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Backlog - Project Management Software

Backlog Reviews in May 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

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Excellent

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Very Good

(82)

Good

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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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Showing 71-80 out of 256

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Anonymous User

03/16/21

5 out of 5

"Amazing Tool To Contribute"

What do you like best about Backlog? The ease to updating the task and creating new tasks. What do you dislike about Backlog? User experience can be better for stories What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? Software development. Managing the stories and task with different team members

AU

Anonymous User

03/16/21

5 out of 5

"Amazing Tool To Contribute"

What do you like best about Backlog? The ease to updating the task and creating new tasks. What do you dislike about Backlog? User experience can be better for stories What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? Software development. Managing the stories and task with different team members

AU

Anonymous User

03/12/21

4 out of 5

"Backlog Review"

What do you like best about Backlog? Ability to create tasks, enter issues, etc. What do you dislike about Backlog? The free version is rather limiting. I guess that's why they want peeps to upgrade. Recommendations to others considering Backlog: Backlog is a good, free option for small projects and I would highly recommend. What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? Essentially bug and issue tracking. The benefits are that those items are being tracked online.

AU

Anonymous User

03/12/21

3.5 out of 5

"Simple to use, effective product"

What do you like best about Backlog? Easy to get started creating tickets. Easy to assign bugs to users. What do you dislike about Backlog? Perfect for my use for this project. Simple, straightforward. What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? Tracking the development of a software development project.

AU

Anonymous User

03/10/21

4 out of 5

"Great Web Issue Tracking Tool"

What do you like best about Backlog? Create tasks, requests, bugs easily. Assign to appropriate person and then submit. The dashboard lets me know where all my items are in the process or project. Makes management simple and easy. What do you dislike about Backlog? It is confusing to manage status, version, and milestone. What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? Keeping a record of issues, tasks, requests, and assigning them. We have increased the transparency and ...

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AU

Anonymous User

02/23/21

3.5 out of 5

"Backlog is very convenient tool to manager your sprint panning, easy to use."

What do you like best about Backlog? Creating ticket and instant notify to the stack holders. What do you dislike about Backlog? No idea where to define epics-user story What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? easy use sprint planning

AU

Anonymous User

02/16/21

4 out of 5

"Very easy to work with, easy to organise workflows and set assignees to tasks"

What do you like best about Backlog? Has a good plugin integration for Slack which makes it easy to get notifications What do you dislike about Backlog? Lacks some workflow steps which have to be added manually by the company What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? Solving UX issues in our website. We managed to resolve all of the backlog issues and managed to find new ones to fix

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Jeff R

01/29/21

4.5 out of 5

"Tight purpose built tool for maintaining crisp communications"

What do you like best about Backlog? I like that there is no fluff. There is just enough user interface to include all the pertinent details on an issue. Nothing more, nothing less. What do you dislike about Backlog? Biggest issue I've found so far is adjusting the alert preferences to the granularity needed for each team member. Default behavior of being chatty can be turned down, but can go too far for stakeholder's needs. I would also have liked a tight integration with Aha! product ...

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Vincenzo C

01/19/21

4.5 out of 5

"Very good software for tracking my work!"

What do you like best about Backlog? I like the simplicity in Backlog to filter between tasks via the "category" dropdown, it allows me to know immediately what I need to work on that day. What do you dislike about Backlog? I'd like to have some sort of sub-tasks in which I can group multiple micro tasks related, right now I don't have it in backlog and I miss it from the days I was using Wrike. Recommendations to others considering Backlog: To other people considering the use of backlog: ...

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Pierpaolo R

01/19/21

4.5 out of 5

"Backlog is a system very usefull and smart"

What do you like best about Backlog? I'd like the issue system and the Board system What do you dislike about Backlog? In backlog nothing element i dislike because all is perfect What problems is Backlog solving and how is that benefiting you? The issue trackig and the job partition