Productivity tools / Linear
Linear
Purpose-built for planning and building products with AI agents.
Where it stands
4.0 / 5
Signals score
Not a hands-on test
Based on 2 of 3 signals
- Website health4.6 / 5 · weight 50%
Measured from the tool's public website
- Community3.9 / 5 · weight 20%
What people said in public discussions
Built only from what we can measure or quote without using the tool. How ranking works
Rank by signals
We have not run our own hands-on test on Linear yet. Facts checked 2026-11-08. How tests work
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Should you use Linear?
A quick read built only from what the tool's own pages state and from our tests, not from opinion. Facts checked 2026-11-08.
A good fit if…
Nothing is clearly stated yet.
Check first
- Its pages do not state: pricing, watermark. Check on the tool's site before you rely on it.
Does: Task management
Measured signals
4.6 / 5 · measured 2026-11-08Read automatically from Linear's public website: how reliable, secure, private and open the site is. This is not a test of how well the tool does its job. How this is measured
- Reliability5 / 5The page answered and finished downloading in 101 ms.
- Security5 / 54 of 5 protective headers set (strict-transport-security, content-security-policy, x-content-type-options, referrer-policy).
- Privacy5 / 5No third-party tracking services found on the page.
- Transparency3 / 5No privacy policy linked; links a pricing page.
Community feedback
3.9 / 5 · 36 commenters83% of the 36 people whose comments we could classify were positive. Read automatically from public Hacker News threads about Linear; the classifier is simple and can misread sarcasm, so check the threads. How this works
- Positive
“Feature-wise Linear looks great though, so I might give it another try in some time. P.S. I really think that Linear is much better that most of the alternatives in the regard of UI/performance. It's just that I hate how…”
Read in the thread - Positive
“> "Linear is a tool to remove barriers. Powerful yet simple to use, it helps you to plan ahead, make better decisions and execute faster. You don’t have to come up with best practices for how to use Linear — we already…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“Is there a way to do that with Linear. For all the hate that Jira (deservedly) gets, its search is extremely powerful. I'm not sure how well Linear would scale for a larger org of hundreds of engineers, dozens of teams,…”
Read in the thread - Critical
“We have been using Linear at work, but at times loading a page can be dirt slow at 30+ seconds or more in Firefox. Once he page loads interactions are fairly quick, but the page loads times for me make it hard to load an…”
Read in the thread
Threads: Linear – A fast issue tracker (2020, 221 comments) · Linear.app (2022, 125 comments) · Write tasks not user stories – Linear Method (2021, 81 comments) · Planning for Unplanned Work in Linear (2023, 33 comments)
- Free tier
- Not stated.
- Paid plan
- Not stated.
- Signup
- A sign up is required to use Linear. The page says: “Resources . Customers . Pricing . Now . Contact . . . . Docs . Open app . Log in . Sign up . . . . . . . . . . The product development system for teams and agents.”
- Watermark
- Not stated.
- Where files go
- Linear Agent works in a secure cloud environment. The page says: “Assign a task to Linear Agent, and it works in a secure cloud environment to write and test the code before opening a pull request for review.”
From the tool's own pages, checked 2026-11-08. Sources: Home. Prices and limits change; check the tool before you rely on them.
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Tasks and scores
- Task managementNot tested yet
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