Linear

The product development system for teams and agents.

4.9•366 reviews•

2.5K followers

The product development system for teams and agents.

4.9•366 reviews•

2.5K followers

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Project management software

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Issue tracking software

Linear is a new species of product tool. Purpose-built for product teams with agent workflows at its core, it sets a new standard for planning and building products. Linear is the tool of choice for 20,000+ companies including OpenAI, Ramp, and Vercel.

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The community submitted 366 reviews to tell us what they like about Linear, what Linear can do better, and more.

4.9

Based on 366 reviews

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Reviews consistently praise Linear’s speed, clean UI, and keyboard-driven workflows that keep teams aligned without bloat. Founders highlight practical wins: the makers of

Chronicle

say it improved cross-team coordination and visibility; the makers of

Your Next Store

report faster communication and a tighter business-to-product feedback loop after switching from Jira; and the makers of

Cardboard

love assigning issues to AI and its Slack integration. Common asks: richer roadmap/flight-level views, multi-assignee options, and clearer cycles vs. active-task navigation. Overall sentiment is strongly positive.

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Pros

task management (61)

fast performance (51)

clean interface (45)

project management (39)

intuitive design (34)

team collaboration (32)

issue tracking (23)

keyboard shortcuts (16)

seamless integrations (15)

sprint planning (8)

Cons

confusing structure (10)

no kanban board (8)

single task assignment (5)

limited customization (4)

complex interface (2)

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Mantle

•1 review

Absolutely love the product. Was a user of Pivotal Tracker before, which was great stale for a long time before being killed off. This tool not only filled that void but expanded and implemented a ton of awesome features! And not only that, to me it represents the gold standard of how to build a great web product.

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1yr ago

•8 reviews

Linear is how project management should be—fast, intuitive, and actually fun to use. The UI is clean, keyboard shortcuts make navigation seamless, and the performance is ridiculously good. Compared to traditional project management tools, it feels refreshingly lightweight yet powerful. If you care about speed and focus, Linear is a no-brainer.

What's great

fast performance (51)lightweight (5)keyboard shortcuts (16)intuitive design (34)clean interface (45)

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Nitric Deploy

•4 reviews

Integrates with 99% of services that developers use. Easy to use and great performance.

What's great

fast performance (51)seamless integrations (15)

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14 views3yr ago

•11 reviews

There is no board or flight level views, you have to make your own filters and setup your organisation which may or may not be your best time spending idea. The swim lanes that are so interesting on the competitors (Jira, kanbanize etc) are not present here. There is only one lane per team and tickets belongs only to projects so you have to manage your organisation with a single hierarchy of tasks.

What needs improvement

confusing structure (10)no kanban board (8)

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2 views12mo ago

•10 reviews

What needs improvement

single task assignment (5)confusing structure (10)no kanban board (8)

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7 views12mo ago

•10 reviews

However, it does have a confusing structure, in which you have two competing views: the active sprint (called "cycle") and all the active tasks (called "active"), regardless if they are a part of the sprint or not. Linear defaults to opening the "active" view, so if you don't pay attention, you may think you are in the sprint ("cycle") view and may end up taking tasks that are outside the sprint.

What needs improvement

confusing structure (10)

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3 views12mo ago

•10 reviews

Super fast. I haven't encountered such fast applications in a long time. It's like I'm not even on the internet; everything loads instantly! Unique philosophy. By that, I mean the way they describe how to use their product is very well done. There are things that are missing, but still, it's the best product.

What's great

fast performance (51)

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1 view12mo ago

•8 reviews

The cleanest task management product out there. Great to start out with, for both personal & work. Only downside is that it doesn't feel as robust as something like Asana with custom fields & multiple project assignments.