Linear vs Reclaim.ai: 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 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.
Pick Reclaim.ai if
your task system is settled and the only thing missing is somebody guarding the gaps between your meetings. Where it stops: it layers on a task manager, so it is never the only tool.
What it costs
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Linear is about $480 a year, Reclaim.ai is about $480 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
Linear: Free tier, then around $8 to $14 per seat per month. Reclaim.ai: A generous free tier, then roughly $8 to $15 per user per month.
Where they part company
Linear does more on 7 of them
- being the place the tasks actually live
- linking pull requests to the work
- dependencies and a timeline
- showing who has room
- docs and a wiki inside
- portfolio and agile reporting
- AI that does the work rather than the scheduling
Reclaim.ai does more on 3 of them
- two way calendar sync
- time blocking on a calendar
- booking links
Side by side
| What it does | Linear | Reclaim.ai | UnaTask |
|---|---|---|---|
| Time blocking on a calendar | No | Yes. Blocks are placed automatically around your meetings. | Core |
| A plan for today and this week | Partly. Cycles and lists, not a day laid out against hours. | Partly | Core |
| Two way calendar sync | No | Core. Two way with Google and Microsoft 365, and very good at it. | Yes |
| It is the task manager itself | Core | No. It reads your tasks from somewhere else. It is not where they live. | Core |
| Dependencies and a timeline | Yes | No | Yes. Dependencies with a timeline that shows what is waiting on what. |
| See who has room | Yes | Partly | Core |
| Booking links | No | Yes | Yes |
| Meetings become tasks | No | No | Yes |
| Email and chat become tasks | Partly | Partly | Yes |
| Pull requests linked to work | Core. Strong native pull request linking, with status driven from branches. | No | Yes |
| Docs and wiki inside | Partly | No | Partly. Docs live on a project, they are not a wiki you would run a company from. |
| Portfolio or agile reporting | Yes | Partly | Partly. Team workload and project progress, not portfolios that roll up to a board. |
| Rules that fire on their own | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| AI that does the work, not just the scheduling | Partly | No | 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 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
What should not decide it
They answer the same on 6: having a plan for today, turning meetings into tasks, turning email and chat into tasks, rules that fire on their own, being useful before you configure it and having a free plan.
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, showing who has room, 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
Linear vs Reclaim.ai: which should I pick?
Pick Linear if you ship software and you want the sharpest place there is to track issues and cycles. Pick Reclaim.ai if your task system is settled and the only thing missing is somebody guarding the gaps between your meetings.
What is the biggest difference between Linear and Reclaim.ai?
The clearest gap is two way calendar sync, where Reclaim.ai does more than Linear. Underneath that, Linear is a system of record for software work, built around issues and cycles, and Reclaim.ai is software that arranges your calendar for you and defends what it put there.
Is Linear or Reclaim.ai cheaper?
For a team of 5, billed yearly: Linear is about $480 a year, Reclaim.ai is about $480 a year, and UnaTask is €480 plus VAT.
What do Linear and Reclaim.ai have in common?
They answer the same on 6 of our 16 axes, among them having a plan for today, turning meetings into tasks and turning email and chat into tasks. Those are the things that should not decide it for you.
Where does UnaTask fit against Linear and Reclaim.ai?
UnaTask does more than both on time blocking on a calendar, having a plan for today and showing who has room. 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.