Height.app shut down on September 24, 2025. Here's what actually happened, where the mainstream alternatives fall short for teams that loved Height's visual, AI-native design, and why BuildHub's Infinity Canvas is worth a look.
If you searched "height app alternative," you already know why: Height.app, the AI-native project management tool with a distinctive visual design, shut down on September 24, 2025. The team announced the sunset in March 2025, giving users about six months to migrate. Multiple 2025 and 2026 roundups now carry titles like "Best Alternatives After Height App Shutdown," and threads on r/projectmanagement and r/SaaS are full of teams asking the same question: what do we move to?
Most of the answers point to the same handful of general-purpose tools: ClickUp, Linear, Asana, Shortcut, Wrike. They're all capable project trackers. But Height wasn't just a task tracker, it was a flexible, visually distinctive, AI-assisted workspace, and none of the usual recommendations replace that part. This article covers what actually happened to Height, what its users say they miss, where the standard alternatives come up short, and why BuildHub's Infinity Canvas is worth evaluating if a visual, AI-native workspace was the reason you liked Height in the first place.
Height positioned itself as an "autonomous" project management tool: AI-powered bug triage, backlog pruning, and auto-updating specs, wrapped in a clean, opinionated interface that won over a loyal base of product and engineering teams. In March 2025, the company announced it was sunsetting the product. Height's CEO, Michael Villar, reportedly called it one of the hardest decisions the team had to make. The platform kept running until September 24, 2025, giving existing customers roughly six months to export their data and pick a new home.
That six-month runway is longer than most SaaS shutdowns offer, but it still forced hundreds of teams into an unplanned migration. Threads on Reddit from mid-2025 show the scramble in real time: teams comparing ClickUp, Linear, Asana, and Wrike, trying to find something that replicated Height's custom attributes, task forms, and flexible views before the deadline hit.
Reading through real migration threads, the same list of Height strengths comes up again and again:
What soured the relationship for many long-time users wasn't the shutdown itself, it was a "2.0" redesign at the end of 2024 that pushed AI automations onto users who hadn't asked for them, while quietly removing features people depended on.
"The AI ‘features’ in Height drove us crazy. The straw that broke the camel's back was them forcing parent tasks to be ‘projects,’ which have their own disruptive automations that are enabled by default."
Source: r/projectmanagement
Another team described losing the history of description edits entirely, and having unsaved drafts wiped during the 2.0 migration, only recovered after reaching out to support. The lesson for anyone picking a replacement: AI features bolted onto a workspace without context, and without respecting the data structures people already built, erode trust fast. That is the exact trap to avoid when evaluating what comes next.
The tools that show up in nearly every "Height alternative" roundup are ClickUp, Linear, Asana, Shortcut, and Wrike. Each is a genuinely good project tracker, and each is missing something specific that Height users call out by name:
None of these tools are bad. They're just built around the same list-and-board mental model as every other project tracker. If the reason you liked Height was its flexibility and AI-native, visual design, and not just its task list, a like-for-like swap to another Kanban tool will feel like a downgrade no matter how many integrations it has.
The table below adds the one dimension most roundups skip: whether the workspace is visual and spatial, or just another list-and-board tool wearing a different color scheme.
| Tool | Visual/spatial canvas | AI | Built for | Reported gap vs. Height |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ClickUp | No (lists, boards, docs) | Add-on AI (ClickUp Brain) | All-in-one teams of any size | Custom fields and task forms are less flexible to set up than Height's, per teams who tried migrating |
| Linear | No | Native, but scoped to issue triage | Software and engineering teams | No Gantt or calendar views; custom fields are limited to labels, not the rich attributes Height offered |
| Asana | No | Add-on AI | General project management | Task templates are duplicated tasks rather than real forms; subtasks are awkward to work with |
| Shortcut | No | Assistive, not workspace-wide | Product and engineering teams | Purpose-built for software workflows only; no spatial or visual layer for planning |
| Wrike | No | Add-on AI | Enterprise operations | No Markdown support in task descriptions, a basic feature Height users expect |
| BuildHub | Yes (Infinity Canvas) | Native, context-aware across the whole project | Developers and founders building SaaS | Newer product with a smaller integration ecosystem than long-established PM tools |
BuildHub is BigIdeasDB's project workspace, built specifically for developers and founders shipping SaaS products. Every project gets a dedicated workspace with Project Info, Project Prompts, Project CRM, and Project Docs in a sidebar, plus an Infinity Canvas for visual planning, all scoped to that project's context.
