10 Best Scrum Software Tools & Scrum Boards Of 2023

Monday is a collaborative work OS used by the likes of Hulu, Adobe, GameLoft, BBC Studios, and Universal. The colorful, user-friendly tool hammers home the importance of cooperative work with features like drag-and-drop team scheduling, RAG progress updates, and simple guest access/sharing. The free plan alone boats unlimited boards, 200+ templates, over 20 column types, and unlimited free viewers. It has good iOS and Android apps, as well.

monday.com costs from $6/user/month and comes with a free 14-day trial. They offer a free plan for up to 2 users.

Wrike is a project management software suitable for teams of five or more. It includes Scrum tools and features, and is highly configurable, allowing users to customize workflows, dashboards, reports, and request forms.

Wrike enables users to switch between Agile Kanban boards, one-click Gantt charts, and traditional workload views. The tool also comes with a number of pre-built Agile templates, and features task lists, subtasks, schedules, shared workflows, file sharing, and real-time collaboration. Automatically prioritize your backlog, plan sprints with Gantt charts and Kanban boards, and track your sprint success with reports.

Wrike has an easy-to-use, intuitive interface and navigation with distinct spaces, folders, and tasks. Users can toggle between the home screen and timesheets, dashboards, calendars, reports, and an activity stream. Wrike has a dedicated help center with interactive training, videos, a ‘Getting Started’ guide, and a thriving community.

Wrike offers 400+ pre-built native integrations, including integrations with the most popular file management software from Microsoft, Google, and Dropbox, along with sales and marketing software from Salesforce and Marketo.

Pricing starts at $9.80 per user per month. There are four different price points, including a free version and plans which offer the ability to invite free external collaborators to a paid account.

Jira Scrum board takes this workflow software powerhouse and hones it around team collaboration and incremental delivery starts. A few features scrum masters will find handy are their printable agile user story cards, 25+ agile extensions and filters, and a robust project template manager. Atlassian owns Jira, Confluence, Trello, BitBucket, SourceTree, Bamboo—making it great for enterprises who want everything in a single ecosystem.

Jira costs from $7/month for up to 10 users. They also offer free licensing for groups of 10 users or less.

Zoho Sprints is an agile project management tool that helps Scrum teams organize user stories, manage backlogs, and track progress on Scrum Boards. It’s a simple and clutter-free Scrum software that helps teams to focus on shipping great quality work.

The drag and drop planning builder helps teams plan their upcoming sprints by moving items from their project backlog to their sprint backlog. The project backlog serves as the repository of all user stories, tasks, and bugs. The dedicated planning center equips teams to refine their project backlog with options to filter, sort and search items across default and custom parameters.

The Scrum Board in Zoho Sprints is highly customizable and provides visibility and transparency of everyone’s progress. It is effortless to drag-and-drop stories into completion, create custom statuses and set WIP limits. Teams can sort work items into swimlanes based on priority, story, or estimation points, and track the progress of sprints in an exclusive sprint dashboard.

Zoho Sprints provides real-time reports and insights into the overall progress. The Velocity Chart calculates the amount of work delivered in each sprint and helps teams to plan and estimate future sprints. Meanwhile, Burndown and Burnup charts help teams to track the pace at which they are burning estimation points by comparing the current and ideal progress line.

Communication and collaboration are crucial in every aspect of life, and

they're especially critical when you're working with cross-functional teams. With Zoho Sprints, product teams can collaborate within the context of their work through features like built-in chat, virtual meetings, and an interactive project feed.

Zoho Sprints integrates well with popular code repository management tools like GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket. DevOps teams can also automate their CI/CD pipelines by integrating with developer tools like Jenkins and Azure DevOps. Teams can leverage webhooks and APIs to build their integrations or browse through a growing library of apps listed on Zoho's marketplace.

Zoho Sprints starts at $6/user/month (billed annually). They offer a freemium version for up to 3 users for 3 projects. Zoho Sprints offers a free trial for 15 days (no credit card required).

Hubstaff Tasks is a project management tool with multiple task tracking and collaboration features. Its interface is based on the Scrum methodology; it lets you organize tasks in different project stages, which are represented by columns. Each task can be categorized using color-coded labels. One of its notable features is custom workflows. These let you automate assigning tasks to team members at different project stages and moving them forward with one click.

You can create checklists within each task and track them from the project view using progress bars. Files can also be attached to task cards, but the free plan only allows up to 100 MB of storage per user. Switching to the sprints view displays all your assigned tasks, organized by sprint. You can move tasks to current or future sprints or to the backlog with a drag-and-drop mechanism similar to Kanban.

Hubstaff Tasks integrates with Active Collab, Asana, Breeze, ClickUp, GitHub, GitLab, Insightly, JIRA, LiquidPlanner, Mavenlink, Paymo, PivotalTracker, Podio, Redbooth, Redmine, Teamwork Projects, Trello, Unfuddle, Wrike, Zoho Projects, Slack, Zendesk, Salesforce, QuickBooks, and other apps. You can boost your integration options with a paid plan through Zapier, unlocking hundreds of other possible connections.

Hubstaff Tasks is free for up to 5 users and 10 projects. The premium plan starts at $7/user/month and includes a 14-day free trial.

VivifyScrum is a web-based project management tool that comes with free Scrum training via their VivifySCrum EDU course—just one of the many added benefits that small teams and startups will appreciate. They also have fixed price licensing for SMBs trying to navigate the growing world of monthly workflow app subscriptions. Additionally, teams of all sizes will appreciate their flexible agile boards, burndown charts, and Scrum metrics graphs.

VivifyScrum costs from $96 as a one-time fee for 10 users and offers a 7-day free trial as well as a 30-day refund policy upon purchase.

Targetprocess is a Scrum team management app with tailored solutions for product owners, release train engineers, portfolio managers, and agile coaches. They make sprint retrospectives simple with built-in tools to check team happiness, organize feedback, or just record a high-level summary of a project. Targetprocess has board tags for 'worked well,' 'didn't work well,' and 'improvement ideas', making collaborative retrospectives even easier.

Targetprocess offers customized pricing upon request.

Nutcache is a Scrum project management tool with the ability to measure task progress, set a business value to cards (ROI), assign complexity points to cards, display real-time sprint statistics, and use acceptance tests to set cards as completed. Nutcache has a healthy list of third-party integration options and also works with a paid Zapier plan to unlock thousands more. They also offer a flexible API to connect Nutcache to your existing tools and workflow.

Nutcache costs from $6/user/month with a “Pro” plan that requires 5 users.

SwiftKanban is one of the many X tools that are part of the Digité family and so are very easy to connect with their other solutions, like marketing, machine learning, and QA management. Features include task boards and visual project management, Scrum and Scrumban capabilities, and predictive flow metrics. Engineers will appreciate their SwiftESP tools for robust predictive analytics and risk management solutions.

SwiftKanban costs from $7/user/month but also has a freemium plan for up to 10 users and 4 boards. You can try their paid plans free for 30 days.

Orangescrum is a cloud or self-managed scrum solution with custom status workflows, project templates, Scrum and Kanban boards, and time and resource management tracking. Management professionals can take special advantage of additional features like resource allocation, leave management, recruitment templates, and their free project management e-books. Their product comes with apps for iOS and Android, too.

Orangescrum costs from $9/month for 10 users and they offer a 14-day free trial.