Free online bug tracker / to-do listing for personal use

Question

I'm a mobile app developer and I'm looking for a free online bug/issue tracker for use only by me.

At the moment I'm using a simple doc file to list all closed, in progress, resolved etc... issues and to list all my new features and to-dos.

I'd like to use a tool for that in order to have a better management of the progresses during development.

The features I would need are:

• Possibility to choose the type of the case: bug, feature, inquiry, schedule item or others
• Possibility to create subissues or categories.
• Would be nice to have a to-dos section.
• It is enough that it works only for the admin of the project because I want to use it just for me and not with other team members or users.
• Possibility to add tags and click on those to filter all issues with that particular tag.
• free and available online

I have already tried:

• Redmine
• Trello
• Yodiz
• FogBugz

but they don't have all features I need.

I also know that there are tools like Bugzilla, JIRA etc., but I need a free and online tool so they are not good for me.

Any suggestion?

Answer 1

You could try GitLab which is a complete source code management, issue tracker and wiki. Although this is slightly more than you wanted, the issue tracker covers everything you need.

It supports:

• Unlimited free private projects (maximum 10GB per project)
• Fully hosted
• Tagging issues (this can also be used to mark type of case)
• Filtering by tag
• Adding milestones to issues
• Referencing issues within other issues (usable for sub issues)
• To do lists in either issues or the wiki (each item has a checkbox next to it for marking if it is done or not)

Example of issue tracker (from public project of tortoise git):

Example of filtering by label(tag)

Example of todo list

You can also host your version for free.

Answer 2

With self-hosted at least being an option, I recommend taking a look at Trac. It can be run via e.g. Apache or Nginx, and is build using Python – fully open source, you can adjust it to your very needs.

Let's see how your requirements are met:

• Possibility to choose the type of the case: bug, feature, inquiry, schedule item or others: Some of these are already pre-configured, and you can easily define the others and more.
• Possibility to create subissues or categories: Yes, at least via plugins (there are tons of plugins for all kind of potential needs, see TracHacks; this also includes ticket dependencies – e.g. if one issue blocks another)
• Tagging issues (this can also be used to mark type of case): Yes, out-of-the-box.
• Filtering by tag : Yes, out-of-the-box.
• It is enough that it works only for the admin of the project because I want to use it just for me and not with other team members or users: Just disable the account creation ("/register" URL), and you're the only user :)
• Possibility to add tags and click on those to filter all issues with that particular tag: Well, we've already had this with two separate items, so: Yes, out-of-the-box.

Additional features you might want (reading your question between the lines):

• support for many version-control-systems, such as Git, SVN, and more
• easily reference a bug from a commit and vice-versa, so you can see relations with a single click from each end
• integrated wiki, can be referenced the very same way with tickets and commits
• tons of plugins for whenever additional needs arise, e.g. to see your "project performance", using Gantt graphs, visualize commit history, and more

Related answers of mine showing more details on Trac:

• Open source project management software
• Ticket tracking project management workflow software
• Most appropriate software for data warehouse ticket tracker and encyclopedia
• https://softwarerecs.stackexchange.com/q/1380/185

Screenshots from the last reference:

^{Example screenshot from one of my projects / Android clients (click images for larger variants)}