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Embed and Edit Google Sheets in Confluence

Embed live Google Sheets inside your Confluence pages and work on real-time data with your team. Edit, comment, and collaborate without leaving the page. Google Drive permissions stay in sync, and everything runs securely on Atlassian Forge. Here is the demo:

Mix & Fix – An Evergreen Recipe for Teamwork

At Apptoberfest 2025, we’re mixing apps like ingredients to create the ultimate teamwork recipe. This year, we’re kicking things off in the Collaboration & Teamwork category with a playful first pour. 👉 “Mix & Fix: The first drinks that solve your headaches instead of causing them.” The result? A demo as refreshing as your favorite drink — no hangovers, just clarity! Watch the demo and see how our apps mix together to solve real teamwork challenges.

Wednesday’s web: controlled collaboration with Microsoft 365 for Jira

Collaboration. A curious concept, fragile, chaotic, and usually doomed. And yet, for Atlassian Apptoberfest 2025, I find myself at the center of it. I, Wednesday Addams, represent yasoon and their Microsoft 365 for Jira app. Apparently, I am the mascot of controlled communication. How ironic. This is Wednesday’s web: A project board where every Microsoft Teams message, Outlook meeting, and email is captured, dissected, and ultimately buried alive inside Jira. Click here to see the demo

Mix & Fix – The Project Management Punch

Tired of projects that give you a headache instead of a high-five? At Apptoberfest 2025, we’re mixing apps like ingredients to create the ultimate teamwork recipe. Try our Project Management Punch! 🍂 Base: Navitabs - Navigation Macros for Confluence – give your project pages some helpful structure.

The swipe game: Smart Courses for Confluence

We’ve all been there at some point in life:🚩 Red flags everywhere.🚩 Swiping left again and again.🚩 Not a single right turn in sight. And after a while, you just know… orange shades are not your colors anymore. You need a switch. Something more lively.Something easy-going.Something smooth. ✨ That’s exactly what happened to Hedi.From endless left swipes to finally finding his perfect match: the LMS built for Confluence "Smart Courses".

Watch It for Jira Cloud / Data Center

🥳🥳🥳 Happy Apptoberfest! 🎈🎈🎈 First of all, please don't forget to drop a like 👍 and comment 💬; we want to read your opinions and questions! This App gives you the power to control how you watch changes in projects. Features include: Trackers - Track changes in issues at a project level

Bake the Perfect Project Update Cake with Advanced Status Labels

It’s Apptoberfest season and we’re serving something special from the Izymes kitchen!Projects can feel like baking a complicated cake: the right ingredients, the right order, and the perfect timing.But when statuses are inconsistent or unclear, the result can be… a collapsed soufflé. In this fun cooking-show parody, our “chef” tries to bake a Project Update Cake: First attempt (messy)Ingredients labeled with confusing statuses like done???, In Prog, Completed(ish).Steps marked nearly complete, we’ll do later, Done! — but nothing matches.→ Result: a deflated cake and a deflated team. Second attempt (delicious)Enter Advanced Status Labels: sleek pill-style labels with consistent categories and colors.Ingredients are clearly To-do, In Progress, Done.→ Result: a perfect cake and perfect project clarity.

Mix & Fix – The Smokey Docs on the Rocks

Ever felt like your documentation lives in two worlds, one in Bitbucket, one in Confluence, and neither knows what the other is doing? At Apptoberfest 2025, our fortune teller has just the brew to lift that curse. 🧙‍♀️🍂 Introducing “Smokey Docs on the Rocks” — a potion for perfectly aligned documentation. Base: Include Bitbucket for Confluence – summon live, up-to-date content straight from your repositories with a single URL. No more stale copy-paste rituals!

The Office Meets ProScheduler

It’s Apptoberfest again 🍻🍂. This year, we decided to do something a little different with TeamBoard ProScheduler. Instead of another how-to demo, we imagined what would happen if one of the most famously chaotic workplaces - Dunder Mifflin Scranton - got a proper project management tool. Because let’s be honest, organization isn’t exactly their strength. Dwight once staged a fire drill that nearly destroyed the office.

