Linear cycles measure issue flow and effort points. Everhour adds tracked-hour reporting for sprint budget and billing review.
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Teams that plan in Linear often need a time view for the same cycle window used in sprint planning. Linear issues belong to one team and can include assignee, priority, estimate, cycle, label, and project. Those fields organize delivery work, while tracked hours support billing, cost review, or project follow-up after the cycle closes.
Linear estimates are effort or size values, not clock-time records. Linear supports Exponential, Fibonacci, Linear, and T-Shirt estimate scales, and its cycle and project graphs use issue points, completed issues, scope, and velocity signals. Sprint time tracking therefore needs a separate timer or time-entry layer when the review must show actual hours.
Harvest tracks time from Linear issues through its browser extension for Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. A user starts the timer from the Linear issue sidebar, and Harvest places the Linear issue ID in the time-entry notes. Harvest also states that its Linear integration does not work in the Linear desktop app.
Harvest does not sync Linear projects or issues with Harvest projects or tasks. Teams need to maintain that setup in both systems, or connect a third-party automation tool. That boundary matters during sprint review because issue IDs in notes preserve a reference, but they do not create synced Linear project or issue structure inside Harvest.
A common sprint mistake is reading Linear estimate points as hours after the work is done. Linear defines effort as the estimate value, and enabled estimates feed completion and effort statistics. Unestimated issues default to 1 estimate point unless that setting is changed. None of that creates a native per-issue hour log in Linear.
Harvest and Everhour both add time tracking beside Linear rather than changing Linear's planning model. Harvest supplies the sidebar timer and issue ID note. Everhour embeds Linear tracking controls through a browser extension, syncs Linear changes such as project names, issue titles, and new labels, adds a Linear timesheet button, and supports reports using Linear labels, projects, and cycles.
A single-cycle export or manual review works when the team only needs timer entries tied back to issue IDs. That approach is enough for a short retrospective or a limited client update. It gets harder when sprint hours must feed recurring budgets, rate-based billing, cost review, or approval workflows.
Plan requirements matter before adoption. Harvest lists timesheet approvals and profitability reporting on Enterprise, from $14 per seat per month with annual billing. Everhour pricing puts native integrations plus billing, budgeting, and invoicing on Team at $8.50 per seat per month billed yearly. Everhour Reporting adds 45+ report columns, filters, grouping, exports, scheduled email delivery, and budget metrics for managed review.
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A Linear cycle is a time-boxed team work period, so it works as the sprint boundary for review. Linear cycle graphs show scope, target progress, started issues, completed issues, and cycle success. Actual hours still need a separate time-tracking layer because Linear's documented cycle analytics use issue-flow data.
Linear estimate points should stay separate from sprint hours. Linear uses estimates as effort or size values for completion and effort statistics. A time tracker records clock time, which supports billing, cost review, and budget follow-up without changing the team's estimation scale.
Harvest says Linear projects and issues and Harvest projects and tasks do not sync through its Linear integration. The Harvest browser extension starts a timer from the Linear issue sidebar and places the issue ID in the Harvest time-entry notes. Project and task setup remains separate in Harvest.
Harvest states that its Linear integration is not currently supported in the Linear desktop app. The integration requires the Harvest browser extension in Chrome, Firefox, or Edge, and users start timers from Linear issues in the browser.
A sprint budget review needs a clean split between planned effort and tracked hours. Linear supplies issue, project, cycle, and estimate context. Harvest supports hour or fee budgets with custom percentage alerts, while Everhour supports hour or fee budgets, recurring resets, budget protection, and threshold alerts.
Everhour Reporting provides customizable reports with 45+ columns, grouping, filters, date ranges, exports to CSV, Excel, and PDF, and scheduled email delivery. With Linear connected, Everhour reports can use synced Linear labels, projects, and cycles for sprint review.
Everhour Project Budgeting tracks hour-based or money-based budgets as people log time and expenses. Admins can set threshold email alerts at any percentage, and budget protection can stop running timers or block additional logging after the cap is exceeded.
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