10 free apps taking the Marketplace by storm in May

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Curious which free Jira and Confluence apps are popular on the Atlassian Marketplace right now? Every month, our partner Contegix unveils the 10 fastest-growing free apps over the previous month – and we’re sharing them with you!

Jira apps:  

1. Reports - Charts and Graphs for Jira Dashboard Free: With this app, users can generate simple yet robust and flexible charts, graphs and reports to summarize and visualize your data on your Jira dashboards. (This app was also featured in April with 72% growth.)

2. Issue Templates Agent for Jira FREE: Immediately apply templates on create issue screen or create your own custom issue templates and manage them with ease in one storage place. (This app was also featured in April with 33% growth.)

3. Behaviours - ScriptRunner: This app allows users to gain control over fields, extend standard configurations, and customize how fields behave. (This app was also featured in April with 26% growth.)

4. Issue Template for Jira: This app allows users to add an issue template feature to the create issue window. Users can also define templates to automatically prefill issue summary and description fields. (This app was also featured in April with 18% growth.)

5. Awesome custom fields: With this app, users can create super easy and user friendly custom field wizards. Users can also create, edit and monitor the usage of all custom fields created with our app in one centralized dashboard. (This app was also featured in April with 14% growth.)

6. CI/CD for Jira: View your team’s deployments in Jira. Filter by issue type, assignee, environment, and more. Plus, quickly view build and deployment information from the Jira issue panel. (This app was also featured in April with 11% growth.)

7. Custom Field Suite - Powerful custom fields for Jira: Customize Jira to suit your needs, increase the clarity of Jira issues, and level up your project management skills with a powerful suite of custom field types that require zero coding.

Confluence apps:  

1. Mermaid Diagrams for Confluence: This app allows users to find diagrams by keywords using Confluence search, and export diagrams using Confluence's PDF export. (This app was also featured in April with 18% growth.)

2. Karma - Ultimate Page Builder: Create engaging Confluence pages in seconds, such as Knowledge Base, documentation, Intranet and more. The app provides users with 200+ professionally predesigned templates. (This app was also featured in April with 16% growth.)

3. Swagger Macro for Confluence: This app allows you to embed Open API specification to Confluence pages. It’s also compatible with External Share for Confluence.

Download any of these apps for FREE and browse other apps on the Atlassian Marketplace.

And don't forget to let us know which app is your favorite and why in the comments!

[Kate Pawlak _Appsvio_]

As a member of Appsvio, I'm so happy to see our Issue Templates Agent on the list 💪 This continuous growing shows that our solutions are really needed for Atlassian customers. 

Congratulations to all creators which apps are listed here!

[Tzirel Shaffren]

As someone who has been wanting just such a solution, I installed Issue Templates Agent immediately and am very happy with the results. We had been kludging it by putting the equivalent of a template into the field descriptions so that we could hover over the tooltip, and copy/paste it in, which doesn't allow for formatting, and is also very finicky and annoying. This thing installed very easily, is very intuitive to set up, and was ready to go in minutes. (I was helped by the fact that all the template text was ready-to-go in the field descriptions, so all I had to do was add formatting.)

A couple of tips:

1. It pays to warn your Jira users that they will be prompted to Allow Access the next time they create a Jira for a project that has a template
2. It pays to warn your Jira users that the template is only available on Create Issue, so even if they don't have all the info that they want to fill in at the time of creating the issue, it pays to apply the template so they can have it available when they are ready for it.