Backlog is Nulab's project management and issue tracking tool with Git hosting, Gantt charts and a wiki, sold at a flat price per plan rather than per user.
Backlog gives a team one place to track tasks, bugs, documents and code, so developers and the people around them work from the same list. Nulab, the independent Fukuoka company that also makes the Cacoo diagram editor, develops and sells it. Each project holds its own issues, wiki, shared files and repositories. That keeps the full record of a piece of work together rather than spread across several tools. Issues are the core unit, and they break down into parent tasks and subtasks. They gather under milestones and versions, and Related Issues ties connected work together. The Board lays issues out as cards by status, the Gantt chart plots them against dates, and the Burndown chart shows the hours of work left in a milestone. Documents holds the project wiki in a document tree, and the Files library keeps shared files beside it. The AI Assistant summarizes, reviews and improves those documents. Git and Subversion repositories sit inside each project, and an open API with webhooks connects outside systems. Its natural users are small and mid-sized teams that mix software development with design, operations or other non-technical work. Project managers plan with the Gantt chart and milestones, while engineers keep their repositories next to the issues they work on. Clients and contractors can join a single project under the Guest role. Larger companies can connect SAML single sign-on, SCIM user provisioning and audit logs to bring Backlog under central control. Teams leaving Jira or Redmine bring their history across with the Jira Importer and the Redmine Importer, and the Google Sheets Importer loads task lists kept in a spreadsheet. In Slack, the /backlog add command creates an issue and linked projects post their updates to a channel. Microsoft Teams carries the same notifications, and its Copilot plugin lets people search, update and comment on issues without leaving the chat. Issues can also be added by email, and the iOS and Android apps keep assignees on their work away from a desk.
Pricing
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Free
Free
- Free forever for up to 10 users
- 1 project
- 100 MB storage
- Git and Subversion repositories
- Board
- 1 attachment per issue, 5 MB per file
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Starter
$35 per month
$35 a month billed monthly; $30 a month billed annually. Flat price, no per-user fees
- Up to 30 users
- 5 projects
- 1 GB storage
- Subtasking
- Related Issues, on every paid plan
- 10 attachments per issue, 10 MB per file
- 30-day trial of any paid plan with no credit card; the plan cannot be switched during the trial
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Standard
$100 per month
$100 a month billed monthly; $84 a month billed annually. Flat price, no per-user fees
- Unlimited users
- 100 projects
- 30 GB storage
- Gantt chart limited to a 6-month view
- Burndown chart
- Issue templates
- 30 attachments per issue, 10 MB per file; 3 GB per file on WebDAV
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Premium
$175 per month
$175 a month billed monthly; $146 a month billed annually. Flat price, no per-user fees
- Unlimited users and unlimited projects
- 100 GB storage
- AI Assistant with 2,000 credits included
- Subtasks to the third level
- Gantt chart with unlimited view and a cross-project Gantt chart
- Custom fields, up to 100 per project
- Dedicated support
- 50 attachments per issue, 10 MB per file
Features
- Not included: Custom issue workflows and statuses
- Included: Kanban board and sprint cycles
- Included: Backlog with drag-and-drop ranking
- Included: Custom fields per issue type
- Not included: Saved filters with a query language
- Not included: Issue automation rules
- Included: Issue linking and dependencies
- Included: Roadmap and timeline view
- Not included: Git branch and pull request linking
- Not included: Issue triage queue
- Not included: SLA timers on issues
- Included: Chat integration for issue updates
- Not included: In-app bug capture widget
- Included: Burndown and velocity reports
- Included: Issue tracker mobile apps
- Included: Guest and external collaborator access
- Included: Issue API and webhooks
- Included: Free issue tracker plan for small teams
Additional Features
- Git and Subversion repository hosting
- Board view of issues by status
- Gantt chart with a cross-project view
- Burndown chart per milestone
- Parent tasks and subtasks up to three levels
- Milestones and versions
- Related Issues
- Issue templates
Best for
- Small and mid-sized teams that want one flat price per plan instead of per-user fees
- Teams that mix software development with non-technical project work
- Engineering teams that want Git or Subversion hosting beside their issues
- Project managers who plan with Gantt charts, milestones and burndown charts
- Teams moving their issues off Jira or Redmine
- Agencies and vendors that bring clients into projects as guests
- Companies that need SAML single sign-on, SCIM and audit logs on an Enterprise contract
- Teams already on Slack or Microsoft Teams that want issue updates in chat
Use cases
- Tracking bugs from report to fix
- Planning releases with milestones and versions
- Running sprints as milestones with a burndown chart
- Scheduling project tasks on a Gantt chart
- Hosting Git repositories in the same project as the issues
- Keeping project documentation in a shared wiki
- Storing project files in one library
- Creating issues from Slack or Microsoft Teams
- Importing issues from Jira or Redmine
- Summarizing and reviewing documents with the AI Assistant
- Sharing a project with clients through guest access
- Managing tasks for non-technical teams
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