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24 alternatives to Bee for MacOS

Stunning Native Interface to JIRA, GitHub and Manuscript

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Bee for MacOS launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Gitscout▲311
A beautiful Github Issues experience for macOS
2016 · its alternatives →
2
Linear▲766
Streamlined issue tracking for software teams
2020 · linear.app · its alternatives →
3
Spinach.io for Jira teams▲283
Daily standup that runs itself
2023 · its alternatives →
4S2
Ship 2.0 – A macOS Native Interface to GitHub Issues▲233
2017 · realartists.com · its alternatives →
5
GitHub for mobile▲468
The world’s development platform, in your pocket
2019 · its alternatives →
6TO
Tegon: Open-source alternative to Jira, Linear▲163
Hi HN, we're Harshith, Manoj and Manik and we're building Tegon (https://github.com/tegonhq/tegon), open-source issue tracking software that uses AI to smartly automate manual workflows or provide more context to engineers for a given task. There's a demo video here: https://www.loom.com/share/b664b01e9b064a02be5791c12b77a107, and you can try out the product at https://demo.tegon.ai using these credentials: Email: [email protected] Password: XfFNw6GwVJVQv6PA As engineers, our experience with traditional tools like Jira hasn't been great. It is…
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
7
Anaxi iPhone - For Jira▲78
Get on top of your software projects
2018 · its alternatives →
8
Board For GitHub▲293
A webview based GitHub project app with native features
2017 · its alternatives →
9
JiraGPT▲101
Search Jira issues using natural language, right from Slack
2023 · its alternatives →
10
Sonar▲133
A native Mac app for GitHub and GitLab issues
2024 · its alternatives →
11
GitUp▲275
The Git interface you've been missing all your life
2015 · its alternatives →
12
Issue TODO (chrome extension)▲70
Copy issues as TODO comments to paste in your code.
2018 · its alternatives →
13KG
Keep – GitHub Actions for your monitoring tools▲181
Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
14
Ship▲96
Fast, native issue tracking for software projects
2016 · its alternatives →
15
Frankly▲101
A dashboard of issues and PRs across GitHub repositories.
2016 · its alternatives →
16
Cashew▲90
A simple Github issues macOS client
2016 · its alternatives →
17
Trailer▲76
Accelerate your GitHub workflow
2018 · its alternatives →
18
GitHub for Mac▲130
The easiest way to use GitHub on Mac (new update)
2014 · its alternatives →
19
Snapshot▲58
Seamless visual feedback & bug reporting for Jira
2022 · its alternatives →
20WI
Watson – inline issue manager with GitHub support▲156
2013 · goosecode.com · its alternatives →
21
GitBoard▲97
Menubar mac app for Github Projects
Feb 2026 · yogesh.co · its alternatives →
22
Anaxi - GitHub & Jira Feeds▲14
Track project events 2x faster with personalized feeds
2019 · its alternatives →
23
GitBar▲126
Every pull request, one menubar. GitHub, GitLab & Azure
Apr 2026 · gitbar.app · its alternatives →
24
Bugbot▲130
Use GitHub Issues in Slack
2015 · its alternatives →

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