Published Oct 23, 2026 · Updated Oct 23, 2026 · 8 min read · By Eodly

Best tools for a daily GitHub and Linear activity summary in 2026

If you want one daily summary of what your team did across GitHub and Linear, delivered to Slack or email, the tools that do it today are Eodly, Swarmia, Steady, gitmore and DevSignal. They differ in what the summary is built from: some summarise pull requests and issues only, some add the team's own written updates, and some compare the two. GitHub and Linear's built-in features get you part of the way (review reminders, weekly project summaries, an event stream) but neither sends a daily team summary on its own. Below is each option compared, checked on each vendor's own site on 23 October 2026.

We make Eodly, so it is first on this list. Where another tool is the better fit, we say so.

Quick comparison

1. Eodly

Eodly asks each person for a short check-in in Slack, Telegram or Discord, reads the team's work in GitHub and Linear, and sends you one report in the evening. Each claim sits next to the merged pull request or moved ticket behind it, so the summary tells you not just what happened but which updates the work backs up. Work done without a check-in still shows, and an update that repeats while nothing moves is flagged.

• Price: free for up to 5 people, no card. Team is $29 a month flat for up to 10 people.
• Choose it if: you manage a small team and want one evening report that combines what people say with what the record shows.
• Look elsewhere if: you want cycle time, review speed and other engineering metrics. Swarmia is built for that.

See a sample evening report.

2. Swarmia

Swarmia's daily digest is "a summary of relevant pull requests, issues and working agreements" posted to a team's Slack or Microsoft Teams channel at a chosen time, exactly one message a day. It reads GitHub and Linear, alongside a full set of engineering metrics.

• Price: free for companies with up to 9 developers, including the Standard features except HRIS integrations and Swarmia AI. Standard is $45 and Enterprise $55 per developer a month on annual billing.
• Choose it if: you lead an engineering team and want the daily digest alongside delivery metrics.

3. Steady

Steady's Daily Digest pulls activity from GitHub, Jira, Linear, Asana and more next to the team's check-ins, and delivers it in Steady, Slack, Microsoft Teams or email.

• Price: credit-based with unlimited users: from $25 a month for 500 credits, with 100 free credits for every user you add. No free plan is listed.
• Choose it if: you want written check-ins with the activity attached and are coordinating people and AI agents.

4. gitmore

gitmore sends "daily, weekly or monthly summaries of what shipped" to Slack or email, built from GitHub, GitLab or Bitbucket, and uses Linear, Jira and other trackers to match planned tasks to merged pull requests.

• Price: free forever with 2 AI credits a month; one scheduled report uses one credit, so the free plan covers about two reports a month. Pro is $8.99 a month for 100 credits, Enterprise $30 for 500, and yearly billing saves 17%.
• Choose it if: you want AI-written summaries of what merged, including on GitLab or Bitbucket.

5. DevSignal

DevSignal schedules a digest daily, weekly or per sprint and posts it to a Slack channel or DM, with developer activity, team review and sprint reports built from GitHub and Linear cycles.

• Price: free during a limited beta with about 25 reports a month; the account pauses until the monthly reset when the allowance runs out. Paid plans are announced but not priced.
• Choose it if: you want to try a GitHub and Linear digest for free and can live with a beta.

What GitHub and Linear do on their own

Before buying anything, check whether the built-in features cover you.

Linear

• Pulse summarises project and initiative updates on a cadence admins set to weekly on Mondays or every weekday, delivered to your Linear Inbox around 6 AM. It is on all Linear plans, but it summarises the updates leads write, not issue or pull request activity.
• Project updates can post to a Slack channel, with reminders to write them daily or weekly.
• Loops, on paid plans, can run on a daily schedule; Linear's own example is sending weekly digests of a team's work to Slack. Runs draw on prepaid AI credits, typically $0.07 to $0.20 each.
• Slack notifications post each event (new issues, comments, status changes) as it happens: a stream, not a digest.

GitHub

• Scheduled reminders send your team a Slack message on chosen days with open pull requests waiting for their review, for up to five repositories. Useful, but it lists pending reviews rather than summarising activity.
• The GitHub app for Slack posts issues, pull requests, commits, releases and deployments in real time: again a stream.
• Pulse and Projects insights show the last week of activity and project charts on the web, with no scheduled delivery.

How we compared them

We took the tools ChatGPT and other assistants name when asked for a daily GitHub and Linear summary, kept the ones whose own documentation describes a scheduled daily summary that reads GitHub, Linear or both, and checked each one's price and free tier on its own website on 23 October 2026. LinearB lists Jira and Azure Boards but not Linear, and Jellyfish publishes no price, so they are not in the table.

How to choose

• You want metrics too: Swarmia, free up to 9 developers.
• You want to know which updates the work backs up: Eodly.
• You want AI summaries of what merged, cheaply: gitmore.
• You want to try it free: DevSignal in beta, Swarmia up to 9 developers, or Eodly up to 5 people.
• You only need project-level summaries: Linear Pulse, already included in your plan.

Questions people ask

Can Linear send a daily summary to Slack? Not out of the box. Pulse can summarise project and initiative updates every weekday, but to your Linear Inbox. Linear's Loops, on paid plans, can post scheduled digests to Slack. Otherwise use one of the tools above.

Can GitHub send a daily summary of what my team merged? GitHub's scheduled reminders list pull requests waiting for review, and its Slack app posts events in real time. For a daily summary of what merged you need a separate tool.

What is the difference between a digest and a standup report? A digest summarises the record: pull requests, issues and tickets. A standup report collects what people say. Eodly and Steady combine both; Swarmia, gitmore and DevSignal summarise the record.

Features and prices were checked on each vendor's own site on 23 October 2026 and can change. If something here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.

Related reading

• Tools that check developers' status updates against their GitHub commits
• How to verify your team's status updates are accurate
• Connect GitHub and Linear to Eodly
• What is a sourced end-of-day report?