Issue tracking and project planning for software teams, built around fast keyboard-driven workflows and cycles.

About Linear

Linear is an issue tracker and project planning tool made for software and product teams. Work is recorded as issues, grouped into projects and scheduled in cycles, the time-boxed iterations a team commits to. Roadmaps and initiatives link that day-to-day work to longer-term goals, and a triage inbox collects incoming bugs and requests before they are assigned. The interface is designed for speed, with keyboard shortcuts for most actions, and it connects to GitHub, GitLab and Slack so that issues follow the state of the code. It is mostly used by startups and engineering teams that find heavier trackers slow.

Listed inProject ManagementasIssue Tracking Platforms

How teams use Linear

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Damien G.

Operations·Administrator·Worklife·France

5
September 2026

Great product and tech planning tool, we use it widely to coordinate business teams as well on cross department internal projects (example : growth, CRM, quote to cash…). The slackbot is amazing to create tickets from threads or link a projet to a channel. The MCP is also very useful and powerful. We have completely replaced notion for project tracking.

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Employee at PrettyWhale.ai

Administrator·France

5
July 2026

Very easy to use and set up. Allows you to avoid overly complex configurations and focus on project management. I love the UX

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Théodore B.

Founder / CEO·Expert admin·LoneScale·France

5
September 2026

smooth, integrated, collaborative, one of the best tool for product management

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Features

Track tasks and tickets as issues at the core of the workflow
Plan work in time-boxed cycles that carry over unfinished items
Group issues into projects and roadmaps with milestones
Review and assign incoming requests through a triage inbox
Integrate with GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Figma, Sentry, and Notion
About
Founded2019
HeadquartersSan Francisco, USA
Employees50 – 100
linear.app

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