Zuuna vs Jira: the lean alternative for developer teams
Jira without the baggage: Zuuna links board, git and pipeline in one place — GDPR-compliant and hosted in Germany. The honest comparison.
Project management · Made in Germany
Boards, sprints & your code — in one place.
Zuuna is the project tool that knows your code: commits, branches and pull requests land on the card, and releases hang off real git tags. Kanban, sprints, docs and time tracking in one place — hosted in the EU.
Git-nativeSprints & releasesNo vendor lock-inHosted in the EU
Everything your team needs — nothing in the way.
Boards & views
Kanban, table, calendar and documents. Your board, your view — filtered, grouped, saved.
Sprints & backlog
Real agile sprints: one backlog for the team, visible capacity, planning poker and burndown.
Git on the board
Commits, branches, pull requests and CI status land on the right card automatically.
Releases & deploy
Versions bound to real git tags — and shipped live in one click, with an optional approval gate.
Time & reports
Time tracking, estimates and board-level reports right where the work happens.
Automations
When-then rules take the busywork off your team — from status moves to notifications.
Coming from another tool?
Honest comparisons — including where the others win.
Zuuna vs Trello: the Trello alternative with more power
Trello's simplicity, but with sprints, time tracking, documents and git — GDPR-compliant and hosted in Germany. The honest comparison.
Zuuna vs Monday.com: the cheaper all-in-one alternative
Boards, calendar, documents, time tracking and automations in one place — at EUR pricing and GDPR-compliant. The honest comparison with Monday.com.
Zuuna vs Linear: git, time tracking, EU hosting
Fast and developer-friendly like Linear — but with releases straight from the board, time tracking, documents and hosting in the EU. The honest comparison.
Zuuna vs Asana: the GDPR-compliant alternative
Zuuna vs Asana, compared honestly: hosted in Germany on every plan, git and releases on the board — and where Asana is genuinely the better fit.
Zuuna vs Basecamp: calm versus traceability
Basecamp is deliberately plain and has a flat-rate plan. The honest comparison: when that plainness is right — and where it starts to be missing.
Zuuna vs ClickUp: leaner, hosted in Germany
ClickUp does everything — and that is exactly the problem for many teams. The honest comparison: features, prices (Aug 2026), German hosting, CSV migration.
Zuuna vs factro: two German tools compared
factro is a German product, so the usual GDPR argument does not apply. What remains: audience, structure, and proximity to the code.
Zuuna vs GitHub Projects: when the built-in board runs out
GitHub Projects is free and sits inside the repo. The honest comparison: what it covers, where it stops, and when a separate board earns its keep.
Zuuna vs GitLab issue boards — or both together
GitLab boards are included on the free tier. The honest comparison — and why 'connect, don't replace' is usually the better answer here.
Zuuna vs Microsoft Planner: when task lists are not enough
Planner is already in Microsoft 365 — but has no sprints, no git integration and no German hosting. An honest comparison, Zuuna's limits included.
Zuuna vs Notion: when notes turn into real projects
Notion is brilliant at docs and wikis — but sprints, velocity and git links are missing. The honest comparison with Zuuna, hosted in Germany, with prices.
Zuuna vs Smartsheet: the spreadsheet as the foundation
Smartsheet builds on the spreadsheet and splits paid Members from free Contributors. What that model means — and when it fits.
Zuuna vs Wrike: breadth versus what a seat costs
Wrike does a lot and sells seats in groups. The honest comparison, including the increments worth knowing before you decide.
For developers
The board that knows your code.
Most PM tools stop at the ticket. Zuuna links board, git and pipeline — no context-switching.
Git-native
Mention a card ID in a commit or branch and the work links itself. One script, any host.
The Code Graph
See what your team actually built: releases as bands, open branches, and what shipped with no ticket.
API, CLI & webhooks
A scoped REST API, a one-file CLI and signed webhooks for everything else.
Git, sprint and release features are included in the Developer plan.
🇪🇺 Hosted in Germany · GDPR-compliant
Your data stays yours.
Hosted in Germany, GDPR-compliant, with a DPA. Plus the security tooling you need to roll out: 2FA, SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM, IP allowlist and an audit log.
What Zuuna is built for — and what it is not
Most project tools describe work. Zuuna tries to connect it to what actually happened: a commit that mentions a card ID links itself; a pull request carries its status onto the card; a release hangs off a git tag instead of a spreadsheet. You do not notice the difference in the first week — you notice it the moment somebody asks what has actually shipped since the last release.
The second reason is less romantic. For many teams in Germany and Europe, adopting a good tool fails on the privacy review rather than on the feature list. So Zuuna runs in Germany, the data processing agreement is available without a sales call, and two-factor authentication, roles and an audit log are included on every plan instead of quoted as enterprise extras.
And what it is not for: if your team writes no code, runs no sprints and does not care where things are hosted, the gain over an established tool is small — the thing you already know usually wins. There is no Gantt chart, no cross-department resource planning and no ongoing sync with Jira or Trello — the import runs once and writes nothing back. This is here so you read it before signing up rather than after.
Frequently asked questions
Who is Zuuna for?
Teams where at least part of the work ends up in code — software teams, agencies, internal IT — and for whom it matters where the data lives. If you write no code and have no privacy review ahead of you, you get little out of the two things that make Zuuna different.
What makes Zuuna different from Jira, Trello or ClickUp?
Two things. First, the board is attached to your repository: commits, branches, pull requests and build status land on the card, releases hang off real git tags, and the code graph shows what shipped without a ticket. Second, the service runs in Germany with a DPA — and no sales call to get one.
Can I bring my data over from another tool?
Through Excel or CSV, yes. You export your current tool, upload the file and map the columns — title, status, assignee, custom fields. Jira connects directly with an API token — no app registration, no administrator — and Trello is read from its JSON export. Comments, checklists and epics come across. Every other tool goes through the spreadsheet. The attachment files themselves always stay in the old system.
What does Zuuna cost, and is there a trial?
The Free plan is free forever (2 members, 2 boards, 100 cards). Paid plans start at €4 per seat per month, and each one begins with 14 days of full access, no credit card. After that you decide — without a decision the workspace is locked, and nothing is deleted.
Where is my data stored?
On servers in Germany. A data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR comes at no extra cost, the processors we use are named in the privacy policy, and two-factor authentication, roles and an audit log are on every plan.
Do I need Scrum to use Zuuna?
No. Every board works as a plain Kanban board. Sprints, story points, planning poker and burndown are extra layers you can switch on — a team that only wants to steer flow never touches them.
Ready to make it simpler?
Boards, sprints, docs and time tracking in one place — GDPR-compliant, hosted in the EU.