Top Height Alternatives in 2026

ClickUp is the closest match to what Height used to offer: a single app for tasks, docs, chat, and dashboards, though its Brain AI assistant is a separate paid add-on ($9-$28/user/month) rather than included in the base price. Its Free Forever plan supports unlimited members and unlimited tasks, the same generosity Height's free tier had, though the 60MB storage cap is shared across the whole team and fills up fast once you add attachments. Paid plans start at $7 per seat per month billed annually, and ClickUp shipped Brain2, a rebuilt AI assistant with automatic model selection across Claude, Gemini, and GPT, on July 2, 2026, close to the automation Height's fans liked. The tradeoff is setup time. ClickUp exposes a lot of settings and custom fields, so a team migrating from Height's cleaner interface needs to configure views before it feels as tidy as Height did.

Asana fits Height buyers who need to coordinate work across marketing, ops, and product, not just engineering, since Height's list, board, and doc mix served cross-functional teams as much as technical ones. Paid plans start at $10.99 per seat per month billed annually, and even the entry-level Starter plan includes timeline and Gantt views plus unlimited automations and forms, which Height only approximated with its flexible views. Asana's Spring 2026 release added AI Teammates that work inside existing project workflows and connectors for Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini, filling some of the gap left by Height's AI triage. The downside is cost. There's no paid single-seat plan, real teams need at least two paid seats, and Enterprise pricing is quote-only, so a full rollout takes a sales call to price out.

Linear is the pick for teams that chose Height for its speed and AI-driven backlog work rather than its all-purpose flexibility. Like Height, Linear is opinionated and fast, with a keyboard-first interface and a genuinely usable free plan (unlimited members, 2 teams, 250 issues). Its Linear Agent features (automated triage, agent-written code, and agent-drafted project updates) are the closest thing on the market to Height's AI triage and backlog pruning. Paid plans start at $10 per seat per month billed annually. The catch is that Linear is built for software teams specifically. It doesn't offer Gantt charts, budget views, or the general-purpose flexibility Height's list, board, and doc mix gave non-technical collaborators, and SAML/SCIM only ship on the quote-only Enterprise plan.

Trello is the simplest replacement for teams that used Height mainly as a lightweight board, not for its AI features or docs. Cards move across lists the same way Height's board view worked, and the Standard plan costs just $5 per seat per month billed annually, the cheapest paid entry point of any tool on this list. The free plan covers unlimited cards and unlimited Power-Ups per board, though it caps out at 10 boards and 10 collaborators per Workspace, tighter than Height's uncapped free tier. Trello has no native Gantt, timeline, or table view below Premium, and no AI-driven triage or backlog cleanup at all, so teams that relied on Height's automation will find Trello a step down there, not a swap.

monday.com is the alternative for teams that liked Height's customizable, visual approach to project views more than a rigid template. Boards switch between Kanban, timeline, Gantt, and calendar views without changing the underlying data, similar to how Height let you move between list, board, and doc views of the same work, but Timeline and Gantt views only arrive on the $12/seat Standard plan, not the $9/seat Basic tier most people see as the starting price. Sidekick AI can summarize boards, build charts, and draft automations from plain-language prompts, echoing the automation Height built its reputation on. monday's free plan caps out at 2 seats, 3 boards, and 3 docs, the tightest free tier of any tool on this list and a real step down from Height's uncapped free plan, which is why monday ranks behind Linear and Trello here despite its stronger view-switching. The paid tiers also add a seat tax. Every paid plan requires a minimum of three seats and rounds extra headcount up into fixed seat blocks, so a small team ends up paying for seats it doesn't use.

Basecamp is the honest long-shot on this list. It solves a different problem than Height did. Height was about flexible task views and AI-assisted backlog work. Basecamp is built around message boards, to-do lists, and group chat, with no Gantt charts, dependencies, or automation at all. It fits teams that found Height's flexibility more distracting than useful and want one shared space for client work instead. Pro costs $15 per seat per month, or a flat $299 per month on Pro Unlimited once a team passes about 20 people, a genuinely different pricing shape than Height's per-seat free tier. Teams doing sprint planning or anything Height's AI used to automate should look elsewhere on this list first. Basecamp only makes sense for teams that want less structure, not more.