Open-source alternatives to Linear

Macro Tasks is an AGPL-3.0 engineering task manager combining status and priority tracking with GitHub integration, documents, communication, email, and AI agents.

Pricing: Open source and self-hostable; hosted services may be offered separately.

• Engineering workflows
• GitHub integration and AI agents
• Documents and communication in one workspace
• Broader than a pure issue tracker
• Younger ecosystem
• Smaller integration ecosystem

Multica is a source-available project management platform where coding agents appear as team members, receive tasks, report blockers, and share skills alongside human developers.

Pricing: Source available with additional commercial, branding, and hosted-use restrictions.

• AI agents as team members
• Task queues and runtime monitoring
• Docker/Kubernetes and broad coding-agent support
• Not standard Apache-2.0
• Commercial restrictions apply
• Primarily for AI-heavy engineering teams

Plane is an AGPL-3.0 project management platform with issues, projects, cycles, modules, roadmaps, wikis, dashboards, AI workflows, GitHub integrations, and self-hosting.

Pricing: Free and self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; hosted and enterprise services may be paid.

• Very close to Linear's workflow
• Issues, cycles, modules, and roadmaps
• Multiple views, wikis, AI, and GitHub
• Younger than Jira or Redmine
• Self-hosting requires maintenance
• Smaller integration ecosystem

Huly is an EPL-2.0 collaborative engineering workspace combining project management, GitHub synchronization, team planning, documents, chat, audio/video, and a virtual office.

Pricing: Free and self-hostable under EPL-2.0; hosted services may be offered separately.

• Projects, chat, documents, and planning
• GitHub synchronization
• Self-hosted unified workspace
• Much broader than Linear
• More complex to deploy
• Less focused on minimal issue tracking

OpenProject is a GPL-3.0 project management platform with work packages, Scrum and Kanban, Gantt charts, time and cost tracking, roadmaps, meetings, portfolios, and permissions.

Pricing: Open-source Community edition is self-hostable; Enterprise features and support may be paid.

• Mature project
• Agile boards, Gantt, time, costs, and portfolios
• Strong permissions and organizational workflows
• Heavier than Linear
• Less minimalist
• Some Enterprise features are commercial

Kaneo is an MIT self-hosted project management platform focused on developers and visual task management through a modern, lightweight Kanban interface.

Pricing: Free and self-hostable under MIT.

• Lightweight and self-hosted
• Modern Kanban interface
• Simple developer-focused workflow
• Fewer roadmap features
• Smaller integration ecosystem
• Less comprehensive than Plane or Linear

Redmine is a GPL-2.0 Ruby on Rails issue and project tracker supporting multiple projects, workflows, role-based permissions, time tracking, Gantt charts, calendars, wikis, custom fields, and source-control integrations.

Pricing: Free and self-hostable under GPL-2.0.

• Very mature and flexible
• Custom workflows and plugins
• Time tracking, Gantt, wikis, and SCM integrations
• Older interface
• More configuration-heavy
• Less polished than Linear

Vikunja is an AGPL-3.0 task platform supporting projects, Kanban, Gantt charts, labels, priorities, recurring tasks, sharing, mobile/desktop access, and CalDAV.

Pricing: Free and self-hostable under AGPL-3.0; hosted services may be available separately.

• Kanban and Gantt views
• Recurring tasks and CalDAV
• Flexible personal and team workflows
• Less engineering-specific than Linear
• Fewer developer integrations
• Roadmaps are less central