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Shortcut
A pleasant Jira alternative in a market where Linear took the oxygen.
KINDA
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
GitHub Projects covers the headline feature free, so the $8/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- Coding agents shifted where work gets tracked. Anthropic, February 24, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 1 of 2 listed replacements have a usable free tier: GitHub Projects.
- What the call is worth $96/yr
- $8/mo at the entry paid tier — $96 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- Anthropic
- Since
- February 24, 2025
- List price
- $8/mo
- Per year
- $96
The backstory
Shortcut is a well-built issue tracker for software teams. Its trouble is competitive rather than technological: Linear captured the "modern alternative to Jira" position, and agentic workflows increasingly start from the repository, pushing tracking closer to GitHub. Wounded by positioning.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $96/yr L 
Linear Same idea, more momentum.
linear.app open_in_new G 
GitHub Projects Free with the code.
github.com open_in_new1 of 2 replacements have a usable free tier.