JetBrains YouTrack
Hacker ApprovedRanked 6 of 9 issue trackers by recommenders
Liked for simple, programmer-built tracking with markdown, command palette and solid VCS links. Main caveat: data sits in a proprietary format that is hard to port.
Liked for simple, programmer-built tracking with markdown, command palette and solid VCS links. Main caveat: data sits in a proprietary format that is hard to port.
16 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 14
- criticize it
- 2
- approval share
- 88%
Recommended in 7 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: not recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: not recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: recommended
- July 2026: recommended
- August 2026: recommended
- September 2026: recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it carries the badge
- 14 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, met.
- 7 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 7 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
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What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Markdown support and command palette
“I enjoy youtrack for its simplicity, native markdown support, command pallette, and solid vcs integration.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI” “It's affordable, supports markdown, has a better vcs integration”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI” Solid version control integration
“I enjoy youtrack for its simplicity, native markdown support, command pallette, and solid vcs integration.”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI” “It's affordable, supports markdown, has a better vcs integration”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI” Affordable, with a free plan
“It's affordable, supports markdown, has a better vcs integration”
Comment from 12 Mar 2026 in “Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI” “it has 10-users free plan, I'm going to give it a try”
Comment from 9 Mar 2026 in “Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (March 2026)”
Other issue trackers people recommend
The four most recommended other issue trackers, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linear | 148 | 66 | 69% | 12 | 4 yrs6 owners | Approved |
| Jira | 128 | 399 | 24% | 12 | 10 yrs7 owners | — |
| git-bug | 36 | 9 | 80% | 8 | — | Approved |
| GitHub Issues | 29 | 28 | 51% | 11 | — | — |
| JetBrains YouTrackThis page | 14 | 2 | 88% | 7 | — | Approved |
What people said
15 of the 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“The one thing we will keep is youtrack, it works well with AI.”
“handles teams who work on multiple projects way better”
“That's the best part about YouTrack; historically, you can deploy on prem with no backing DB.”
“it kept giving me editing suggestions”
“the data is all stored in a proprietary format that can't easily be ported to something else”
“I switched to Forgejo, Crow CI and YouTrack and couldn't be happier”
“You can tell it was built by programmers for programming project management, in the good way.”
“Nice query language to filter down on any fields, including custom fields”
“I enjoy youtrack for its simplicity, native markdown support, command pallette, and solid vcs integration.”
“It's affordable, supports markdown, has a better vcs integration”
“My biggest pet peeve is the lack of sorting and filtering options in tables, especially on wiki”
“its functionality has been more than enough”
“it doesn't have as many features, but turns out nobody was using most of them anyway”
“It is super customizable and has a reasonable API.”
“it has 10-users free plan, I'm going to give it a try”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.