Every team eventually has the same conversation. The tool you track work in has grown heavier than the work itself: ten tabs to move one ticket, a pricing page that needs a spreadsheet to understand, and a "simple" kanban board buried under configuration screens. So you search for a Jira alternative, find fifty of them, and discover most are either toys that collapse at real scale or enterprise suites that recreate the exact problem you were escaping.
your.team was built as the third option: a free, keyboard-first task manager that covers the whole delivery loop — plan it, build it, meet about it, measure it, and track the time that went into it — in one surface. No plugin marketplace required to make it usable. No per-feature upsell maze. Here's what's actually inside.
Kanban boards that are the workflow, not a picture of it
The heart of the platform is the kanban board — drag-and-drop columns mapped to your real workflow statuses, so moving a card is a real transition with rules and notifications behind it, not just a sticker changing lanes. Swimlanes group the board by assignee, epic or priority. WIP limits are enforced per column, so "everything is in progress" stops being your default state. Quick filters slice a busy board in one click.
And because it's keyboard-first, the board moves at typing speed: create with c, jump to boards with g b, transition a card without touching the mouse. If you've ever waited for a heavyweight tracker to load a modal inside a modal, this is the difference you feel in the first five minutes.
A real task manager underneath — issues, sprints, automation
A board is only as good as the tracker under it. Issues & Boards gives you every issue type you'd expect — Bug, Task, Story, Epic, Subtask — each with rich text, attachments, watchers, linked issues and a full activity log. Dependencies like blocks and is-blocked-by are visible at a glance, so the surprise "oh, that was waiting on me?" moment happens on the board, not in the retro.
Running iterations? Sprints handles planning, velocity tracking and end-of-cycle reports, and moving work into a sprint is a single keystroke. Automation takes the rituals off your plate — trigger-based rules, custom statuses, validators and post-functions, so "when a bug closes, assign the reporter to verify" happens without anyone remembering to do it. And Reports renders burndown, velocity and cumulative flow on clean, monochrome dashboards built to be read, not decorated.
This is the part most "lightweight Jira alternatives" skip. Boards without a real issue model underneath stop working the month your team doubles.
Real-time screen monitoring — done the ethical way
Here's the module you won't find in Jira at all: ETracking, a privacy-first employee time and real-time screen monitoring system with a desktop agent for Windows, Mac and Linux.
The design principle is simple: tracking follows the work, not the person. The agent records presence and captures periodic screenshots only while a task timer is actively running — start the timer, tracking starts; stop it, tracking stops. It's opt-in, visibility is admin-only, and every tracked minute lands on the task it belongs to, feeding the same reports as everything else. For distributed teams that bill hours or simply want honest visibility into where the week went, this closes the loop between "what we planned" and "what actually happened" — without turning the workplace into surveillance theatre. (We've written before about tracking employees without losing their trust — the tooling should make the ethical version the easy version.)
The rest of the loop: meetings, files, filters, AI
A few more modules that usually cost extra elsewhere:
- Meetings — start a video call from any issue, board or project, with the context traveling into the call. Unlimited on every plan, including Free.
- Files — attachments on every issue and comment, permission-aware, with per-user storage.
- Filters — one-click quick filters or full Query Search; save and share queries across the workspace, unlimited on every plan.
- AI Assistant — ask in plain English and get the right issues back, draft descriptions, summarize long threads, catch duplicates. Built in, not a paid add-on.
- Notifications — real-time alerts, threaded comments and @mentions that stay on the issue, with per-project rules.
Workspaces, projects, roles and permissions hold it all together under Project Management, and a token-authenticated REST API with signed webhooks (Integrations) connects it to the rest of your stack.
What "free" actually means here
"Free" on most pricing pages means a trial with a countdown. On your.team's pricing, Free is a plan: a workspace with five users, unlimited issues, unlimited meetings and unlimited filters, AI assistance included, no credit card required. Small teams can genuinely run on it — it's not a demo of the product, it is the product at small scale.
When you outgrow it, the paid plans stay deliberately boring: Pro at $1.99 per user per month for unlimited workspaces, projects and users; Business at $2.99 for ETracking, full automation and integrations. That's not a typo — it's roughly the price of a coffee, per person, per month, for the whole delivery loop. Compare that with stacking a tracker, a video tool, a time-tracking agent and an automation platform separately, and the math stops being a decision at all.
Switching is the easy part
If you're coming from Jira, the concepts map one-to-one — issues, boards, sprints, workflows — minus the administration overhead. A one-click Jira migration is coming soon: projects, issues, comments, attachments, sprints and history, with original keys preserved where possible. And teams that migrate their data from Jira get 50% off every your.team service for their first six months — switching should pay off, not just pay out.
The honest pitch is this: if your team lives in a board, wants a task manager that keeps up with the keyboard, and needs time and screen tracking that respects the people being tracked — you can have all of it in one tool, starting free, today. Create a workspace at app.your.team/signup — it takes seconds, no card required — and drag your first card across a board that finally gets out of the way.
