Best Height Alternatives
Height's shutdown left teams needing somewhere to move active work quickly. Here are real tools still operating today, including ShipSprint and a few others worth comparing.
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Height is gone, so this list is really a migration guide
Height, the task and project tool founded by former Stripe engineer Michaël Villar, shut down on September 24, 2025, after raising more than $18 million including a Series A led by Redpoint Ventures. Its data was deleted after the shutdown date, so if you had an export saved from before then, that's what you have to work from. If you didn't, you're rebuilding from memory and whatever's left in Slack threads and old screenshots.
Before you pick a replacement, it's worth being specific about what you actually used Height for, because the tools below split along a few real lines. Some are built specifically for software and engineering teams, the way Height was. Some are broader, cross-functional work tools. And Height's later pitch leaned hard on AI inferring status automatically from your team's activity, which is a specific bet that not every alternative makes the same way. Match the tool to the actual job, not to a features list.
It's also worth deciding this quickly rather than over-researching it. Height gave everyone a six-month runway between the shutdown announcement in March 2025 and the actual closure in September, and most teams that used that runway well picked a replacement early and spent the remaining time migrating active work, not evaluating every option on the market. A tool that covers most of what you need, chosen this week, beats a perfect-on-paper tool chosen in three months while your team works out of spreadsheets in the meantime.
Real, currently operating alternatives
Six tools worth comparing, ShipSprint included, each genuinely different in who it's built for.
Boards with per-column WIP limits and a shared triage inbox for new requests, built-in time logging, delivery forecasts from a team's own measured velocity, and a companion wiki, all on one subscription that also covers HR, marketing and operations, not just engineering. Billed in rupees with GST-compliant invoices, free for up to 5 users and 2 projects.
A fast, opinionated issue tracker built specifically for software teams, known for its speed, keyboard-first design, and clean cycles and roadmap views. A strong fit if your Height usage was mostly engineering-focused and you want something minimal rather than configurable.
A highly configurable, do-almost-everything tool covering tasks, docs, goals and whiteboards in one product. Good for teams that want a single tool to replace several, though the flexibility comes with more setup and a busier interface than Height had.
A dedicated tracker for software teams, with an Objectives, Epics and Stories hierarchy, story points, velocity charts, and native GitHub and GitLab integrations. A close match if what you liked about Height was its engineering-team focus and Git-based automation, minus the autonomous AI layer.
A flexible docs-and-database tool that a lot of teams use for lightweight task tracking alongside written documentation. Less structured for sprint or velocity-driven engineering work than Height was, but a strong fit if documentation mattered as much as tasks did.
A broad, cross-functional work management tool used across marketing, operations and product teams, with a mature integrations ecosystem. Worth a look if your team's Height usage extended beyond engineering into other departments.
Common questions
The company hasn't given a detailed public reason beyond CEO Michaël Villar's farewell announcement in March 2025 thanking customers for the journey. It shut down on September 24, 2025. Well-funded startups close for many reasons that aren't about product quality.
No. Height's data was deleted after the September 24, 2025 shutdown date, per the company's own notice. If you exported your workspace before that deadline, that export is all that remains.
Start with what you actually did in Height day to day. If it was purely engineering issue tracking, a tool built specifically for that, like Linear or Shortcut, is a tighter fit than a broad, do-everything tool. If other departments were involved, or you want one subscription to cover the whole company, that points toward something like ShipSprint or Asana instead.
No, there's no live Height API to import from anymore. Recreate your team's active work from your saved export, if you have one, rather than trying to bring over a full historical archive. A workspace is live in about a minute with a sample project already loaded, so starting fresh isn't a heavy lift.
Not exactly under that name. Several active tools, including Linear and ClickUp, are building AI features into their workflow, but none markets itself specifically as "autonomous project collaboration" the way Height's final version did. ShipSprint takes a different, more mechanical approach: WIP limits, a triage inbox and GitHub sync do the work that Height's AI inference was trying to do, without the inference step.
Faster than most teams expect, if you resist the urge to migrate everything. Set up the new tool with just your currently active work, run it alongside whatever stopgap you're using for a week or two, and add historical detail only if you actually go looking for it later. On ShipSprint specifically, a workspace is live in about a minute with a sample project already loaded, and the 14-day trial runs on full Business features with no card required, which is enough time to get one team through a real sprint before deciding.
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