Linear vs Specsight
How Linear and Specsight differ
- FOR PRODUCT & ENGINEERING TEAMS
Use Linear to plan and track your team's work
- Issues, cycles, and sprint planning
- Product roadmaps and initiatives
- Bug tracking and triage
- Project status and updates
- Keeping work in flight organised
- FOR PMS, SUPPORT & STAKEHOLDERS
Use Specsight to follow how your product behaves and changes
- How every feature behaves, in plain language
- What’s new in your product, after every release
- Product map and user flows
- Release notes ready to share with clients
- Answers without asking an engineer
Why they’re different
Linear is where fast teams run the work: issues, cycles, projects, everything moving. Specsight is where the results land: what actually shipped, how it behaves, what changed for users. The two never quite match, because the released feature is rarely the issue that described it. Linear holds the plan. Specsight follows the product
How they fit together
Most teams keep both. Linear stays the home of work in flight. Specsight picks up where the issue closes, showing what actually went out and how the product behaves now
Gap analysis
A live comparison of what your team planned in Linear and what actually shipped, feature by feature, issue by issue. Closes the loop between intent and reality, automatically, every release
See the roadmapFrequently asked questions
Not really. A closed issue describes the plan, and it is written before anyone builds anything. What ships is usually different, and nobody goes back to rewrite the issue afterwards. Specsight reads the code, so it shows what actually shipped
No. Linear is for execution: cycles, assignments, priorities. Specsight is for the outcome, what shipped and how it behaves. Most teams keep Linear and add Specsight
Nothing has to be remembered. Specsight re-reads what changed in the code on every release and updates the picture itself. There is nothing to keep up to date, because nothing was written by hand in the first place