Linear vs. Shortcut

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
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
Shortcut
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Shortcut is a project management platform designed for software development that unites issue tracking, sprint planning, roadmaps and goals. Formerly known as Clubhouse, Shortcut is headquartered in New York City.
$10
per month per user
Pricing
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Editions & Modules
Basic
$12
per month per user
Business
$18
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom
Team
$10
per month per user
Business
$16
per month per user
Enterprise
Custom Pricing
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
LinearShortcut
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.Up to a 25% discount for annual pricing.
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Community Pulse
LinearShortcut
Considered Both Products
Linear
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
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.
Shortcut
Chose Shortcut
Shortcut is a more robust platform to organice our teams and, it uses the "kanban model" as trello but the customization and the organization via stories and epices are preferred by our devs
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Usability
9.0
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User Testimonials
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Likelihood to Recommend
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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Shortcut is very useful to organice your teams, we use it for Devs, Sales, Marketing and Customer Support areas. Each team has different objectives but the topics where 2 or more areas are involved, is when it shines with the categorization, sub-stories and story relationships. Everyone can see the updates and progress of the stories and receive notifications so the communication between the teams flows naturally
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Pros
  • 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
  • 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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  • Korey the Shortcut AI has room for improvement
  • The Substories and checklists
  • Templates for stories
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Usability
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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As I said before Shortcut helped us to implement the SCRUM Methodology in our company we are using it since it was known as Clubhouse.io, the user-friendly interface and flexibility is great
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Alternatives Considered
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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Shortcut is a more robust platform to organice our teams and, it uses the "kanban model" as trello but the customization and the organization via stories and epices are preferred by our devs
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Return on Investment
  • 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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