Linear.app in your language

Install the extension from the Chrome Web Store, then refresh any open Linear.app tab. On first run it follows your browser language, so if Chrome is set to Japanese the interface appears in Japanese immediately. To choose a different language, click the extension icon in the toolbar and pick one of the 24 options — open Linear.app tabs update in place, without a reload.

No. Linear.app ships an English-only interface and offers no in-app language switch, which is why translating it has to happen in the browser. This extension replaces interface text inside the page you already have open, so you keep the same workspace, the same URL and the same keyboard shortcuts.

Twenty-four options: English (the original interface), Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Turkish, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Hindi, Thai and Arabic. Each one is a dictionary of 2,367 interface strings bundled inside the extension.

No. The extension only replaces interface strings it has in its dictionary. Editors, code blocks, elements marked as untranslatable, issue titles in links and project card headings are skipped, and input values are never rewritten. Your workspace content stays exactly as your team wrote it.

No. The dictionaries ship inside the extension and translation runs entirely in your browser, so there are no API calls and no remote code. The extension requests two things: access to linear.app pages, which it needs to read and replace the interface text, and storage, which remembers the language you picked.

It is built to stay out of the way. Only changed text, attributes and newly added subtrees are processed rather than the whole page on every mutation, work is budgeted to roughly 4ms and 600 nodes per frame, background tabs are paused, and in English mode the observer disconnects entirely once the original text is restored.

Yes, at any time. Choose English in the picker and every replaced string is restored from the original text the extension kept in memory. Nothing about your Linear.app account or workspace settings changes — the switch only affects what your own browser renders.

Each language carries the same 2,367-entry dictionary, covering navigation, views, issue and project actions, filters, command menus, agent entry points and the preferences pages. Long-tail settings copy that is not in the dictionary stays in English rather than being machine-translated on the spot. Traditional Chinese is generated from the Simplified set with Taiwanese term conversion, with common phrases checked by hand.

It is built and tested for Google Chrome and distributed through the Chrome Web Store. Chromium-based browsers that can install Chrome Web Store items use the same package, but they are not part of the tested set, and Firefox and Safari are not supported.

Yes. LinearCN was the Simplified-Chinese-only version; version 2.0 keeps the same Chrome Web Store item and adds the other 23 languages, so existing users are upgraded in place and keep Chinese unless they choose something else.

Nothing. There is no account, no sign-in, no paid tier and no telemetry.