# FogBugz Reviews **Vendor:** Ignite **Category:** [Version Control Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/version-control-software) **Average Rating:** 3.9/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 15 ## About FogBugz Building software that matters is more than a race to close issues. We know every team can craft great software, you just need the best tools and the right information. FogBugz provides all you need to make great software, including project management, issue tracking, and support, fused with just enough process to help you deliver. FogBugz shows you the issue and project info you need, alongside updates from your integrated tools. As well as providing expert advice and insights from two decades of studying how great software really gets built. ## FogBugz Reviews ### 1. Simple & Efficient Bug Tracking Tool for Teams **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 24, 2026 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** FogBugz has a simple and intuitive interface, which makes bug tracking and project management very easy to use. It also offers strong case tracking with clear workflows, helping teams stay organized and efficient. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** One thing I don’t like about FogBugz is that It can be less flexible when it comes to customization and integrations, which makes it harder to fit into more dynamic workflows. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** FogBugz helps organize bug tracking, task management, and project visibility in one place, so nothing slips through the cracks. It benefits me by keeping work structured, improving team coordination, and making it easier to track progress and resolve issues faster. ### 2. Fb **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Accounting | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2021 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** Simple user interface with enough options. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** Reports cant be generated like graphs, statistics etc. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Trying to run a project. Good for a small scale. ### 3. An excellent platform for software management **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Danny V. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 12, 2020 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** FogBugz is easy to use and great for project management. I like it because it allows me to follow the changes that are taking place in the development of our software, to have a better perception. The best thing is that since FogBugz is online, we can access it from anywhere and synchronize projects. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** There's nothing I don't like about FogBugz in terms of functionality. His license seems very expensive to me, since all are aimed at a maximum of 5 users. **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** The learning curve is short with this software. It has very robust features for software management. I recommend it, for small work teams. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** FogBugz has given us different benefits such as version control of the software we have in our catalogs, as well as has encouraged collaboration with my team. Without a doubt, we can better monitor the progress of our projects. ### 4. A Gооd Mаnаgеmеnt Tооl Fоr Trасkіng Bugs Аnd Dеfесts **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tushar J. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2019 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** Fіrst оf thе mаіn аdvаntаgеs іs FоgBugz flехіbіlіty. It іdеntісаlly rеfеrs tо іts іnсrеdіblе sеаrсh systеm аnd thе рlаtfоrm іtsеlf. Yоu саn аdd suіtаblе fіеlds, іntеgrаtіоns, аnd ехtеnsіоns fоr yоur bеttеr usаbіlіty аnd реrfоrmаnсе. Addіtіоnаl systеmаtіzаtіоn funсtіоn wіthіn sеаrсh mесhаnісs еnаblеs us tо sіmрlіfy trоublе sеаrсhіng аnd trоublеshооtіng. Thе оthеr аdvаntаgе іs аn іnbuіlt funсtіоn thаt іnсludеs tіmе, dаtеs аnd dаtа trаіlіng, whісh іs сrіtісаl fоr dеvеlореrs аt аny stаgе оf thе рrоjесt. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** thе оvеrаll dеsіgn аnd usаbіlіty соuld bе bеttеr **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** I аdvіsе tо gіvе іt а try аs fоr іts оvеrаll funсtіоns bundlе іt соmрlеtеly оvеrроwеrs іts сlоsе соmреtіtоrs. Ovеrаll соst аnd thеіr оvеrаll рrоfеssіоnаlіsm аlsо fасtоr fоr futurе lоng-tеrm раrtnеrshір. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Documentations of projects, Bug tracking Issue tracking Timesheet tracking ### 5. Simple and Elegant **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2019 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** I like that I can show a new employee how to use Fogbugz in about 10 minutes. This software is super powerful in its simplicity. Our customer service team uses it to onboard new customers and open tickets. Project management uses it to assign bugs to developers and then to QA. It integrates with Git, so we can look up an old bug and immediately find the Git commit that is associated with it. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** I enjoy using the software, although I find that developers who are used to using Atlassian products find it lacking. Also, I am concerned that since it has been rebranded as Manuscript (about a year ago), it doesn't seem to receive as much attention. I'm noticing that this G2 page itself has not been updated to Manuscript... so I'm a bit worried that this software is not being maintained--but I'm not seeing that in the software itself, just noticing a steep downturn in communication and marketing. **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** This is a great system for small businesses. It's simple to set up and use. I helps organize processes and workflows. It's very easy to learn--which saves valuable time. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's a great ticketing system and helps Customer Service communicate with Development. It's super easy to set up and use. It's been very reliable. ### 6. FogBugz - Simple and powerful **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 19, 2019 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** I really like the UI and linking between cases, the tracking becomes easy. We have also integrated this with test rail so yes integration works well. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** Sometimes it acts slow and the other problems I have faced is working of filters. The results given by filters are not very accurate sometimes. On the list view, it shows filtered by X whereas when you open the ticket the status is something else. **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** It's an easy to use tool which can be integrated with other tools so yes you can go for it. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking of work items become easy, so nothing is missed and collaboration between teams. ### 7. Easy, to-the-point bug-tracking software. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** Fogbugz provided a great project management 'social network' for our company in its early days. Users on the platform ranged all over the company, from junior to executives regardless of their function. Fogbugz allowed us to track and classify tickets based on our needs (from feature requests to roof-on-fire problems) , and keep relevant stories going for future updates or tickets. Notifications and updates from Fogbugz were highly configurable, and FogBugz also allowed integration with code management software when necessary. Notifications and daily digests of happenings around the company were helpful in understanding the day-to-day at a glance, which can be helpful for product managers or other oversight. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** The layout is not very well done, it wastes a lot of space that could be used for other things or data points. Sometimes the sorting of tickets and projects got a little messy depending on how many active categories were present. There could be more integrations with other productivity software as well. Some configurations and settings were difficult to setup for end-users. **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** I would suggest FogBugz for any company that needs a to-the-point solution for tracking tickets that allows product and engineering teams to focus on their tasks, while giving other teams visibility into what's being completed, how it's being completed, and what priorities have been set. