Shaire vs Linear

Linear is a fast, focused issue tracker. Shaire puts your tracker and your docs in one tool with one bill for the whole team.

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Last updated 3 September 2026. Every price and figure below links to its source.

Is Shaire a good alternative to Linear?

Shaire is a good alternative to Linear if you want issue tracking and documentation in one product rather than two. Linear Basic is $10 per user per month billed yearly, so $100 for ten people and no wiki; Shaire is €20 a month for the whole workspace at that size, with a block editor and a page tree in the same product. Linear is built to be driven from the keyboard and adds a triage queue, SSO and a mobile app.

What ten people cost

Shaire

Team plan

€20 excl. VAT a month

for the whole workspace, up to 10 people

Free tier: up to 2 people, every feature, no card

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Linear

Basic plan

$100 a month

$10 per user / month, billed yearly

Free tier: unlimited members and 2 teams, capped at 250 issues

See Linear's pricing

Linear's Business plan is $16 per user per month billed yearly, so $160 a month for the same ten people. Shaire's €20 covers the whole workspace up to ten. The eleventh person changes the price; the fourth, seventh and tenth do not.

Linear's figures were read from their own pricing page on 3 September 2026. Prices change; ours are in euros and theirs are quoted in whatever currency their page shows, with no conversion applied.

Feature by feature

What each product offers today, row by row.

Feature	Shaire	Linear
Tracking work
List and board views	Yes	Yes
Sub-tasks and typed relationsBlocks, blocked by, relates to, duplicates — both tools model the same graph.	Yes	Yes
Cycles or sprintsBoth roll unfinished work forward automatically at the end of a cycle.	Yes	Yes
Estimates, priorities, labels, multiple assignees	Yes	Yes
Saved, shareable views	Yes	Yes
Triage inbox for incoming workIn Shaire, intake forms file into a list and an inbox collects what is addressed to you. Linear adds an accept-or-decline step for each item.	Partly	Yes
Calendar and timeline viewsA month and week calendar by due date, draggable, and a timeline with dependency arrows — both view modes on a list, beside list and board.	Yes	Yes
Keyboard shortcuts throughoutShaire has a ⌘K command palette that jumps to any task, page or milestone and runs commands. Linear has single-key shortcuts across the app.	Partly	Yes
Documentation
Block editor	Yes	Yes
Nested page tree for a whole workspaceLinear's documents sit alongside projects and issues rather than in a workspace-wide page tree.	Yes	Partly
Diagrams and maths in documentsMermaid and LaTeX blocks, rendered inline.	Yes	No
Live task lists embedded in a page	Yes	No
Promote a checklist item into a task	Yes	No
Backlinks between pages and work	Yes	Partly
Realtime collaborative editingTwo people can type in the same page, and presence avatars show who else is on a list, a task or a page. There is no comment or suggestion mode, and a task description is not a shared document.	Yes	Yes
Page version historyPeriodic snapshots, a diff against any of them, and a restore.	Yes	Yes
Share a page publicly	No	Yes
Access and administration
Per-folder and per-list permissionsLinear's unit of privacy is the team. Shaire grants view, comment, edit or full control on any folder or list.	Yes	Partly
Grant access to a team once	Yes	Yes
SSO and SAML	No	Yes
Audit log you can readSettings → Audit. Workspace-wide and filterable: tasks, pages, milestones, the trash lifecycle and the workspace itself all write to it.	Yes	Yes
Platform
GitHub and GitLab branch and pull-request linkingBoth link by task key and can move the work when the branch does.	Yes	Yes
Mobile app	No	Yes
Public APIScoped personal access tokens and 152 documented endpoints, at developers.shairelabs.com.	Yes	Yes
WebhooksSigned, retried and logged. An admin registers the endpoint in Settings; a delivery names what changed and you call the API for the detail.	Yes	Yes
Slack	No	Yes
Email notificationsShaire sends a daily or weekly digest when you switch one on, plus account email: address confirmation, password reset, invitations. Comments, mentions and assignments go to the in-app inbox, not to email.	Partly	Yes
Import from another tool	No	Yes
Export your data	No	Yes
Price
Free tier a team can work inLinear's free tier is unlimited people and 250 issues. Shaire's is two people with every feature and 512 MB of storage.	Yes	Yes
Priced per workspace rather than per seat	Yes	No
Every feature on every paid plan	Yes	No

