YouTrack

unlike the web app the mobile and iPad app are poorly designed some basic features like showing notifications numbers on the app icon doesn’t work (app notification is on from settings) sine using the web app have no choice other than using it but hopefully will get better

The app has a long way to go to catch up with the awesome work being done on the web version of the service. It is clunky at best and recently throwing an error on opening. Looking forward to having a functional app soon. In the meantime, I’m impressed with the web version and will continue to work there. The mobile app will be uninstalled in the meantime to prevent email notifications attempting to open the app. Thank you for the great YouTrack web application!

I love JetBrains, and YouTrack on web is great, but this app feels like it was designed entirely on a whiteboard. Missing functionality (e.g. no dashboards, overly cumbersome to accomplish basic things like deleting issues) and missed opportunities (e.g. issue list has no swipe, no long-press commands, and no multi-select) make for a frustratingly tedious experience. It has an entire view dedicated to Agile boards with “swimlanes” - at first it seems difficult to drag issues around, but there’s a zoom button that makes this much easier. (There should really be a mini-tutorial for this!) My biggest gripe however is that they didn’t include the backlog, and there’s no obvious way to move issues to the current sprint. Adding multi-select as I mentioned above would remedy this. Every time you change a field, the app pauses while it syncs with the server. As a result, attempting to change a bunch of things in one go feels very tedious and slow. Things like pressing a tiny X to back out makes it that much harder. Linking issues is missing parent-child link creation for some reason. It’s also the kind of thing I’d like to do at the issue-list level, not deep inside an individual issue’s top-right menu. The devs desperately need to use this in a real world project and iterate on the functionality! I apologize if I’m mistaken on this presumption, but it truly feels that way to me right now. I’m also trying this on iPhone 12, not iPad, so it could be that some functionality is hidden here. Even so, I think dashboards are super important on mobile, and should be available on both. TL;DR: It’s not snappy, but you can probably use this app decently as a developer right now, whereas for project management I think it’s completely unusable. I’d be happy to update this review in response to improved functionality. Thanks.