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Open source alternatives to Linear

We track 4 open-source Linear alternatives, of which 3 currently score 70 or above on Repoly's GitHub health scale and 3 ship a Docker image. Plane leads on health at 99/100 with 93 commits in the last 90 days; across all 4 projects you are choosing between AGPL-3.0, EPL-2.0, GPL-3.0 and 1 other licences.

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Alternatives
92k
Combined stars
1,177
Commits / 90 days
3
With Docker
Licence family Licence

Showing 4 of 4 tools

All 4 Linear alternatives, ranked by health

  • Top pick · highest health

    Plane

    99 GOOD

    Track issues, epics, and product roadmaps in the simplest way possible (alternative to JIRA, Linear and Height).

    ★ 59k · ⟳ yesterday · v1.4.2 · AGPL-3.0

    Docker
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Huly

    98 GOOD

    All-in-one project management platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion).

    ★ 28k · ⟳ 18 days ago · v0.7.426 · EPL-2.0

    DockerK8SNodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

  • Taiga

    20 STALE

    Agile Project Management Tool based on the Kanban and Scrum methods.

    MPL-2.0

    DockerPythonNodejs
    Website ↗ Source ↗

Linear alternatives: common questions

What is the most maintained open source alternative to Linear?

Plane scores highest at 99/100, with 93 commits in the last 90 days, 59k GitHub stars and its latest release (v1.4.2) published 22 days ago. Vikunja has the most raw commit activity at 1027 commits in 90 days.

Which Linear alternatives use a permissive licence?

1 of 4 are permissively licensed (MIT, Apache, BSD or similar): Taiga (MPL-2.0). 3 use copyleft licences such as GPL or AGPL, which require you to publish changes if you distribute a modified version.

Which Linear alternatives run in Docker?

3 of 4 publish a Docker image or Compose file: Plane, Huly, Taiga. Docker support contributes 10 of the 100 available health points, because it is the clearest signal that self-hosting is a supported path rather than an afterthought.