Linear has been the transformational tool that finally checked all of the boxes that kept both our Technical Product Managers and Engineers happy, allowing us to roll out centralized tooling for our software development management for the first time.


We run a very large platform team that manages aggressive roadmaps with various points of cross-vertical intersections. These were very hard to coordinate until we used Linear.


Linear is fast in every global geography where our teams operate, unlike similar tools that we trialed in the past that brought with them a great deal of latency. I especially appreciate the low maintenance approach to managing software development in this tool. There is no excessive toll on our teams to track their progress, and this has been a big part of the team adoption. Lastly, the integrations with GitHub and Slack make our lives so much easier! Spinning up a new Linear issue directly from a Slack thread gets our conversations tracked and scoped, and cuts down on team churn. Introducing this tool in general has been a huge win for our teams.

Cash App

Technical Product Lead

We’d tried many tools before Linear but none of them felt like they were made for the way we work. Linear was a breath of fresh air - speedy, snappy, and a pleasure to use.


Features like keyboard shortcuts and the GitHub integration are treated like first class citizens. Linear has changed the way we work, too. It’s so quick to create issues that we’ve moved to a “no work without a ticket” approach. This improves traceability and makes it easier to see progress and what’s being worked on. 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.

Vercel

Director of Engineering

Linear helps us be action biased. We’ve been using it since day one and it’s at the core of our engineering workflow.


We can move quickly while remaining organized because everything we want to build gets documented in Linear, the moment it comes up. The team’s instinct is to create an issue for every idea, problem, or dependency because it is so fast to do it. This makes collaboration and sharing updates easier. It also means that we can revisit issues weeks, months, even years later when the timing is right and people can just get to work. When an issue is added to Linear, it moves from the space of ideas to being actionable. That is aligned with engineering culture at Ramp.

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Ramp

Head of Engineering

Linear was the first tool that we successfully adopted as a company around organizing projects and tasks.

It’s used across different teams from engineering to marketing to infrastructure and support. We had buy-in across the organization because of the speed and how enjoyable it was to use.


From an engineering perspective, it’s been helpful to have the ability to standardize tools and processes. Default templates mean that rather than having to refer to a wiki on how to create an issue, the information is there when you need it. Cycles make it easy to keep track of work and automatically bump tasks to the next cycle if they get missed. We’re even able to get back to users faster when we fix bugs and ship features thanks to the GitHub automation which sends a notification once a PR is merged. We use Linear comments extensively. It’s the place where people have conversations and share updates — and we point to Linear as the source of truth.

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Retool

Deployed Engineer

As our product teams have started using Linear, they’ve quickly come to love it. We asked everyone how they would feel if they had to use a different work management tool than their current choice. Around 80% of people using Linear said they would consider quitting if asked to switch tools.

We started using Linear while working on a new, intense project. We needed something that could keep up with a new team developing ways of working together. The project itself was moving quickly with constant changes to priority and scope. We spoke on looms multiple times a day but needed a tool to help us manage tasks. Everything we tried added more work to our plates.

Then we tried Linear and suddenly all our task management problems went away. I think one of the main reasons was the speed. The team felt that they could get into the tool, find what they were looking for or figure out what they needed to do, and then get back to work. That combined with the Inbox was helpful because now engineers felt like they could go to a single place to see what mattered to them. They didn’t have to go and look at the entire board or search through all the issues to figure it out.

The biggest challenge with these tools is usually adoption, but that hasn’t been an issue with Linear. People just started using it on their own. Engineers on the team could figure out how to use Linear without needing to ask for instructions. I remember one engineer who was skeptical of switching tools. We were on a Zoom call, and as I updated an issue in Linear, the change updated in his browser as fast as it displayed in Zoom on the screenshare, if not slightly faster. He audibly gasped. He didn’t need any convincing after that point.

I noticed an inflection point on the team when I saw that engineers were proactively creating their own issues and defining work within the tool. A lot of times, the project management tool can’t keep up with the pace of the work but Linear does. It is so easy to create at the speed of my thinking. I don’t have to wait for the software to keep up as I structure work. I don’t need to stop and think about how to organize the work, how it relates to other issues, or where to save it. I can just create.

