The 7 Best Canny Alternatives in 2026 (Free & Paid)

Canny more or less defined the modern feedback board. Boards with voting, a roadmap, a changelog and Autopilot, its AI that pulls requests out of support tickets and sales calls, all wired into the tools a product team already uses. Our Canny review covers it in depth. Teams still leave, and almost always for one of three reasons.

The bill follows your customers. Canny counts everyone who posts, votes or comments. Pro is $79 a month billed yearly for 100 of them ($99 month to month), then $279 at 500, $529 at 1,000 and $1,079 at 5,000. A launch that brings in a thousand voters takes the bill from $79 to $529. The math is in Canny pricing explained.

The free plan ends early. Free covers 25 tracked users, which a product with real traffic passes in its first week.

There is no native mobile SDK. Inside an iOS app, Canny's own answer is its web widget, shown in a web view.

Each tool below answers at least one of those. Prices come from each vendor's own pricing page, checked on October 7, 2026. WishKit is our product and is listed first, with the same pick it if and skip it if as the rest.

Chart of Canny alternatives by entry paid price per month billed yearly: WishKit $12.50 flat, Sleekplan $13, Upvoty $13.50, Frill $22, Featurebase $29 per seat, Nolt $29, Canny $79 for 100 tracked users, UserVoice custom

1. WishKit, best flat-priced Canny alternative for apps and SaaS

WishKit is the answer to the first and third reason at once. The price never looks at your user count: Premium is $15 a month, or $12.50 billed yearly, whether ten people vote or ten thousand. And apps get a native SwiftUI SDK for iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS and tvOS, while websites embed the same board with two lines of HTML. You keep voting, comments, statuses, duplicate merging and sorting requests by what each voter pays, and add things built for app makers: capturing requests from posts on X, 1-on-1 chat inside your iOS app and replies to your App Store reviews.

Pricing: free for one project with unlimited users. Premium is $15 a month flat with two projects, Enterprise $39 with unlimited projects.
Pick it if: your user count is the part of Canny's bill you can't control, or your product is an app.
Skip it if: Autopilot or Canny's Salesforce and Jira integrations are the reason you bought Canny.

More: WishKit vs Canny.

2. Featurebase, best if you want Canny's breadth and more

Featurebase is the closest match to Canny's feature list, then goes further: boards, a roadmap, a changelog and surveys, plus a help center and a support inbox with an AI agent. It swaps the meter, too. Featurebase bills per seat on your team, not per customer, so a product with many voters and a small team pays far less than on Canny.

Pricing: free for one seat. Growth is $29 per seat a month billed yearly ($37 monthly), Professional $59 ($75), Enterprise $99 ($129), plus $0.49 per AI resolution. Removing its branding is a $69 a month add-on from Professional up.
Pick it if: your audience is large, your team is small, and support could move into the same tool.
Skip it if: ten people on your team need access, since that is $290 a month on Growth before any AI.

More: WishKit vs Featurebase, Featurebase pricing.

3. Nolt, best for one board with unlimited voters

Nolt charges per board and never counts users, admins or posts. That makes it the most direct answer to a tracked-user bill: the price at ten thousand voters is the price at ten. Its Essential plan already connects to Slack, Discord, GitHub and Trello, with single sign-on through JWT.

Pricing: Essential is $29 a month billed yearly ($39 monthly) for one board. Pro is $69 ($89) for five boards and adds Jira, Linear and Zapier. No free plan, a 10-day trial.
Pick it if: you run one public board for a large audience and want the bill to stay put.
Skip it if: you need a free plan, or Salesforce and HubSpot data next to each request.

More: WishKit vs Nolt, Nolt pricing.

4. Upvoty, best low-cost board priced per project

Upvoty puts the meter on projects instead of people, with unlimited tracked users on every plan. The entry plan is the cheapest paid board on this list next to WishKit and Sleekplan, though it leaves out the changelog and integrations that Canny users are used to.

Pricing: Power is $15 a month for one project, Super $25 adds the changelog and integrations, Hyper $49 covers unlimited projects. Yearly billing takes 10% off. No free plan, a 14-day trial.
Pick it if: you have one product, a lot of voters and a tight budget.
Skip it if: you need integrations from day one, which start on Super.

More: WishKit vs Upvoty, Upvoty pricing.

5. Sleekplan, best for Canny's changelog plus surveys on a budget

Sleekplan covers the parts of Canny most teams actually use, a board, a roadmap and a changelog, and adds NPS and satisfaction surveys in the same widget. It is priced per workspace with a set number of team seats, so voters never touch the bill.

Pricing: the free Indie plan is a single-admin workspace without the roadmap. Starter is $13 a month billed yearly ($15 monthly) with three seats, Business $38 ($45) with ten seats, branding removal and a custom domain.
Pick it if: you used Canny's changelog and want surveys too, for a fraction of the price.
Skip it if: more than ten teammates manage feedback.

More: WishKit vs Sleekplan, Sleekplan pricing.

6. Frill, best for large teams that want a polished board

Frill includes unlimited teammates and unlimited tracked users on every plan, so neither your team nor your audience raises the price. What does is the plan tier: the entry plan caps you at 50 active ideas.