The Sprint That Always Starts & Stops Itself

We’ve all been there - the sprint’s supposed to start at 10 a.m. Monday, but it’s Wednesday before someone notices. Reports are off, velocity dips, and half the team’s asking, “Wait… did we start the sprint?” 😅That’s why we built Auto Sprint Start Stop, a “set-and-forget” Jira Cloud app by PgM Innovations - made for Scrum Masters and Agile teams. 🔹Auto-starts and stops sprints exactly when scheduled - no manual clicks. 🔹Moves open tickets to the next sprint or backlog automatically.

Plan Smarter, Sprint Faster - Meet The Sprint Planner

Cheers to the sprints that actually start ready! Because nothing slows momentum like realizing halfway through, “We planned 200 points… but QA was on training all week.” 😅 That’s why we built The Sprint Planner — a Jira Cloud app by PgM Innovations that turns chaotic sprint planning into a fast, data-driven conversation. 🔹 Plan in hours or Story Points — your sprint, your rules.

Survive in Jira – Track All Changes

Welcome to Jira Game - where only the most organized survive. Managing releases, pipelines, and changes in production can sometimes feel like a game of survival. One deleted task – gone forever. One unnoticed "Reopened" status and sprint is delayed. One missed update leads to deployment chaos. But what if you could track every change in Jira easily? 👀

STM Issue Templates for Jira Cloud / Data Center

🥳🥳🥳 Happy Apptoberfest! 🎈🎈🎈 Is creating the same group of issues taking up too much of your valuable time? Then STM Issue Templates is here to help you. Features include: Having templates to allow you to specify one or more issues to create or one issue to update

Who you gonna call? BSM Busters!

We’ve all seen it: an ITSM portal that feels more like a haunted house than a help desk. Endless input fields where no one knows what to insert. Labels like “incident,” “Incident??,” “incdnt” haunting your backlog. Priorities that are unclear, so every request feels urgent… or ignored.

Manage Custom Fields!

A Jira Admin Walks Into Oktoberfest What happens when a Jira admin finally takes a weekend off and heads to Oktoberfest? He has the time of his life… until some project admin calls about a custom field. Luckily, he’s got Manage Custom Fields! One quick fix later, and he’s back to his beer. Yes, this is very real footage from Oktoberfest! Real people. Real steins. Definitely not generated with AI. If the hands look a little strange or the beer grips seem… inventive, that’s just what happens after a few rounds.

We Put Jira in a Pot and Let It Simmer: Apptoberfest Demo from the Ukrainian Jira Kitchen

Apptoberfest is where customers meet the humans behind the apps—so we invited you into our Ukrainian Jira Kitchen and cooked a project like borscht. Yes, there are beets. Yes, there are jokes. Yes, if you chop your backlog correctly, someone will cry—and that’s how you know it’s fresh. 🧅😭 This post is the back-story to the video: why the kitchen metaphor works, how it maps to strategy & planning, and how Time in Status is the spoonful of sour cream that makes everything… make sense. 🍶 Good borscht needs a recipe, a rhythm, and a taste test. So does delivery. Menu = strategy. If you cook everything, you cook nothing. 🧾

How Bob Keeps Leadership & Strategy Teams Aligned

Hey, it's Apptoberfest 🎃🍂 again. This year, we're introducing someone new to the TimePlanner team 🙌 Meet Bob the stickman, our project manager! Unfortunately, things are not going so well for him. He's been stuck in the wild world of chaotic team management. Teams are scattered

Comment History for Jira Cloud / Data Center

🥳🥳🥳 Happy Apptoberfest! 🎈🎈🎈 Never lose comment information again. Meet compliance requirements and create an audit trail. Comment history: Retains all previous comment versions for updated and deleted comments On Data Center, you can view the history of a comment through an icon in the comments tab

Streamlining IT Operations: Enhanced IT Service Management & Customer Support

Let’s face it: managing assets, handling customer service requests, and keeping everything running smoothly can feel like you're trying to keep a dozen spinning plates in the air. But with AssetIT, suddenly, it’s a piece of cake. 🍰 AssetIT’s IT Asset Management (ITAM) capabilities seamlessly work with IT Service Management (ITSM) to make everything from inventory management to service requests a breeze. Need to track an asset? - No problem. Need to check out items for customers? - Done.