Historically I haven’t been able to trust my project management tool to be a source of truth. It almost always lags the truth. That’s not the case with Linear – it’s always the best view of work.

Loom

Senior Engineering Manager

Linear’s performance is incredible - the best perceived speed of any web app I’ve ever used.

We were constantly fighting our existing issue tracking tool to support EPD. We felt there was a lot of “work about work” to keep tasks and projects organized. Views easily got out of date and required fine tuning. It was difficult to search for issues and then save those views. It became clear to us that we were trying to get our previous issue tracker to do something that it simply wasn’t built to do well.

Linear is different. It has a better model and structure for engineering orgs. Sprints, points, priority, and status are all treated as first class properties of tasks. Search and filtering are powerful and the timeline view is one of the best I’ve seen. The command palette and keyboard shortcuts make it way faster to move around and do things, too.

Linear is more opinionated than other tools. There aren’t multiple ways to use it. This actually has made it easier to learn and adopt across the organization. It’s also an app full of great ideas that can inspire our own product development.

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Descript

CEO & Founder

I love how opinionated Linear is. It helps us move fast. There’s more “doing” and less figuring out how to do it.


The fact that the tool is designed to help me understand what is going on, make decisions, triage, and follow up on issues makes my life and my team’s life easier. I also couldn’t imagine a native experience that was better. The intuition of how I expect an application to work is almost perfectly mirrored in what you’ve built in Linear. I judge a lot of products on how easy it is to take basic actions like change things or edit text. In Linear, it’s incredibly natural. Whether I want to edit text or drag an issue, it just works. It feels like an extension of myself when I use it and that’s a testament to the time and thought that went into building and thinking about how people are going to use the product.

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The Browser Company

Engineering Manager

When evaluating tools, I look for the top-class product in that industry. Linear’s caliber of speed, design, and customer experience was clear from the moment we started using it.


Their approach aligns with how we build products and work with customers at Alan. This gave us the confidence that Linear would be the right partner for us as we grew. Our original plan had been to trial Linear with a couple of product teams. Within weeks, people from data science, marketing, ops, and other areas asked to try it, too, and then moved their teams into Linear. This is possible because Linear enables teams to be autonomous and have their own workflows. We love that Linear’s design empowers teams to work in their own ways, and lets you distribute product ownership to individuals, while helping us all work together more cohesively and powerfully as a company.

Alan

Linear took the world of project management and turned it on its head. In a world of clunky, slow, and bloated tools, Linear reverses the script on all three and adds an unrivaled level of delight and polish.


Before Linear, our project management software felt like a chore. It was awkward to use, made it easy for things to slip through the cracks, and limited cross-team visibility. Once we piloted Linear, we knew we had to roll it out across the organization. Linear strikes the right balance of providing rich features while being opinionated enough to eliminate entire classes of repetitive conversations internally. Thanks to Linear’s powerful API, we comprehensively migrated our existing work, including creation date, comments, and connections to internal tooling, so everybody was fully productive on day one.

Watershed

Software Engineer

Mercury

OpenSea

AtoB

We love the way Linear supports autonomy of our delivery teams, giving each of them flexibility to fine tune their process. 

At the same time it brings everyone at Pleo together, providing a well thought-through baseline for successful project management.

We found that Linear doesn’t have all the features some alternative tools offer, but it has just the right features built and combined just the right way to support the workflows we need - in a way that is intuitive and robust. This product philosophy is very compatible with how we build Pleo and the reason why it was a natural fit for us.

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Pleo

Engineering Lead

My favorite aspect of Linear is how many tickets get filed now.

Before we adopted Linear, we worked with a legacy issue tracker that is well-known but not well-liked. And as a result, people didn’t actually use it. They tried to stay away from the tool as long as possible, managing work offline and only submitting tickets when there was no other choice left.

