Jira vs TickTick: Which is a better fit?

Jake D.: My name is Jake, my company is Uni. We are one to 10 people, and my score for Jira was a four. Before we were using Trello and we didn't like it as much as Jira, because it really only was good for task management, but the tickets and organizing complex projects weren't as strong on it. We also really liked the documentation and the ability to do other things in Jira that Trello didn't offer. So in general just as we grew and had more engineers to manage and more complex software projects to manage, Jira became a better fit for our company. I chose Jira first and foremost, because the devs at my company really liked it and had experience working on it. It also allowed us to manage a front-end and backend team more easily and collaborate with ease compared to the other products we were looking at. It was affordable for startups and also supported us scaling all the way up if we were to grow our org to be much larger. As I had used it in previous companies that were bigger enterprises and saw it used for everything from documentation to ticket management to product management and development, so it just made the most sense for our org as we grew and was very affordable. Getting started with Jira was pretty easy, it took us about a week. We had a designated project manager who went about kind of setting up every user and getting the board set up the way we needed. We had engineering leads trained in how to do ticketing and how to move tickets from beginning to end pretty quickly. I think a lot of people use Jira and have experience with it coming out of school or bootcamp, so it was a pretty easy switch for us. Coming over from Trello, we found it was pretty fast to recreate the tickets and our processes from that. I think my biggest recommendation is just making sure that the engineers really want it. I think that project managers, it really caters to and has a great amount of tools for documenting, doing product recs, doing task management, QA, all of that. But I think if the devs aren't comfortable using it for pointing, using it for work management, it kind of gets out of line or doesn't get set up in a proper way. So, asking your developers to make sure that that's the tool they want and making sure it's set up in a way that's optimal for them I think makes it a much smoother transition, and easier for the business leads and product leads to engage with as well.

Curtis: Hi, my name is Curtis. I am a pastor of a small church, and I'm reviewing TickTick. And I give TickTick five out of five stars. For more reviews, click below. Prior to TickTick, we were using Wunderlist. And as many of you may know, Wunderlist no longer exists, so we switched to Microsoft To Do. And we found that that was not the app that was going to work best for us, so I went on a vast search and landed with TickTick. The main reason that we chose TickTick was actually its integration with Siri and how seamlessly it worked. I personally love to use Siri as my personal assistant, and I wanted an app that would add exactly what I said when I said it, so that I didn't forget it immediately. So we used that for Siri's integration, and then also for the collaboration that is available within TickTick. TickTick is relatively user-friendly. You can pick it up and start searching through all the features that it has, and it was fairly simple. The main things that we use it for is the shared lists and the ability to assign tasks to one another. The ability to make comments under each one of the tasks, we found especially helpful, and it was not very difficult to get them set up. We set up our team with the main basic functions and then they get to explore the app and use it however they want for work or for personal purposes. I would just encourage you to try TickTick. There is a free version that you can use and just give it a try. Use it with Siri or whatever kind of phone you have and see if that is a benefit to you. Use the shared list. I have a shared list with my wife, as well, for our groceries, so that nothing gets forgotten when I'm standing in the grocery aisle. And it just has a lot of different features that you can use or choose not to use. And I give it five stars, like I said, and encourage you to at least give it a try.