Welcome to the new Apps in the 500 Club! When we started our analysis over a year ago, we wanted to understand if there was any major Pareto effect in the marketplace while we also needed a way to determine who we should prioritize in adding to our categories. As a reminder vendors self select their categories on the Atlassian marketplace. It’s certainly democratic yet it can mean if you want to know who the real players are in any category, there is a lot of “noise”. To cut through the noise our categories on AppWorld assign apps based on their primary utility.
We’re now tracking 551 apps (up from 540 last month) which are the real movers and shakers in the Atlassian marketplace – why? In the chart below you can see that 14% of all apps make up 83% of all instances.
These 551 apps all have the distinction of having more than 500 instances.
Congratulations to the following vendors for their January results. You can also see how we’re categorizing them:
| App | Vendor | Instances | Year to Date Percentage Growth | Category | License | Platform | Product |
| ProForma: Software QA Workflow | ThinkTilt | 541 | 32% | Workflows | Free | Server | Jira |
| Swanly – Release Timeline for Jira | Jexo | 531 | 8% | Planning | Paid | Cloud | Jira |
| Status Time Free | Bloompeak | 528 | 8% | Reporting | Free | Cloud, Data Center, Server | Jira |
| Multimedia Social Bookmarking Plugin | Cognium Systems | 522 | 7% | Publishing | Paid | Server | Confluence |
| Rating CustomField | Slie | 516 | 5% | Utilities | Free | Data Center, Server | Jira |
| Multiple Filters Chart Gadget | Akeles Consulting | 514 | 4% | Reporting | Paid | Cloud, Data Center, Server | Jira |
| Figma for Confluence LITE | CollabSoft | 507 | 16% | Integration | Free | Cloud, Server | Confluence |
| Freshdesk Jira Integration | Freshdesk Inc | 504 | 1% | Integration | Free | Cloud, Server | Jira |
Again this month we are giving you an insight into the fastest movers in the 500 Club.
We can see that in January GitHub and GitLab continued their remarkable absolute growth and once again are leading the pack. Issue Checklist Free also features again on the absolute growth list.
| App | Vendor | Instances | Absolute Instance Growth January 2021 |
| GitHub for Jira | GitHub | 51302 | 1882 |
| GitLab for Jira | GitLab | 7740 | 788 |
| Issue Checklist Free | HeroCoders | 16559 | 726 |
| ScriptRunner for Jira | Adaptavist | 28041 | 484 |
| Easy Agile Scrum Workflow for Jira | Easy Agile | 18724 | 461 |
Meanwhile ProForma: Software QA Workflow is both a new 500 Club app as well as the fastest growing app in percentage terms this month.
| App | Vendor | Instances | Percentage Instance Growth January 2021 |
| ProForma: Software QA Workflow | ThinkTilt | 541 | 32% |
| Simple Non-Dev Workflow | ADELT Enterprises, LLC | 513 | 20% |
| Gantt Suite for Jira | BrizoIT | 757 | 19% |
| Simple Developement Workflow | ADELT Enterprises, LLC | 1406 | 17% |
| Figma for Confluence LITE | CollabSoft | 507 | 16% |
In this analysis (only including apps with over 1000 instances) Clone Epic Template for Jira and Custom Charts for Jira stand out with incredible growth rates both around 2000%. The Time Management offerings of Tempo, with Cost Tracker for Tempo Timesheets, and COING, with Clockify, also showed remarkable growth in 2020.
You can check other Atlassian Marketplace Apps we recommend here: Blended Perspectives’ AppWorld