Best Jira Alternatives (4 Free OSS)

Project management and issue tracking tool

https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira

Jira is the standard for project management, but its UI complexity and licensing costs are common pain points. devpick lists 3 simpler alternatives supporting agile development workflows.

Modern UI with Plane eliminating Jira's complexity for an intuitive experience
Scrum and Kanban support across all listed tools
Gantt charts in OpenProject for waterfall-style project planning
Burndown charts in Taiga for beautiful sprint progress visualization
GitHub and GitLab integration in Plane for auto-linking PRs to issues

4 tools

plane

58,956TypeScriptAGPL-3.0

🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern project management platform to manage tasks, sprints, docs, and triage.

Open Core

platform

27,579TypeScriptEPL-2.0

Huly — All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)

Open Core

openproject

16,032RubyGPL-3.0

OpenProject is the leading open source project management software for product, project and portfolio management. A powerful Jira alternative with agile planning, issue tracking, roadmaps, Gantt charts, time tracking, collaboration features, and more. Available on premises or in the cloud. ⭐ Star us on GitHub

Open Core

taiga

568PythonMPL-2.0

Taiga is a free and open-source project management for cross-functional agile teams.

Freemium

How to Choose

For modern UX choose Plane, for combined waterfall and agile support choose OpenProject, and for Scrum-focused management choose Taiga.