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Flocci Projects vs Linear: which fits your team in 2026?

Short answer: Choose Linear if you are a funded product team that wants the fastest issue tracker money can buy and lives inside it all day. Choose Flocci Projects if you want the same agile core — board, backlog, sprints, points, velocity — free for individuals and ₹49/seat for teams, with AI backlog help and a connected wiki, calendar and timesheets instead of a standalone tracker.

Linear is the developer darling: beautifully fast, keyboard-first issue tracking with cycles (its take on sprints), triage flows and an agent platform. The free plan allows unlimited members but caps you at 250 issues and 2 teams; real usage lands on Basic at $10/user/month or Business at $16 — where Linear Insights and dashboards live. It is USD-only, engineering-only and unapologetically minimal.

Feature and price comparison

Linear facts read from its own public pricing page (https://linear.app/pricing) on 2026-07-29. USD to INR figures are indicative. Linear is a product of Linear.

Dimension	Flocci Projects	Linear
Free tier	Free personal board — full agile loop (Kanban, backlog, sprints, story points, velocity insights)	Free: unlimited members but 250 issues and 2 teams maximum
Paid entry	₹49/seat/month for team seats (~$0.58); optional Pro ₹499/month across all Flocci apps	Basic $10/user/month; Business $16/user/month (annual)
Sprints & story points	Native sprints with goals, dates and story points — included free	Cycles with estimates — its sprint equivalent, on every tier
Velocity & analytics	Average velocity, velocity trend per sprint, status distribution and per-assignee workload — included free	Pulse on Free; Linear Insights and dashboards from Business ($16/user/month)
AI	AI backlog breakdown included, metered by shared platform credits (free monthly grant, no per-user AI fee)	Agent platform and Linear Agent on Free; Loops and code intelligence from Business
Kanban	Drag-and-drop Kanban: Backlog, Todo, In Progress, Review, Done, with priority and assignee filters	Board and list views, extremely fast
INR pricing	INR-native pricing via PayU (UPI, cards, netbanking); built in Ranchi, India	USD pricing
Wiki & calendar links	Issues link to Library wiki pages and push onto Flocci Calendar from inside the card	Documents and projects inside Linear; no calendar or wiki product
Connected suite	One login across Projects, Workspaces, Calendar, Library wiki, Notes, Infinity whiteboards, Timesheets + 30 more Flocci apps	Standalone tracker with external integrations
Mobile apps	Responsive web app; no native mobile apps yet	Native mobile apps
Integrations	Deep Flocci-suite integration; no third-party marketplace	GitHub/GitLab, Slack, Zendesk, Intercom, Sentry and more

Where Linear is the better choice

Linear wins on raw speed and craft: the keyboard UX is genuinely best-in-class, its triage, cycle automation, Git integrations, agent platform and code intelligence are far deeper than anything we ship, and its free tier allows unlimited members (we cap the free board at one person). If budget is not the constraint and your team is all engineering, Linear is superb.

Where Flocci Projects wins

The whole agile loop free: drag-and-drop Kanban, product backlog, native sprints, story points and velocity insights on the personal board.
INR-native pricing — team seats at ₹49/seat/month, optional Pro ₹499/month across every Flocci app, PayU and UPI billing.
AI backlog breakdown included via shared platform credits with a free monthly grant — never a per-user AI fee.
Issues link to Flocci Library wiki pages and push onto Flocci Calendar from inside the card.
One Google sign-in across Projects, Workspaces, Calendar, Library, Notes, Infinity whiteboards and Timesheets.

What Flocci Projects does not have

Stated plainly, because a comparison that hides this is worthless: Native iOS and Android apps (Flocci Projects is a responsive web app); Gantt / timeline view and dependency scheduling; A third-party integration marketplace or public API app directory; One-click importers from Jira, Trello, Asana or Linear; Burndown charts inside the sprint (velocity trend, progress and workload are the shipped analytics); Custom workflow builders, custom statuses or per-project column configuration.

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Frequently asked questions

Is there a free Linear alternative without the 250-issue cap?

Flocci Projects' free personal board has no 250-issue-style cap and includes sprints, story points and velocity insights. The honest counterpoint: Linear's free tier allows unlimited members while our free board is single-player — teams pay ₹49/seat/month, still far below Linear's $10–16/user/month.

Does Linear have velocity charts?

Linear tracks cycle progress on all tiers and offers Insights analytics and dashboards from the Business tier at $16/user/month. Flocci Projects includes an average-velocity figure, a per-sprint velocity trend chart, status distribution and workload on the free plan.

When is Linear the better choice?

When speed and engineering-workflow depth decide it. Linear's keyboard-first UX, triage rules, Git integrations and agent platform are best-in-class, and the whole company is focused on issue tracking for software teams.

How is Flocci Projects different from Linear philosophically?

Linear is a standalone premium tracker. Flocci Projects is the execution layer of a connected work suite: the same login and credit wallet also run your wiki, calendar, notes, whiteboards and timesheets, and an issue can literally link to the spec page and the calendar event. That matters for small teams that do not want five subscriptions.