Zioan for Development Teams: One App Instead of Five Subscriptions
Chat, docs, kanban boards, code snippets, and Git integration in one self-hosted app. Pay once, own it forever.
Your team ships code. But between the coding, you spend hours switching between Slack for discussions, Notion or Confluence for documentation, Jira or Linear for task tracking, and maybe a separate tool for saving code snippets. Each one bills per seat, per month. Each one has its own search, its own permissions, its own login.
A 10-person dev team easily spends $300/month on these tools. That's $3,600/year for the privilege of copying context between apps.
Zioan puts chat, documents, kanban boards, code snippets, calendars, and CRM into one application that runs on your server. One database. One search. One permission system. One payment of €999, and you own it.
Problems dev teams know too well
Context lives in five different apps
A bug gets reported in Slack. Someone creates a ticket in Jira. The investigation notes go into Notion. The fix gets pushed to GitHub. The client asks for status, and you check three apps to piece together the answer. Every tool stores a fragment of the story, and none of them talk to each other without a paid integration.
Per-seat pricing punishes growth
Slack Pro is $7.25/user/month. Notion is $10/user/month. Jira is $8.15/user/month. Hire two more developers and your tooling bill jumps by $50/month, forever. Bring on a contractor for three months and you pay full price for a temporary seat. The math gets worse every quarter.
Your code and conversations live on someone else's servers
Your chat history sits on Salesforce's infrastructure (Slack). Your docs live on Notion's cloud. Your tasks are on Atlassian's servers. You can export data from most of these tools, but you can't run them on your own hardware. If a vendor changes terms, raises prices, or gets acquired, you adapt or migrate.
Developer-specific features are afterthoughts
Try sharing a code snippet in Slack. You get a monospace block with no syntax highlighting, no versioning, and no way to find it later. Notion's code blocks are better but still basic. Neither tool was built with developers in mind. You end up with a scattered collection of gists, snippets in Slack threads, and code examples buried in wiki pages.
What Zioan gives your dev team
Code snippets with a real editor
Zioan includes a code snippet manager built on Monaco, the same editor engine as VS Code. It supports 18 languages with syntax highlighting, auto-detection, and tagging for organization. Every snippet has version history with visual diff, so you can compare changes side by side with color-coded additions and deletions. When someone updates the team's deployment script, you see exactly what changed.
Kanban boards with story points and time tracking
Each board has customizable columns, task cards with priorities, due dates, multiple assignees, checklists, labels, and comments. Estimate work with story points (1/2/3/5/8/13/21) and track actual hours per task. Board-level time reports show per-developer breakdowns with CSV and PDF export, so sprint retrospectives have real data instead of guesses.
Git and Sentry integration, built in
Connect GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket repositories to any space. Push events, pull requests, and branch activity show up in a dedicated Git tab. Sentry integration pipes error events (created, resolved, ignored, assigned, escalating) directly into your workspace. When a Sentry issue fires, your team sees it where they already work.
Chat that connects to everything
Channels and DMs with threads, reactions, file sharing, mentions, and pins. Audio and video calls with screen sharing, where all media stays on your infrastructure. The difference: when someone mentions a task in chat, you can click through to the board. When you share a document, it stays linked. Search (Cmd+K) finds messages alongside the docs and tasks they reference.
AI that has full workspace context
Zioan's MCP server gives AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini access to your entire workspace. Not just chat messages, but tasks, documents, code snippets, and CRM data. Ask your AI to find all tasks related to a feature, draft a document from a chat discussion, or summarize what happened on a board this week. The AI works with real workspace data, not a bolted-on chatbot with no context.
Self-hosted means you own everything
Zioan runs on your server via Docker. Your code snippets, chat history, documents, and task data never leave your infrastructure. Host in the EU for GDPR compliance. Run it on a VPS for $10/month or on your company's existing servers. Updates happen inside the app, no DevOps knowledge required.
The math is simple
A 10-person team paying for Slack ($7.25/user), Notion ($10/user), and Jira ($8.15/user) spends about $305/month, or $3,660/year. Zioan costs €999 once. Year two onward, optional renewal is €199 for updates and support. The software keeps working either way.
30-day trial, all features, no credit card. Install on your server and see if it fits how your team works.