The board your Jira
deserves.
Laya Board renders your real Jira issues on a fast, beautiful, fully customisable board — inside Jira. Drag a card and a real workflow transition runs. Nothing is copied, nothing migrates, and your Jira permissions always apply.
Free — no feature paywalled. Installs in about a minute. No Laya account needed.
The most-used screen in delivery is the least loved
Your team spends all day on a board. The default one works — and that is the nicest thing anyone says about it.
Everything, then anything
Traditional boards assemble the entire dataset before they show you a single card. The bigger the board, the longer you stare at a spinner — and you feel it again on every reload.
One look, take it or leave it
The native board barely changes: same columns, same grey cards, same layout for every team. The place your team lives all day has no room to feel like theirs.
Done is just… grey
Shipping something should feel like something. On the default board, the biggest moment of the sprint looks exactly like every other status change.
Engineered to feel instant
Laya Board runs on a next-generation board engine with intelligent data orchestration. Traditional boards fetch the whole world before they paint. Laya paints the board shell immediately, prioritises the cards in front of you, and streams the rest in behind them — so the board starts working when you do.
Illustration: a traditional Jira board assembles everything before showing anything, taking several times longer to become usable. Laya Board paints the board shell instantly, streams the visible cards first, and is interactive in around a second.
Illustrative of loading a large board on a typical connection. Real timings vary by site, board size and network.
Real issues. Real transitions. Zero copies.
Everything on the board is a live Jira issue. Every action is a real Jira operation under your own permissions — if Jira wouldn't allow it, neither will the board.
Drag runs the real workflow
Moving a card performs an actual Jira workflow transition, validators included. If no transition exists from the current status, the board says so instead of pretending.
Order that sticks
Re-ordering cards writes back to Jira's own rank, so the order you set is the order everyone sees — in Laya Board and in Jira itself.
Inline editing, no detours
Title, assignees, priority, due date and story points edit straight from the card, and land in Jira immediately.
A full issue panel
Description with rich text, a live comments and activity feed, sub-tasks with progress, and your visible custom fields — without leaving the board.
Sprints without the detour
Plan, start and complete sprints from the board's Manage menu on sprint-capable boards, plus versions & components where you have the permission.
Your views, one key away
Filter the board, save your favourite views, and fly with keyboard shortcuts — press C to create, ? for the full map.
And it meets you everywhere in Jira: the project sidebar, a Mission Control boards hub in apps navigation, an issue-view glance, Open in Laya Board on issues, boards, backlogs and sprint cards, and the command palette.
Build the board you want to see
Jira gives every team the same board. Board Studio gives every board a point of view: themes with dark mode, four background styles, column styling, exactly the card fields you choose, and effects that run from a subtle glow to full confetti — with GIF transitions for the columns that deserve a party.
Live demo — re-skin the board, pick the Done column's effect, then drag a card into it.
Studio settings are saved per board for the whole site, so the board you design is the board your team gets.
Both sides stay true
Link the app to a Laya workspace (optional, and free) and your Jira work lives in two places at once — without drifting apart.
Change it in Jira
Edits made in Jira land on your Laya boards in seconds. Sync is event-driven, not polled — the change arrives because it happened, not because a timer fired.
Change it in Laya
Edits made in Laya flow back to Jira through the app's write-back bridge — only for projects your admin allowlists, always visible in Jira's history, with an audit trail on both sides.
Everyone stays aligned
Some people live in Jira, some prefer Laya. Both read and write the same truth, and Jira remains the system of record the whole time.
Live demo — drag a card on either side and watch the other follow.
Every board your team lives in, inside Jira
Work rarely lives in one tool. With a linked Laya workspace, Laya Board turns Jira into the one place you can see all of it.
External boards
Boards synced from Azure DevOps, monday.com, GitHub and GitLab render inside Jira — two-way editable, with open-in-source on every card, and honest about limits: a field a provider cannot back stays read-only rather than pretending to save.
Master boards
Layer up to 50 boards into one live view: swim lanes per source, per-source status mapping into your columns, source badges, and filters that cut across everything.
Native Laya boards
Lightweight boards whose cards live in Laya rather than Jira — the app says so explicitly before you create one. Ideal for intake, rituals and everything that shouldn't clutter your projects.
Share with anyone
Give stakeholders a read-only guest link — no Jira seat, no Laya account, revocable the moment the engagement changes. Optionally password-protected.
Live demo — five sources streaming into one master board.
Adopt at your pace. Reverse at will.
Laya Board is a standalone Jira app first — valuable even if you never plan to leave Jira. The path into the wider Laya platform is an advantage, not the agenda.
- Step 1
Install free
A Jira admin installs it from the Marketplace. The board works in about a minute — nobody migrates anything, nobody creates an account.
- Step 2 · optional
Link a workspace
One admin approval with a short-lived device code pairs the site with exactly one Laya workspace. No passwords shared, revocable from either side.
- Step 3 · your call
Control the taps
Write-back from Laya runs through a per-project allowlist your admin controls — narrow it to exactly the projects you choose, or empty it to switch write-back off entirely.
- Any time
Leave nothing behind
Disconnect from either side, keep or purge the synced data, and your Jira issues are untouched — they never left Jira in the first place.
You can stop at step one forever and still have the best-looking, fastest-feeling board on your site.
Different teams, same first minute
Software teams
Sprints planned on the board, drag that runs real transitions, celebrations when work ships. The daily surface finally keeps up with the daily standup.
Delivery & programme leads
Master boards fold Jira, ADO, GitHub, GitLab and monday.com into one live picture — no more rebuilding reality in a slide deck every Monday.
Agencies & client-facing teams
Send a read-only guest link instead of a screenshot. Clients see live progress with no Jira seat, and you revoke the link when the engagement ends.
Jira admins
One approval to install, explicit allowlists for anything that writes, a sync-health panel with one-click Repair, and a clean exit that purges on demand.
Made to pass your admin's sniff test
Read the admin guide · Read the user guide · Laya's security posture
Frequently asked questions
Is it really free?
Do we need Laya.net accounts?
Where does our data live?
Who shows up in Jira history?
Does it respect our workflows and permissions?
Can we share a Jira board with clients who have no licence?
What happens if we disconnect or uninstall?
Which Jira does it support?
Where do we get help?
A faster Jira board is
one install away.
Free on the Atlassian Marketplace. Working on your real issues in about a minute. Loved by the people who stare at it all day.
Free · No feature paywalled · Works with just a Jira account