Features
Your Linear issues, arranged as a product
Nothing to recreate: StoryMap reads the backlog you already have and lays it out as one board. It builds the first layout for you, hands you the parts it wasn't sure about, and keeps reading from Linear from then on.
01
See the whole product at once
Across the top: the things people do in your product, in the order they do them. Down the side: what ships in which release. Where a column meets a row sit the Linear issues that make that part real.
Every card is a real issue
Same identifier, same status, same assignee. Click one and you're in Linear.
Releases cut across the product
A slice shows everything one release touches, in every part of the product at once.
Gaps become visible
A thin column or an empty cell is the part of the product nobody has planned yet.
02
Your first action is correcting a map, not creating one
Auto-placement clusters your issues by project, parent and child links and shared labels, orders each cell by priority and cycle, and lays out a first draft before you touch anything. You are never handed an empty canvas and asked to fill it in.
First render · example workspace
We found 186 issues.
150 were placed automatically.
36 need review.
Review tray
And the structure is yours to change
Auto-placement proposes columns; it never decides them. Rename, merge, reorder or remove any of them, and drag any card to where it actually belongs — which is why the first draft doesn't have to be perfect to be useful.
03
Linear owns the issues. StoryMap owns the map.
The map is the part StoryMap keeps: your journey columns, your release slices, and where each issue sits. Everything printed on a card — title, status, assignee, estimate, cycle — belongs to Linear and is read from it. There is no second backlog to maintain, and nothing you have to keep in step by hand.
One card, opened
Snooze a conversation
NW-155 · Inbox actions
Status
In Progressfrom Linear
Assignee
Mira Tanfrom Linear
Estimate
5 ptsfrom Linear
Cycle
Cycle 14from Linear
Labels
inbox, triagefrom Linear
Updated
2h agofrom Linear
- Setup is an OAuth screen
- Sign in with Linear, pick a team, and the board is there. No API keys, no CSV, no migration.
- Nothing is changed in Linear
- Arranging the board doesn't move, edit or close anything in your workspace. The map is StoryMap's; the issues stay exactly as your team left them.
- The board doesn't go stale
- Come back after a month away and it's current, because it was never a copy — every card is read from Linear when you open the board.
- Leaving is reversible
- StoryMap never becomes the canonical record of your product, so there is nothing to migrate back into Linear if you stop using it.
04
Send the map to someone who will never log in
Most of the people who need to see a story map will never edit one. A read-only link opens the board for anyone who has it — no account, no seat, nothing to install — and it shows the cards you put on the board rather than the backlog behind them.
What they open
- They see the board, not the backlog
- A shared link shows the cards on the map — the review tray, everything auto-placement left off it, is not part of what you hand over. Maps larger than five hundred cards are shared in part, and the page says so.
- Revocable, and replaceable
- Turn sharing off and the link stops working immediately. Replace it and the old one dies the moment the new one exists.
- Not indexed
- Shared boards are served with a noindex header, so a roadmap you sent to three people does not turn up in a search result.
- Free on both plans
- Sharing is not a paid tier. A link keeps working whether the workspace is on Free, on Pro, or has cancelled — the person following it is not the one paying.
Try it on your real backlog
A board is worth judging on your own issues, not on a demo workspace. Connect Linear, watch the first map build itself, and you'll know in a couple of minutes whether it helps.
Nothing is changed in Linear. No credit card, and free up to 150 mapped issues.
One view of your product, kept excellent — that's the whole product, and all we intend to build.