When comparing JIRA vs todo.vu, the Slant community recommends JIRA for most people. In the question“What is the best task management software for small teams?” JIRA is ranked 14th while todo.vu is ranked 18th. The most important reason people chose JIRA is:
It integrates well with a lot of other tools, including other products from the Atlassian suite. Plus there are a ton of plugins, including charting tools, screen capture, etc.
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Pros
Pro Lots of integrations and plugins
It integrates well with a lot of other tools, including other products from the Atlassian suite. Plus there are a ton of plugins, including charting tools, screen capture, etc.
Pro Backed by a trustable company
Jira is developed and maintained by Atlassian, which is not an unknown venture, especially for developers. Atlassian has a great number of other products used by million of users worldwide, including BitBucket, HipChat, Confluence and Stash.
Each of these products have hundreds of thousands of users who use them daily and this has allowed Atlassian to garner a lot of goodwill from the dev community.
Pro Very cheap for small teams
Pro Supports version-focused work-flows
JIRA is not a plain long list of tickets, but can be configured to be version-focused, so planning and understanding the progress in a software project becomes clear.
Pro Great reporting tools
Jira offers amazingly powerful reporting tools like activity stream, different graphs of opened and closed issues over time etc...
Pro Simple, intuitive workflow
Simple - todo-done-archived - workflow, easy for clients to understand.
Pro Free for freelancers
Single user accounts are free - handy if you work alone.
Pro Built in client management
Ability to manage tasks/projects by client and allow clients to email or log in to collaborate.
Pro Email integration
Clients can email tasks in and follow tasks via email making it simple for those who may not want to log in.
Pro Powerful search/filter
Works particularly well if you have hundreds of clients and thousands of tasks.
Pro Snooze tasks
Ability to snooze tasks until other tasks are complete - really handy for tasks that depend on others.
Pro Rapid response to questions
Developers and the founder answer questions via email within the day. Also short videos clarify most of what's not intuitive.
Cons
Con New releases often change the GUI largely
Sometimes the usage becomes worse, e.g. when creating a new ticket, you need to click the notification to keep it on the display.
Con Locks you inside its own ecosystem
If you use Jira you are pretty much locked inside their ecosystem. For example, if you want to add a tool to your project management stack (like a wiki) more often than not you will have to buy one of Atlassian's tools.
Con Client application support
No free client applications; IDE connector development was discontinued. Users are effectively locked into using web interface which requires context-switching.