Alternatives
Linear alternatives for growing teams that mix engineering with everything else
Most teams comparing Linear alternatives still like the tool. It's fast. The cycles and defaults are sensible, and the keyboard flow keeps engineers moving. What changed is the company around the tracker: the work is no longer all software, and the people doing the rest of it need to read the plan too. Taskora is task management software and a wiki for growing teams: custom cycles, a kanban board, a backlog, and docs with version history in one workspace, on one flat plan at $10/seat/mo billed yearly. It's free to start, no credit card. Where Linear is the better fit, this page says so plainly, because an earned switch beats an assumed one.
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When the team grows past software
The search usually starts in the same place: the company hires its first designer, a support lead, or a marketer, and the plan those people need to see was shaped for a different kind of work. The tool stayed the same. The team changed shape.
Design, support, and marketing need to see the plan too, and a tool shaped around software work asks them to learn its language before they can read it.
The ticket says what to build. The doc explaining why it's built that way lives somewhere else, and by the time the work gets busy nobody checks the second place.
Engineering plans in cycles and the rest of the company plans in launches and quarters, and when both calendars live in one workspace, the sync meeting has less to cover.
Headcount growth is what usually turns a bill into a question. For what Linear charges at your size, read their pricing page directly, because we haven't verified their rates and won't paraphrase them.
One workspace for the sprint and everything around it
A stream is a project with its own board, and the workspace holds all of them. Engineering keeps one, the launch keeps another, and nobody inherits a workflow they didn't choose. Here is the shape of a normal week.
Each board shows the work in flight, with the backlog beside it for what nobody has scheduled yet. The statuses are yours to set, and so is the order they follow.
Sprints run on custom cycles. You set the length, from a week to a month, and name each cycle what your team already calls it. Unfinished work drops into the backlog and rides into the next cycle.
The docs and wiki carry version history and sit next to the board, so the spec that explains a feature and the feature's tasks stay in one place.
Comments, subtasks, and dependencies stay with the task, so the answer from Tuesday's design review is attached to the question it answered.
One flat plan, $10/seat/mo billed yearly or $13 monthly, save 23%. Every feature is in that plan, and there's nothing extra to buy later.
Who should stay on Linear
Linear is a genuinely strong product, and this section is the test of whether we mean that. If your team matches any line below, the right move is to stay, and we would tell you the same by email.
If your team is engineers and product people who love the keyboard flow, stay. The speed is real, and our board asks for a mouse more often than we'd like to admit.
If tools wired around your tracker carry part of your week, stay. Taskora ships no integrations today, so anything that plugs in ends at our door.
If everyone from the CTO down already thinks in Linear, the switching cost lives in habits, and habits don't move with the data.
If your team spent months tuning the tool, that effort is worth real money, and none of it moves by itself.
What moving off Linear actually takes
Taskora is export-only today. There is no importer and no integrations, so the move is you pulling your data out and rebuilding the live work by hand. You should read it here before the switch, not after it, and the sane version of the move is smaller than it sounds.
Export from Linear first, using whatever their interface gives you, and keep the files somewhere safe. Taskora pulls in nothing on its own.
Rebuild the live work only. One stream per project you actually run, the statuses your team already uses in conversation, and the current cycle's tasks first. Finished history can stay behind, still yours, in the export.
Once the work lives here, it's hosted for you, encrypted at rest and in transit, and you can request a full export at any time.
If your data cannot leave your network, self-hosted and air-gapped deployment are on request at the same flat price, and hello@taskora.ai is where that conversation starts.
Questions
- How is Taskora different from Linear?
- Linear is built for speed, with opinions about how software work should flow, and the teams that fit those opinions love it. Taskora puts custom cycles, a kanban board, a backlog, docs with version history, and reporting in one flat workspace at $10/seat/mo billed yearly or $13 monthly. If your whole team is engineering, staying is probably right. If the plan has to carry the whole company, that's the switch we're built for.
- What does Taskora cost compared to Linear?
- Free, no credit card needed. After that, one flat plan from $10/seat/mo (yearly, save 23%) or $13/seat/mo (monthly). Every feature is in that plan. We haven't verified Linear's current rates, so we won't quote a number that might be stale by the time you read this. Their pricing page is the source that stays current.
- Can we move our tasks from Linear?
- Not automatically. Taskora is export-only today, with no importer and no integrations. Export from Linear first using whatever their interface gives you, keep the files somewhere safe, and you can request a full export of your Taskora data at any time.
- Is there a free plan or a trial?
- Free to start until November 1, no credit card. After that, there's a 14-day free trial. We don't offer a permanent free tier today.
- Where does our data live, and can we get it out?
- In the hosted setup your data lives with us, encrypted at rest and in transit, and you can request a full export at any time. If you need self-hosted or air-gapped deployment, email hello@taskora.ai.
Try Taskora.
Pull one sprint's worth of live work into a stream, name the cycle what your team already calls it, and run a real week with the docs open beside the board. If the flow feels slower than the tool you left, tell us, because that's the kind of answer we can act on. If the plan finally reads the same to everyone on the team, you'll know just as fast. You'll be talking to a founder while you decide.
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