Zephyro or Linear
Linear is built for product and engineering teams and is deliberately opinionated. Opinions are what make it fast, and also what make it fit or not.
Start freeThe difference that matters
Linear's speed comes from deciding the model for you: issues, cycles, projects. Zephyro decides none of it — the names, the stages and the fields are configured by you, which is slower to set up and the only way to model a claim, a matter or a case honestly.
What both do
Keyboard-quick work, boards and lists, statuses, assignment, history. Both are pleasant to use, and neither will get in the way of a team that fits it.
When Linear is the right answer
If you are a product team building software and its model matches how you already work, take it. A tool whose opinions match yours is better than a flexible one you have to configure, and Zephyro will not out-Linear Linear for engineering.
When Zephyro is
When your work is not issues and your team is not engineering. When the interface has to read in Hebrew or Arabic, mirrored, for the people doing the work. When departments and viewer roles matter. And when your process needs a stage that no product team ever needed.
About the products named here we state only what they say about themselves — their positioning, and the teams they are built for. No prices, no feature checklists and no comparison tables: those go stale within a quarter, and a stale comparison is a wrong one. Everything specific on this page is about Zephyro, where we can be held to it.