airfocus vs. Jira Align
Thousands of product teams chose airfocus over Jira Align as their dedicated product management platform to focus on product strategy, discovery, and outcomes.
Trusted by leading product teams
Why choose airfocus over Jira Align?
Product strategy, discovery, and outcome-focused platform
While Jira Align focuses heavily on portfolio management, airfocus is a dedicated product management platform that helps teams navigate through the challenging parts of product management and stay customer-centric.
Product management
made easy
There's no time for feature-bloated tools. The airfocus UI is intuitive and you are not distracted by features you don't need, accelerating your entire team's adoption rate.
A flexible platform that
adapts to you
While Jira Align imposes a rigid way of working for teams of every level, airfocus empowers each of your teams to build custom PM workflows that fit their needs.
airfocus consistently ranks as an industry
leader. But don't take our word for it.
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8.5
Ease of setup
8.5
Ease of use
9.2
Quality of support
9.2
Product direction
"With airfocus, we built a unified setup for 32 products and over 300 services in just 12 months (instead of 2-3 years). The power of the tool helped us navigate this complex transformation by providing constant clarity around our product vision & strategy."
Craig Unsworth CPO - Papirfly
How airfocus and Jira Align compare
airfocus
Jira Align
Outcome-focused product management platform built for product leaders, product managers, and the broader product team
Output-focused enterprise agile planning solution built for upper-level management and stakeholders
Manage OKRs directly from within your PM platform and implement any objective frameworks
Connect objectives & goals directly to roadmaps and track progress across teams with check-ins
High usability and ease of adoption
Flexibility to adapt to different ways of working
Include only the things you need: custom fields, custom views, and apps that solve PM-specific problems
Establish unique work environments for each of your teams with multiple modular workspaces
Centralize and organize feedback from all your channels and generate actionable insights
Create and customize your own feedback forms and portals
Product strategy, discovery, and outcome focus with built-in discovery workflows, PM best practices, and pre-defined workspace templates
Standardize prioritization with custom scoring frameworks
Prioritize on every level to meet your objectives instead of just prioritizing features
Gather stakeholders to reach consensus on product priorities with Priority Poker
Hosted in secure EU data centers
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Manage all your product work in one place
Create and customize your own product workflows with airfocus apps
Priority Poker
Effectively run negotiation meetings by playing a round of Priority Poker with your stakeholders to reach consensus on product priorities.
Item Mirror
Align all your autonomous teams by mirroring items from multiple workspaces into a consolidated portfolio view.
Insights
Discover insights by linking items from your feedback workspace directly to items in other workspaces.
Objectives & OKRs
Manage your objectives and key results (OKRs) and connect them to your roadmaps and workflows.
Forms
Open up your product processes and bring in feedback, ideas, or any valuable information for your product work with customizable forms.
Portal
Involve your community on a customer-facing branded portal to source feedback and ideas.
Voting
Quickly determine an item's demand by collecting votes & reactions from your audience.
Capacity Planning
Plan, allocate, and adapt with ease - a capacity planning tool allowing you to prioritize work and align resources in real time.
Check-Ins
Provide high-level updates to your stakeholders, assigning confidence values and detailed check-ins to product items.
Visualize your product data in various ways
Integrate with your favourite tools
Sync with the tools you love and keep your cross-functional teams aligned. Jira, Trello, Shortcut, Intercom, Azure DevOps, Asana, Shortcut, and more.
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Get started in minutes with customizable templates
Discover the different templates we have, then make it your own. The templates completely adjustable and built on proven product management and roadmapping methods.
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Outcome-based roadmap
Manage the what and the why with this now-next-later roadmap.
Technology roadmap
Plan tech initiatives and prioritize them against value and cost drivers.
Objective-led roadmap
Align your team around objectives using the now-next-later format.
Why product teams love airfocus
See why airfocus beats other PM platforms every time
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