What Linear does well

Speed and polish

Linear is designed for speed. Views open instantly, and single-key shortcuts reach every part of the interface. Teams that work through many issues a day move quickly in it.

A developer ecosystem

Linear offers single sign-on, a mature API, a Slack integration and native mobile apps. It fits into a larger company stack.

A triage queue

Incoming work in Linear lands in a dedicated queue. Someone accepts or declines each item before it reaches the backlog.

What Shaire does well

Work lives inside your documents

A page in Shaire holds a live filtered task list. You promote a checklist item into a task, and the task links back to the line it came from. The spec and the work stay together.

Realtime collaborative editing

Two people can type in the same page at once. Presence avatars show who else is on a list, a task or a page.

One price for the whole team

Linear Basic is $10 per user per month. Ten people is $100 a month for the tracker, before a wiki. Shaire is €20 a month for the whole workspace, at three people or at ten.

Linear is a fast, well-made issue tracker with a clear point of view. It is designed for tracking work, and its documents sit next to projects and issues.

Shaire is for teams of five to twenty-five people who want the tracker and the team wiki in one product.

One product instead of two

Teams that want a wiki beside Linear usually add a second product, such as Notion or Confluence. That means two subscriptions, two search boxes and two permission models, joined by links pasted into issues.

Linear Basic is $10 per user per month billed yearly. That is $100 a month for ten people, for the tracker. Shaire includes the tracker and the documentation for a flat €20 a month for the whole workspace. You can invite a freelancer or a designer who only needs to follow along, and the price stays the same.

Tasks and documents on the same page

In Shaire, you embed a live task list in a technical spec, and it updates as the work moves. You write a milestone brief, and its tasks appear underneath. You turn a checklist item in a meeting note into a task, and the task links back to the line it came from.

Two people can type in the same page at once. Presence avatars show who else is on a list, a task or a page.

Six statuses exist the moment a workspace does. Workflow rules and custom fields are there when you want them, and nothing has to be set up before work starts.

Closing a workspace

An owner can end a workspace from the settings screen. On day zero, Shaire cancels your Stripe subscription, removes its webhooks from your git provider and hides the workspace. On day thirty, the data is destroyed. Until then, the workspace can be recovered.

How to choose

Choose Linear if

You need single sign-on, a native mobile app or a Slack integration.
You handle a high volume of inbound requests and want an accept-or-decline triage step.
You already use a separate wiki and want to keep it.

Choose Shaire if

You want your specs and the tasks they describe in the same place.
You want to write together in real time and track the work in the same product.
You want to invite a contractor or a client without adding a seat to the bill.

Common questions

How is Shaire different from Linear?

Linear is a dedicated issue tracker. Shaire is a project tracker and a documentation tool built as one product, with one search and one permission model. Linear goes further on keyboard speed and integrations. Shaire connects the writing to the work.

Can I move my Linear workspace across automatically?

Shaire has no importer, so work from Linear or any other tool is moved by hand. For ten people with a few hundred open items, that takes about an afternoon.

What does a team of ten people cost?

Linear Basic is $10 per user per month billed yearly. That is $100 a month for ten people, for the tracker. Shaire is €20 a month for the whole workspace, at three people or at ten. The eleventh person moves the bill to €59.

What happens if we decide to leave Shaire?

An owner can close a workspace from the settings screen. On day zero, Shaire cancels your Stripe subscription, removes its webhooks from your git provider and hides the workspace. On day thirty, it destroys the data. You do not have to contact support.