Company moved from ClickUp to Linear over product issues → Linear
“there wasn't a single person at my company who was upset about our switching to Linear”
ClickUp alternatives: where its users went, and why they left
ClickUp (clickup.com) has 24 sourced reports on Friction, drawn from 30 public source threads (as of 2026-10-15), 7 of them describing a move away. This page reads them for one question: if you are leaving ClickUp, what do its users say they moved to, and what pushed them out?
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Where ClickUp users say they went
Switching reports that name a destination. A count is the number of reports naming it, not a market share: Friction only holds what people say in public.
| Named alternative | Reports naming it | Newest report |
|---|---|---|
| Linear | 2 | 2026 |
| Basecamp | 1 | 2026 |
| Barawave | 1 | 2025 |
| YouTrack | 1 | 2023 |
In their words
Left a stack of disconnected tools for an all-in-one ERP → Barawave
“after years of duct-taping tools like ClickUp, Zoho, and Notion together, we finally made the switch to Barawave”
Some users switch from ClickUp for simplicity
“We have a lot of users switching from ClickUp for simplicity alone”
The team chose Basecamp after slow demos → Basecamp
“We settled on Basecamp and it is a joy to work with”
What pushes people away from ClickUp
The most-reported open problems, worst severity first. Each links to the item with its source.
Lists and ticket updates behave unreliably · Reliability & bugs · Blocks work
“random spinners that never go away, lists that re-order themselves when you change anything on a ticket”
ClickUp runs very slowly · Performance · Annoyance · 3 people
“For a glorified todo app, it manages to be so slow that Figma feels like a breeze”
ClickUp's UX is difficult to use · UI & usability · Annoyance
“its UX is so mind-bogglingly terrible that I'd rather give an LLM a minute to give me the information I'm looking for”
Upgrade prompts for features outside the plan · Pricing & plans · Annoyance
“I find it incredibly disrespectful when a SaaS is littered with "Upgrade" or "Bug your manager to upgrade" buttons/CTAs”
Homepage takes over 30 seconds to load · Performance · Annoyance
“I hate when just to load the homepage of a site it takes more than 30 seconds (I'm looking at you, ClickUp!)”
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Switching trades one set of problems for another. The same evidence, for each tool Friction covers in this category:
Jira
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Plane
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Asana
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Counts and reports reflect people who post in public (developers and technical buyers are over-represented). A tool with fewer reports is not a better tool; it may only be discussed less. How the data is built.