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JIRA ALTERNATIVE

Every other Jira alternative is just another subscription.

Jira comes loaded with fields, workflows, and settings nobody on your team asked for. We build you a tracker with only what your team actually uses, and you own it when we're done.

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No per-seat fees, everYour code and data, fully yoursUp to 70% less than your software bill

BUILT FOR YOUR TEAM

Dev teamsProductOpsAgenciesNon-eng teamsStartups

THE PROBLEM

You're not alone.

If you searched "Jira alternative," you already know the feeling: a tracker that's grown bigger than the work it's supposed to track.

“As a developer I think Jira has too much stuff. I would trade it any day for a simple work tracker... levels of bureaucracy so they can look in-control.”

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“Everything is unnecessarily over-complicated and unintuitive to configure in Jira... still better than nothing.”

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“It’s just too complicated. It’s a walking violation of the agile value of simplicity... Jira’s roots are as a defect tracking system.”

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“Jira gets bloated fast: too many fields, workflows and rules just to track basic work. Most teams rely on spreadsheets or side dashboards.”

r/agileReddit

“As a developer I think Jira has too much stuff. I would trade it any day for a simple work tracker... levels of bureaucracy so they can look in-control.”

r/agileReddit

“Everything is unnecessarily over-complicated and unintuitive to configure in Jira... still better than nothing.”

r/agileReddit

“It’s just too complicated. It’s a walking violation of the agile value of simplicity... Jira’s roots are as a defect tracking system.”

r/agileReddit

“Jira gets bloated fast: too many fields, workflows and rules just to track basic work. Most teams rely on spreadsheets or side dashboards.”

r/agileReddit

“As a developer I think Jira has too much stuff. I would trade it any day for a simple work tracker... levels of bureaucracy so they can look in-control.”

r/agileReddit

“Everything is unnecessarily over-complicated and unintuitive to configure in Jira... still better than nothing.”

r/agileReddit

“It’s just too complicated. It’s a walking violation of the agile value of simplicity... Jira’s roots are as a defect tracking system.”

r/agileReddit

“Jira gets bloated fast: too many fields, workflows and rules just to track basic work. Most teams rely on spreadsheets or side dashboards.”

r/agileReddit

“As a developer I think Jira has too much stuff. I would trade it any day for a simple work tracker... levels of bureaucracy so they can look in-control.”

r/agileReddit

“Everything is unnecessarily over-complicated and unintuitive to configure in Jira... still better than nothing.”

r/agileReddit

“It’s just too complicated. It’s a walking violation of the agile value of simplicity... Jira’s roots are as a defect tracking system.”

r/agileReddit

“Jira gets bloated fast: too many fields, workflows and rules just to track basic work. Most teams rely on spreadsheets or side dashboards.”

r/agileReddit

“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”

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“Price increases every few months”

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“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”

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“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”

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“Price increases every few months”

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“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”

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“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”

r/agileReddit

“Price increases every few months”

r/agileReddit

“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”

r/agileReddit

“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”

r/agileReddit

“Price increases every few months”

r/agileReddit

“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”

r/agileReddit

“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”

r/agileReddit

“Price increases every few months”

r/agileReddit

“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”

r/agileReddit

“The sticky notes cost $80,000 in Jira licenses. Progress.”

r/agileReddit

“Price increases every few months”

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“Team managed vs company managed projects... screens vs screen schemes... Simple things are rarely easy in jira.”

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More settings than features

Your tracker has more knobs than your team will ever ship.

The renewal only grows

Every license renewal costs more than the last.

Admin-gated changes

Changing one field means going through your own Jira admin.

THE SHIFT

Renting Jira
vs. owning your tracker.

No per-seat bill. No admin gatekeeping. Just a tracker with only what your team uses.

The Old Way

Rent Jira

  • Jira ships more fields, screens, and workflows than your team will ever touch.
  • The per-seat bill climbs on Atlassian’s schedule, not because your team grew.
  • Configuring it takes a Jira admin, not just a plain-English request.
  • Jira was built to catch defects, not run your sprints, and it shows.
The New Way

Own your software

  • You own everything: code, data, and infrastructure
  • One flat price. No per seat.
  • Change it in plain English, anytime
  • Bank-level security, built in.
  • We build it and run it, so the maintenance isn’t on you

You Own It

Your software, your data, your competitive advantage. No lock-in, no data held hostage.

Fully Managed

We handle hosting, security, updates, and improvements. The maintenance isn’t on you.

Always Flexible

Need a change? Describe it in plain English with our AI editor, or hand it to our team.

HOW IT WORKS

A proven head start, then it's yours.

Real engineering behind it. Your choice: hands-on or done-for-you.

01

Start from the right base

Start from a proven template with Jira’s core features: one of ours, a proven open-source base, or built from scratch. An expert-built head start, not a blank page.

02

Make it yours

Customize it to your exact workflow: build the features yourself in plain English, or hand it to our engineering team. Either way you get engineering support along the way.

03

Own it for good

The finished software is yours: code, data, and a setup built around your workflow. Customize it anytime, and we can keep it running for you.

BUILT FOR HOW YOUR TEAM WORKS

Shaped around how your team actually ships.

Dev teams

Dev teams drowning in ticket admin.

Non-eng teams

Non-eng teams forced onto a dev tool.

One place for status

Teams tired of chasing status across five tools.

Jira alternative: your questions, answered.

No. You start from a proven template our team already built, and you can change it by typing what you need in plain English. Our team helps, or we build the whole thing for you. There’s no Jira admin to keep on hand and no engineers to hire.
You own it: the code, the data, and where it runs. You can export everything and take it with you, because nothing sits locked on someone else’s servers. Leaving is your choice, not a trap.
Yes. Jira was built to track software defects, so non-eng teams end up fighting a tool made for someone else. We shape your tracker around how your team actually works, only the fields and steps you use, so it fits marketing, ops, or client work just as well as engineering.
Fill out the short form on Get started: who you are, your company size, the tools you want to replace, and a bit about how your team tracks work. With that, we line up a base template that fits before we talk. On the call, we walk you through that template, look at your current stack, and show what replacing Jira, and anything else you're overpaying for, would look like.

Own your tracker.

Tell us which tools you want to replace, and we'll show you what you'd save.

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