Does fenbs have cycles or sprints?

No. Priority is a number on the task (1 to 10, with P1 to P2 as urgent) and the Next Up lane is what you plan to do next. That is the whole planning model.

Can an AI assistant close tasks in fenbs?

If its role allows it. An assistant connects with a browser sign-in over MCP and inherits the role of the person who approved it, narrowed by the scopes they ticked. Moving a task to Completed needs the “move tasks between lanes” permission; without it the assistant is refused with a sentence it can repeat to you.

Can I move my tasks into fenbs?

Yes. Paste a list — one task per line — into Add many and fenbs makes the tasks, with a kind and a lane each. There is no importer for other tools’ export files yet; a pasted list covers what most small boards need.

Does fenbs cost anything to try?

No. Your own board is free with up to 50 open tasks at a time, with no card and no trial clock. Personal is $4.99 a month with no limit; a team workspace is $99.50 a month however many people join. AI assistants are free on every plan.

fenbs vs Linear: the same taste for less, with an AI member on the board

Linear is the tool fast software teams reach for, and it deserves the reputation. fenbs is smaller, slower to change on purpose, and built so an AI assistant can be a member with a role.

Last checked 19 September 2026

The short answer

Linear is a fast, opinionated issue tracker for product and engineering teams, with cycles, projects, roadmaps and a keyboard-first interface. fenbs shares the taste for opinion and speed and stops much earlier: one board, four lanes, three kinds of task, roles for the people on it, and a seat for your AI assistant. If your team is shipping a product with a roadmap, Linear. If your team is a handful of people and an assistant working one list, fenbs.

Where Linear is better

Cycles and projects. Planning work in time boxes and grouping it into projects with progress is what Linear is for.
Roadmaps and initiatives, for telling a company where the product is going.
Speed and polish in the app itself. The keyboard-driven interface is a real reason people choose it.
Deep GitHub and Slack integration for engineering teams.

Where fenbs is better

AI assistants as members. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code over MCP with a browser sign-in. It holds your role and its changes are signed with its name. Linear’s AI features are inside Linear; fenbs lets the assistant you already use work the board.
Roles below the workspace. A person can be on your board with a role that only lets them report bugs — a client, a tester, a subcontractor. That is a smaller unit of trust than a workspace member.
No process to adopt. There are no cycles to plan and no projects to create before the first task goes in. Non-developers on the board are not asked to learn a developer’s tool.
The vocabulary is three words and four lanes. Everyone on the board, developer or not, reads it the same way.

Honestly

A software team that is happy in Linear should stay. fenbs is for the team that never got as far as a roadmap, or has people on it who would not open Linear, or wants an AI assistant on the board with a name and a role rather than an API key acting as somebody.

How to decide in ten minutes

Paste this week's real list into a fenbs board with Add many, connect the AI assistant you already use over MCP, and work from it for a few days. If the board is still true at the end of the week, it is doing the job. If you kept reaching for a field Linear has and fenbs does not, that is your answer too, and it is a good one.