Linear alternatives

Linear is listed under Dev Tools: Issue tracker used by software teams. We compare it with 15 other Dev Tools tools that have researched data. 15 of them offer a free plan or are free to use (10 open source), and 0 are paid only. Linear itself is freemium (free plan + paid tiers).

Order: Sorted by how much you can use for free (free or open source first, then free plan with paid tiers, then paid only), then by the number of documented features, then alphabetically. No ratings or reviews are used.

Tool	Pricing	Free tier	Key features	Who it's for
Linear this tool	Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $10 per user/month, billed yearly	Yes	Turn chats and customer feedback into routed, labeled issues Plan work with initiatives, roadmaps, and up-to-date PRDs Assign issues to an agent that codes and opens pull requests	Product development teams that plan and build with people and AI agents.
Agent Toolkit for AWS	Free No additional charge; pay only for AWS resources	Yes	Auto-detects your agents, installs skills, and configures the MCP server Managed MCP server for AWS CLI commands, docs search, and curated skills Covers 300+ AWS services and 15,000+ API actions through one tool	Developers whose coding agents build and manage applications on AWS.
Warp	Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $20/month	Yes	Run fleets of coding agents across the software lifecycle Define factories in code with repos, secrets, models, and cloud access Score runs with evals and benchmarks, then improve the factory	Developers and engineering teams automating software delivery with coding agents.
open_scion	Free and open source	Yes	Clients fetch single objects and sparse trees instead of a full clone Blame, path history, and code search run on the server Lands a change with compare-and-swap instead of a merge queue	Developers running source control for coding agents.
Security Audit Skill	Free and open source	Yes	Runs reconnaissance, coverage-led hunting, candidate validation, and structured output Independent agents verify records, then reports are derived from those records Writes confirmed, needs_validation, and rejected records to findings.json	Developers who want a coding agent to audit a repository and keep machine-readable findings.
SkillSpector	Free and open source	Yes	Scans Git repositories, URLs, zip files, directories, or a single file Runs static checks and can add optional LLM semantic analysis Writes terminal, JSON, Markdown, or SARIF reports	Developers reviewing an AI agent skill before they install it.
Puter Everything	Free and open source	Yes	MIT monorepo that rebuilds proprietary apps as open-source alternatives Office apps include spreadsheet, documents, presentation, whiteboard, and PDF Also meetings, team chat, email, calendar, and other folders in src	Developers looking through Puter's open-source app rebuilds.
DigUp	Free and open source	Yes	Searches photos, PDFs, documents, recordings, video, and code by what is in them Runs entirely on your computer on Mac, Windows, and Linux Uses Google DeepMind's EmbeddingGemma 2 across text, image, audio, and video	People who want to search the files on their own computer.
Handwired	Free and open source	Yes	Transforms if-else, loops, and state into matrix multiplication and ReLU The weights are written by hand, so the net does not need training The whole program stays differentiable	Developers turning ordinary JavaScript into a differentiable net.
Astro	Free and open source	Yes	Renders components on the server and ships only needed JavaScript Loads content from the filesystem, an external API, or a CMS Organizes Markdown and MDX with TypeScript frontmatter checks	Developers building content-driven websites such as blogs, marketing sites, and e-commerce.
FluidVoice	Free and open source	Yes	Turns speech into text on the Mac without the cloud Runs voice commands to open apps and trigger shortcuts Writes or rewrites text in fields inside other apps	Mac users who want on-device voice dictation.
PdfCraft	Free and open source	Yes	Renders complex scripts, vertical CJK, emoji, and transparency Search a document and copy text in reading order Rotate, delete, insert, and reorder pages with undo	—
PostgreSQL	Free and open source	Yes	Open source object-relational database system Official documentation covers install and everyday use Numbered releases available to download, including beta previews	For people learning the system or running it for application workloads, including production.
Docker	Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $11/user/month	Yes	Package apps as containers, then share and run them Run each coding agent in an isolated microVM Find and publish container images on Docker Hub	Individual developers, teams, and enterprises that build and run containers and coding agents.
Notion	Freemium (free plan + paid tiers) Paid plans from $10 per member/month	Yes	Store notes, docs, and tasks in one workspace Search connected apps such as Slack and GitHub Agents complete multi-step tasks using workspace context	For individuals, small teams, growing businesses, and enterprises.
Obsidian	Freemium (free plan + paid tiers)	Yes	Save notes on your device as Markdown files, including offline Create links between notes and view them as a graph Research, brainstorm, and diagram ideas on a canvas	People who keep private notes, journals, knowledge bases, and projects.

Linear alternatives: FAQ

What are the best Linear alternatives?

Agent Toolkit for AWS, Warp, open_scion, Security Audit Skill, SkillSpector, Puter Everything, DigUp, Handwired, Astro, FluidVoice, PdfCraft, PostgreSQL, Docker, Notion, Obsidian are the Linear alternatives in our directory that have researched data. They are ordered by how much you can use for free, then by documented features. No ratings or reviews are used, so the order is not a quality ranking.

Is there a free alternative to Linear?

Agent Toolkit for AWS (free), Warp (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), open_scion (free and open source), Security Audit Skill (free and open source), SkillSpector (free and open source), Puter Everything (free and open source), DigUp (free and open source), Handwired (free and open source), Astro (free and open source), FluidVoice (free and open source), PdfCraft (free and open source), PostgreSQL (free and open source), Docker (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Notion (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)), Obsidian (freemium (free plan + paid tiers)). Free tiers can change, so check each site.