Tools
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Planning/Scheduling
  • Project Scheduling
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Project Tracking
  • Project Workflow
  • Projections
  • Public Dashboards
  • Purchasing & Receiving
  • Quality Assurance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Recording
  • Recurring Issues
  • Recurring Tasks
  • Release Management
  • Release Planning
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Repository Management
  • Request Management
  • Requirements Review
  • Resource Allocation
  • Resource Management
  • Resource Scheduling
  • Risk Management
  • Roadmapping
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Rules-Based Workflow
  • SSL Security
  • Scheduling
  • Screen Sharing
  • Search/Filter
  • Single Page View
  • Software Development
  • Source Control
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Spend Management
  • Sprint Planning
  • Stakeholder Defined Attributes
  • Static Analysis
  • Status Tracking
  • Sub-Task Management
  • Supports Scrum
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Tagging
  • Task Editing
  • Task Management
  • Task Planning
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Task Scheduling
  • Task Tagging
  • Team Collaboration
  • Team Management
  • Templates
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Time & Expense Tracking
  • Time Tracking
  • Timeline Management
  • Timesheet Management
  • To-Do List
  • Traceability
  • Traditional Methodologies
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Version Control
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Wiki
  • Total features66
  • @mentions
  • API
  • Access Controls/Permissions
  • Accounting
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Activity Tracking
  • Ad hoc Reporting
  • Agile Methodologies
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • Application Management
  • Application Security
  • Approval Process Control
  • Approval Workflow
  • Assignment Management
  • Audit Trail
  • Authentication
  • Automated Testing
  • Backlog Management
  • Bar Chart
  • Budget Management
  • Budgeting/Forecasting
  • Bug Tracking
  • Bug/Issue Capture
  • Build Log
  • Business Process Automation
  • Calendar Management
  • Campaign Management
  • Campaign Scheduling
  • Campaign Tracking
  • Capacity Management
  • Change Management
  • Charting
  • Checklists
  • Cloud Computing
  • Code Development
  • Code Editing
  • Code Review
  • Collaboration Tools
  • Collaborative Development
  • Color Codes/Icons
  • Commenting/Notes
  • Communication Management
  • Compatibility Testing
  • Compliance Management
  • Compliance Tracking
  • Configurable Workflow
  • Configuration Management
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Continuous Deployment
  • Continuous Integration
  • Customizable Dashboard
  • Customizable Fields
  • Customizable Reports
  • Customization
  • Dashboard
  • Data Connectors
  • Data Import/Export
  • Data Modeling
  • Data Visualization
  • Debugging
  • Deployment Management
  • Document Management
  • Drag & Drop
  • Due Date Tracking
  • Email Alerts
  • Email Marketing
  • Email Tracking
  • Employee Database
  • Employee Management
  • Employee Scheduling
  • Feedback Management
  • File Sharing
  • Filtering
  • For Developers
  • For IT Project Management
  • For Small Businesses
  • Forecasting
  • Forms Automation
  • Forms Management
  • Game Development
  • Gantt/Timeline View
  • Goal Management
  • Goal Setting/Tracking
  • Graphical User Interface
  • HR Management
  • Idea Collection
  • Idea Management
  • Ideation
  • Incident Management
  • Integrated Development Environment
  • Inventory Management
  • Issue Management
  • Issue Scheduling
  • Issue Tracking
  • Iteration Management
  • Kanban Board
  • Lifecycle Management
  • Log Collection
  • Marketing Automation
  • Marketing Calendar
  • Media Planning
  • Messaging
  • Milestone Tracking
  • Mobile Access
  • Mobile App
  • Mobile Development
  • Monitoring
  • Multi-Channel Marketing
  • Multi-Language Scanning
  • Multiple Projects
