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ProHQ vs Linear

Fast, beautiful issue tracking for software engineering teams. ProHQ is a process engine: it runs your whole operation as one process — offline, in the field, in your team's language — and we build and run it with you.

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ORIGIN: United States · 2019
PRICING MODEL: Per-seat SaaS (free to a premium Enterprise tier), billed in USD and priced toward the higher end of dev tools.
BEST FOR: Modern software startups and product teams shipping with cycles, sprints and roadmaps.

CREDIT WHERE IT'S DUE

What Linear is genuinely good at.

Best-in-class speed and UX

Keyboard-driven, instant interactions make it one of the fastest tools any team will use.

Local-first sync engine

Changes save locally and sync the moment connectivity returns, so the desktop app stays responsive offline.

Real GraphQL API and webhooks

A full public GraphQL API plus webhooks let teams automate issues, projects and cycles cleanly.

SIDE BY SIDE

Six things that decide it.

CAPABILITY

ProHQ

Linear

Built around your process

A state-machine workflow that mirrors how you actually work — not generic boards, lists or tickets you bend to fit.

✓

Offline-first, built for the field

Record work where it happens — site, road, shop floor — with no signal. It syncs when the network returns.

✓

One process, everything attached

Tables, documents, files, approvals and chat hang off the exact stage they belong to — not separate apps that never quite talk.

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A team that runs it with you

We sit with your people, map the process and keep it running. Not a download-and-configure-it-yourself licence.

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Your team's language

Feels like Excel and WhatsApp, in the language the field already speaks. No training period.

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AI only where it pays

Drafting, summarising and repetitive paperwork automated on the process — included, not a per-seat upsell.

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✓ Built in ~ Partial / add-on / configure-it-yourself ✕ Not available

WHERE IT STOPS

The gap ProHQ fills.

Linear is built to track software issues moving through engineering statuses, not to model an entire field business as one process. It assumes desk-based, technically fluent users, so there is no offline field capture, no local language, and no finance, CRM or approvals layer. For a contractor or trading firm in India, it solves a problem they don't have.

Software-issue shaped only

Its statuses, cycles and projects assume engineering work, not a whole field-business process.
Not field data capture

Offline means desktop sync for known issues, not no-signal data collection from a site or shop floor.
English dev-tool only

No Hindi, no Excel/WhatsApp feel, and it expects technically fluent users with no hand-holding.
No unified business stack

It tracks tasks, not the finance, CRM, approvals and documents a running business needs in one place.

THE INDIA REALITY

No India presence, support or local-language interface; an English-only, US-timezone product aimed at global software teams.

KEEP IT — ADD PROHQ

Keep it, or run ProHQ alongside.

A software team would never swap Linear for ProHQ, and a field business would never reach for Linear — they are opposite ends of the spectrum. Linear perfects the developer's workflow; ProHQ runs the operator's whole business. The honest move is to learn from Linear's speed, not replace it. ProHQ covers the operation around the product team.

INTEGRATION

Bring your Linear data with you

Linear exposes a public GraphQL API, webhooks and CSV import; ProHQ can sync Linear issues into a process stage or table so engineering work surfaces alongside the rest of the operation.

Need to keep Linear in the loop? We build that connector by hand during onboarding — which is why the beta is just twenty seats.

REACHING PARITY

Matching Linear, on the process engine

Where Linear leads today, here's what we're building — so it works offline and in the field too:

A keyboard-first command palette for power users
Instant, no-spinner UI backed by local-first reads
Clean, opinionated default views so users aren't lost in options

THE VERDICT

The fastest, most beautiful issue tracker there is — for software teams, not field businesses.

We'll tell you honestly whether ProHQ is the right move from Linear for how you work. That conversation is free.

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