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JIRA Software is built for every member of your software team to plan, track, and release great software.

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Awards & Recognition

Jira won the following awards in the Task Management category

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Jira Ratings

Real user data aggregated to summarize the product performance and customer experience.
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Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

90 Likeliness to Recommend

97 Plan to Renew

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85 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value


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Emotional Footprint Overview

Product scores listed below represent current data. This may be different from data contained in reports and awards, which express data as of their publication date.

+92 Net Emotional Footprint

The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.

How much do users love Jira?

3% Negative
3% Neutral
94% Positive

Pros

  • Respectful
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Helps Innovate

Feature Ratings

Average 86

Task Assignment

88

Task Status

87

List Tasks

87

Task Prioritization

87

Task Categorization

87

Add Attachments

85

Task Reporting

84

Add Notes

84

Automated Workflow

84

Notifications

83

Due Dates

83

Vendor Capability Ratings

Average 82

Business Value Created

85

Breadth of Features

84

Quality of Features

84

Ease of Implementation

83

Ease of Customization

82

Ease of Data Integration

82

Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement

82

Ease of IT Administration

81

Usability and Intuitiveness

80

Availability and Quality of Training

80

Vendor Support

79

Jira Reviews

Anish J.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Technology
  • Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2026

Powerful work and issue tracking to manage tasks

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

Jira supports Scrum, Kanban, lists etc for different team styles for different departments. It track bugs, tasks, stories, epics and customise workflows to match how teams really work. Seamless and powerful integrations with tools and platforms like Bitbucket, GitHub, Slack, Teams and many more.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Its automation rules save time on repetitive task transitions. Project status, reports and dashboards visibility is easy to understand and beginner friendly.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Settings and options are vast and that's why it has complex learning curve. Sometimes performance lags with large boards. It feels overwhelming for more simpler and smaller projects.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you’re running software projects, Agile teams, or complex workflows with dependencies, Jira would be a great choice. It gives detailed tracking, reporting, and planning that many tech teams rely on.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy

Vanshika A.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Other
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Feb 2026

Use automation wisely.

Likeliness to Recommend

9 /10

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

Its powerful issue tracking and reporting. I can easily track SLAs, recurring incidents, root causes and workload trends which helps IT teams move from just fixing issues to preventing them.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

It being able to customize workflows, automate ticket routing and set clear escalation rules saves a huge amount of time. Tickets automatically move to the right team, priorities update based on impact and nothing gets stuck or forgotten.

What do you dislike most about this product?

Performance can also slow down when there are many custom fields and integrations which affects day to day support work.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

If you're considering Jira, make sure your team actually needs its flexibility. Plan the setup carefully keep workflows simple at first train your team and improve it over time. It works best for IT support teams that want structured, scalable processes not just basic ticketing.

Pros

  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Efficient Service
  • Saves Time

Cons

  • Leverages Incumbent Status

Alfred T.

  • Role: Information Technology
  • Industry: Transportation
  • Involvement: End User of Application
Validated Review
Verified Reviewer

Submitted Jan 2026

Jira is a Powerful issue-tracking Management tool

Likeliness to Recommend

8 /10

What differentiates Jira from other similar products?

Jira Software stands out primarily as issue-tracking management tool. it combine the Ease of Use with the ability to Customize the software per the company requirement. In fact, I did some training using some other software and I think all they provide more or less the same capabilities but some focus more on management or workflow tracking etc.

What is your favorite aspect of this product?

Once you've invested the effort to configure it properly, Jira evolves from a simple work tracker into the central nervous system powering your entire software delivery process.

What do you dislike most about this product?

in fact, since i was using Jira to make a request to get some services from the IT in the company, I think it does what is required to do like filling the request and tracking it.

What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?

I think it is a powerful tool and it is all depends on what is the company's requirements and it will be used for.

Pros

  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Enables Productivity
  • Unique Features

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