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The 7 best Featurebase alternatives in 2026, free and paid

Featurebase charges for every teammate and every AI answer. These seven tools charge for something else, and most of them start free.

By Martin Lasek · Aug 12, 2026 · Updated Oct 7, 2026 · 10 min read

The 7 best Featurebase alternatives

Featurebase gives you a lot in one subscription: feedback boards, a roadmap, a changelog, surveys, a help center and a support inbox with an AI agent that answers customers. Our Featurebase review calls it a strong bundle, and it is. The reasons teams move away are almost always about the bill.

Every teammate is a seat. Growth costs $29 per seat a month billed yearly ($37 monthly), Professional $59 ($75) and Enterprise $99 ($129). Four people on Professional come to $236 a month, before anything else. The full model is in Featurebase pricing explained.

AI answers are metered. Each conversation the AI agent resolves adds $0.49, so the bill also grows with your customers, on top of the seats.

The board is one part of a suite. If feature requests are all you need, you pay for a help center and an inbox you never open. And removing the Featurebase branding is a $69 a month add-on that only exists from Professional up.

The seven tools below charge for something other than seats. 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 Featurebase alternatives by entry paid price per month billed yearly: WishKit $12.50 flat, Sleekplan $13, Frill $22, Nolt $29, UserJot $29 monthly only, Featurebase $29 for one seat and $87 for three seats, Canny $79 for 100 tracked users

1. WishKit, best focused Featurebase alternative for apps and SaaS

WishKit is the feedback board without the rest of the suite, at one price that never moves: $15 a month, or $12.50 billed yearly, with no AI meter on top and its branding removable on Premium. Requests, voting, comments, statuses and duplicate merging work in a native SwiftUI SDK for iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS and tvOS, and on your website through a two-line embed. When someone needs an answer rather than a vote, there is a 1-on-1 chat inside your iOS app, and a reply to a post on X turns it into a request on the board.

More: WishKit vs Featurebase.

2. Canny, best when your team is big and your audience is small

Canny meters the other side. Pro includes ten managers and unlimited contributors, and the price follows the customers who post, vote or comment. For a large product team serving a few hundred accounts, that is the friendlier meter, and you get Canny's mature integrations and Autopilot, which finds requests inside support tickets and calls.

More: WishKit vs Canny, Canny pricing.

3. Nolt, best for unlimited admins at a fixed price

Nolt is the cleanest answer to seat pricing. Every plan includes unlimited admins, users and posts, and the only thing you pay for is boards. Your whole team can triage feedback for $29 a month billed yearly.

More: WishKit vs Nolt, Nolt pricing.

4. UserJot, best free plan for a small team

UserJot gives a team of three what Featurebase gives one person for free: three admins, two boards, a public roadmap and a changelog, with unlimited users and posts. Paid plans add features like a custom domain or private boards. Customers never count, and the three-admin limit only lifts on Professional.

More: WishKit vs UserJot, UserJot pricing.

5. Sleekplan, best for keeping surveys and a changelog for less

Sleekplan keeps the Featurebase pieces many teams like, a changelog and NPS and satisfaction surveys next to the board, and sells seats in bundles instead of one by one. Ten teammates cost $38 a month on Business billed yearly, where Featurebase Growth would charge $290.

More: WishKit vs Sleekplan, Sleekplan pricing.

6. Frill, best for any team size with surveys included

Frill includes unlimited teammates on every plan and surveys from the entry plan up, one on Startup and three on Business. For a Featurebase team that grew past a handful of seats, the price stops tracking headcount altogether.

More: WishKit vs Frill, Frill pricing.

7. UserVoice, best for enterprise feedback programs

UserVoice suits the company that wants feedback run as a program, with research tools, analytics and an account team, rather than as a module in a support suite. It does not bill per seat either: plans depend on feedback volume, tools and integrations, quoted after a demo.

More: WishKit vs UserVoice, UserVoice pricing.

Quick comparison

Tool Free plan Entry, monthly Billed yearly What grows the bill Native iOS SDK
WishKitYes, 1 project$15$12.50Nothing, flatYes
CannyYes, 25 tracked users$99$79Tracked usersNo
NoltNo$39$29BoardsNo
UserJotYes, 3 admins$29Not publishedPlan tierNo
SleekplanYes, 1 admin$15$13Seat bundlesNo
FrillNo$25$22Plan tierNo
UserVoiceNoCustomReportedly from $16,000 a yearVolume, tools, integrationsNo
FeaturebaseYes, 1 seat$37 per seat$29 per seatSeats and AI resolutionsNo

Prices read on each vendor's pricing page on October 7, 2026, with UserVoice as publicly reported. Spotted something outdated? Let us know.

Free Featurebase alternatives

Featurebase's free plan is one seat and one board, without surveys or the changelog. Five free plans give you more room in different directions:

Open-source Featurebase alternatives

Fider is the one to try first. It is AGPL-3.0, written in Go, and gives you ideas, voting, comments and statuses on your own server, with no seat count because there is no vendor. If you would rather not run it, Fider's hosted plan is free up to 250 requests and $25 a month after that. LogChimp is the smaller option in Node.js, and its free self-hosted tier stops at posts and votes for one admin, with boards and roadmaps on a paid plan.

Either way you trade the monthly bill for hosting, backups and upgrades, and you give up the help center and AI agent that Featurebase bundles.

How to choose

Frequently asked questions

What is the best alternative to Featurebase?

For a focused board at a flat price, with a native iOS SDK, WishKit. For unlimited admins at a fixed price, Nolt. For a free plan a small team can share, UserJot. For surveys and a changelog for less, Sleekplan or Frill.

Does Featurebase charge per user?

It charges per seat, meaning per teammate, not per customer: $29 a month billed yearly on Growth, $59 on Professional and $99 on Enterprise. AI resolutions cost $0.49 each on top.

Is there a free Featurebase alternative?

Yes. UserJot is free with three admins and two boards, WishKit for one project with unlimited users, Canny up to 25 tracked users and Sleekplan for one admin. Fider is free to self-host.

Which Featurebase alternatives have unlimited admins?

Nolt and Frill include unlimited admins on every plan, from $29 and $22 a month billed yearly. UserJot includes them on Professional at $59 a month.

Which Featurebase alternative works inside an iOS app?

WishKit, with a native SwiftUI SDK for iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS and tvOS. Featurebase itself, like the other tools here, is shown in a web view inside an app.

How much does Featurebase cost?

Free for one seat, then $29, $59 or $99 per seat a month billed yearly, plus $0.49 per AI resolution and $69 a month to remove the branding on Professional and Enterprise. The breakdown is in Featurebase pricing explained.

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