Clockwise vs Linear: which one fits your team?
These two barely overlap. One arranges hours on a calendar, the other is the record of what your engineers are shipping. Teams that use both are not confused, they are covering two different needs.
It turns on nothing, really. If you are weighing these against each other you are probably looking for a single tool that does both.
Pick Clockwise if
nothing any more, because it closed on 27 March 2026 after the team joined Salesforce. Where it stops: it is no longer available, so this is a landing spot rather than a comparison.
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: Clockwise does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, Linear is about $480 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Clockwise: No longer offered. Clockwise shut down on 27 March 2026. Linear: Free tier, then around $8 to $14 per seat per month.
Where they part company
Linear does more on 12 of them
- being the place the tasks actually live
- linking pull requests to the work
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
- portfolio and agile reporting
- rules that fire on their own
- being useful before you configure it
- having a free plan
- having a plan for today
- turning email and chat into tasks
- docs and a wiki inside
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
Side by side
| What it does | Clockwise | Linear | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | Gone | No | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Gone | Partly. Cycles and lists, not a day laid out against hours. | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | Gone | No | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | No. It was a calendar optimiser, never a task manager. | Core | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | No | Yes | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Gone | Yes | Core |
| Booking links | Gone | No | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | No | 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 | Gone | Yes | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Gone | 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 | Gone | Yes | Core |
| A free plan | Gone | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 4: time blocking on a calendar, two way calendar sync, booking links and turning meetings into tasks.
And where UnaTask sits
That single tool is roughly what UnaTask is aiming at: real time blocks on a calendar, with pull requests linked to the tasks they close.
It does more than both of them on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today, two way calendar sync, showing who has room, booking links, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, AI that does the work rather than the scheduling and being useful before you configure it.
Common questions
Clockwise vs Linear: which should I pick?
Pick Clockwise if nothing any more, because it closed on 27 March 2026 after the team joined Salesforce. 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 Clockwise and Linear?
The clearest gap is being the place the tasks actually live, where Linear does more than Clockwise. Underneath that, Clockwise is software that arranges your calendar for you and defends what it put there, and Linear is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles.
Is Clockwise or Linear cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Clockwise does not publish a per seat price we can put in this sum, Linear is about $480 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Clockwise and Linear have in common?
They answer the same on 4 of our 16 axes, among them time blocking on a calendar, two way calendar sync and booking links. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Clockwise and Linear?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and two way calendar sync. 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.