What is Linear?
Linear, founded in 2019 and headquartered in San Francisco (with a fully remote team), builds issue tracking and project management software aimed at software teams. Its documentation describes projects, cycles (sprints), and workflows built around speed and a deliberately opinionated feature set rather than broad configurability. It is closed-source and offered only as a hosted service; there is no self-hosting option.
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Sources checked 27 September 2026: official website, documentation, pricing.
Key capabilities
- Issue tracking: projects, cycles and a fast, keyboard-driven interface.
- Integrations: GitHub, GitLab, Slack, Figma and other developer tools.
- API: a GraphQL API for custom integrations and automation.
Software team issue tracking, sprint/cycle planning and lightweight roadmapping are the core areas. Confirm per-seat pricing and plan-based feature gates (e.g., unlimited history, SSO) against team size before committing.
Shortlist Linear when a software team wants fast, keyboard-first issue tracking with less configuration overhead than tools like Jira. Teams that need extensive custom workflow configuration or on-premise hosting should look elsewhere.
Linear's opinionated design is a feature for teams that want less configuration, but a constraint for teams that need heavily customized workflows; trial it with a real team's actual workflow rather than a demo project.
Technical details
- Access
- Web platform
- Source model
- Other license
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California, USA
- Pricing model
- Freemium
- API
- Available
- Website
- linear.app ↗
Official resources
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Start from the users, systems and operating responsibilities the tool needs to support.
- Confirm current features, licensing and support terms with the publisher.
- Validate deployment, data location, access control, backup and recovery requirements.
- Test integrations, export paths and a representative operational workflow before committing.
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