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Linear
The issue tracker you'll enjoy using.
4.6
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Linear Reviews & Product Details

Linear Overview
What is Linear?

Linear is an agile project management tool built to help teams stay organized and focused. Linear empowers teams to efficiently manage tasks and collaborate on projects by offering features such as issue tracking, roadmap planning, and project prioritization.

Company Linear
Year founded 2019
Company size 11-50 employees
Headquarters San Francisco, California, United States
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Managed by:
Axel Grubba
Founder
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Linear Product Details
Capabilities
API
CLI
Segment
Small Business
Mid Market
Enterprise
Deployment Cloud / SaaS / Web-Based, Desktop Mac, Desktop Windows, Mobile Android, Mobile iPhone
Training Documentation
Languages English
Linear Pros and Cons
Pros
  • Speedy & User-friendly: Known for its swift and intuitive interface.
  • Rich Integrations: Seamlessly connects with tools like Github.
  • Sleek UI/UX: Praised for clean design and helpful shortcuts.
Cons
  • Limited Scalability: Best for small teams; can become cluttered.
  • Ambiguous Structure: Potential mix-ups between "active" tasks and sprints.
Linear Features
API Access
Activity Log
Attachment Support
Audit Trail
Automated Issue Escalation
Automated Task Assignment
Bulk Issue Update
Collaboration Tools
Custom Fields
Customer Portal
Customizable Templates
Customizable Workflows
Dashboard
Email Notifications
Gantt Charts
Integrations with Third-Party Apps
Issue Prioritization
Kanban Board
Knowledge Base
Milestone Tracking
Mobile Access
Multi-Project Support
Real-Time Updates
Recurring Issues
Reporting and Analytics
Role-Based Access Control
SLA Management
Search and Filter
Time Tracking
User Permissions
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Last updated: July 05, 2024
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26 Linear Reviews
4.6 out of 5
Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 19, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.5
CJ
Charly J.
Head Of Marketing
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"Even if you're not an engineer, Linear is easy to use to collaborate with development teams"
What do you like best about Linear?

It's biased for developers and their planning, but as a Marketing professional, the tool is simple and easy enough to use to follow along and even collab with development treams.

What do you dislike about Linear?

The UI/UX is a bit more engineer friendly. It's a bit less intuitive and less flashy, but that's probably what's preferred for developers. I wish there were different modes/skins you could use.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easily track and follow along plans/sprints with developers so you can work async and meet deadlines to push to market. I love to see other teams on there and get things done in a timely manner.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 03, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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Divyansh K.
Founder
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"Linear is a supercharged productivity tool for agile and scrum"
What do you like best about Linear?

The best feature of the Linear app is the ease of use and simplicity compared to other task management tools. With Linear, creating roadmaps, sprint planning, and tracking tasks is child's play. The keyboard shortcuts are also one of the best thing I like about Linear

What do you dislike about Linear?

Honestly, there is not much that you won't like about Linear. Things that might be improved can be more visibility and discoverability of sprint performance. Maybe make it easier to see distribution of work between different team members and teams.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Linear.app helps us organize and track the sprint, keep tasks and bugs, host scrum boards and roadmaps, etc. It's a pivotal tool for us and is very high impacting on the performance of the members as makes it super easy to track the tasks at hand.

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Mar 31, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.0
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Kent O.
Founder
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"Pretty straightforward - but I'm not using advanced features"
What do you like best about Linear?

Linear has a decent UX, allowing ticket management with labels in a fairly easy way. I can have different views saved, create projects and assign issues in it.

What do you dislike about Linear?

When adding issues to a project, I feel like we could list them in a better way to have main categories and sub categories of issues displayed with dropdown.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

We manage our sprints with Linear. This means creating issues/tasks for each developper, estimating them, labeling them for stats purposes. This includes both new features but also bugs and improvements.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Sep 05, 2022
 Source
Overall Rating:
4.0
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Nico G.
Senior Full Stack Engineer
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"Very useful tool to manage software projects"
What do you like best about Linear?

Its interface is very clean. You can create your own dashboard with filters. And there is a slack where you can ask questions

What do you dislike about Linear?

