Honest comparison
A modern home for teams migrating off the retired Tracker.
Stride for teams migrating from Pivotal Tracker. Broadcom shut it down. Land somewhere that's also good.
VMware's Tanzu division, part of Broadcom since its VMware acquisition, shut Pivotal Tracker down on April 30, 2025. Stride is the AI-native modern alternative: story points, automated velocity, and custom workflow stages that can mirror Tracker's states, plus PRDs, ADRs, QA, and AI-generated artifacts the Tracker era never reached.
Quick answers
Where Stride wins
- Tracker's story workflow (started / finished / delivered / accepted) can be recreated as custom workflow stages in each project, so teams who lived in Tracker keep their states.
- Automated velocity calculation Tracker pioneered is built-in to Stride sprint planning, plus AI-suggested story sizing the Tracker era never had.
- CSV migration path: export from Tracker (still possible if you saved the archive) → CSV import to Stride with column mapping. Story points, owners, and labels map through the wizard; accept/reject states map onto Stride statuses in the value-mapping step.
- Beyond Tracker's feature set: PRDs, ADRs, test management, defect prediction, AI on delivery artifacts. Tracker was tracker-only by design.
Where Pivotal Tracker wins
- Tracker exports aren't auto-detected like the majors: expect an hour of column mapping and value cleanup per project in the import wizard.
- Tracker's "icebox" → "current" → "backlog" → "done" panel design is opinionated. Stride uses a more conventional backlog + sprint layout that some Tracker veterans find less elegant.
- Tracker's API was unusually clean. Stride's API is comprehensive but newer; integrations that depended on a specific Tracker endpoint may need adaptation.
Feature comparison
| Feature | Stride | Pivotal Tracker |
|---|---|---|
Story workflow (started / finished / delivered / accepted) | Retired April 2025 | |
Automated velocity | Retired | |
AI-written acceptance criteria | Retired | |
ADRs + architecture module Tracker was tracker-only. | ||
Test case + defect management | ||
Currently accepting new accounts Tracker shut down on April 30, 2025. |
Tracker's prices no longer matter: it shut down on April 30, 2025, and its site no longer resolves. Stride Starter is $15 a seat a month ($12 billed yearly) and Pro $39 ($32 yearly), and both include the QA, architecture and AI surface Tracker never had.
Pivotal Tracker alternatives: how Linear, Shortcut, Jira and GitHub Projects compare
The trackers teams weigh as a replacement for Pivotal Tracker, each in a line: what it is, how it is priced and how it differs from Tracker.
| Tool | What it is | Pricing | Compared with Pivotal Tracker |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linear | Planning and issue tracking for product teams, built for working with AI agents. | Free (unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues); Basic $10 and Business $16 per user a month, billed yearly; Enterprise by quote. | Cycles take the place of Tracker's iterations, in a fast, keyboard-driven tracker that is still being developed. |
| Shortcut | Project management for software teams and their AI agents: stories, epics, iterations, roadmaps and docs. | Free for up to 10 users; Team $8.50 and Business $12 per user a month, billed yearly ($10 and $16 monthly). | The closest to Tracker's model of stories, epics and iterations. |
| Jira | Atlassian's configurable issue and project tracking, with Scrum and Kanban boards. | Free for up to 10 users; Standard $9.70 and Premium $19.60 per user a month for up to 100 users, billed monthly. | Far more configurable than Tracker was, and heavier to set up and run. |
| GitHub Projects | A table, board and roadmap that works with GitHub issues and pull requests. | Included in every GitHub plan, including Free. | Free and next to the code; iterations and estimates are fields you add rather than a built-in velocity model. |
Checked on each vendor’s own site on 2026-10-25.
Frequently asked
I still have a Tracker archive. Can I import?
Yes, via CSV, if your archive includes Tracker's CSV export. Stride's import wizard maps its columns: story points, owners, labels and state come across, with a value-mapping step for Tracker's states. Tracker exports aren't auto-detected, so expect some manual mapping per project.
Does Stride preserve the started → finished → delivered → accepted workflow?
Yes, with custom stages. Stride's default stages are To do, In progress, In review and Done, and each project can add its own, such as Finished, Delivered and Accepted, each mapped onto one of those four categories.
What about velocity?
Stride computes velocity from the last 3-6 completed sprints automatically. Same arithmetic Tracker used, surfaced in the sprint capacity calculator + planning suggestions.
My team's API integrations all hit Tracker endpoints. Now what?
Stride has a comprehensive REST API + webhooks at /settings/api-docs. Integrations need rewriting, but the endpoints cover everything Tracker exposed plus AI generation endpoints. Most migrating teams rewrite their CI integration in a half day.