Pricing: Startup is $22 a month billed yearly ($25 monthly) with 50 ideas, Business $44 ($49) without the cap, Growth $136 ($149) with privacy, surveys and white labeling, Enterprise $319 ($349). No free plan, a 14-day trial.
Pick it if: a big team works the board and design matters to you.
Skip it if: you came from Canny's free plan and want to keep paying nothing.

More: WishKit vs Frill, Frill pricing.

7. UserVoice, best if you outgrew Canny

UserVoice is where teams go when Canny is too small rather than too expensive: research workflows, deeper analytics, Salesforce and Zendesk data next to requests, and a contract your procurement team can sign. It publishes no prices and says the plan depends on feedback volume, tools and integrations, never on seats.

Pricing: custom quotes, publicly reported from about $16,000 a year. No free plan, a 30-day trial through a demo.
Pick it if: you buy through procurement and run formal product research.
Skip it if: lowering the bill was the reason you looked past Canny.

More: WishKit vs UserVoice, UserVoice pricing.

Quick comparison

Tool	Free plan	Entry, monthly	Billed yearly	What grows the bill	Native iOS SDK
WishKit	Yes, 1 project	$15	$12.50	Nothing, flat	Yes
Featurebase	Yes, 1 seat	$37 per seat	$29 per seat	Seats	No
Nolt	No	$39	$29	Boards	No
Upvoty	No	$15	$13.50	Projects	No
Sleekplan	Yes, 1 admin	$15	$13	Seats	No
Frill	No	$25	$22	Plan tier	No
UserVoice	No	Custom	Reportedly from $16,000 a year	Volume, tools, integrations	No
Canny	Yes, 25 tracked users	$99	$79	Tracked users	No

Based on each vendor's pricing page as of October 7, 2026 (UserVoice publicly reported). Spotted something outdated? Let us know.

Free Canny alternatives

Canny's free plan stops at 25 tracked users. These free plans draw the line somewhere else:

WishKit: one project with no limit on users or votes, in an app or on a website. It shows the first five requests and keeps the rest until you upgrade.
Featurebase: one seat and one board, without surveys or the changelog.
Sleekplan: a board and a changelog for a single admin, without the roadmap.
Fider: free on your own server, or hosted for free up to 250 feedback requests.

Open-source Canny alternatives

If the goal is to own the data and the server, two projects are worth a look. Neither has a native mobile SDK, and both need someone to handle hosting, backups and upgrades.

Fider: a Go application with PostgreSQL, licensed AGPL-3.0, with more than 4,500 stars on GitHub. It runs on Docker, with ideas, votes, comments and statuses. Its hosted version is free up to 250 feedback requests and $25 a month after that.
LogChimp: a Node.js board with an AGPLv3 core and some enterprise-licensed parts. The free self-hosted tier gives one admin posts and votes. Boards, roadmaps and comments need its self-hosted Pro plan at $24 a month billed yearly.

How to choose

Find the number that hurt. If it was tracked users, any tool here fixes it. If it was seats, skip Featurebase and Sleekplan. If it was the size of the invoice in general, start with WishKit, Upvoty or Sleekplan.
Check what you actually used. A board, a roadmap and a changelog are everywhere. If you relied on Autopilot or a Salesforce integration, check each tool's integrations page before you switch.
Decide where the board lives. In an iOS app, a native SDK is the difference between a screen that belongs and a web page inside your app. The guide to in-app feature voting on iOS compares the options.
Run two side by side for a week. Every tool here has a free plan or a trial, and a week with real users says more than any comparison table. The wider field, fourteen tools, is in the best feature request tools.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best alternative to Canny?

It depends on why you are leaving. For a flat price and a native iOS SDK, WishKit. For Canny's breadth billed per seat instead of per user, Featurebase. For one board with unlimited voters, Nolt. For enterprise research, UserVoice.

Is there a free Canny alternative?

Yes. WishKit is free for one project with unlimited users, Featurebase for one seat, and Sleekplan for a single admin. Fider is free to self-host, or hosted for free up to 250 feedback requests.

What is the cheapest Canny alternative?

Among paid plans, WishKit, Sleekplan and Upvoty all start at $15 a month. Billed yearly, WishKit is the lowest at $12.50, with Sleekplan at $13 and Upvoty at $13.50. Canny Pro starts at $79 billed yearly.

Which Canny alternative works inside an iOS app?

WishKit, with a native SwiftUI SDK for iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS and tvOS. The other tools on this list are web boards you would show in a web view.

How much does Canny cost?

Free up to 25 tracked users, then Pro from $79 a month billed yearly for 100 tracked users, rising to $529 at 1,000 and $1,079 at 5,000. The full breakdown is in Canny pricing explained.

What is the best Canny alternative for a large company or enterprise?

It depends on what makes the company large. If you buy through procurement and run formal product research, UserVoice is built for that, with custom quotes publicly reported from about $16,000 a year. If your audience is large and your team is small, Featurebase bills per seat instead of per customer, with Enterprise at $99 per seat a month billed yearly. If a big team works the board, Frill includes unlimited teammates and tracked users, with Enterprise at $319 a month billed yearly. WishKit Enterprise is a flat $39 a month for unlimited projects and unlimited users, for teams that want the board without a seat or user meter.

Is there an open-source Canny alternative?

Yes, Fider and LogChimp. Fider is AGPL-3.0 and free to self-host with everything included. LogChimp's free self-hosted tier covers posts and votes, and its boards and roadmaps need a paid plan.

The 7 best Canny alternatives in 2026, free and paid