Build with focus. Ship with care.
Issue tracking and sprint planning for teams who want to make progress. Purpose-built for modern product development.
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
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.
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.
labels and label groups
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.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 worksManage 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.
managing triage inbox
team workflow
existing issue
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.
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.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