Linear Build

Build with focus. Ship with care.

Issue tracking and sprint planning for teams who want to make progress. Purpose-built for modern product development.

Task and bug tracking

Issue tracking without the noise

Simple, robust, and blazingly fast. Linear is designed with developer ergonomics in mind. It’s the first issue tracker your team will actually enjoy using.

Designed for speed

Keyboard-first design

Simple and clean UI

Optimized for engineers

Teams that switch to Linear create more issues and close them faster⁢⁢⁢

100%

Increase in filed issues

63%

Faster to close issues

Perplexity is known for shipping fast, and a big reason is our use of Linear.
Aravind Srinivas, CEO

Create new issues in a matter of seconds

Create bug reports, feature requests, and other tasks in a streamlined interface that’s designed to get you in and out as quickly as possible.

Core issue attributes

Rich text editor

AI auto-suggestions

Organize issues with
labels and label groups

Estimates (Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, T-shirt)

Additional actions:

Add sub-issues

Set due date

Apply SLA

Expand for focus mode

Apply Templates for speed and consistency

View your work from any angle

Choose between list and board layout. Apply filters and operators to zero in on what’s most important.

Strong defaults, fully customizable

Linear comes with pre-built workflows that can be adapted to your team’s unique way of working.

Quickly respond to what matters most

A notification inbox keeps you updated on your most important streams of work. React to critical issues and snooze the rest for later.

Backlog hygiene, automated.

Keep your backlog clean and uncluttered with Linear’s auto-closing and auto-archiving features.

Similar issue detection

Linear AI highlights related issues and possible duplicates.

Threaded comments

Discuss issues without losing context.

Issue relationships

Mark issues as blocking or being blocked.

Projects

Group issues into larger pieces of work.

Automations and integrations

Workflows that create focus and consistency

Zero-friction integrations. Connect Linear with the rest of your tool stack to streamline workflows across the entire product building process.

Keep a tight feedback loop with your customers

Enable your support team to create and track issues from Zendesk, Front, or Intercom.

Create and discuss issues from Slack

Turn any Slack message into a Linear issue and discuss the work in a bi-directionally synced comment thread.

See how it works

Manage incoming work with Triage

Triage is a shared team inbox to manage incoming bug reports, feature requests, and other unplanned work. Review, prioritize, and assign issues before they are added to the team's workflow.

User responsible for
managing triage inbox

Add issue to
team workflow

Merge with
existing issue

Cancel issue

Remind later

Triage queue

Issue details

SLAs

Apply automatic deadlines to time-sensitive issues to communicate urgency.

Auto-assign incoming issues

Use a triage responsibility schedule to automatically assign new issues to specific team members.

Import schedule from

Powerful Git automations

Link Linear with GitHub and GitLab to automate your pull request workflows. Less grunt work, less context switching. More focus, more flow.

Link and automate PRs

Automatically change issue status based on pull/merge request updates.

Magic words

Add magic words like ‘close’ or ‘fixes’ to your commit messages to automatically update issue status.

Auto-assign and update

Auto-assign issues and move them to a started status when you copy the git branch name.

Automate issue status

Automatically update the issue status based on the status of your pull/merge requests.

PR review status

See the reviewers and review states of your pull and merge requests directly in Linear.

Branch-specific rules

Define custom workflow automations based on specific target branches.

GitHub Issues Sync for open source teams

Manage OSS issues from Linear. Collaborate with GitHub contributors in synced comment threads. Keep everything else private.

Linear Asks

Create and manage workplace requests from Slack

Insights

Instant analytics for any stream of work

Cycles

Build momentum with Cycles

Modern sprint planning, purpose-built for software teams. Cycles focus your team on what work should happen next. A healthy routine to maintain velocity and make meaningful progress.

Automated schedules

Unfinished work rolls over to the next cycle automatically.

Auto-add active issues

Ensure that all work is captured in your current cycle.

Fully configurable

Define start date, duration, cooldown periods, and more.

Progress insights

Track your team’s workload and velocity. Understand scope creep and predict delays.

When we looked at our Cycle insights recently, we noticed that we had completed twice the amount of issues than we had initially planned at the start of the cycle. It felt good.

Linear Plan

Set the product direction with projects and initiatives

Plan the present.
Build the future.

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