A Notion alternative for software teams
Your tracker knows what is being built. It has never once known whether Wednesday has room for it.
Why software teams use Notion
Plenty of small teams run engineering out of Notion because the specs are already there and a database of tasks is a half hour of work.
Where it stops
The database you built is a database. It has no opinion about the week, and keeping it honest becomes somebody’s unpaid job.
The week software teams actually have
The board is honest and the sprint is not, because the sprint was estimated in points and lived in hours nobody counted. Two of those hours went to a review that arrived on Tuesday, three to an incident, and the rest to meetings that were scheduled around nothing in particular. At standup everyone says they are close.
Points are not hours and the sprint knows it
Estimating in points and planning in a tool with no calendar means the commitment is made without ever looking at how much of the week was already gone.
In UnaTask: Put the work on real hours before you commit to it, so the plan fails on Monday when it is cheap rather than on Friday when it is a conversation.
Review time is real and nobody schedules it
Reviews are the work that has no ticket. They arrive, they take an hour, and they are never in the plan, which is why the plan is always wrong by the same amount.
In UnaTask: Link the pull request to the task, see its status and checks on the task, and give the review an actual block instead of hoping.
Half the work belongs to people without a GitHub login
Design, copy, support and the person who has to tell the customer are all on the critical path and none of them are in the tracker.
In UnaTask: One place where engineering work and everything around it sit on the same calendar, without asking anyone to learn a tracker.
The dependency was known and still surprised everybody
Somebody knew the API had to land before the client work started. It was in a thread.
In UnaTask: Dependencies on a timeline, so what is waiting on what is a picture rather than a memory.
On the things software teams asked about
| What it does | Notion | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | Partly | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Partly | Core |
| Pull requests linked to work | Partly | Yes |
| A free plan | Yes | Yes |
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly, Notion is about €570 a year and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. That is €90 a year more at the same size.
Notion: Free plan. €9.50 Plus and €19.50 Business per member per month, with AI credits on top.
Common questions
Why do software teams use Notion?
Plenty of small teams run engineering out of Notion because the specs are already there and a database of tasks is a half hour of work.
Where does Notion stop working for software teams?
The database you built is a database. It has no opinion about the week, and keeping it honest becomes somebody’s unpaid job.
Should we leave Notion?
Not necessarily, and we would rather say so. Keep Notion if the thing you need is a place to write, document and think out loud together. Move if the missing piece is the week itself: hours on a calendar, for everyone, before the work is promised.
Do I have to leave my issue tracker?
No, and we would not suggest it. UnaTask imports GitHub Issues as tasks and links pull requests with their status and an on merge action. Plenty of teams keep the tracker for the record and use UnaTask to plan the week around it.
Does it do sprints and burndown?
No. If burndown and velocity are what you need, a tool built for agile reporting will serve you better and we would rather say so. UnaTask is about when the work happens.
Notion details checked 2 August 2026.