Circle
Circle is a sleek, modern project management interface directly inspired by Linear's renowned design and user experience, built with Next.js, TypeScript, shadcn/ui, and Tailwind CSS to demonstrate how to create production-quality project management tools with contemporary web technologies.
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About Circle
With over 2,200 stars on GitHub, this open-source project showcases best practices for building responsive, performant interfaces that handle issue tracking, project organization, and team collaboration. The application features a clean, distraction-free interface optimized for keyboard navigation and rapid task management, comprehensive issue tracking with status labels, priorities, and assignments, project views with Kanban boards and list layouts, team management with member roles and permissions, responsive design that works seamlessly across desktop and mobile devices, real-time updates for collaborative team environments, and keyboard shortcuts for power users who want to move fast. Circle's design philosophy emphasizes speed and clarity, removing unnecessary visual clutter while ensuring all essential information is accessible within one or two clicks.
The codebase demonstrates advanced Next.js patterns including server components, optimistic UI updates, proper TypeScript typing throughout the application, and Tailwind CSS organization for maintainable styles. This project is invaluable for developers building internal project management tools for engineering teams, learning how to replicate Linear's elegant UX patterns, creating issue tracking systems for open-source projects, studying modern Next.js architecture with shadcn/ui, and understanding how to build keyboard-first interfaces. Circle serves as both a functional project management tool and an educational resource for developers who admire Linear's approach to software design.
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Free, open source, and ready to ship.
Clone the repo, install dependencies, and start customising. Circle is free and open source: its license is in the repository.
- Clone the Circle repository from GitHub.
- Run
npm installorpnpm installto install all required packages. - Run
npm run devto start the development server and begin customizing. - Check the repository’s README and license before you ship.
Terminal
$ git clone https://github.com/ln-dev7/circle $ cd circle $ npm install $ npm run dev
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Everything you need to know before you ship with Circle.
Circle is a sleek, modern project management interface directly inspired by Linear's renowned design and user experience, built with Next.js, TypeScript, shadcn/ui, and Tailwind CSS to demonstrate how to create production-quality project management tools with contemporary web technologies. It is an open source template in the shadcn.io collection of 215.
Circle is made by Ln dev7, an independent developer; shadcn.io lists it but did not make it. Ln dev7 has 3 templates in the collection, and the author's page lists them.
The listing tags Circle with Next.js, React, Tailwind and Templates & Themes. Those are its categories, not a dependency list: the exact packages and versions are in the repository's package.json.
Yes. The Circle page embeds its live demo from circle.lndev.me, and links to it so you can open the real deployment before you clone.
The Circle listing was last updated on October 8, 2025. That date is the listing's, not the repository's: check the repository's commits for recent activity.
Clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/ln-dev7/circle), then follow the README. The Circle page shows the usual steps and a terminal block with the commands to copy.
Install dependencies with npm install or pnpm install, then run npm run dev. The README in the Circle repository says which package manager and environment variables it needs.
No. Circle is cloned from its own GitHub repository, so shadcn.io isn't involved. Browsing the page and its live demo need no account either; Pro adds the premium templates, the blocks and the MCP server.
Circle is tagged Next.js, so it deploys wherever a Next.js app does, such as Vercel, a Node.js server or a container. Its README may add steps for its own services.
The Circle listing doesn't record a license. Check the LICENSE file in its repository (https://github.com/ln-dev7/circle), and ask the author if there isn't one.
That depends on Circle's license in its repository, which shadcn.io does not set. Read the LICENSE file before you use it in a client or paid project, and ask the author if it is unclear.
Attribution follows Circle's license. Many permissive licenses ask you to keep the copyright notice and license text in your copy; its LICENSE file says exactly what.
No. The Pro license covers shadcn.io's own Pro code, blocks and premium templates. Circle is the author's project, under the terms in its repository.
Ln dev7 supports Circle, through its GitHub repository: read the docs, open an issue or look for discussions. shadcn.io does not maintain it.
Yes. Once you clone it, Circle is your own code: change the theme, add pages and connect your backend. It uses shadcn/ui, so you can also add more components the same way.
Yes. Components are free with a free account and the blocks are in Pro; both are copied into your project with the shadcn CLI. Check that Circle uses Tailwind CSS and the shadcn/ui setup (a components.json) before you add them, and pick the base library your project already uses.
Yes, with Pro. The shadcn.io MCP server's search_templates tool finds templates by what they are, and returns each one's repository and live demo, so your editor can set up Circle for you. Your files stay on your machine.
The collection has 14 other open source Templates & Themes templates like Circle, shown at the foot of its page with the ones sharing most categories first. All of them are at /template/category/templates-and-themes.
Ln dev7 has 2 other templates in the collection, including Square UI and Sharuco. The author's page lists them all.
Yes. The 14 premium templates (Solaris, Reframe Labs, Spherule and Max and more) are built by shadcn.io and come with every Pro plan, if you want maintained code with a design file.
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