The Infinity Canvas is the part that actually maps to what Height users say they miss. Instead of a flat task list, you place nodes on an open, spatial canvas and connect them to show how they relate:
Because the AI has context from connected nodes, asking it to generate a competitor analysis table or expand a spec produces output that's actually relevant to your project, rather than a generic answer bolted onto a task description. Alongside the canvas, BuildHub includes a Kanban board for day-to-day ticket tracking, a CRM for leads and customer conversations, and a documents module with a markdown editor and semantic search, so a project's planning, execution, and customer context live in one place instead of scattered across Notion, spreadsheets, and a task tracker.
BuildHub also includes BuildGuide, a staged, evidence-backed guide that walks an idea from validation through build with an AI copilot and gate scoring at each stage, something none of the general project trackers above attempt. To be direct about the tradeoff: BuildHub is newer than Linear or Asana and has a smaller third-party integration ecosystem today. If your team leans hard on a specific integration (say, a niche CI/CD webhook), check it's supported before you commit. But if what you valued about Height was the AI-native, visual, opinionated design, not the integration count, BuildHub is built around exactly that idea.
BuildHub is the strongest fit for solo developers and small teams building a SaaS product who want their project planning, AI research, CRM, and docs in one visual workspace, the same reason many picked Height over Jira or Trello in the first place. Larger teams with complex cross-department workflows and deep existing integrations may still be better served by ClickUp or Asana.
If you haven't exported your Height workspace yet, do it first, regardless of which tool you land on. Most teams that migrated successfully followed the same sequence:
If you're rebuilding a SaaS project from scratch rather than migrating an existing one, it's also worth validating the idea before you rebuild your whole workspace around it. Our guide on how to build a SaaS in 2026 and the best AI tools for solo founders cover the steps before and after you pick a project management tool.
Liked Height's visual, AI-native workspace? BuildHub pairs an Infinity Canvas with a Kanban board, CRM, and docs, built for developers shipping SaaS.
Height announced in March 2025 that it was sunsetting the product, with the platform officially shutting down on September 24, 2025. The company gave roughly six months' notice so teams could migrate. Many long-time users trace the decline to a disruptive "2.0" redesign in late 2024 that added AI automations they didn't ask for while removing features they relied on, such as description edit history.
If what you valued about Height was its flexibility and visual, AI-assisted approach, not just another Kanban board, BuildHub is the closest match. It pairs a spatial Infinity Canvas, where you create and connect document, table, Q&A, and data-view nodes, with a Kanban board, CRM, and docs, and AI that has context across your whole project. Mainstream picks like ClickUp, Linear, Asana, and Shortcut are solid project trackers, but none of them offer a canvas-first workspace.
Before Height shut down, exporting your tasks, custom attributes, and descriptions was the standard path. If you already have that export, you can recreate your project structure inside BuildHub's Project Info, Docs, and Kanban board, and use the Infinity Canvas to rebuild anything that was more visual or relational in your old Height workspace.
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A Kanban board organizes tasks into columns. The Infinity Canvas is a spatial workspace on top of that: you place document nodes, table nodes, Q&A nodes, and data-view nodes anywhere on an open canvas and connect them to show how pieces of a project relate. AI on the canvas has context from connected nodes, so it can generate a competitor table or expand a spec with an understanding of what's already there, the same kind of AI-assisted, non-linear workflow Height was known for.