“Then why didn’t you file a ticket?”

. The information in our issue tracker was never an accurate representation of the reality we were in. It was always incomplete or out-dated.

By moving our engineering team to Linear, we’ve been able to make a 180° shift and now have the confidence that our issues and projects really reflect the true state of our work. Unlike our previous issue tracker, Linear is not just built for the way we work but people actually enjoy using it. Filing a bug in Linear is a just few keyboard strokes away and, more importantly, everyone knows that the ticket will be triaged and resolved!

Following the success with our engineering team we were able to onboard other functions (Support, Sales, Legal, ...) and enable them to modern work processes on top of the system.

Twingate

Collaborative presentation software for modern teams

Pitch

Cohere needed a solution that simplified project collaboration and brought visibility to our team roadmaps. We piloted Linear with a few early adopters, and within a few weeks it went viral within the company.

Linear strikes a nice balance of being very easy to onboard a team to, while being quite configurable for more advanced usage. As an AI company, the way our teams operate can be quite diverse, with some teams finding less value in very detailed task tracking. But Linear’s method of aligning work around Projects and Teams means that we are now two clicks away from being able to see a living roadmap for any team at the company, regardless of the differences in how the teams track work. It provides a meaningful improvement over our previous tooling, which obscured most of this information, and it has cut down on an over-reliance on Slack as the primary method of staying up to date.

We’ve also found the Linear team to be very responsive before, during and after onboarding, and they are actively addressing any product feedback we’ve had. It’s been a great experience working with them.

Cohere

Senior Engineering Program Manager

Linear is built for efficiency which is so important for developers. It doesn't get in a way. 

When we were onboarding new team members, one of the most important things was that we didn't need to explain how to use Linear. We added them to the tool and they figured out what they needed to do there in order to work efficiently. 

Unlike so many other applications, Linear doesn't get in the way of your work or disrupts your flow in order to write something down. It’s so easy to use Linear that as an individual, you catch yourself creating more issues that are just for you which you normally wouldn't. You're assigning them to yourself because it's easier to keep track of work that way and because you trust the tool to help you get that work done. 

Putting the individual experience first may seem counterintuitive for a team collaboration tool. But at the end of the day, it's the individual contributor who produces the product and its components. We have all worked on teams that have scaled up and seen how suddenly you're doing a lot of "busy work" yet you stop shipping and you're not progressing anymore as an organization. The Linear team clearly builds the app with the individual maker in mind, from the small details to keyboard shortcuts to automations. I think it's a great example of how you can build a product that serves the individual while powering the team by finding the right bridges between these two worlds.

Raycast

CEO & Co-founder

Moonpay

Levels

Zora

Outside

Rainbow

Pipe

Polywork

It’s powerful enough for the engineering team but incredibly intuitive for people who don't touch code.

We had been trying to adapt flexible tools to product management and it wasn’t working. Our previous tool could be used for everything but it didn’t give us the information we needed most: a clear view of what everyone was working on as individual contributors and where our energy was focused as a company.

Once we started using Linear, things immediately felt faster. The defaults were close to how we approached building product. From issue tracking to the Github automation to quarterly milestones, it fit with our workflow. While we planned to try Linear with my team first, before we could finish the trial the whole company was using it. We don’t just track engineering and design work in Linear but also tasks related to growth, documentation, and support. Even the contractors we work with are in it.

A couple of things changed once the full team was on Linear. One is that we're able to track what is going on in a distributed company which had been hard to do with random docs and outdated lists. Everything is synced in Linear across views and with GitHub, so it’s always up to date. This means people are able to communicate better. They see what is happening and know who to ask questions or what is next.

The second thing is that using Linear built a culture around taking action. We started keeping better track of issues that used to get lost in Slack messages or conversations. It was so fast to create an issue and even enjoyable that people now create issues instead of talking about them.

There had been some concern since Expo is an open source tool and moving to Linear meant that we’d no longer have a single, public source of truth. Using Linear requires this trade off but the benefits have been worth it.

