Jira vs Linear
How has interest in each changed?
Collected from public datasets outside Stackness, not from stacks on this site. A series both tools have shares one chart and one scale, because its unit is the same for both. Data sources
Mentions, monthly
Jira: Hacker News mentions: 1 mention (2007) to 230 mentions (2026)
Linear: Hacker News mentions: 3 mentions (2019) to 28 mentions (2026)
Imported from Hacker News mentions
Usage share, yearly
Jira: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 47.69 % of respondents (2020) to 46.81 % of respondents (2025)
Linear: Stack Overflow developer survey usage share: 2.16 % of respondents (2023) to 3.71 % of respondents (2025)
Imported from Stack Overflow developer survey
Series only one of them has
Jira: Stack Exchange data explorer questions asked: 2 questions (2008) to 1 question (2026). Imported from Stack Exchange data explorer.
Jira: Wikipedia pageviews: 12 views (2015) to 13,380 views (2026). Imported from Wikipedia pageviews.
Linear: Homebrew analytics installs: 891 installs (2026). Imported from Homebrew analytics.
Linear: Homebrew analytics installs: 3,608 installs (2026). Imported from Homebrew analytics.
Who uses both?
1 member lists both Jira and Linear.
No member has recorded moving from one to the other yet.
What do people pair them with?
Tools that members list in the same stack as each of them.