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Docs and wiki — without Confluence
Jira without Confluence is tasks only. Docs, wiki and notes need a separate Confluence subscription. Easylim has them all inside.
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Comparison
Easylim vs Jira
Jira was built for developers — and it shows. Without Confluence in the package, no docs. Without add-ons, no whiteboard, forms or proper time tracking. Easylim brings the whole team into one space.
TL;DR: when Easylim beats Jira
Jira is powerful, but the bill grows: Confluence for docs and wiki, Confluence Whiteboards for the whiteboard, Tempo for serious time tracking. Non-engineering teams drown in Jira. Easylim keeps everything in one product.
- Your team isn't only engineers
- You don't want to buy Confluence separately
- You need a whiteboard and docs out of the box
- You want fast onboarding without certifications
What you get in each tool
Best choiceEasylim
Jira
Views
Kanban board
Yes
Yes
Task list
Yes
Yes
Calendar
Yes
Yes
Gantt chart
Yes
Yes
Daily planner
Yes
No
Dashboards
Yes
Yes
Working with tasks
Subtasks
Yes
Yes
Task dependencies
Yes
Yes
Time tracking
Yes
Yes
Custom fields
Yes
Yes
Custom statuses
Yes
Yes
Recurring tasks
Yes
No
Knowledge & docs
Documents
Yes
Add-on
Wiki / Knowledge base
Yes
Add-on
Whiteboard
Yes
Add-on
Screen recording
Yes
Yes
AI assistant
Yes
Paid only
Collaboration & integrations
Forms → tasks
Yes
Yes
Public link sharing
Yes
Limited
Automations & rules
Yes
Yes
Project templates
Yes
Yes
Integrations & API
Yes
Yes
Why teams move to Easylim
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Friendly to non-engineering teams
Jira is built for Scrum dev teams. Marketing, legal, HR get stuck on sprints, story points and complex workflows. Easylim works the same way for every department.
03
Whiteboard in the same space
In Jira, whiteboards are Confluence Whiteboards — a separate subscription. Easylim has a built-in whiteboard next to tasks.
04
Full time tracking in the box
Jira ships only basic time logging; serious reporting is Tempo Timesheets on the side. Easylim has a complete time tracker with estimates and reports — no add-ons.
05
AI in your plan
Atlassian Intelligence / Rovo is Standard+ only. Easylim AI is part of Business — no credits, no upsells.
06
Fast onboarding
Jira needs hours of training, workflow setup and role definitions. Easylim is usable in 5 minutes.
Deep dive
Easylim vs Jira — for teams where engineers aren't the only users
5 chapters
Jira is the industry standard for engineering teams, and that's honestly earned: deep Scrum flow, Bitbucket integration, a marketplace of 5000+ apps. But if 60% of your team is non-engineers (designers, marketers, PMs, ops), Jira hurts more than the marketing copy admits. Easylim is for the case where you need an engineering-friendly tool that doesn't scare off the rest of the team.
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Розділ
What Jira actually is — an engineering ticket tracker
Jira was born in 2002 as a bug tracker. Everything that came later — Scrum boards, epics, story points, sprints — is layered on the same base: a task is a ticket, a ticket has a status, transitions between statuses are codified by a workflow.
Jira's depth of Scrum flow is unmatched. Sprint planning with story points, velocity charts, burndown, retrospectives, backlog refinement — all baked in and honestly well-built. If your team lives in two-week iterations, Jira ships the rituals out of the box.
Atlassian ecosystem: Bitbucket for code, Confluence for docs, Compass for service catalog, Trello for lightweight tasks. Everything integrated at the SSO, permissions and search layer. It's a strong but expensive bundle — each piece is a separate subscription.
- Built as a bug tracker, grew into a Scrum tool.
- Deepest built-in Scrum/Agile flow on the market.
- Strong only in combo with Confluence + other Atlassian products.
jira · sprint board
Sprint 278 days left42 / 64 SP
To do · 8
In progress · 5
Done · 12
PROJ-1042P1
Webhook signature fails on retry
Epic · Billing v25 SPM. Liu
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Розділ
Where Jira honestly wins — engineering scenarios
The dev panel on each issue. Every Pull Request, commit, build, deploy auto-appears in the Jira ticket. The engineer sees CI status without switching tabs. Easylim has a GitHub integration but not that deep.
Enterprise-grade Scrum reporting. Velocity by team across 6 sprints, sprint commitment vs delivery, control chart, cumulative flow diagram — all built in. For teams with disciplined Scrum ritual that's actual data, not "a pretty chart".
Enterprise security: SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, audit log, data residency, Crowd (Atlassian's own directory). For banks, insurers, government, that's often a "must have" checklist. 5000+ Marketplace apps — Tempo for time tracking, Structure for task trees, Portfolio for roadmaps, ScriptRunner for custom logic.