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Expo

Amie

We could see that tasks were getting done faster and the product quality improved.

We had outgrown our current tools and were looking for a tool that would scale with us. We also wanted a tool that was easy for everyone to use.

As a small startup it was important that people could take ownership of their work. I’ve found that people do better work when they own the responsibility. You should write your own issues. You should understand why the code is delivered the way it is and be able to reflect on what different paths you can take along with their time costs and tradeoffs.

Because Linear is low touch, anyone in the company can enter the product development process. Everyone on our team up to their level of comfort owns some aspect of the product and manages their own tasks and projects. This also frees up my time for higher leverage work like talking to customers.

Linear felt like a natural fit to our process and in fact elevated it. The app creates a sense of momentum. You create an issue, work on it, and then it almost guides you to completion.

Reducing friction at every stage of the business lifecycle

Middesk

CTO & Co-founder

Spline

It's easy enough for my coworkers to update that I always have the current state of the world.

At Render, engineers take turns doing customer support. We'll answer questions in our Slack channels and email users who report in bugs and feature requests. Often, an issue will come up from a user that has been reported before but we haven't gotten around to implementing it yet. The common impulse is to jump in and fix the problem they're having, but it's more helpful to be able to pause and check Linear to see the state of the issue. There's usually a reason we haven't fixed it yet and we'll see that in the description or comments. We make better decisions because the information is updated and in one place.

It's also been helpful that members of our team outside of engineering feel comfortable in Linear. We can share issues without friction and they can use the tool without much onboarding. This has been helpful in planning meetings, where it's so much easier to throw in a link to a Linear issue to share context than to explain the background information verbally.

That's another thing I appreciate about Linear: how easy it is to be onboarded between the UI and simple terminology. Projects, labels, and teams are just projects, labels, and teams. Anyone who opens Linear can understand it quickly. Linear keeps everything in one place in a way that's easy for people to reason with, and I think that's what an issue tracker is for in the first place.

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Render

Causal

Superhuman

Beeper

Builds building tools, products, and services for the decentralized finance (DeFi) ecosystem

Compound

Linear has helped us keep our momentum as we’ve grown and even sped it up.

We use Craft for almost everything internally, from knowledge management to stand-ups to gathering ideas. We saw that bug reporting and smaller improvements didn't fit well, though, so we tried Linear. We don't think all-in-one tools work. While we use very few tools outside of Craft, Linear is one of them.

We loved how lightweight Linear was and that we could gradually add more features to our workflow as our team needed them. We used the app with its default settings from day one without having to modify configurations or create new processes. We signed up, created issues, and then started tracking them. A few weeks later we started using projects. Recently we began using cycles to give us a clear view of goals for the week and progress we're making toward them. Someone on our team built an integration between Linear and Craft in one day. The app has become a critical part of our daily life.

We love to move fast. We care about delivering features that are polished and fun to use. We’ve learned over the years to avoid tools that slow us down or bring us out of our flow. At startups, it’s even more critical to ship fast. Linear helps us do this.

Craft

Product Manger

Weave

Linear might sound on the surface like tools you’re used to, and in some ways it is, but like any really good tool, it’s a step function increase in value. It offers just the right primitives with just enough flexibility, while avoiding busy work and remaining simple to use.

We believe that building the best product requires three things: great builders, autonomy, and context. But having all three is really hard, especially as you grow a team. Autonomy gets traded for an increase in context, by adding synchronous meetings or project managers. Context gets lost at the expense of maintaining autonomy, as decisions and data get lost in a sea of tools.

As we passed a product team of 10, and a company of 25, we started to lose context. A feature might live partially in Github, Trello, Dropbox, Slack, and Figma, and they rarely stay in sync. For us, context was losing to autonomy and we needed a solution.

We searched every tool to find a way to bring balance back to autonomy and context. You name it, we tried it. 

