Starlie

Starlie is a native Jira desktop app for Mac, built for the Jira work you do every day: find an issue, see what is going on, update it, leave a comment, move it across the board, and get back to work. It brings your Jira projects, issues, and workflows into a native macOS app powered by the Jira API, so your projects, issues, and workflows stay in Jira. Starlie works with both Jira Cloud and self-hosted Jira instances. It requires macOS 15 or later, is installed from the Mac App Store, and starts with a free 7-day trial. Starlie exists because Jira on the Mac has lacked a native home. Atlassian stopped supporting its own Jira Cloud for Mac app in February 2022 and now offers the web app and mobile apps instead, and Starlie fills that gap. The app is built with native macOS technologies rather than an Electron wrapper, which is why it supports native notifications, light and dark mode, multiple windows, and fast issue loading. It is distributed as an Atlassian Marketplace partner app that has been reviewed and approved for distribution, with an Atlassian Marketplace privacy and security review completed. Search is the centerpiece of the everyday workflow. Press ⌘K to find an issue, a summary, or a project. For a more specific view, you can write JQL with suggestions for fields, operators, and values, so queries such as project = LOOP AND priority = High can be composed without memorizing syntax. Starlie pairs JQL autocomplete with a free JQL query builder for finding the Jira work you need. Quick filters and ⌘K access to recent issues keep the work you return to most often within easy reach, which reduces the friction of navigating back to the same set of items throughout the day. Sprint boards keep your sprint moving. Starlie shows the active sprint at a glance, with issues organized into status columns, and lets you drag a card to its next column. The change syncs to Jira, so the board in Starlie stays consistent with the board your team sees. Smooth Kanban drag and drop is paired with quick filters, so you can narrow the board to the work you are focused on. Because the board reflects the state of the sprint, it also works as a lightweight way to check how the work is progressing before a stand-up or a review. Issue details keep the whole conversation in one Mac window. Starlie shows the description, subtasks, and comments together in a single view, so you can read the full context of an item without switching between screens or tabs. You can change the status, assignee, or priority right from the issue, and leave a comment without leaving the app. Custom fields are supported, and Quick Look lets you preview attachments. The combination means the routine editing tasks that make up most Jira usage — reassigning, reprioritizing, commenting, and updating — happen in one place. Outline brings every little task into the bigger picture. Starlie can pull epics, stories, and subtasks from multiple projects into one expandable tree, so you can see who is doing what and how the work is progressing across project boundaries. Because the hierarchy is expandable, you can start at the epic level and drill down to individual subtasks as needed. Reminders round out the day-to-day loop by helping you stay aware of the items that need attention. The Outline view is aimed at people who need to understand the shape of a body of work, not just one ticket at a time. Starlie is deeply integrated with macOS and feels right at home. You can jump into search with ⌘K and move through your work with keyboard shortcuts, keeping your hands on the keys. You can open multiple windows to keep more than one issue in view at once. Notifications are native macOS notifications, so you stay in the loop in the way your Mac already works. The app supports light and dark mode, so you can work in the appearance that feels comfortable on your Mac. The team also publishes a collection of Jira keyboard shortcuts, including the official list plus Mac-native ones, to help you get faster over time. Starlie is built for privacy. It stores your credentials in the macOS Keychain, and issues, comments, and attachments travel directly between your Mac and Atlassian's official API. Starlie's server handles secure sign-in but never sees your Jira content. During setup you choose the Jira site you want to use, and you do not need a separate Starlie account. The app is private by design, with no analytics or tracking. Installation is from the Mac App Store; you open the app from Launchpad or Spotlight and connect your Jira site, a process that takes about five minutes. Beyond reading and updating issues, Starlie connects Jira work to coding tools. From an issue you can open coding tasks in Claude Code or Codex with the issue context and your local project attached, so the work item and the repository it belongs to arrive together. This is a small feature in the interface but a meaningful one in practice: it removes the manual step of describing an issue to an agent or copying details between tools, and it keeps the coding task anchored to the Jira item that motivated it. Users describe the result in terms of smoother day-to-day work. App Store reviewers have called Starlie a game changer and said they could not believe somebody finally made an even better answer to Jira's sunsetted native app, arguing that the web experience will never match a native app. One reviewer on r/macapps said a $14.99/year subscription is totally worth it. An Atlassian Marketplace reviewer who works as a product person said they like it way more than the web interface and that using different types of boards became way smoother with the app. In practice, Starlie fits into several concrete workflows. A developer starts the day with ⌘K to jump to a recent issue, reads the description, subtasks, and comments, updates the status, and then opens a coding task in Claude Code or Codex with the issue context and local project attached. A product person works from sprint boards, dragging cards between columns and using quick filters to focus on a subset of the sprint. A team lead uses Outline to expand epics into stories and subtasks across multiple projects and see how the work is progressing. Someone reviewing a ticket uses Quick Look to preview attachments and native notifications to stay aware of updates. Starlie is built for Mac users who work in Jira every day — developers, product people, and anyone else whose routine involves finding issues, updating them, and moving them across a board. It requires macOS 15 or later and works with Jira Cloud and self-hosted Jira. There is a free 7-day trial; after that, pricing is $2.99 per month, $14.99 per year, or a $29.99 lifetime license. Starlie is available on the Mac App Store and is an Atlassian Marketplace partner app reviewed and approved for distribution. The takeaway is simple: Starlie gives Jira a native Mac home. Your projects, issues, and workflows stay in Jira, the app connects through Jira's API, and your credentials stay in the macOS Keychain while your Jira content travels directly to Atlassian. Fast search, JQL with autocomplete, sprint boards, rich issue detail, and an expandable Outline cover the Jira work you do every day — and it all runs at native speed on your Mac.