FreshBooks vs Jira
Side-by-side comparison of features, pricing, ratings, and alternatives.
FreshBooks is accounting software designed around invoicing, time tracking, and expenses for freelancers and small service-based businesses. It emphasizes ease of use over accounting complexity.
Jira is a proprietary issue tracking product developed by Atlassian that allows bug tracking and agile project management.
Plans from about $19/month.
Free for up to 10 users; paid plans from about $7.75/user/month.
- Very easy to use
- Great invoicing experience
- Good for freelancers
- Nice mobile app
- Powerful and configurable
- Strong agile support
- Scales to enterprise
- Big ecosystem
- Less full-featured accounting
- Per-client pricing can add up
- Not ideal for inventory-heavy businesses
- Can be complex/heavy
- Configuration overhead
- Overkill for tiny teams
What reviewers say
FreshBooks Reviews
4.0 (4)Great accounting
We rolled out FreshBooks last quarter. Good for freelancers. Minor gripe: not ideal for inventory-heavy businesses. Would recommend.
Solid choice
Been using FreshBooks for a while. Nice mobile app. Minor gripe: not ideal for inventory-heavy businesses. Would recommend.
Recommend FreshBooks
We rolled out FreshBooks last quarter. Very easy to use. No real complaints. Would recommend.
Jira Reviews
4.5 (4)Solid choice
Tried Jira recently. Big ecosystem. No real complaints. Would recommend.
Recommend Jira
We rolled out Jira last quarter. Strong agile support. No real complaints. Would recommend.
Decent with caveats
We rolled out Jira last quarter. Upside: scales to enterprise. Downside: configuration overhead.