Catch the Ghost Users & Simplify Collaboration with Flexible User License

Hey Atlassian Community! 🙌 We’re excited to join Apptoberfest 2025 under the Collaboration & Teamwork Apps category, and we’re here to help you say goodbye to ghost users and unnecessary costs once and for all! 👻✨ Flexible User License (FUL) is the smarter way to manage Atlassian Cloud licenses — automated, secure, and cost-efficient. We help admins and teams reclaim control over user management and turn wasted license spend into real savings.

Measure is Treasure (Get a Limo or Lose the Internet)

Once upon a time, a King declared, “Measure your cat or lose the Internet!”And so everyone did. If not with a tape, then with zucchinis. If not a cat, then a dog. If not a dog… well, they figured something out. When the deadline came, the royal advisor faced data chaos. So he turned to eazyBI for help. With a touch of AI magic, clear reports, and some clever MDX spells, the kingdom finally finds the true (and GDPR-compliant) winner. In the end, all lived happily ever after, and one truth still stands: Measure is treasure — but use it wisely. Watch the full story to see how even fairy-tale data can make sense — with a little help from eazyBI.

Import Test Cases from spreadsheet to Jira in 4 Minutes

It’s Apptoberfest season on the Atlassian Marketplace, and this year, we’re bringing something practical to the table — a speed challenge that shows just how easy testing in Jira can be with AgileTest. If you’re still managing your test cases in spreadsheets and struggling to move them into Jira, this demo is for you. We’ll show you how to import, organize, and run your tests in under five minutes, using AgileTest’s checklist-based Script Testing feature. Apptoberfest is all about showcasing innovation and celebrating how Marketplace apps make work better for teams. We wanted to highlight what sets AgileTest apart — its ability to make testing simple, structured, and fast. Our goal was straightforward: prove that anyone can transfer test cases from a spreadsheet into Jira quickly and efficiently, without relying on complicated imports or scripting knowledge.

A Toast to Portfolio

This year we’re paying homage to the roots of our favorite fall festival and giving you a tour of how Portfolio by HeroCoders can boost your strategic planning, regardless of what your teams have brewing.Learn how Portfolio can empower you to plan ahead and remove bottlenecks (pun intended!) to brew up awesome productivity in your business. Powerful features like capacity and delivery alerts will make you and your teams so efficient, they'll be more time for beer! Hoppy, hoppy, joy, joy – And happy Apptoberfest!

Linked Issue Dependency Mapper

Linked Issue Dependency Mapper complements Jira Service Management & Jira by bringing dependency intelligence directly into your ITSM workflows. It helps teams see how incidents, problems, and change requests connect — turning linked issues into a clear, visual story of cause, impact, and resolution flow. In complex IT environments, changes and incidents often ripple across multiple teams and projects. Jira already captures these relationships through issue links — but interpreting them can be tedious and time-consuming. Linked Issue Dependency Mapper transforms Jira’s native linked issues into an interactive visual map. It helps ITSM and service delivery teams instantly understand dependencies without leaving Jira. Automatically discover and visualize all linked issues across projects.

