LynxSprint and Jira
Not a scorecard. A description of how each product is assembled, and what that means for a team whose hours have to be right.
The comparison is not one product against one product
Jira tracks work. A team that also needs a timesheet somebody approves, and a place to write down how any of it works, assembles the rest. Each of the statements below comes from Atlassian's or Tempo's own material, with the page and the date we read it.
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Timesheets by Tempo is a Marketplace app, published by Tempo Software rather than Atlassian, and installed into Jira separately.
https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/6572/timesheets-by-tempo-jira-time-tracking Read on 2026-08-23. -
Atlassian's app licensing requires a Marketplace app's licence tier to match the Jira licence tier, so an app is licensed for every Jira user even when fewer people use it.
https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-cloud/kb/how-to-get-assistance-for-tempo-in-jira-cloud/ Read on 2026-08-23. -
Confluence is a separate Atlassian product with its own plans, so a Jira team's documentation is bought and administered alongside Jira rather than within it.
https://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/pricing Read on 2026-08-23.
The licence rule in the middle is the one worth sitting with. A Marketplace app is licensed to match the Jira licence, so a hundred-seat Jira instance licenses the timesheet app for a hundred people even when twelve of them fill in a timesheet.
Where LynxSprint puts the same things
One product, one permission model
Work items, boards, time entries, timesheets, approvals, reports and the Library are modules of one application. A permission is granted once and means the same thing in all of them, and there is one audit trail rather than one per vendor.
Approval is a state machine
Draft, submitted, approved, locked, with a permanent decision log at every step. Approved time is read-only, and a correction is a new attributable event rather than an edit. Nobody approves their own timesheet, including the person who owns the organization.
Everyone gets an account
There is no per-module seat maths to do, because there are no per-module seats. What the free plan limits is features and how many work items you hold, and both are named on the pricing page.
What Jira has that we do not
Workflow screens, conditions and post-functions. An app marketplace. A service desk with queues and SLAs. Transitions themselves are configurable here: each work item type can name which status moves it allows and which fields a move requires. If the rest is what you came for, Jira is the better answer and this page is not trying to talk you out of it.
Try it against your own week
The honest test is a real week of your own hours, not a feature table. Sign up and log one.
Jira, Confluence and Atlassian are trademarks of Atlassian. Tempo and Timesheets by Tempo are trademarks of Tempo Software. They are named here to identify the products being compared. LynxSprint is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or a partner of either company.
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