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Tracking product updates, bug fixes, requests, etc; across the organization and keeping employees informed of all necessary and related items, as well as assisting product/engineering teams with prioritization and resource allocation. ### 8. Fogbugz bug tracking tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhishek P. | Senior Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 06, 2019 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** Fogbugz is a very simple and easy to access bug logging tool. It is very convenient to take a report of the all the bugs logged so far in a very quick manner. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** Unlike other Defect logging tool it is not upgrading with as per industry standards like In Jira we have Jira stories for scenarios. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** With the help of Fogbugz it is very efficient to track the records of defect logged release wise. Easy to access and cost effective. ### 9. Functional **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Religious Institutions | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 11, 2018 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** It gets the job done. I like the ability to sort emails that come in to customized categories. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** It's functional, but it's not the most aesthetic design. There are some things that could be improved to make it more organized. We ended up using FogBugz for most of our work but tracking it on Workfront since that better allowed us to organize it the way we wanted to have it organized. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** It enables our app support team to better work together to address people's feedback. ### 10. Excellent On-Premise Mecurial Code Hosting Solution **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Human Resources | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 20, 2016 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** Easily setup and manage Mercurial based-code repositories. Easy to setup mercurial clients (TortoiseHg) to push and pull to Kiln. Web-based file and changeset diff-views allow code to be quickly browsed and reviewed. Built in web-hooks for Fogbugz and Pivotal Tracker (we use both of these for issue/bug tracking) allow commit messages to auto-post to project management systems. Although we don't utilize it fully, the Code Review system provides an easy way for developers to comment on commits and changesets. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** Not really a deal breaker, but Kiln does not offer webhooks for some of the modern software development management tools such as JIRA. It may be because of the version we are using (v2.9.61.0) which is fairly outdated. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Our main use is to utilize Kiln as our internal central code repository. We have a number of repos and sub-repos to host various business application code bases. We also rely heavily on Kiln's built in webhooks to post commits to our software development PM tools (Fogbugz & PivotalTracker). This has provided the ability to quick associate and review actual the code changes made for specific cases / user stories. In addition, developers do not have to duplicate as much documentation (assuming they write good commit messages). On less frequent occasion, we utilize Kiln's code review system for handling reviews for smaller changes. For larger changes we still have full one-on-one or group peer reviews. ### 11. Use as a task management tool **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Internet | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2017 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** work with fogbugz. Very useful for code review **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** none. I did not find any thing unlike. Bug searching can be improved. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Use it as a task management tool working with fogbugz togerther ### 12. Powerful product, with **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kentleigh E. | Web Developer, Internet, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2016 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** The powerful tools within Kiln; and the ability to oversee massive projects, and the detailed tools to investigate changesets and history are some of the best features. But Kiln's cross-compatibility with FogBugz and Trello are absolutely amazing, and probably the best feature; it helps to tie together the project management and client communication sides of our version control. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** Kiln's user interface often seems a bit dated to me, and sometimes it can be difficult to compare two particular changesets if any two specific changes need to be compared, you usually have to track down the revision ID. **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** Kiln is very useful, and effective in what it aims to achieve; even better if you already use Trello or FogBugz (if you do not, please investigate those products in addition to Kiln) Kiln is quite easy to use; it is very effective for team collaboration, and the repository and branch management is easy to visualize with the web interface and branch visualization. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Kiln is absolutely essential to our business. We have massive projects, which requires us to sometimes come back to projects that have not been touched for months; or to investigate bugs caused by changes made months ago. Kiln's tools allow us to crawl through every change, to compare many changesets, and to easily view the version history of a file over multiple changes. What's more, the ability to see the changes of some binary files, such as images, has proven very useful in various design changes; especially when the commit messages have been vague. ### 13. Provides robust SCM with a clever joint support for both Git and Mercurial **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 29, 2016 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** The way a single repository supports access with git and mercurial at the same time **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** The web interface feels a little outdated **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** Give it a shot. There is a free account for very small companies. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Managing internal and client code ### 14. A Seamless Integration of Tools for Developers and Software Mangers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Keith G. | Senior Software Developer, Research, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 13, 2015 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** Stability and usability are solid. It seamlessly integrates with our Mercurial source control repos. The hosted version has a feature called Harmony that allows every repository to be accessed via Git and/or Mercurial. Each user can choose their own DVCS regardless of what other users on the same project/repository are using. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** We are using the on-premise version, and there seems to be a lack of new development on that version. The hosted version is getting new features while the on-premise version is stagnating. In particular, I would like to see the Harmony feature added to the on-premise version. It is a killer feature that allows every repository to be accessed via Git and/or Mercurial. Each user can choose their own DVCS regardless of what other users on the same project/repository are using. **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** If your company is comfortable with the hosted version, I would recommend that over the on-premise version. The hosted version is updated more frequently and has newer features. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** Integrated source control, code reviews, issue tracking, bug reports. ### 15. A great source control product! **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 10, 2015 **What do you like best about FogBugz?** Up time has seemed to be 100%, easy to use the web functionality and easy configuration for copying sources locally. **What do you dislike about FogBugz?** The Webpage could be a bit more user friendly. it's not as easy to navigate as Fogbugz. **Recommendations to others considering FogBugz:** This is a great source control service. Up time has been fantastic. **What problems is FogBugz solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a variety of products which need proper source control. 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