- Deepest Git/CI integration directly on issues.
- Enterprise-level security and compliance.
- Marketplace covers nearly any niche use case.
where jira wins · engineering
Bitbucket / GitHub PR linking
Sprint burndown · velocity
SSO · SCIM · Crowd · audit log
5000+ Marketplace apps
Industry standard for Scrum dev teams · ~70% market share
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Розділ
Where Jira hurts — complexity and total cost for non-eng teams
First, complexity for non-engineers. A marketer or designer opens Jira and sees: "Choose issue type: Story / Task / Bug / Epic / Sub-task". What does that mean? What's a story point? Why can't I just "make a task"? It's not aggressive, but it's a real cognitive wall. New-hire onboarding is 1–2 weeks.
Second, the Atlassian stack stacks up. Jira Standard $7.53/user. Docs? Confluence separately $6.05. Serious time tracking? Tempo $5. Whiteboards? Another add-on. Total $23.58/user — and that's without Bitbucket, Statuspage, Opsgenie. For 25 people that's $590/mo vs $175/mo on Easylim ($7×25).
Third, the UI is noticeably slow. Atlassian is rebuilding Jira ("Jira 7" → "Cloud Next-gen"), but many screens still take 2–3 seconds to load. Not critical for an engineering team writing code, but for a marketer who checks status once a day it's frustration.
- Hard for non-engineers: story points, issue types, workflows.
- Atlassian stack costs ~$23/user, not $7.53.
- UI noticeably slower than competitors, especially on legacy workspaces.
real per-seat · 25 users
Jira Standard$7.53
Confluence (docs)$6.05
Tempo (timesheets)$5.00
Whiteboards (beta)$5.00
Atlassian stack
$23.58
/seat / mo
Easylim
$7
/seat / mo
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Розділ
What Easylim does differently — engineers, designers, PMs in one space
One product instead of a stack. Easylim has tasks, documents (Confluence replacement), whiteboard, time tracker (Tempo replacement), AI — all within one $7 subscription. Not "simplified Jira", a different philosophy: you don't have to buy 5 products to work.
Engineering-friendly without forcing Scrum ceremony. Easylim has custom statuses (build "backlog / in-progress / code-review / QA / released"), subtasks, GitHub integration, API. You can run Scrum, Kanban, flow — the tool doesn't dictate methodology.
Non-engineering teams don't suffer. A marketer opens Easylim and sees familiar concepts: task, deadline, assignee, project. No story points, no "pick an Issue type". The same product works for the design team and the dev team because it doesn't force one methodology.
- One product instead of Jira+Confluence+Tempo stack.
- Engineering-friendly: API, GitHub, custom statuses.
- Doesn't scare non-engineers — no story points, no issue types.
one workspace · four roles
Easylim
tasks + docs + whiteboard
PMPM · roadmap
DVDev · sprint
DSDesigner · brief
OPOps · timeline
no confluence · no tempo · no extra seats
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Розділ
When you should honestly stay on Jira
If you're a pure engineering team with disciplined Scrum and velocity metrics genuinely drive planning — stay. Easylim has status reporting but isn't tuned for Scrum ritual the way Jira is.
If you need the Bitbucket dev panel on issues or Crowd / on-prem SSO for compliance — stay. Easylim has GitHub integration and SAML SSO in Enterprise, but not the Atlassian ecosystem.
If you have 500+ tasks worth of Marketplace dependencies (Tempo, Structure, custom ScriptRunner) — migration will hurt. That's a "years of work" investment and Easylim doesn't cover all of it at once.
And the biggest mistake people make migrating off Jira is trying to recreate every workflow 1:1 with issue types, transitions, screen schemes. Easylim is simpler by design — a copy of Jira will be worse than the original. Better question: "do we actually need 6 issue types?" Often the answer is no.
- Stay if you're pure engineering with disciplined Scrum.
- Stay if you need Crowd, on-prem SSO or Bitbucket dev panel.
- Don't copy Jira workflows 1:1 — use migration to clean up.
engineering-honest matrix
Stay on Jira
- Need Bitbucket dev panel
- Run SAFe / advanced Scrum
- Crowd / on-prem SSO
- 500+ Marketplace deps
Try Easylim
- 60% of users are non-engineers
- Confluence + Tempo bill > Jira
- Story points feel like theatre
- Designers refuse to use Jira
Quick takeaways
- 1Jira is honestly the standard for engineering teams with mature Scrum.
- 2Real cost is $23+/user once Confluence + Tempo + others are in.
- 3Easylim keeps engineers + designers + PMs in one workspace at $7/user.
- 4Stay on Jira if you're pure engineering with Bitbucket flow or enterprise compliance.
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