# Zenhub alternatives: Gitsu compared with Zenhub > **TL;DR** Pick Zenhub if your team plans in sprints and needs roadmaps, epics and burndown charts, and can buy a seat for everyone. Pick Gitsu if one person wants a faster, keyboard-first way to work a GitHub Projects board without anyone else on the team changing tools. Gitsu has no roadmap, sprint automation or burndowns today. Zenhub and Gitsu both sit on top of GitHub and leave your issues where they are. They solve different problems. Zenhub adds a planning layer for a team: sprints, epics, roadmaps and burndown charts, paid per user. Gitsu is a faster client for GitHub Projects that one person can buy for themselves, with a keyboard model and a controlled way for coding agents to work the board. If you are here because you want a Zenhub alternative, the honest first question is which of those two jobs you are hiring for. This page answers that with prices, a feature table and the places where Zenhub is simply the better product. ## What is Zenhub, and what does it cost? Zenhub is GitHub-native project management for teams. It leads its marketing with real-time roadmaps, sprints, epics and burndown charts, and it works on the issues already in your GitHub repositories rather than importing them into a separate store. Our market research from August 2026 recorded Zenhub at **$8.33 to $12.50 per user per month**, with **no free tier** and a **14-day trial**. The sources we used disagreed on which of those two figures is the Teams tier, so treat the range as the honest answer and confirm the number on Zenhub's pricing page before you budget. Because it is priced per user, a ten-person team pays for ten seats. ## What does Zenhub do better than Gitsu? Zenhub does team planning, and Gitsu does not. If your week is organised around sprints, Zenhub gives you sprint planning with the reporting that goes with it: burndown charts, release reports and velocity over time. Gitsu can create an iteration field on a GitHub project and filter or group by it, but it has no sprint rollover, no velocity and no burndown. Zenhub has real-time roadmaps; Gitsu has no roadmap or timeline view at all, which is a gap even against GitHub's own Projects UI, since GitHub ships a Roadmap layout. Zenhub has epics as a planning object above issues; Gitsu treats cross-project and multi-project views as an explicit non-goal and shows one project at a time. Zenhub also offers a 14-day trial of the whole product, where Gitsu's free tier is the web app without the desktop app or agent features. If a manager needs a sprint report on Friday, Zenhub is the right tool and Gitsu is not. ## Where does Gitsu win against Zenhub? Gitsu wins when the buyer is one person rather than a team, and when the job is working the board quickly rather than reporting on it. - **Nobody else on your team has to change anything.** A Gitsu subscription belongs to one Gitsu account, linked to one GitHub identity. Every edit is a normal change to the GitHub project, so teammates keep using github.com and see the same issues. Zenhub's value comes from the team adopting it together, and each person needs a seat. - **A desktop app.** Gitsu ships a native macOS app as well as a web app. The web app is free, with no card, and the paid subscription adds the desktop app and the agent features. - **Keyboard-first by construction.** One fixed keymap drives the whole app: `⌘K` opens a command palette that covers navigation, filtering and every write, `C` creates an issue, `/` searches the current view, `G L` and `G B` switch between list and board, and `?` shows every shortcut. - **Filters that nest.** Gitsu's filter model takes nested AND/OR groups across native issue fields, Projects built-ins and custom fields in one expression, for example "no milestone OR no estimate". - **An agent surface with limits.** The desktop app bundles an MCP server. Coding agents such as Claude Code can list your project's items and fields. Their eight write tools (set a field, comment, add or remove labels, close, reopen, start and finish work) plus a budget request only go through the running app, which grants the write budget and is the one place a write can reach GitHub from. ![A Gitsu kanban board with Backlog and Ready columns of GitHub issue cards, each showing priority, labels and issue number](/kanban.webp) ## How do Zenhub and Gitsu compare feature by feature? Here is the short version. Zenhub's column comes from our August 2026 research. Gitsu's column comes from the Gitsu codebase and its product requirements. | Question | Zenhub | Gitsu | | --- | --- | --- | | Where your issues live | GitHub, plus Zenhub's own planning data | GitHub only | | Billing | Per user, $8.33–12.50/user/month | Per account; free web tier | | Free entry | 14-day trial, no free tier | Free web app, no card | | Sprints with burndown and velocity | Yes | No; iteration field only | | Roadmap or timeline view | Yes | No (listed as coming soon) | | Epics and cross-project planning | Yes | No; one project at a time by design | | Desktop app | Not covered by our research | macOS | | Command palette over every write | Not covered by our research | Yes | | Nested AND/OR filters | Not covered by our research | Yes | | MCP server for coding agents | Not covered by our research | Yes, desktop only, writes relayed through the app | | Large projects | Not covered by our research | Loads up to 2,000 items and says when it stopped | "Not covered by our research" means exactly that. We did not test those Zenhub features, and we are not going to guess. ## Who should pick Zenhub, and who should pick Gitsu? Pick **Zenhub** if the team plans in sprints, someone reports on progress with burndowns or roadmaps, and the team will adopt the tool together. That is the job Zenhub is built for, and Gitsu does not do it today. Pick **Gitsu** if you are the one person on the team who lives in the GitHub project all day and wants it to be fast, dense and keyboard-driven, without asking anyone else to switch. It also suits you if you run coding agents against your issues and want their writes to go through one controlled path. Some teams will want both. Because Gitsu only reads and writes GitHub, one developer can use it while the team keeps Zenhub for planning. The two do not conflict, though Gitsu will not show Zenhub's own epics or reports. ## What does Gitsu not do yet? Gitsu does not have cycles with automatic rollover, a triage inbox or a roadmap timeline. The Gitsu home page lists all three as coming soon. It has no notifications inbox and no mobile app, and it will not show several projects in one view; those are non-goals in its product requirements. It loads up to 2,000 items per project and tells you when it stopped, so very large boards are only partly shown. The agent surface runs in the desktop app only. If any of those is a deal-breaker, you have your answer. For a view of every GitHub Projects tool side by side, read the [roundup of GitHub Projects tools](/compare/github-projects-tools). To see how Gitsu measures up against GitHub's own interface operation by operation, read [Gitsu compared with GitHub's Projects UI](/compare/github-projects). To try it, start with [getting started with the Gitsu Web App](/docs/getting-started). ## Frequently asked questions ### How much does Zenhub cost? Our August 2026 research found Zenhub priced between $8.33 and $12.50 per user per month, with no free tier and a 14-day trial. Sources disagreed on which figure belongs to which tier, so check Zenhub's own pricing page before you budget. ### Does Gitsu have sprints, roadmaps or burndown charts? No. Gitsu can create and filter an iteration field on a GitHub project, but it has no sprint rollover, no velocity, no roadmap timeline and no burndown chart. Cycles, a triage inbox and a roadmap timeline are listed as coming soon on the Gitsu home page. ### Does my whole team need Gitsu? No. A Gitsu subscription belongs to one person's account, and every change it makes is an ordinary change to the GitHub project. Teammates keep using github.com, or anything else that reads GitHub, and see the same issues. ### Can I use Gitsu and Zenhub on the same repository? Yes. Both read and write the issues in your GitHub repository, so one person can use Gitsu while the team keeps Zenhub. Zenhub's own planning data, such as its epics and estimates board, is not something Gitsu reads.