Backlog vs. Sourcetree

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Backlog
Score 8.7 out of 10
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Backlog is a project management and bug tracking tool for teams that want higher productivity, greater visibility, and simple project tracking. Development teams can work together with Design, Marketing, IT, and more. Backlog is designed to get everyone on track by organizing work, teammates, projects and tasks. The activity feed and watchlist are designed to help users keep an eye on relevant work and deadlines. Gantt charts and burndown charts are designed to help users visualize project…N/A
Sourcetree
Score 7.5 out of 10
N/A
Sourcetree, by Atlassian, is a free version control client for Mac and Windows that works with Git and Mercurial repositories. It's distributed version control allows developers to visualize code, review changesets, stash, cherry-pick between branches or commit with a single click.
$0
per month
Pricing
BacklogSourcetree
Editions & Modules
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
BacklogSourcetree
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
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Project Management
Comparison of Project Management features of Product A and Product B
Backlog
7.0
3 Ratings
10% below category average
Sourcetree
-
Ratings
Task Management10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Gantt Charts7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Scheduling10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Team Collaboration10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Support for Waterfall Methodology5.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Document Management10.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Email integration3.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Mobile Access1.03 Ratings00 Ratings
Version Control Software Features
Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of Product A and Product B
Backlog
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Ratings
Sourcetree
8.5
3 Ratings
2% below category average
Branching and Merging00 Ratings8.43 Ratings
Version History00 Ratings10.03 Ratings
Version Control Collaboration Tools00 Ratings9.12 Ratings
Pull Requests00 Ratings8.63 Ratings
Code Review Tools00 Ratings7.43 Ratings
Project Access Control00 Ratings9.02 Ratings
Automated Testing Integration00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
Issue Tracking Integration00 Ratings6.92 Ratings
Branch Protection00 Ratings7.82 Ratings
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User Ratings
BacklogSourcetree
Likelihood to Recommend
9.0
(3 ratings)
8.5
(8 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(1 ratings)
7.3
(3 ratings)
Support Rating
8.0
(1 ratings)
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(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
BacklogSourcetree
Likelihood to Recommend
Nulab, Inc.
ticket management
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Atlassian
Sourcetree is a great tool for any Git user. Whether you're well versed using Git commands in the terminal or a newbie, this tool wonderfully supplements your workflow. A quick glance at the UI and you know where your project stands. I find it most helpful when I need to determine what changed in a particular file in past commits. Having a visual graph of branches helps me to understand the big picture. Even though I'm comfortable operating Git most often in the command line, I always have Sourcetree open to check my work and see where my colleagues are.
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Pros
Nulab, Inc.
  • Backlog is one of the best management and collaboration tools available in the market for better managing of resources at the workplace.
  • I have been using this platform for a very long time and it has been helping me a lot to manage the business processes, manage employees, managing leads on different projects, and coordinating with colleagues.
  • It has been helping me a lot to check the issue in the project completion.
  • It gives me real-time status on the project/gives right insights of the system.
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Atlassian
  • Merge Changes - helping you handle merge conflicts.
  • Comparing branches.
  • Visually showing various paths that existing branches are following.
  • It is easy to import already downloaded repositories.
  • And it integrates with Bitbucket (web), where I can click a menu in Bitbucket and have it download and import the repo to my local environment.
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Cons
Nulab, Inc.
  • Price is very high for small teams and department of short term contracts.
  • GUI can be more intuitive.
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Atlassian
  • As an Atlassian product i'd have expected smart integrations/features with their other developer products like Jira or BitBucket, but this is not the case. It can sometimes pick up on Jira ticket IDs and show them as a label or as a unique piece of work to follow. But there's no actual integration to Jira and is just simple pattern matching.
  • For the majority of developers it's just overwhelming and overkill. There's a plethora of metadata, supporting information, and many many actions/tools to help perform complex git actions. This is great if you're managing complex repos or need to perform an audit, but to the average user it's just not a user friendly experience due to how bloated it can feel.
  • Very simple git actions such as 'git pull' have been massively overcomplicated. When pressing the pull button you get a popup with multiple dropdowns, checkboxes and settings on how you want to pull and the followup actions to run after the pull, both on the remote repo and local repo. It's just unnecessary and adding complexity where it's not needed.
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Usability
Nulab, Inc.
nice to use in the night as well
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Atlassian
It is one of the best Git GUIs out there, I have worked with multiple GUIs and this provides more insights and features compared to others, the Tree view and History helps keeping track and reverting commits, With help of different UI elements it helps the new developers to learn git using standards as well.
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Support Rating
Nulab, Inc.
I would give 9 but one less because of the high price.
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Atlassian
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Alternatives Considered
Nulab, Inc.
Backlog has all of the top-notch features to increase productivity, visibility, and project tracking. Backlog is easy to use. I first just logged in to the platform and it was [ready] to go. I easily started working on it and it started giving me the bugs’ details on our project. Always available for queries. Listen to the queries very attentively and try to give a solution on the go if applicable. Otherwise, take some time and respond with the advanced workable solution in the limited time frame.
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Atlassian
Sourcetree allows seamless integration across all widely used GIT services and is cross-platform compatible. This client is capable of managing workflows of any difficulty and its cross-compatibility eliminates the need to use different or multiple GIT clients altogether.
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Return on Investment
Nulab, Inc.
  • SLA should be given by single candle
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Atlassian
  • Makes using Git more pleasurable increasing developer happiness.
  • Visual display of branches and commits with their diff helps me find problems quickly.
  • Complex Git commands are only a click away using Sourcetree.
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Projects home pageScreenshot of Gantt chartScreenshot of GitScreenshot of commenting in issuesScreenshot of subtasking