Alternative JIRA Clients

The web isn't the only way you can use JIRA! Alternative interfaces to JIRA instances through the SOAP/XML-RPC web services.

• ALM Works JIRA Client — JIRA Client speeds up issue tracking with interactive user interface and advanced searching, and also makes it possible to work with issues offline. The new version includes screenshot capture & edit tool, improved synchronization and more.
• Atlassian JIRA Klip — A Klipfolio Klip designed to monitor a JIRA filter in a Dashboard format.
• Crispy — Crispy = Communication per Remote Invocation for different kinds of Services via ProxYs
• cubeon — Cube°n makes tasks a first class part of NetBeans by integrating with issue tracking systems.
• IDEA JIRA Issue Browser — IntelliJ IDEA plugin for JIRA
• IssueCreator — A Java application which allows rapid entry of issues.
  • AJAX Issue Creator
• Ji-QA - JIRA Quick Access — Ji-QA is a application in the Windows System tray. It enables you to comfotably view all your issues in a context-menu, when you right-click on the system-tray icon. It offers you access to all your saved filters.  The tool looks for new issues on the server after a user specified period of time. If there are new issues on the server, the user will be informed via a little notification on the screen.
• Jira CLI — This CLI for Jira has a wide number of features (read issues, update, create, run reports etc) and some extensions (run a service, setting time estimates). It is written in Python and uses the SOAP interface to Jira.
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• Jira CLI for Powershell — Powershell functions for interfacing with Jira
• Jira CLI for Powershell — This script provides several functions in Powershell for interfacing with Jira.
• JIRA Dashboard for Eclipse
• Jira-firefox — Add Jira as a search site in the Search Bar in the upper-right corner of Firefox
• JIRA Indicator — The JIRA indicator is a system tray application for Windows and Linux that monitors your JIRA account and alerts you when you have new issues to attend to.
• Jira Instant Messenger Interface (JIMI) — This Jira service registers a 'bot' account with potentially multiple Instant Messenger (IM) servers (eg XMPP, Yahoo, Skype, Msn) and enables users to connect to Jira via IM and currently allows them to monitor system status through a command line as well as navigate a virtual file system to see projects, and soon Issues - in its current state it's usable with XMPP
  • JIMI Configuration
  • JIMI Installation
  • JIMI Usage
• JIRA Maven2 SOAP Library — This provides provides a Maven 2 project wrapper around the JIRA SOAP library allowing quick access to SOAP without the headaches of compiling WSDL and managing dependencies of the resultant code in order to use such compiled code.  It uses Apache AXIS to generate the code.
• Kosmos — JSR-168 compliant portlet for JIRA.
• Mazio
• Mylyn — Mylyn is a task focused UI for Eclipse that makes working with very large workspaces as easy as working with small ones. It supports task management and monitors your work activity to identify information relevant to the task-at-hand. Mylyn uses this task context to focus the Eclipse UI on the interesting information, hide the uninteresting, and automatically find what's related. This puts the information you need to get work done at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation.
• NetBeans JIRA Plugin — Plugin for NetBeans IDE. Developers using the NetBeans IDE can search and modify JIRA issues straight from the IDE.
• Tasktop — Tasktop is a supported product built on Eclipse Mylyn that provides one-click installation of the Mylyn-JIRA connector. Tasktop automatically tracks the code, files and web pages you access while working on a JIRA issue so you can restore them with a mouse click. Tasktop's time tracking capabilities help you fill your timesheets using accurate reports of how much time you spent on each JIRA issue.
• TextMate Bundle for Mac OS X — Plain-text interface to JIRA.
• Yahoo! JIRA widget — The Yahoo! JIRA Widget that enables you to keep track of issues from your very own desktop!
• Zephyr Test Management System — Zephyr is a comprehensive Test Management System with full 2-way integration with JIRA. It features live testing dashboards that display real time metrics about your JIRA issues along side your test creation and execution status for a comprehensive "single pane of glass" view.

• JITE Jite is a web application working as a test management tool deeply integrated with Jira.

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