When we tried Linear, we knew we’d found something magical. Every team has its own needs with its own process, and somehow Linear manages to be flexible enough to solve for all of them without being confusing. High level context is captured in Projects, long term context is captured in Roadmaps, low level context is captured in Issues, and short term context is captured in Cycles. Any teammate can zoom in to a specific timeline or part of a project, or zoom out to understand the long term plans.

Linear might sound on the surface like tools you’re used to, and in some ways it is. You’ll instantly recognize almost every aspect of it so it’s easy to get started. But like any really good tool, it’s a step function increase in value by offering just the right primitives with just enough flexibility, while avoiding busy work and remaining simple to use.

Unsplash

Head of Product & Co-founder

Worldcoin

Create, manage and resolve incidents directly in Slack

Incident.io

We tried several project management tools. They helped us 

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CoinTracker

Co-founder

Texts

On Deck

Primer

Fastmail

We make accepting, storing, and disbursing money easy

Moov

WorkOS

Blitz

The leading destination to find & showcase creative work

Dribbble

Shelf Engine

Faraway

Livestorm

Taxes, retirement, and health insurance have traditionally been independent silos, so the problem we’re solving is complex, dynamic, and operationally interwoven. To do it well, we need to execute flawlessly on the basics to stay focused on delivering the larger vision. Strong command of our tools and processes is critical.

Linear gets the structure just right. It’s clear but flexible. It’s opinionated but you never feel like you’re fighting the tool. You can customize the app to suit your needs but it’s not a Choose Your Own Adventure game.

Every team at Catch users Linear– engineering, design, operations, engagement, compliance. Teams structure their work differently and use different features, yet we’re all able to work together closely with a single thread. Finance and insurance are both complex and regulated industries, so it’s especially helpful to be able to create a connected plan across different activities and know whether we’re facing something within or out of our immediate control. 

. Now we have one place to go for all of our projects with tracked progress per team. Intuitive graphics to show momentum or potential overrun. Figma designs, Github pull requests, Notion product specs, and Intercom customer conversations are all linked together. Linear forms a common backbone and is the singular thread that aligns different pieces and parts of projects together.

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Catch

CTO/CPO & Founder

Halter

Jeeves

Courier

Draftbit

Fellow

Helping remote teams communicate anytime, any place.

Slite

OpenPhone

Beautiful, personalized, interactive developer hubs

ReadMe

Almanac

Linear’s GitHub integration is so perfect it tickles my brain. 

It ties task management to git. From git-blame to GitHub PR to Linear task, it’s all linked. I love the way you "stumble towards success" using it, as long as you start with the right branch name.

The app is full of positive feedback cycles. If I start a branch unconnected to a task, I'll be making my own life harder down the line. Linear forces me to make sure that there is a task for each branch. This ensures there is context around each change and then allows my coworkers to keep up. I built a CLI tool to optimize our workflows further.

Linear been a gamechanger for our workflow at Darkroom.

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Darkroom

Curology

Fonoa

Linear makes it easy for everyone on the team to be a stakeholder in the product.

At a lot of companies, the PM will tell you what you're going to work on. They break everything up into tasks and assign it to you. You become this coding monkey that is responsible for punching out code and your input is coffee and dollars.

At Doppler, it's the polar opposite. Everyone on our team is responsible for their own tasks. We have this high-level goal of what we want to accomplish. Everyone puts their own issues into Linear. My job and team's job generally is to make sure that we're working on the right things. People get to be a stakeholder, add their own work, and say, "This is what I believe we should be working on, at least for my domain in the company." It makes everyone feel that they have a voice.

We even take it a step further and let people create issues for others. They can come up with an idea, assign it to someone, then that person can acknowledge that they are going to work on it because it goes into a sprint cycle when it’s moved to todo. Once work is shipped, the issue creator is notified and can even follow up with the customer afterwards. That's powerful. It would have never happened in a nonlinear world.

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Linear powers thousands of high-impact product teams. From next-gen startups who reach for the stars to established greats who change the world.

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Meet our customers

Linear powers thousands of high-impact product teams. From next-gen startups who reach for the stars to established greats who change the world.

You belong among the stars

You belong
among the stars