Long Confluence pages need structure. When your documentation runs past ten headings, readers lose track of where they are. Numbered headings — like "1. Introduction", "1.1 Background", "2. Methods" — give every section a clear position in the hierarchy. Technical docs, legal documents, SOPs, and compliance reports all rely on them.

Confluence doesn't number headings out of the box. A handful of marketplace apps fill this gap, but the market is small — Appfire's Numbered Headings dominates with 5,484 installs. We built Modern Numbered Headings for Confluence to bring a fresh approach with live preview, one-click TOC insertion, and five numbering styles. In this post we compare it against the alternatives.

Teams print Confluence page links on posters, equipment labels, desk signs, and handouts. A QR code on a physical object that links to the relevant Confluence page saves everyone from typing long URLs. It's a small thing that removes friction in offices, warehouses, and events.

But Confluence has no built-in QR code generation. A handful of marketplace apps fill this niche — it's a small market with roughly 130 total installs across all apps. We built QRCode for Confluence to let teams embed QR codes directly into pages with a simple /qrcode slash command. In this post we compare it against the alternatives.

Teams need two types of knowledge sharing in Confluence: structured FAQ sections for pages, and community Q&A forums for ongoing discussion. Confluence has no built-in solution for either.

We built two apps to cover both needs — Modern FAQ for Confluence for polished, drag-and-drop FAQ sections, and Modern Questions for Confluence for structured Q&A with voting and accepted answers. In this post we compare both against the alternatives on the Atlassian Marketplace.

Every Confluence page looks the same — same font, same size, same limited formatting. When you want a landing page that stands out, a team announcement that gets read, or documentation that looks professional, Confluence's built-in typography holds you back.

Several apps on the Atlassian Marketplace try to solve this. We built Google Fonts for Confluence to give teams access to the full Google Fonts library (1,942+ families) with a live preview editor. In this post we compare it against every alternative so you can choose the right one.

Every engineering team needs diagrams in Jira — architecture decisions on epics, bug reproduction flows on tickets, wireframes on stories. But Jira has no built-in diagramming. You either paste screenshots from external tools or install a marketplace app.

We built two diagram apps for Jira: Mermaid+ Diagrams for Jira for text-based diagrams using Mermaid syntax (flowcharts, sequence diagrams, ER models, C4 architecture), and Excalidraw Diagrams + Whiteboards for Jira for freeform drawing with 229 built-in shape libraries. In this post we compare both against every alternative on the Atlassian Marketplace.

Every team has recurring issue types — bug reports with specific fields, user stories with acceptance criteria, onboarding checklists with sub-tasks. Creating each one from scratch wastes time and introduces inconsistency. Jira has no built-in issue templates.

Over a dozen marketplace apps try to solve this. The market is fragmented but maturing — the leader has roughly 4,900 installs, and several apps now carry Cloud Fortified status. We built Modern Issue Templates for Jira to bring template creation, GitHub import, auto-application, and fill-in variables to Jira issues. In this post we compare it against the alternatives.

Engineering teams need diagrams in Confluence — flowcharts for runbooks, sequence diagrams for API docs, ER models for database schemas, architecture diagrams for design decisions. Writing diagrams as code (text-based syntax) is faster than drag-and-drop for developers. Mermaid is the most popular text-based diagram language.

Several marketplace apps bring Mermaid to Confluence, plus the major visual diagramming tools (draw.io, Gliffy, Lucidchart) also support it. We built Mermaid Plus Diagrams & AI Agent for Confluence to offer 30 diagram types with live preview, one-click templates, and a built-in syntax guide. In this post we compare it against every alternative.

Excalidraw in Confluence brings hand-drawn style diagrams and whiteboards to your wiki. This guide compares Excalidraw Plus vs draw.io — features, libraries, and which fits your team's needs.

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