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Super quick list of alternatives to Jira and/or Confluence, Stash, Crucible, etc.

Alternatives to the "Atlassian Stack"

Fuller stack alternatives (replaces at least two of the Atlassian stack)

Jira/Ticketing alternatives

Crucible alternatives

Hipchat alternatives

Confluence alternatives

Besides a gazillion open source wiki projects…​

For a bigger far more all encompassing documentation toolchain:

  • Jive Disclosure: former employer (but thoroughly recommend for the right culture/environment)

  • Lithium

  • Salesforce.com’s Chatter Disclosure: former employer (don’t recommend based on user experience 3+ years ago)

@jgonera
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jgonera commented Mar 1, 2019

https://slab.com/ is another option with emphasis on simplicity, maintaining easy to navigate organization as the team is growing, and integrating with other solutions (Github, Slack, Asana, Airtable are some examples).

Disclaimer: I work at Slab.

@aurabirb
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aurabirb commented Mar 4, 2019

https://zulipchat.com is a free self-hosted alternative to hipchat.

@AsmoLab
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AsmoLab commented Mar 10, 2019

Well that's one great list there, thanks a lot !
I'd like to share one more alternative our team created, it's a free tool called Zenkit, we'd love to have tour opinion on it:
https://zenkit.com/en/alternatives/jira-alternative/

@dragosbulugean
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I would suggest a Confluence alternative: https://archbee.io
Archbee is the documentation app for engineers.
Realtime knowledge base for your team, product docs for your customers.

How is Archbee different? Well, we focus on providing developer teams the best possible experience.
We are not a generic solution, meaning: you'll get a powerful realtime editor with diagramming capabilities,
Swagger, GraphQL, real code editor (Visual Studio Code embedder).

Disclaimer: I am the founder of Archbee

https://archbee.io

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Jegonon commented Oct 27, 2019

Good morning :) Thank you very much for the list - I would also suggest Kanban http ://kanbantool.com. I tent to use it every day to organize my professional life. Recommend it strongly for all the people who struggle to organize and arrange their daily duties :)

@appleboy
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Could you also add Gitea solution?

@jaymes-bearden
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I'lll second adding Jetbrain's Youtrack as a Jira alternative

@nmccready
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Which of these are open source? Thanks :)

Tiagra

@Bullnados
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@daniel-jarzebowski-accenture
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Ticketing? Of course you are missing Azure Boards!

@Metzlmane
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As for the email from today, that Atlassian ends the support for self hosted server.. most important site right now.
But as far as I can see, no real alternative (with plugins) for Confluence.

@liangdefeng
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https://backlog.com/ - a replacement of Jira + Confluence + Bitbucket.

@cupcoder
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cupcoder commented Jan 8, 2021

We recently switched from Confluence to AllAnswered and really loved it. AllAnswered combines Wiki documents like Confluence and Questions & Answers similar to Stack Overflow. Great product and very easy to use. Here is their website https://www.allanswered.com

@reneeteng
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ZenTao for sure. The on premise and self-hosted Jira alternative. It offers open source community version and you can find it on Github(HERE) too.

@andul
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andul commented Jan 15, 2021

Check out Drupal Wiki as Confluence alternative. Can be self-hosted (on premise) and has almost the same structure and functionality as Confluence - even content migration from Confluence is possible see Migrate from Confluence to Drupal Wiki.

@PixelTroy
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ZenTao for sure. The on premise and self-hosted Jira alternative. It offers open source community version and you can find it on Github(HERE) too.

Yeah, it's good.

@begleynk
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Check out Doctave if you're looking for a developer-friendly Confluence alternative that uses a docs-as-code approach. You can also use the open source documentation site generator for free. (Disclaimer: founder here)

@birthe
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birthe commented Sep 17, 2021

Jira alternative (on-premises and open source) --> OpenProject (https://github.com/opf/openproject)

@Philipinho
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I would shamelessly add my project, Docmost, as an open-source alternative to Atlassian Confluence, with real-time collaboration.

Github: https://github.com/docmost/docmost
Website: https://docmost.com

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