Instead of Jira

Issue tracking for software teams, with boards and reports.

Partly

Plane and OpenProject both do the job. Neither has twenty years of plugins, and if your process depends on one of those plugins, you are staying.

You lose: The plugin market and the Jira query language everyone has memorised.

Start here

Plane

AGPL-3.0a weekendactive

Modern and fast. Fewer workflow rules and no marketplace.

github.com/makeplane/plane plane.so

A database, object storage or mail config, plus backups.

Also worth a look

OpenProjectGPL-3.0a weekendactive
Closest to Jira's process depth. Heavier to run and to learn.
github.com/opf/openproject www.openproject.org
RedmineGPL-2.0an eveningactive
Old, stable, plugin-driven. Rails install, and it looks its age.
github.com/redmine/redmine www.redmine.org

Head to head

Plane vs OpenProjectPlane feels like a modern tool. OpenProject has the process depth a big team needs.

Facts checked 8 November 2026. Licences, activity and archive status come from each project's own repository; the verdict and the cost lines are the desk's.