Smart Tables! | Apptoberfest25 Feud Edition

One App to Rule the Passwords

Plain text passwords in Jira tickets. Sticky notes. Spreadsheets. A typical IT day… until chaos hits. 😅

A New Rovo Formatting Agent Open to Work

Dear hiring managers, I was excited to learn that you might be looking for some help keeping your Confluence pages structured, and organized. As a newly launched Rovo Morph Agent with a focus on structure and design, I’m confident that my formatting skills and adaptability will make me a valuable addition to your team and organization as a whole. As a proud graduate of the Vectors Lab, I’ve been trained in established content formatting best practices. My work focuses on transforming unstructured text into beautifully formatted pages that are easy to read, and navigate. I analyze text patterns and specific repetitions such as steps that work best within tabs, important messages that belong in panels, or FAQs that work well in collapsible sections. My ability to suggest the right macros and layout ensures your content always stays organized, with minimal manual input from your your teams. In previous projects while I was still in beta, I’ve saved users countless hours of formatting time. My conversational interface allows users to simply describe what they want, and I’ll deliver the optimal layout, complete with the right structure and macros.

The Unofficial Apptoberfest'25 Demo Board

🍻 Apptoberfest just got an upgrade! Every year, Marketplace vendors tap into their creativity to brew up awesome demos for Apptoberfest. The only problem? It’s tedious to browse all the entries and keep track of your favourites. The community forum is great for discussion—but not so much for organizing demos, which easily get lost among all the other posts. So this year, we decided to do something about it.

Plan it. Clone it. Prost!

Why Clone Expert for Jira templates, Epic and Issues is the fastest way to reuse, adjust, and launch repeatable task plans – with confidence. Let’s face it – planning recurring work in Jira can feel like déjà vu with extra clicks.Whether it’s prepping a release, kicking off a marketing campaign, or running a monthly client report… you probably already know the task list by heart. Wouldn’t it be better to reuse the exact setup, adjust it to this project’s needs, and be ready to go? That’s exactly what Clone Expert for Jira does – with a twist 🍋

Why renaming Epics can break Jira (and what to do instead!)

If you've ever tried scaling agile in Jira, you know that moment. You're mapping out your hierarchy and realise there's no 'Feature' level. So someone on the team suggests the 'shortcut': 'Just rename Epics to Features! Problem solved.' Except it's not solved. Your dashboards go blank. Your automations stop running. And that one Marketplace app you relied on for your sprint reports? It's broken too!

See the Full Traceability Picture with Links Explorer

Ever opened a Jira work item and thought:“Wait… how is THIS linked to THAT… and why is there a sub-sub-task from 2019 involved?”Yeah. We’ve all been there. That’s exactly why Links Explorer existsIf your teams wrestle with end-to-end traceability, work item webs, or surprise dependencies hiding three levels deep — this app cleans it up without the spreadsheet chaos. Gives you a full visual map of multi-level relationships — so you can track impact, hierarchy, and linked work items instantly, inside Jira. Hierarchy & link visualization across parents, children, and custom work item types

How to let end users collaborate on your Jira checklists

🎉 Welcome to Apptoberfest 2025! We’re thrilled to introduce you to Tick, the ultimate checklist solution for Jira, designed to transform how teams collaborate and get things done. Let’s dive into the features that make Tick stand out: 🧩 1. Collaboration in Jira service managementTick is the only checklist app that allows your clients to do more than just view tasks in Jira Service Management. From the moment a client creates an issue, they can interact directly with the checklist: marking items complete, adding task, and setting due dates. It all syncs instantly with Jira, making collaboration seamless. Agents enable it per issue, and admins stay in control with project-level permissions. 👥 2. Mentions vs. AssignmentsMentions get attention, but assignments drive ownership. Tick allows you to assign specific Jira users to checklist items, ensuring accountability. The assignment board keeps everything clear and trackable.

Capture Every Jira Moment with Baseline X

🍻 Hey everyone — Apptoberfest 2025 is here, and if you're not using Baseline X yet… future-you is going to be very, very angry with present-you 😅 Because the moment someone asks:“What was the original estimate?”“Who changed this field?”“Was this always in scope?”…you either have a snapshot — or you have a headache. Teams using Baseline X already have the receipts. Everyone else is gambling on Jira history and memory. Take snapshots (baselines) of Jira issues at any moment so you can track changes over time, compare with the current state, and call out what shifted — with proof.

