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Backlog - Project Management Software

Backlog Reviews in April 2025: User Ratings, Pros & Cons

Efficient team management made simple.

4.3

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Backlog Reviews & Ratings

4.3

Very Good

Based on 164 ratings & 256 reviews

Rating Distribution

Excellent

(168)

Very Good

(82)

Good

(6)

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Expert's Review

Backlog has earned a positive reputation as an intuitive and effective project management and collaboration tool, particularly for small to mid-sized teams. Its standout features include simplicity in navigation, strong user experience, and a robust suite of tools for task management, bug tracking, and team collaboration. The integrated Gantt charts and Kanban ...Read more

Backlog pros and cons

  • User-friendly interface and simplicity, making it easy for teams of all sizes to use and adopt quickly with minimal training.

  • Efficient task management capabilities including assigning, tracking, and prioritizing tasks to ensure better workflow and productivity.

  • Flexible customization options such as custom fields, templates, themes, and seamless API integrations for enhanced project management.

  • Effective tools for bug tracking, issue reporting, and collaboration within teams and with clients, streamlining communication and documentation.

  • Limited advanced functionality such as the inability to set up multi-level parent-child task relationships or track time for subtasks.

  • Reports and analytics are basic, lacking extensive customization or detailed summaries compared to other tools.

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M Aleem J

08/04/22

5 out of 5

"Its very simple and easy . its features includes reporting are very good ."

What do you like best about Backlog? Bug reporting and creating tasks. it's very easy no complexity like jira. This application has multiple features including bug tracking tasks creation reports integration. What do you dislike about Backlog? Sometimes it goes down and it won't respond once between my work it stops working. it happend to me in the mid of the project it goes down and i was not able to send report. Recommendations to others considering Backlog: yes, would recommend this to ...

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Anonymous User

04/21/22

5 out of 5

"Fast and Easy"

What do you like best about Backlog? Very easy to set up for a small shop. API is also really usable. Inexpensive at the lower levels. What do you dislike about Backlog? Starts to get expensive as you need more users. The UI can be just a little confusing at first. Recommendations to others considering Backlog: If you're a small shop than Backlog is worth a look. What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? As a small shop we often communicate with clients by email. This ...

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Ashley L

03/01/22

4.5 out of 5

"Perfect UX/UI."

What do you like best about Backlog? Perfect UX/UI. Excellent for managing products, tasks and projects. It is ideal to work with flexible Gantt charts and boards. Its connection to Slack to track updates in real time is seamless. What do you dislike about Backlog? There is no negative, I really like working with backlog. What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? Ideal for tracking each of my projects.

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Anonymous User

02/20/22

4 out of 5

"Great product for the value"

What do you like best about Backlog? As a small organization, cost was a major factor in our choice to use backlog. There are more feature-rich solutions out there, but those solutions cost 5 to 10 times more. With that said, the simplicity of backlog has it's advantages, including that it's easy to transition people who aren't familiar with product management software because there aren't loads of options and the software doesn't require extensive training. It's also generally easy to ...

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Anonymous User

02/11/22

5 out of 5

"Best free ticketing portal out there!"

What do you like best about Backlog? The free version has all of the tools available that a ticketing portal could offer. It's very user friendly and greatly assists with maintaining organization and deadlines. What do you dislike about Backlog? The free version limits some capabilities such as storage capacity but there are many ways to avoid uploading files directly to Backlog What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? Assigning tasks with the appropriate parameters ...

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Harold

11/03/21

4 out of 5

An analysis of Backlog by Droisys

PROS: Tickets, status and team assignments are effortless to manage. Can monitor all tickets' progress even on emails conveniently. Team members could also work together in project planning and access their assigned tasks. The chart is also a nice choice to feature. It helps us to have a quick overview of the status, achievements or category for all the tickets in a single screen showing the number of open and closed tasks. Backlog's most significant functionality is the Notification that ...

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Jay K

10/20/21

5 out of 5

"Backlog is the Jack-of-all-trades in project and product management,bugs and issues tracking."

What do you like best about Backlog? This tool helps me to complete project backlogs quickly. I like that I can organize,create and assign tasks and projects to teams with this tool. Enhance ease of tasks prioritization. It's simple to track and monitor progress of projects with Backlog. This helps me to track bugs and issues and also solve them effectively. What do you dislike about Backlog? The performance of Backlog in managing projects is delighting and I lack any shortcomings to ...

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Erica

10/08/21

4 out of 5

A great digital project management platform

PROS: I've got all the help I need with the Gantt chart and reports in maintaining the documents relevant to the project. Also, the development setting is spectacular. The tasks are specified and systematically accountable. The projects are also tracked in real time. The final output concentration has enabled the creation of time-optimized techniques that would always aim to adopt activities that increases my company's return on investment. CONS: The tech support is sluggish and doing the ...

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Janani N

09/01/21

4.5 out of 5

"An excellent online project management software"

What do you like best about Backlog? In this pandemic era, everyone is moving forward to remote working and working from home. First of all, the best option is to select an online project management tool accessible to everyone quickly. Additionally, Backlog has the most attractive and prominent features in its user interface, which will make life easier for all the developers and project managers. The best part I see in this software is that flexible and highly responsive Gantt charts and ...

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Gavin

08/01/21

4 out of 5

Backlog has powerful application development monitoring functionality

PROS: What I really enjoy about this program is that I can import data from Jira. Backlog has a number of important functions that are really helpful for my job such as the ability to duplicate a database and view its source code; can create multiple contributors and can accept their adjustments and enhancements. It's my key app now. CONS: Backlog is a massive aid for us in correcting mistakes to our applications. I have nothing to complain about it except that the design could do better ...

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