Pivotal Tracker Has Shut Down. Here Is Where Those Teams Went
VMware Tanzu ended Pivotal Tracker on 30 April 2025 and every account type went with it. If you are still working out where your team lands, this page is about what you get instead.
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The short answer
Pivotal Tracker is gone. VMware Tanzu announced end of life on 18 September 2024 and the service stopped on 30 April 2025, taking free, sponsored, paid, and Enterprise accounts with it. Teams that liked it liked it for a specific reason: it had one opinion about how software gets built and it held that opinion firmly. Orangescrum covers the mechanics those teams depend on, story points, velocity from real finished work, a single ordered backlog, epics, and sprints, at a flat monthly price with unlimited users, and there is a self-hosted edition and a free open source Community Edition if a vendor shutting a product down has made you wary of hosted tools. Be warned about one thing though. We are more configurable than Tracker was, which means somebody on your team has to decide how you work rather than having the tool decide for you. If that freedom is exactly what you were happy to be without, do not switch to us. Look for something opinionated instead.
What you will miss about it
Pivotal Tracker did several things well, and pretending otherwise would not help anyone who is being forced off it.
- What you will miss: the single flow backlogTracker had one ordered list and the next thing to do was always the top of it. There was no argument about which board column something belonged in, because there was no choice to make. Our backlog is drag and drop and ordered, but we also give you boards and views, and that means the argument comes back.
- What you will miss: velocity that maintained itselfTracker worked out velocity from finished stories and planned the iterations for you. Nobody had to keep it up to date and nobody could fudge it. We calculate velocity from real sprint data too, but somebody still has to run sprint planning rather than letting the tool draw the lines.
- What you will miss: being told noTracker deliberately refused to let you customise most of it. Fewer settings meant fewer meetings about process. Orangescrum has custom fields, custom statuses, and a visual workflow designer, and that flexibility is genuinely a cost. Some ex-Tracker teams will find our model looser than they want, and that is a fair reason to look elsewhere.
What ex-Tracker teams land on
Story points and estimates carry over
Stories are estimated in points, the sprint has a capacity, and planning stops when the points run out. The habits your team already has do not need retraining.
Velocity from real finished work
Velocity and burndown are built from completed sprint data rather than typed into a spreadsheet, so the forecast is as honest as the sprint was.
Backlog, epics, and sprints
A product backlog you order by dragging, epics to group the big pieces, sprint planning, and a sprint board. The shape Tracker taught your team is still recognisable.
The things Tracker left to other tools
Time tracking, budget and cost, invoicing, documents, and resource planning are in the same product, so the collection of side tools around your tracker can shrink.
It cannot be switched off on you
If a vendor retiring a product has made you cautious, the Community Edition is free and open source under AGPL, and a self-hosted instance keeps running on your own servers whatever we do.
We will help you rebuild
If you took a CSV export before the shutdown we will import it. If you did not, our team will sit with you and set up the projects, epics, and backlog by hand. Either way there is no charge.
Orangescrum compared with Pivotal Tracker
| Orangescrum | Pivotal Tracker | |
|---|---|---|
| Story points and estimatesCapability equivalents only. Pivotal Tracker facts come from the VMware Tanzu end of life notice, not a live product page | Yes | Yes, before shutdown |
| Velocity from completed work | Yes | Yes, calculated automatically |
| Single ordered backlog | Product backlog with drag and drop ordering | Yes, the core of the product |
| Iterations or sprints | Sprints with planning and burndown | Automatic iterations |
| Epics | Yes | Yes |
| Bug and defect tracking | Yes | Yes |
| Blockers on a story | Yes | Yes |
| Kanban board view | Yes | Story panels rather than a board |
| Gantt chart with critical path | Yes | No |
| Time tracking and timesheets | Yes | No |
| Budget, cost, and invoicing | Yes | No |
| Resource and workload planning | Yes | No |
| Custom fields and custom statusesTracker deliberately limited customisation | Yes | No |
| Available to new teams todayAll account types ended on 30 April 2025 | Yes | No |
| Self-hosted edition | Yes | No |
| Free and open source edition | Yes | No |
What it costs as the team grows
There is nothing to compare a price against. VMware Tanzu announced the end of life of Pivotal Tracker on 18 September 2024, effective 30 April 2025, and all account types ended on that date, including free, sponsored, paid, and Enterprise. The pivotaltracker.com domain no longer resolves, so there is no live pricing page to cite and no current rate to sit beside ours. For the record, Orangescrum Pro Unlimited is $69 a month for the whole team with unlimited users, Basic is $29, and Premium is $349, all published and all billed monthly.
Getting your work out of a product that has gone
This migration splits into two very different situations, and it is worth being blunt about which one you are in. Either way our team does the work at no charge.
- If you exported before 30 April 2025Tracker's CSV export holds stories, points, states, labels, epics, and comments. Send us the file and we map it to projects, tasks, story points, and epics in Orangescrum.
- If you did not export in timeThen that data is gone, and nobody can get it back for you, us included. We will say so plainly rather than take you through a process that ends in the same answer.
- We rebuild the shapeWorking from your export, your repository, or just a conversation, we set up the projects, epics, backlog order, and sprint cadence so the team recognises it on day one.
- First sprintRun one sprint before you decide anything. Velocity needs finished work to mean much, so the second sprint is where the forecasting starts being useful.
Life after Pivotal Tracker
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