Bulk Editing, Amplified

This Apptoberfest, we’re celebrating tools that empower teams, not slow them down. That’s why the Excel-like Bulk Issue Editor for Jira is ready to be your go-to for fast, flexible issue management. If you’ve ever wished Jira behaved a bit more like Excel, especially when handling many issues at once, you’re in for a treat. We’ve put the Excel-like Bulk Issue Editor for Jira app to the test in a real speed challenge against Jira Cloud’s native list view.The same set of bulk updates. Two tools. One clear winner. 👀 Can you guess which one came out on top?

STAGIL Assets - Pawset Management with Boris

TAGIL Presents: Meet Boris, the most ambitious pup you’ll ever see. When his favorite stick shows signs of wear, Boris knows it’s time to take matters into his own paws. But managing sticks, toys, beds, and treats across the house isn’t easy… until he discovers the magic of STAGIL Assets. Why you’ll love it: Witness the cutest “asset manager” in action 🐶

Automatically identify at-risk work in Jira (based on activity)

Happy Apptoberfest! Do you ever wonder what's truly going on with a Jira work item? Is it tough to know what's on track and what's at risk of missing deadlines? I submit to you - Git Integration for Jira with Signals! In 3 minutes, learn how to:

Exploring a Dungeon Adventure using Xray

Apptoberfest '25 has started, and we at Xray have designed an Adventure to quickly take you through some of Xray features in a fun and very unique way... A Dungeons and Dragons style adventure! We hope you have as much fun watching this as we did creating it for you! 🍂🍻 Happy Apptoberfest! 🍂🍻 Watch the Demo 👇

ave you ever felt like managing multiple projects in Jira is like trying to save the world… but without superpowers?@Fede Baronti -Deiser- knows a couple of things about that… Jira projects may be turning into Jira Spaces… but project portfolio management and PMO challenges remain as real as ever. In this unique Apptoberfest 2025 demo, Fede had a revelation, as the Fantastic Four showed up to help PMOs, project managers, and C-levels to turn messy project portfolios into something truly fantastic. Discover how this intergalactic force drive us through how to get superpowers in Jira by Fede’s possession to:

Finalists

A draw.io demo like no other

We like to think that draw.io makes collaboration effortless, but we couldn’t resist taking that idea for a little spin during Apptoberfest! 🍂 So we set up a demo with a twist (and a few hilarious challenges along the way). The result? Check it out here Let’s just say diagramming under pressure has never looked this entertaining.Because great teamwork isn’t just about tools, it’s about having fun while creating something that works. 😉

The Appterparty - Resource Reservation with Apwide Booking

You’ve seen tutorials. You’ve seen demos.But have you ever seen beavers throw an afterparty using Jira? This Apptoberfest, we turned our mascot into a full-on sitcom star.Watch as the Booking Beavers finish their dam, open the Apwide Booking App…and accidentally plan the wildest Octoberfest-themed party ever! It’s chaotic. It’s emotional. There are even plot twists. What you’ll actually learn(yes, there’s real product stuff inside)✅ Show your existing Jira Assets as bookable resources.✅ Use flexible reservation types: start/end times or availability slots.✅ Let Jira users and JSM portal guests book resources: equipment, rooms, parking spots, anything!

Discover who’s doing what in the “The Office” sequel: When, where, and why?

Have you ever felt your stand-ups turn into chaos, and in the end no one know who’s doing what, when, where, or why? @Fede Baronti -Deiser- gets immersed into The Office’s sequel, The Paper newsroom, and helps them to get their affairs in order with a simple capacity planning & resource management solution, using Allocaty for Jira. Learn how Fede takes them to learn how to overview their next weeks of work for each teammate, allowing them to easily spotting work overloads, allocate work quickly, and keep the the team’s capacity under control.