Zuuna vs GitHub Projects: when the built-in board runs out

GitHub Projects is included on every GitHub plan, the free one included — tables, boards, roadmaps, custom fields. It sits right beside issues and pull requests. If you already have that, you should need a good reason to open a second tool next to it. This page tries to say honestly when there is one.

When GitHub Projects is enough

When everyone involved in planning already has a GitHub account and the work is essentially code. The proximity to issues and PRs is a real advantage then: no linking, no syncing, no second login. For a purely technical team with modest planning needs it is the leaner choice — and it costs nothing.

Where it stops

In three places, all with the same root: GitHub Projects plans code work for people who live in GitHub.

• People without GitHub. Marketing, sales, management, clients — they need an account in your organisation to see anything at all. That is the point at which most teams start copying things into a spreadsheet.
• Time and capacity. There is no time tracking on the item and no capacity planning that knows about absences. If you bill by effort or plan sprints against real availability, you build that alongside.
• Documents. Concepts and minutes end up in the wiki, in Notion or in Confluence — somewhere other than the work.

What Zuuna puts against that

The same git proximity, but from outside: 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. Plus sprints with capacity, time tracking and documents — and readers with no account at all through public links, which do not count as seats.

Pricing

GitHub: Free $0 · Team $4 · Enterprise from $21 per user/month (GitHub lists the two paid figures as first-twelve-months pricing; accessed 14 August 2026). Zuuna: Free €0 · Plus €4 · Business Standard €8 · Business Pro €16 · Developer €24 per seat/month, incl. VAT. Currencies are not converted.

And the point that is on no feature list

GitHub is a US service. For teams facing a privacy review, a DPA requirement or a works council, that is not a detail — it is the first question. Zuuna runs in Germany and the DPA is available without a sales call. If that question never comes up where you are, this argument drops away and the comparison is a feature comparison, where everything above still applies.

Migrating

Through CSV. GitHub exports a project as CSV, Zuuna reads it and you map the columns. Attachments and comment history do not come along — the details are on the import page.