What it does
Hoq Scrum is a sprint board for a team. You make cards, estimate them, assign them, and drag them across the board's columns. Buttons do the same job for keyboard users and with scripts off.
Sprints are planned, started, filled and closed. Closing a sprint is its own page: you decide what happens to each unfinished card before it closes. Burndown and velocity charts are drawn from the record, in cards until something is estimated and in points after.
The board stores no scrum data of its own. Every change is appended to a journal kept as a .scrum document in the owner's Hoq Storage, and the board, the sprints and the charts are rebuilt from it. A board owned by a Hoq organization is open to every member of that organization.
In numbers
Specifications
| Where your board lives | An append-only journal kept as a .scrum document in the owner's Hoq Storage. Cards, sprints and charts are rebuilt from it. |
|---|---|
| Sharing | A board owned by a Hoq organization is reachable by every member with their own sign-in. |
| One sprint at a time | A team has one active sprint; starting a second is refused. |
| Closing a sprint | The close page asks what happens to every unfinished card; a close that leaves one undecided is refused. |
| Charts | Burndown and velocity, drawn on the server. |
| Without scripts | Drag and drop is an addition; every move also has a button. |
Features
12 features, all shipped. Listed from the product's code and documentation; each row shows the day it was last checked.
| Teams | Make a team with its own board. | |
| Cards | Add numbered cards to the backlog. | |
| Columns | Move cards between the board's columns by dragging or by button. | |
| Estimates | Put points on a card. | |
| Assignees | Name who is on a card. | |
| People | Add people to a team's list of names. |
| Plan and start | Create a sprint, add cards to it and start it. | |
| Close with a decision per card | The close page asks what happens to each unfinished card. | |
| Burndown | A burndown chart for the sprint, with a table of the same numbers. | |
| Velocity | Velocity across past sprints with the average. |
| History in your drive | Every change is appended to a journal in a .scrum document in your Hoq Storage. | |
| Organization boards | A board owned by an organization is open to all its members. |
Works with
- Hoq StorageThe board's journal is a .scrum document in your drive.
Your data
| Where it is kept | A .scrum document in the owner's Hoq Storage holding the append-only journal. The service keeps only which team maps to which document. |
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| Getting it out | The .scrum document is in your drive. There is no CSV or other export from the app. |
| If you leave | Not documented. The .scrum document stays in your drive. |
Compared
| Checked 2026-11-01 | Hoq Scrum | Jira Standard | Linear Basic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cheapest paid tier | No public price yet | $8.48 per user per month, monthly billing1 | $10 per user per month, billed yearly2 |
| Free plan | No public price yet | Up to 10 users, 2 GB1 | Unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues2 |
| API | None | Jira REST API3 | API, webhooks and MCP on every plan2 |
| Export | The journal is a .scrum document in your drive; no CSV | not published1 | Import and export on every plan2 |
| Sprint charts | Burndown and velocity | Yes1 | Not stated on pricing page2 |
| Integrations | None | Atlassian Marketplace1 | GitHub, agents and MCP2 |
| Where data lives | A file in your own Hoq Storage | Vendor cloud1 | Vendor cloud2 |