FogBugz vs. Linear App

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
FogBugz
Score 2.6 out of 10
N/A
A software project management system used to plan, track and release great software with this lightweight and customizable system that integrates into any project management workflow. FogBugz is designed for software development teams and includes all the project management tools developers need straight out of the box. Users can: Track projects from start to finish - With tasks and subtasks for each case with required details and track them to ensure…
$62
per month
Linear
Score 9.4 out of 10
N/A
Linear is a bug tracking software that streamlines software development projects, sprints, and tasks.N/A
Pricing
FogBugzLinear App
Editions & Modules
3 Years
$62
per month
2 years
$64
per month
1 Year
$68
per month
Monthly
$75
per month
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
FogBugzLinear
Free Trial
YesNo
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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FogBugzLinear App
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Medium-sized Companies
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Enterprises
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User Ratings
FogBugzLinear App
Likelihood to Recommend
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Usability
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9.0
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User Testimonials
FogBugzLinear App
Likelihood to Recommend
Fogbugz is great for case-and-task based businesses. If your business has hundreds of weekly anticipated tasks that exist, such as processes to get files converted, Fogbugz can manage these processes very well. For our team, we knew each week that we would have about 500 tasks or orders to get processed. Fogbugz helped us break down these projects, get them assigned evenly throughout the team, and easily see who is working on what task. FogBugz is also good for tracking unanticipated tasks like bugs, making notes, flowcharts, and categorizing if the problem is a bug, feature request, etc. For us, it was just the best at nailing down those anticipated tasks.
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If you are a product based company, Linear is the most powerful fine-tuned platform. Their methodology really works well. It's fast, got nice UI/UX, feels modern, ability to manage projects, love how they show comments as a thread, the integrations like Figma works really well But if you are a software service company and have multiple client projects, it is hard to manage that in Linear plus you would have to pay for guests if you are inviting client stakeholders to overlook progress.
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Pros
  • Good for documenting
  • Good for attaching things
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  • Managing the high level goals and roadmap of our product
  • Manage the tasks for dev, QA and design teams
  • Visualise the progress of the sprints and projects
  • Collaborate on tasks
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Cons
  • Workflow capability is very limited to the original implementation, could use a refresh and extension of the capabilities
  • UI/UX needs improvement. This was in the works prior to purchase by DevFactory, and has taken a back seat to backend improvements that rightfully needed to be fixed first.
  • Pricing model doesn't fit our usage very well, so we're paying for full-featured users for everyone even though the majority of Users only need to submit Cases and modify the Wikis, and our small percentage of Users are in Dev and need all features.
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  • Linear is missing documentation features like Jira Confluence. We can use Notion but it would have been great if Linear offered more comprehensive solution
  • Eventhough we can manage releases with projects, it is hard to manage them when there are multiple projects being released at the same time. The initiatives feature kind of handles this but if we can assign tasks to a release that would be awesome
  • Being able to invite guests without costing extra money. Platforms like Clickup allow you to invite a limited no of guests without costing extra money.
  • Linear is not good if you are software services company and want to manage multiple client projects. Linear is built for product teams.
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Usability
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Linear is the most UI/UX friendly, modern and well though project management tool out there. I've used ClickUp, Jira, Monday, Asana in the past.
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Alternatives Considered
FogBugz is made for the Developers who actually use it every day, while JIRA is made for the C-Suite who oversees them but has little idea of the finer points of daily dev tasks. In reality, most don't fit into the mold of JIRA tickets, and the summarized information that C-Suite is reviewing is incomplete or skewed. There is also an outstanding issue since 2004 that JIRA refuses to implement despite wide user support, the merging of tickets. You can see the open ticket with the JIRA team here: https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRACLOUD-3592
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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
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Return on Investment
  • Less downtime of jobs. It is each person's responsibility to check their list to see if they have any pending work.
  • When people are out sick or busy, a supervisor can easily shift work from one person to another who many have time to cover work.
  • Management has a quick view into seeing what is happening with a job and can use it as a tool to request addiional resources as needed.
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  • 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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