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Jira vs waffle.io: 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 waffle.io? Simple project management for your GitHub issues, free for open source. Track priority and rank for your GitHub issues across multiple repositories. Automatically see issues moved across a board for you, when you open pull requests or create branches.
Jira can be classified as a tool in the "Issue Tracking" category, while waffle.io is grouped under "Kanban for GitHub Issues".
"Powerful" is the top reason why over 294 developers like Jira, while over 41 developers mention "Tight integration with github issues" as the leading cause for choosing waffle.io.
According to the StackShare community, Jira has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2090 company stacks & 1470 developers stacks; compared to waffle.io, which is listed in 37 company stacks and 23 developer stacks.
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 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
Pros of waffle.io
- Tight integration with github issues42
- “done” column, closes the github issue automatically32
- Clean ui27
- Easy to integrate26
- Slack integration14
- Assign a card to a milestone10
- Always view pull requests as separate issue cards10
- Waffle story card7
- Todoist integration6
- Travis Integration2
- Use Waffle's "Connect" Keyword to Connect PR's to Issue2
- Grouping issues with Pull Requests2
- Flowdoc Integration1
- Trello Integration1
- Bitbucket Integration1
- GitLab Integration1
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Cons of Jira
- Rather expensive8
- Large memory requirement5
- Slow2
- Cloud or Datacenter only1
Cons of waffle.io
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