Clockwise vs Jira: which one fits your team?
These two barely overlap. One arranges hours on a calendar, the other is the record of what your engineers are shipping. Teams that use both are not confused, they are covering two different needs.
It turns on nothing, really. If you are weighing these against each other you are probably looking for a single tool that does both.
Pick Clockwise if
nothing any more, because it closed on 27 March 2026 after the team joined Salesforce. Where it stops: it is no longer available, so this is a landing spot rather than a comparison.
Pick Jira if
more than a handful of engineers ship on it and you need reporting that satisfies an audit. Where it stops: it needs somebody to administer it, and it is not a daily plan.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Clockwise does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, Jira is about $480 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Clockwise: No longer offered. Clockwise shut down on 27 March 2026. Jira: Free up to 10 users. Roughly $8 Standard and $15 Premium per user per month on annual billing.
Where they part company
Jira does more on 11 of them
- being the place the tasks actually live
- dependencies and a timeline
- portfolio and agile reporting
- rules that fire on their own
- showing who has room
- linking pull requests to the work
- having a free plan
- two way calendar sync
- turning email and chat into tasks
- docs and a wiki inside
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
Side by side
| What it does | Clockwise | Jira | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Gone | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Gone | No | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Gone | Partly | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | No. It was a calendar optimiser, never a task manager. | Core | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No | Core | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Gone | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | Gone | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | No | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | Yes | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | No | Partly. Confluence does this, and it is a separate product with its own bill. | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Gone | Core | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Gone | Core | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | No | Partly | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Gone | No. It usually wants a dedicated admin before it fits your team. | Core |
| A free plan | Gone | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 5: time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, booking links, turning meetings into tasks and being useful before you configure it.
And where UnaTask sits
That single tool is roughly what UnaTask is aiming at: real time blocks on a calendar, with pull requests linked to the tasks they close.
It does more than both of them on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, two way calendar sync, showing who has room, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and being useful before you configure it.
Common questions
Clockwise vs Jira: which should I pick?
Pick Clockwise if nothing any more, because it closed on 27 March 2026 after the team joined Salesforce. Pick Jira if more than a handful of engineers ship on it and you need reporting that satisfies an audit.
What is the biggest difference between Clockwise and Jira?
The clearest gap is being the place the tasks actually live, where Jira does more than Clockwise. Underneath that, Clockwise is software that arranges your calendar for you and defends what it put there, and Jira is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Clockwise or Jira cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Clockwise does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, Jira is about $480 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Clockwise and Jira have in common?
They answer the same on 5 of our 16 axes, among them time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and booking links. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Clockwise and Jira?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and two way calendar sync. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked June 2026 and 2 August 2026.