  • Online Time Clock
  • Percent-Complete Tracking
  • Personalization
  • Planning Tools
  • Portfolio Management
  • Predictive Analytics
  • Prioritization
  • Private Dashboards
  • Process Change Tracking
  • Process Management
  • Process Modeling & Designing
  • Product Data Management
  • Product Lifecycle Management
  • Product Roadmapping
  • Productivity Tools
  • Progress Reports
  • Progress Tracking
  • Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Planning/Scheduling
  • Project Scheduling
  • Project Time Tracking
  • Project Tracking
  • Project Workflow
  • Projections
  • Public Dashboards
  • Purchasing & Receiving
  • Quality Assurance
  • Real-Time Analytics
  • Real-Time Chat
  • Real-Time Data
  • Real-Time Notifications
  • Real-Time Reporting
  • Real-Time Updates
  • Recording
  • Recurring Issues
  • Recurring Tasks
  • Release Management
  • Release Planning
  • Reminders
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Reporting/Analytics
  • Reporting/Project Tracking
  • Repository Management
  • Request Management
  • Requirements Review
  • Resource Allocation
  • Resource Management
  • Resource Scheduling
  • Risk Management
  • Roadmapping
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • Rules-Based Workflow
  • SSL Security
  • Scheduling
  • Screen Sharing
  • Search/Filter
  • Single Page View
  • Software Development
  • Source Control
  • Source-Code Scanning
  • Spend Management
  • Sprint Planning
  • Stakeholder Defined Attributes
  • Static Analysis
  • Status Tracking
  • Sub-Task Management
  • Supports Scrum
  • Surveys & Feedback
  • Tagging
  • Task Editing
  • Task Management
  • Task Planning
  • Task Progress Tracking
  • Task Scheduling
  • Task Tagging
  • Team Collaboration
  • Team Management
  • Templates
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Ticket Management
  • Time & Expense Tracking
  • Time Tracking
  • Timeline Management
  • Timesheet Management
  • To-Do List
  • Traceability
  • Traditional Methodologies
  • Two-Factor Authentication
  • Version Control
  • Vulnerability Scanning
  • Web-based Deployment
  • Wiki

Integrations

  • Total integrations44
  • Axonator
  • Azure DevOps Server
  • Balsamiq
  • BigPicture
  • Bitbucket
  • Checklist for Jira
  • CircleCI
  • Clockify
  • Confluence
  • ConnectWise PSA
  • Didit
  • Docker
  • Dovico
  • Figma
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Gliffy
  • Google Workspace
  • Harvest
  • Heroku
  • Hubstaff
  • JIRA Service Management
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Lucidchart
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft OneNote
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Power BI Connector for Jira
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Miro
  • Netlify
  • OKR Board for Jira & Confluence
  • OpsGenie
  • Rovo
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • ScriptRunner for Jira
  • Slack
  • Tempo Timesheets
  • TestRail
  • Trello
  • ValueOps
  • Vercel
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Weekdone
  • Xray
  • Zendesk Suite
  • Zephyr Enterprise
  • Zephyr Scale
  • draw.io
  • monday AI Work Platform
  • Total integrations14
  • Axonator
  • Azure DevOps Server
  • Balsamiq
  • BigPicture
  • Bitbucket
  • Checklist for Jira
  • CircleCI
  • Clockify
  • Confluence
  • ConnectWise PSA
  • Didit
  • Docker
  • Dovico
  • Figma
  • Git
  • GitHub
  • GitLab
  • Gliffy
  • Google Workspace
  • Harvest
  • Heroku
  • Hubstaff
  • JIRA Service Management
  • Jenkins
  • Jira
  • Lucidchart
  • Microsoft 365
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microsoft OneNote
  • Microsoft Outlook
  • Microsoft Power BI Connector for Jira
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Microsoft Visual Studio
  • Miro
  • Netlify
  • OKR Board for Jira & Confluence
  • OpsGenie
  • Rovo
  • Salesforce Sales Cloud
  • ScriptRunner for Jira
  • Slack
  • Tempo Timesheets
  • TestRail
  • Trello
  • ValueOps
  • Vercel
  • Visual Studio Code
  • Weekdone
  • Xray
  • Zendesk Suite
  • Zephyr Enterprise
  • Zephyr Scale
  • draw.io
  • monday AI Work Platform