Akiflow vs Linear: which one fits your team?
One tells a person what their Tuesday is. The other tells a company what shipped. Engineers commonly run both and retype the same work into each.
It turns on which one you are willing to make the source of truth, because the retyping is the real cost.
Pick Akiflow if
you are happy with the task manager you already pay for and only want a sharp planning layer on top of it. Where it stops: it assumes a stack underneath it, and it is single player.
Pick Linear if
you ship software and you want the sharpest place there is to track issues and cycles. Where it stops: there is no calendar, so it never says when the work happens.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Akiflow is about $1140 a year, Linear is about $480 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Linear is $660 a year cheaper at that size.
Akiflow: Around $19 per month billed annually, up to $34 monthly. No free plan. Linear: Free tier, then around $8 to $14 per seat per month.
Where they part company
Linear does more on 9 of them
- linking pull requests to the work
- being the place the tasks actually live
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
- portfolio and agile reporting
- having a free plan
- docs and a wiki inside
- rules that fire on their own
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
Akiflow does more on 5 of them
- time blocking on a calendar
- having a plan for today
- two way calendar sync
- booking links
- turning email and chat into tasks
Side by side
| What it does | Akiflow | Linear | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Core | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Core | Partly. Cycles and lists, not a day laid out against hours. | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Yes | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Partly. Designed to layer on the tools you already use. | Core | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | No | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | Yes | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Core. Pulling work in from other tools is the thing it is best at. | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | No | Core. Strong native pull request linking, with status driven from branches. | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | No | Partly | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | No | Yes | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Partly | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | No | Partly | Yes. AI teammates you assign a task to. The work comes back on the task for review. |
| Useful before you configure it | Yes | Yes | Core |
| A free plan | No | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 2: turning meetings into tasks and being useful before you configure it.
And where UnaTask sits
UnaTask removes the retyping on the planning side: the task carries its pull request, and the hours to do it sit on the same calendar.
It does more than both of them on showing who has room, turning meetings into tasks, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and being useful before you configure it.
Common questions
Akiflow vs Linear: which should I pick?
Pick Akiflow if you are happy with the task manager you already pay for and only want a sharp planning layer on top of it. Pick Linear if you ship software and you want the sharpest place there is to track issues and cycles.
What is the biggest difference between Akiflow and Linear?
The clearest gap is time blocking on a calendar, where Akiflow does more than Linear. Underneath that, Akiflow is a place to decide, on purpose, what today actually contains, and Linear is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Akiflow or Linear cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Akiflow is about $1140 a year, Linear is about $480 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT. Between the two of them Linear is $660 a year cheaper at that size.
What do Akiflow and Linear have in common?
They answer the same on 2 of our 16 axes: turning meetings into tasks and being useful before you configure it. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Akiflow and Linear?
UnaTask does more than both on showing who has room, turning meetings into tasks and AI that does the work rather than the scheduling. It is free on your own and €10 per seat for a team, with every feature included. Where it does less: it is not an issue tracker with sprints and burndown, and it is not a documentation workspace.
Details checked June 2026.