Reports you can audit
Burndown, velocity, cumulative flow, control chart and epic and version burndowns are replayed from recorded field history, never from today’s state. Exports carry scope, time zone and data version.
Projects, boards, sprints, JQL-style search, workflows, reports and cross-team plans. Every count opens the search that produced it, and teams moving from Jira bring their queries and their export.
Orbit
Orbit tracks work for software and business teams: work items with a typed hierarchy, Scrum and Kanban boards, backlog and sprints, list, calendar and timeline views, forms, goals, dashboards, cross-team plans with capacity and scenarios, and automation rules. Custom fields, screens and workflows are explicit, and every count on a report opens the search that produced it.
Why it is better
Burndown, velocity, cumulative flow, control chart and epic and version burndowns are replayed from recorded field history, never from today’s state. Exports carry scope, time zone and data version.
Workflow and scheme changes are drafted, warned about, previewed for impact and published with a status migration plan and concurrent-edit protection.
A typed JQL subset including WAS and CHANGED, an editor with suggestions and a published capability manifest.
Full-text search with one to three of 30 language configurations per site. Russian and English word forms by default.
Proposed edits live in scenarios, auto-scheduling is previewed deterministically, and chosen fields commit back with stale-item conflict handling.
One permission scheme everyone can read, and a helper that shows, for a person and a work item, each permission allowed or refused, with the reason.
Capabilities
Everything below is listed with its real status. Items with no badge are built and working today.
Built, no badgeIn development Built, in final testingPlanned Designed, not started
A typed hierarchy, explicit configuration and safe bulk changes.
Software, business, service and discovery project families with the right workflows. Team-managed or company-managed configuration is chosen at creation.
Epic, story, task, bug and sub-task plus types your admins define. Moves are validated and cycles are impossible.
Rich description, priority, resolution, labels, start and due dates, original and remaining estimates, story points and time spent.
Clone with the sub-tasks, links and attachments you choose. Move across projects with a mapping preview and keep history.
Edit, assign, transition, move, archive and delete as permission-checked background jobs with a result per row.
Scrum and Kanban over a saved filter, with moves that run real transitions.
Boards over a saved filter, single or multi-project. Moving a card runs the real workflow transition and asks for required fields.
Drag-and-drop and keyboard ranking with conflict handling. Swimlanes by assignee, epic or query.
Extra fields, colour rules, days in column and per-column limits with live warnings.
Multi-select moves without losing rank and drag assignment to epics and versions.
Create, start with an estimate baseline, complete and choose where unfinished work goes. Parallel sprints and reopen.
Columns each person adds, resizes and reorders. Sort, group, edit inline and keep named personal or shared views.
Reschedule by dragging in your time zone. Timeline shows epics, dependencies with warnings and zoom.
A designer maps questions to fields. Share with signed-in people or by link, with abuse controls.
Link work to organization goals with derived progress and bounded cross-project views.
Bring your JQL habits. Unsupported syntax answers an explicit error, never a silent wrong result.
AND, OR, NOT, comparisons, IN, EMPTY, contains with wildcards, date and user functions, custom fields by name and up to five ORDER BY fields.
WAS, WAS NOT, WAS IN and CHANGED with AFTER, BEFORE, ON, DURING, BY, FROM and TO.
Suggestions for fields, operators, functions and values at the cursor. Errors are marked in place.
Private, shared, starred and transferable filters. Scheduled emails run as each recipient.
Indexed search with one to three of 30 language configurations per site. Russian and English word forms by default.
Change configuration with drafts, previews and a migration plan, not by surprise.
Statuses, transitions, draft and published versions, impact preview, a status migration plan and warnings for unreachable states.
Transition permissions, required fields, transition screens and deterministic post-actions.
Approvers, quorum, delegation and an audit trail.
Text, number, URL, date, boolean, user, group, select, multi-select and cascading, with contexts and defaults.
Create, edit and view screens with tabs. Work type, priority and resolution schemes.
Reports are replayed from recorded history, so they can be audited.
Shared, copied and starred dashboards. Every widget reads with the viewer’s permissions and shows its refresh time.
Reconstructed from events, with marks for work added after the start and estimate changes.
Status occupancy over time. Cycle time with chosen statuses, excluded dates and a rolling average.
Scope and estimates replayed day by day with a forecast from the last three sprints.
Time tracking by user and version, group-by and two-dimensional matrices for built-in and custom fields.
Sources from projects, boards and filters. Initiatives above epics with roll-ups of dates, progress and estimates.
Cross-team dependencies with cycle and date warnings. Missing estimates and over-capacity roll up to inspectable items.
Shared or plan-only teams with iteration, velocity and capacity per sprint, including holidays.
Deterministic scheduling preview. Compare what-if scenarios and commit chosen fields back to work items.
Built and in final testing. Badges show where each item stands.
Conditions, if/else and branches over children, parents, linked or JQL-found work. Published versions with restore.
Created, updated, transitioned, commented and sprint events, calendar schedules, manual runs and signed incoming webhooks.
Field, JQL and related-work conditions. Edit, label, create, link, comment, notify and send web requests with project secrets.
Every run keeps its steps, timings and errors. Replay with idempotency.
Work items, comments, work logs, history and attachments from a Jira Cloud export, with a compatibility report. A four-step wizard in project settings.
Suggested mapping that recognises Jira headers, dry run, duplicate policy, batches that pause and resume, and failed rows as a CSV.
Unread counts, mentions and watched changes that survive reconnects.
Per-project schemes by role, group or person. Immediate, daily digest or off, with one-click unsubscribe.
See who else is reading a work item and who is typing.
Separate stages after the core. Not started.
Customer portal, request types, queues, SLAs, on-call, incidents and changes.
Object schemas, typed attributes, graph view and imports.
Ideas, prioritisation, roadmaps and delivery links.
Compatibility and migration
Migration is a first-class feature. Write the queries you already know, and move work in from an export.
A typed query language with history predicates. Unsupported syntax gets an explicit error and a position, never a wrong result.
A Jira Cloud export imports with comments, work logs, history and attachments, behind a four-step wizard and a compatibility report of what was matched.
Suggested field mapping, a dry run, a duplicate policy and batches that pause and resume. Failed rows come back as a CSV.
project = WEB AND status CHANGED FROM "In Progress" TO "Done" AFTER -7d
ORDER BY updated DESCHistory predicates: WAS, WAS NOT, WAS IN, CHANGED with AFTER, BEFORE, ON, DURING, BY, FROM and TO.
Works with the rest of Orbit
What is next for Orbit
Rules, triggers, schedules, actions, run history and usage limits are built and in final testing.
Signed event subscriptions with retries and a delivery log.
Branches, commits, requests and deployments linked to work items.
The four-step import wizard and the compatibility report.
Pricing
Orbit is on every plan. Automation and service accounts scale with the plan.
Orbit is in private preview. Every new organization will start with a 14-day Business trial, no card required.