Linear is a beautiful issue tracker. Taskstreamer adds automatic roadmap scheduling to your existing Jira investment—without switching your entire engineering workflow.
Self-Updating Roadmaps
Issue Tracking Tool
The key differences that matter for your planning workflow
Where the differences really show up in your daily workflow
Linear is an issue tracker—a Jira alternative. It handles the full engineering workflow: issues, sprints, backlogs, and includes basic roadmap views. Choosing Linear means replacing Jira entirely and migrating your team.
Taskstreamer is a roadmap automation layer that sits on top of Jira. Your engineers keep working in Jira exactly as they do today. Taskstreamer adds intelligent roadmap scheduling, capacity planning, and strategic alignment.
Switching to Linear means migrating years of Jira history, retraining all engineering teams, updating integrations, and hoping nothing breaks. For established organizations, this is a major undertaking with significant risk.
Install a Jira plugin. Connect your projects or spaces. Define team capacity. Your roadmap appears—calculated from your existing Jira data. No migration, no retraining, no risk to your engineering workflow. Start in under an hour.
Linear has roadmap views where you can visualize projects on a timeline. But dates are set manually or based on target dates you enter. There's no automatic scheduling based on team capacity or dependency logic.
Our sequencing engine calculates every date. It knows team capacity, respects dependencies, and sequences by priority. Change a priority, and the entire roadmap recalculates in milliseconds. Every date is computed, not guessed.
Linear's day-to-day experience is genuinely excellent. The UI is fast and beautiful, keyboard shortcuts are intuitive, and engineers often love using it. For small teams starting fresh, it's a joy to work with.
Engineers continue using Jira—with all its familiarity, integrations, and quirks. Taskstreamer doesn't change their daily workflow. It's a tool for product managers and leadership to see roadmaps, not for engineers to write code.
Real scenarios to help you decide
Every capability, side by side
| Feature | Linear | Taskstreamer |
|---|---|---|
| Product Type | ||
| Issue tracking | Via Jira | |
| Roadmap visualization | ||
| Works with existing Jira | ||
| Roadmap Planning | ||
| Automatic date calculation | ||
| Automatic dependency sequencing | ||
| Capacity-aware scheduling | ||
| Instant full recalculation | ||
| Deployment & Migration | ||
| No migration required | ||
| Jira Data Center support | ||
| Jira Cloud support | ||
| Strategic Layer | ||
| OKR/Objective tracking | Basic | |
| Strategy-to-execution linking | Basic | |
| Executive portfolio app | Basic | |
| User Experience | ||
| Beautiful modern UI | ||
| Fast performance | ||
| Keyboard shortcuts | ||
Keep your Jira investment. Add intelligent roadmap scheduling in under an hour.
Add Taskstreamer to your Jira Cloud or Data Center
Choose which Jira projects or spaces feed your roadmap
Define capacity per team per sprint
Watch dates calculate automatically from your data
Try Taskstreamer free for 14 days. No credit card required.