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Executive SummaryUpdated on Apr 1, 2025

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We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

Jira
Ranking in Project Management Software
2nd
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
6.9
Number of Reviews
274
Ranking in other categories
Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) Suites (1st), Application Requirements Management (2nd)
SwiftKanban
Ranking in Project Management Software
66th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
1
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of April 2025, in the Project Management Software category, the mindshare of Jira is 9.0%, up from 8.8% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of SwiftKanban is 0.2%, down from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
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Featured Reviews

Saroj Ekka - PeerSpot reviewer
Offers good repository integration, sprint board and easy to set up
There are some features and reports we need that are not there. For example, if I have to find out the capacity of the current sprint by user and compare it with the previous sprint, that visibility isn't there. We can know the capacity and what happened with the whole sprint, but not for an individual person to see where it's falling and how it's tracking. Report and analytics capabilities are important for a product manager. That visibility is important, so we use Jira. Some of the features are there, and I use my own Excels or other data things to compensate for that.
Venu Vashistha - PeerSpot reviewer
Good reporting, quick configurations, and helpful support
It's a cloud-based setup, so there's no challenge in getting everything up and running. The downtime should be minimal. I'd rate the process nine out of ten in terms of ease of deployment. There is a three-month implementation exercise that we control. We have five people who were part of the implementation and maintenance process. They are admins and web developers.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"It includes by default all the necessary tools for a project manager to work and make their work more efficient."
"It handles all of the issues that we need it to do."
"Jira is very user friendly, easy to install, and easy to access."
"Kanban board: The board is easy to use and visually impressive to non-IT users, who found it easy to relate to."
"What I find valuable about Jira is that it's an ecosystem. Sometimes, it does not provide the best in class solutions, but it's so well integrated. You will not have many problems with integration."
"The solution works well and does what it needs to do."
"It is very flexible, so we can do pretty much what we want with it."
"We can query the tickets and create dashboards based on these queries."
"The reporting part is very good."
 

Cons

"It would be ideal if the solution could be available as a mobile application."
"There needs to be a way to export a user story."
"Users can be confused about how to use this tool as it's very complex."
"Jira could improve by making the user interface easier to use and the functionality could be better. While we are managing multiple sprints and other elements of the projects, it's very difficult to manage the labels and other aspects."
"If CI/CD is integrated with it, it would be better. I've used Azure DevOps before, and it's nice to have everything, such as CI/CD Repos and other things, integrated. Jira has fewer integrations. Azure DevOps has an easier interface, and it has got everything in one spot. I don't have to jump around in different applications."
"In terms of the general Jira software, one element that is missing is budget management. Perhaps such functionality exists in add-ons, however."
"It should have its own repository for test case creation, so that one does not have to resort to third-party tools and plugins."
"Jira could provide more insight into sprints such as how did we perform in the last sprint compared to other sprints. It would be helpful to have metrics and a dashboard feature for others to see."
"Some of the reports could be automated."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The price of Jira could be lower."
"We are a regional research and education institute. We're using the free license provided for educational institutes."
"As a company, we get a subsidized price, and it's lower than what's quoted on their website."
"I understand JIRA is quite expensive."
"I think the starter pack of three users, up to five users, is free. So you can try it out."
"We are on an annual license and could be less expensive."
"The cost is about $10 per user, per month."
"It is certainly a long-term solution for our company and for previous companies that I have worked for. They have these long-term term licenses, but I'm not sure if they really pay on a yearly basis. They are certainly using it for a really long period and for a lot of users."
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Top Industries

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Educational Organization
53%
Manufacturing Company
8%
Financial Services Firm
6%
Computer Software Company
5%
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Questions from the Community

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