Zuuna vs Linear: git, time tracking, EU hosting

Linear showed how good an issue tracker can feel. Zuuna shares that developer-friendly bar, and adds what Linear deliberately leaves out: releases from the board, time tracking, documents and EU hosting.

Zuuna vs Linear at a glance

Criterion	Zuuna	Linear
Issues & sprints	Yes	Yes
Git on the card	Yes	Via integration
The Code Graph	Yes	No
Releases & deploy from the board	Yes	No
Time tracking & reports	Built in	No
Documents & calendar	Built in	Limited
Hosting	Germany / EU	US vendor

Where Zuuna wins

• From card to release. Commits, PRs and CI land on the card, releases bind to real git tags, and you deploy in one click.
• The Code Graph. See what was built, including what shipped with no ticket.
• More than a tracker. Time tracking, documents and calendar are built in.
• Hosted in the EU. GDPR-compliant, with a DPA.

Where Linear is strong

Linear is extremely fast and polished, with a very focused UX. If you just want a lean issue tracker and can do without time tracking, releases-from-the-board and EU hosting, Linear is a strong choice.

AI agents: Linear assigns, Zuuna verifies

On Linear, agents get issues assigned and work them off. What ends up on the card rests on the agent (or the team) putting it there. Zuuna flips the burden of proof: the agent reads the card over the Zuuna MCP server, builds in your repo with its own coding tool, and when the pull request merges, a rule on your board moves the card. Commits, PRs, releases and deploy gates land on the card on their own. Nobody drags cards for agents by hand.

This is not a knock: Linear is excellent at what it does, and assigning work to agents is a fair approach. But if you care that board state is evidenced rather than asserted, the difference here is checkable: open the card, look at the repo, compare. How the loop works in detail: Zuuna for AI agents.

More: Project management for developers · Git on the board · The Code Graph.

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Other options

Linear is not the only alternative: the whole field is covered in Linear alternatives.

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