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Jira is built for teams and organisations: requests, approvals, reports. People look for alternatives when they are a team of one and want less to configure.
Our pickDocket is the one we make, built for one developer shipping several apps.
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Start with Docket
Docket is a tracker for one person: a Focus screen, a Kanban board with no story points, and releases with a pre-ship checklist. Jira is project management for teams and organisations, with roadmaps, reports and approvals.
- You have no one to assign work to or ask for approval.
- You want cards and columns with no story points.
- You want releases, launches and the App Store in one calendar.
3 alternatives to Jira
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Docket our pick
Docket is a release tracker for developers who ship their own apps. It keeps tasks, releases with a pre-ship checklist, a launch calendar and app ideas for every project, syncs with App Store Connect, and includes an MCP server and a CLI for coding agents.
Built for: one developer shipping several apps. How you pay: free with one project; Docket Pro is a subscription for unlimited projects, iCloud sync, and the MCP server and CLI.
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Linear
Linear is a product development system for teams and agents. It plans and tracks issues, projects, cycles and roadmaps, runs its own agents, and has an MCP server for clients such as Claude and Cursor. Linear Mobile is a companion to the desktop app.
How you pay: a free plan capped at 250 issues and two teams; paid plans are billed per user.
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Trello
Trello is a task tracker built on boards, lists and cards. It has an inbox that captures to-dos from email and chat, a planner tied to your calendar, automation, integrations called Power-Ups, and an MCP server for AI tools.
How you pay: a free plan for individuals and small teams; unlimited boards, AI features and more automation need a paid plan billed per user.
At a glance
| App | Built for | Where it runs | How you pay |
|---|---|---|---|
| Docket | one developer shipping several apps | Mac, iPhone and iPad, as a native app | free with one project; Docket Pro is a subscription for unlimited projects, iCloud sync, and the MCP server and CLI |
| Jira | teams and organisations that plan and track work together | the cloud, with a mobile app for iPhone and iPad | a free plan, with Standard, Premium and Enterprise plans above it |
| Linear | product teams that plan and build software together | a desktop app with a mobile companion, signed in to a Linear account | a free plan capped at 250 issues and two teams; paid plans are billed per user |
| Trello | individuals and teams organising any kind of work on boards | web, desktop and mobile apps | a free plan for individuals and small teams; unlimited boards, AI features and more automation need a paid plan billed per user |
What Jira is
Jira is Atlassian's project management software for teams, from engineering to marketing. It plans and tracks work with roadmaps, reports, forms and approvals, and connects coding agents through an MCP server and a CLI.
How to choose
Start with how many people use it. A tracker built for a team asks you to keep workspaces, roles and cycles for an audience of one. If you ship your own apps, pick the one that already knows what a release, a nomination and an in-app event are. That is Docket.
Questions
What is the best alternative to Jira?
Docket, if you want tasks, releases and launches for all your own apps in one native app. Docket is a tracker for one person: a Focus screen, a Kanban board with no story points, and releases with a pre-ship checklist. Jira is project management for teams and organisations, with roadmaps, reports and approvals.
What is better than Jira?
If you want tasks, releases and launches for all your own apps in one native app, Docket is the better fit. It is built for one developer shipping several apps.
Why do people look for Jira alternatives?
Jira is built for teams and organisations: requests, approvals, reports. People look for alternatives when they are a team of one and want less to configure.
More comparisons
We make Docket. What we say about the other apps comes from their own pages, read on 11 November 2026: Jira's own site, Jira Cloud on the App Store, Linear's own site and pricing page, Trello's own site and pricing page. Spotted a mistake? Write to support@onedevshop.com. Each name belongs to its owner, and Docket is not affiliated with any of them.
Docket
Built by an indie developer, for indie developers
Docket is on the App Store, for Mac, iPhone and iPad.