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ActivityTimeline and Tempo Planner Comparison

Both Jira plugins, ActivityTimeline and Tempo Planner, justly earned a great reputation as resource management platforms and they stand out from dozens of resource planning tools. They're quite alike, but functionality differs significantly and very often some seemingly minor things influence the choice of the potential customer.

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Nataliya Vasyliv
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ActivityTimeline and Tempo Planner Comparison
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September 21, 2022
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Both Jira plugins, ActivityTimeline and Tempo Planner, justly earned a great reputation as resource management platforms and they stand out from dozens of resource planning tools. They're quite alike, but functionality differs significantly and very often some seemingly minor things influence the choice of the potential customer.

Comparison Table: ActivityTimeline vs Tempo Planner

ActivityTimeline Tempo Planner
Core Objectives Resource Planning, Capacity Planning & Time Tracking (for both in-office and remote teams); Timesheets Resource Allocation; Workload & Availability Reporting Resource Management & Capacity Management; Reporting
Key Activities Get a clear view of your resources across multiple teams and projects; Create/plan/assign Jira tasks and projects; Set estimates and priorities; Manage teams and teams’ workload; Create reports, approve logged hours, plan minor tasks and major events Assign Jira tasks; Set estimates; Manage teams and teams’ workload; Manage reports, create customers’ profiles and link info

Modules

Planning Dashboard
Personal Workspace
Timesheets 🚫 Available only with additional plugin Tempo Timesheets
Reports ✅ Planned vs Actual, Worklog/ Workload Reports etc.)

Resource Planning

Workload management
Availability Tracking
Skills (Ability to create and manage custom skills directly from the app) 🚫
Split task across multiple users 🚫
Vacation / Holiday schemes
Custom Events (Overtimes, partial or full time day-offs, placeholders, meetings, bookings) 🚫
User roles (positions)
Bulk actions (schedule, reschedule, assign and unassign) 🚫
Milestones 🚫
Creation of Jira tasks/projects directly from the app 🚫 Only already existing Jira tasks; possibility to create internal ones
Integration with External Calendars ✅ Google, Outlook, Apple, Tempo ✅ Google and Outlook
User Permissions
Jira Custom Fields

Platforms

Works with Jira Software, Jira Core, Service Desk Jira Software, Jira Core, Service Desk
Server/DC
Cloud

Other Characteristics

Free Trial Yes Yes
Price for Cloud (per user/month) 2.5$ 1.75$
Price for Server (per 25 users/year) 690$ 600$
User Rating on Atlassian Marketplace 3.9/4 2.5/4

ActivityTimeline is a flexible and customizable resource planning solution and you can configure it to many use cases in real-time planning. Custom events, user skills, drag-n-drop, timesheets and time tracking, resource scheduling, and many more features and workforce operations make any planning activities pleasant and efficient.

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