I would like it to have more documentation and guides on how to get the most of it. It has the concept of cycles but there is not enough information in the site nor references

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping administrating our software project. Creating sprints, projects, dashboard. Using scrum methodology

Mid Market (51-1000 emp.)
Jan 26, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
3.5
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Jerry Y.
Director Of Technology & Engineering
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"Great Start"
What do you like best about Linear?

I really like Linear.app as a project management tool. It has a clean and intuitive interface that makes it easy to keep track of tasks and progress. The ability to easily collaborate with team members and assign tasks is a huge benefit.

What do you dislike about Linear?

One thing I dislike about Linear.app is that it doesn't have as many features as some other project management tools on the market. However, this can also be seen as a positive because it keeps the app simple and focused on the core features. Also lacking analytics.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Linear.app is solving the problem of cluttered and disorganized project management. It allows teams to easily track progress and collaborate on tasks, which ultimately leads to more efficient and successful projects. As a user, this benefits me by saving time and reducing stress when managing projects.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 15, 2023
 Source
Overall Rating:
5.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Project management tools for software projects by people with craft and vision"
What do you like best about Linear?

- Speed: compared to Jira, Linear is fun - Keyboard support - Dark mode - Focused on simplicity - Integrations (e.g. with Figma and Sentry) - GraphQL API - The Linear way

What do you dislike about Linear?

- More analytics and insights on the standard plan

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Project management

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
May 12, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Gets the job done"
What do you like best about Linear?

It's straight forward and it gets the job done. Also available in dark mode.

What do you dislike about Linear?

There's a lot of keyboard shortcuts that aren't always intuitive.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps track bugs and issues for our dev team.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 01, 2022
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Overall Rating:
4.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"My Experience"
What do you like best about Linear?

Great for handling task management while having a very immersive UI which in turn increases productivity within our team, also suitable for collaboration with different members of the group.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Linear lacks an android app which would come in handy which linear currently doesn't have.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Our whole team depends on linear and most importantly it's a lifeline for us to keep us on track to fulfill our goals and requirement and adjust tasks on the basis of priority.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 09, 2023
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Overall Rating:
4.0
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"My Experience"
What do you like best about Linear?

Linear makes managing tasks more productive, we use it to assign the development team to filter and fix bug reports generated by the DevOps team, for better system performance and stability, it also makes collaborating much easier and manages KPI and user credential data in the forms of charts and graphs for better visualization.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Linear currently lacks a more definitive visual representation for managing KPIs that can be edited and customized, moreover currently lacks android based mobile application.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use linear for its tracking feature which keeps us on track to fulfill our goals and duties more efficiently while having a bonus of different styles and themes boards for tasks and activity which increases our productivity and data flow for better visualization, Moreover team collaboration is also helping us map task and increase workplace communication.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Jan 17, 2023
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Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"Slim and Powerful"
What do you like best about Linear?

Linear is a slim and powerful development tool that makes it easy to manage and track issues and tasks in a project. The interface is clean and intuitive, making it easy to navigate and find the information you need. Additionally, the tool offers a wide range of features such as notifications, labels, and integration with other tools like GitHub, which makes it a great option for teams of any size. Overall, Linear is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a streamlined and efficient way to manage their development projects.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Any development tool needs to be tightly integrated with docs or knowledge management tools. This is where Linear could be improved. If hey created as well a crafted Knowledge Manager i would be very impressed. Something like Slite.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

Clean and focussed issue management.

Small Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Dec 23, 2022
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Overall Rating:
3.5
AG
Verified Reviewer
Founder
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"My Experience"
What do you like best about Linear?

Linear is our go-to software for issue tracking within the development cycle, we use different types of visual representations such as graphs and Gantt charts to improve productivity and solve bugs.

What do you dislike about Linear?

Linear currently lacks a mobile-based application which makes it a little harder to use and analyze things on a go, Moreover UX needs improvement which makes login in much easier with SSO and 2FA.

What problems is Linear solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Linear as our daily CRM for task and issues which need to be solved, Moreover Linear has the best collaboration features which makes our team bonding on any particular task easier and help us track KPIs for productivity analysis.