nineloops vs Jira
Jira is built for engineers. nineloops is project management the whole company can actually use.
Jira is built for software teams running sprints and tracking issues, and large engineering teams lean on it for good reason. That same depth makes it heavy and unfamiliar for everyone else, so marketing, operations and clients end up in other tools, and the work fragments.
nineloops's Spaces gives you serious project management, with boards, sprints, a Gantt, dependencies and approvals, in a workspace any team can pick up, next to the CRM, finance, docs and chat the rest of the company already needs.
What Jira is genuinely good at
Jira is deep and proven for software development, agile workflows and large engineering teams.
Why teams choose nineloops instead
- Usable by every team, not just engineers
- Spaces is approachable for marketing, operations and clients while still handling sprints and dependencies. Jira's depth is aimed squarely at software teams.
- The rest of the company in one place
- CRM, finance, docs, HR and chat share the workspace. Jira tracks engineering work. Everything else lives elsewhere.
- Nine views and built in approvals
- Board, list, table, Gantt, calendar, workload and more on the same tasks, with multi step approvals and intake forms.
- One simple, native workspace
- A fast native desktop app and one bill, rather than Jira plus a stack of other products for the teams beyond engineering.
Side by side
| Capability | nineloops | Jira |
|---|---|---|
| Projects, tasks and multiple views | yes | yes |
| Docs and wiki | yes | Separate (Confluence) |
| Built in CRM | yes | no |
| Finance, invoicing and expenses | yes | no |
| HR and people | yes | no |
| Team chat and direct messages | yes | no |
| WhatsApp inbox | yes | no |
| Workflow automation | yes | yes |
| Native desktop app | yes | yes |
| One workspace, one bill | yes | yes |
Questions
- Is nineloops a good Jira alternative?
- Yes, particularly for teams that find Jira too heavy or too focused on engineering. nineloops's Spaces handles real project management, including sprints and dependencies, in a workspace every team can use.
- Does nineloops do agile and sprints?
- Yes. Spaces supports sprint style boards, backlogs, estimates and dependencies, and the same work also renders as a Gantt, list or workload view.
- Can other teams use it too?
- Yes, that is the point. The same workspace holds CRM, finance, docs, HR and chat, so the whole company works in one place rather than around engineering's tool.