Ekso vs. Linear

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Ekso
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
Countersoft, the team behind the Gemini ALM and bug tracking tool, is becoming Ekso. The company's products focus on IT help desk, bug tracking, test management, and general ALM functionality.
$10
Per User Per Month
Linear
Score 9.3 out of 10
N/A
Linear is a purpose-built issue tracking and project management system designed for software engineering teams. It prioritizes high-performance synchronization and keyboard-driven workflows to streamline the product development lifecycle from initial triage to feature release.
$12
per month per user
Pricing
EksoLinear
Editions & Modules
Gemini Express
$10.00
Per User Per Month
Gemini Enterprise
$850.00
Per 10 Users Per Month
Basic
$12
per month per user
Business
$18
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
EksoLinear
Free Trial
NoNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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Community Pulse
EksoLinear
Considered Both Products
Ekso
Chose Ekso
Gemini is more cost-effective than Project Server. It is easy to configure and easy to use
Linear
Chose Linear
I like these other projects as also, but I've gravitated more toward Jira in recent years since I now work at smaller organizations with simpler needs and Linear is more simple and easy to use. These other tools are also fine but Linear feels the most modern and accessible for …
Chose Linear
When we are using jira it felt light the application itself is very heavy usage and the UI feel like boring and features were not good as compared to Linear. As QA when shifted to Linear i felt huge difference in process of ticket creation and tracking compared to jira and …
Chose Linear
A lot simpler then Jira and a lot more options compared to Trello, it was exactly where we needed it to be for our purposes.
Chose Linear
The function is similar, and we originally switched for price. Now that we've used Linear for a few years, I don't see us switching back. The integrations have worked well, and Linear Agent is now our first line of triage for all engineering requests. Additionally, our team …
Chose Linear
Linear is better in many ways because it's a simple and easy-to-use interface that involves AI to speed up workflows. Jira was complicated, hard to navigate, and difficult to integrate with other technologies. With Linear, I can easily connect it to Slack and see updates as …
Chose Linear
Much better design, much more intuitive, feels fun to work in instead of a slog
Chose Linear
Simpler, smoother. I wasn't in chargge of setting up either, but I do know that Linear was set up faster and with all the features we needed than Jira was.
Chose Linear
Even though platforms like Clickup are pretty flexible, Linear is fast, simple, has a lot of keyboard shortcuts, better UI/UX, modern product development concepts built into it, listens to user feedback
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EksoLinear
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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Score 9.9 out of 10
GitLab
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Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 9.9 out of 10
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Score 8.8 out of 10
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User Ratings
EksoLinear
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
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9.4
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Likelihood to Renew
10.0
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Usability
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9.0
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User Testimonials
EksoLinear
Likelihood to Recommend
Gemini is well suited to help track issues and change requests, projects, bugs, time logs, etc. It is less appropriate for reporting needs or general office management needs.
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For smaller organizations with needs that would traditionally have been fulfilled by Jira, Linear is an excellent substitute that is likely lower cost and doesn't have the feature bloat that Jira has accumulated over many years. It's highly intuitive to use and master (for developers and product managers, at least). For very large organizations that require the deep functionality that Jira has developed over many years and extensive library of plugins, Linear might fall short.
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Pros
  • Gemini offers flexible framework that allowed IT to build a workflow based process. IT change requests were divided into several buckets: New Change Requests group for business units to submit requests for enhancements and new project ideas, Pending Change Requests for approved projects that are waiting for IT resources, Application Development where we track active projects, Defect Tracking where bugs are tracked during testing and finally Release Management where requests for deployment are tracked.
  • Gemini allows to create custom fields and add them to View, Edit and Add screens. This flexible model allowed us to track additional information on the project such as IT Point of Contact, System Name, Team Name, Testing dates, etc.
  • Gemini has flexible email notification model that allows to keep business customers informed on the project progress. Whenever comment is added by project manager email alerts goes out anyone that is set to watch project progress.
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  • Organize issues.
  • Be a better version of Github.
  • Do a product roadmap.
  • See what needs to be done from a calendar point of view.
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Cons
  • It would be useful for Gemini to offer a mobile-friendly version.
  • It would be helpful for Gemini to provide more granular control over email notification options. Currently, we cannot turn off update type emails
  • Gemini could improve homepage design to provide a dashboard for all projects in the system.
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  • The biggest is search. Despite the Linear agent being great, general search rarely pulls the ticket I'm looking for.
  • Organization - new users find it hard to navigate teams, boards, and inboxes.
  • Forms need a save/autosave feature, so all data isn't lost if you need to switch screens or collect additional information.
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Likelihood to Renew
Gemini's development team continues to improve the product and provides a comprehensive roadmap of upcoming features that makes you want to upgrade as soon as a new version comes out.
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Usability
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it's very easy to use in by day to day life. Linear UI and UX is very good for experienced as well as beginners also finding issues with filters are very easy, search is quick, the notifications and email notification is good feature if you missed some comments. Intelligence is also good which helps when ticket is created it relate other issues which are similar to created one.
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Alternatives Considered
Gemini is more cost-effective than Project Server. It is easy to configure and easy to use
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The function is similar, and we originally switched for price. Now that we've used Linear for a few years, I don't see us switching back. The integrations have worked well, and Linear Agent is now our first line of triage for all engineering requests. Additionally, our team uses it for the product roadmap, so all internal users can see the status of upcoming features without having to use another software or page.
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Return on Investment
  • Gemini helped consolidate and centralize projects tracking and status reporting
  • Gemini helped improve defects tracking and reporting
  • Gemini helped streamline release process management, eliminated approval paperwork by allowing ot use comments as electronic signatures.
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  • Linear decreased the time we take for releases of features
  • Linear has helped us work on multiple projects saving time
  • Customer support cases are handled well through Linear which improved customer satisfaction
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