Disclosure first: we build Project Export & Backup, so treat this as a vendor's comparison and verify against the listings. All facts are from public Marketplace listing pages as of September 2026; prices are the listed annual price at 100 users. Two different jobs hide under the word "backup", and the apps split cleanly along that line.
Two jobs, not one
- Disaster recovery. Continuous backup of the whole site with the ability to restore issues, projects, or configuration after a mistake. Rewind, Revyz, and ProBackup are built for this. The data is copied to the vendor's storage, which is what makes restore possible and also what your security review will ask about.
- A portable record of one project. Export everything a project contains, fields, comments, changelog, links, worklogs, into a file a team or an auditor can keep, then retire the project. Project Export & Backup and, on paper, Backup Projects for Jira are built for this. Nothing is copied anywhere except to your browser.
Jira's native answer to the first job is the site backup; to the second it is a filtered CSV export, which drops comments and history. Atlassian's docs: export search results, archive a project, move a project to trash.
The apps, side by side
| App | Vendor | Rating | List price, 100 users, per year | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rewind Backups for Jira | Rewind | 4.8 (73 reviews) | USD 4,000 | Automated daily site backups with restore, vendor-hosted |
| Revyz Command Center for Jira | Revyz | 5.0 (19 reviews) | USD 3,200 | Backup, configuration restore, and compliance platform, vendor-hosted |
| ProBackup for Jira | ProBackup | 3.1 (6 reviews) | USD 2,800 | Daily snapshot of Jira data to vendor storage |
| Backup Projects for Jira | ELFAPP Technologies | 1.3 (1 review) | USD 400 | Per-project backup |
| Project Export & Backup | Katabarwa Labs | new listing | USD 1,750 | Per-project CSV or JSON export in-tenant, then guarded archive or trash; Runs on Atlassian |
How to choose
- You need restore. Buy a disaster-recovery product. A per-project export cannot put an issue back; it is evidence and portability, not recovery.
- You need to decommission projects with an audit trail. A per-project export with a manifest, followed by archive or trash, is the whole workflow. Project Export & Backup ties the two together: it will only offer to retire a project that has a complete export from the last seven days, and it re-checks the live issue count before acting.
- Your security review asks where the data goes. Vendor-hosted backup means a copy of your Jira lives with the vendor; read each listing's Privacy and Security tab. Project Export & Backup is a Forge app with no external egress.
- Attachments. Disaster-recovery products generally back up attachment binaries. Project Export & Backup exports attachment URLs and metadata, not the files, and says so.
Related reading: How to export and back up a single Jira Cloud project before you decommission it.
Written by Abaho Katabarwa at Katabarwa Labs. We build small, single-purpose Atlassian and Azure tools that run entirely inside your own tenant. Questions: support@llmgraph.ai.