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.
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. |
Pivotal Tracker's last published pricing was $10/user/month for the Standard tier. Stride Starter at $15/seat/month is half again as much; Pro at $39/seat is close to four times it, and both include the AI + QA + architecture surface Tracker never shipped.
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.