featurevote is a Canny alternative for founders and small SaaS teams who want a feedback board, votes, a roadmap and updates after shipping, with no seat-based or tracked-user billing. Canny is a stronger fit when automatic feedback capture, engineering integrations or customer revenue context are central to your process.
This comparison is written by the featurevote team. Pricing and plan assignments were checked on 14 October 2026 against Canny’s pricing page and featurevote’s pricing page. Check the linked plans before buying; they can change.
Which tool fits your team?
- Choose featurevote if you want a feature voting tool people can use without creating accounts, and your team will review the requests and decide what to build. You can keep your existing help desk and add the feature request tool workflow to your product.
- Choose Canny if you want feedback discovered across support and sales conversations, connected to your development tools, or analysed with customer and revenue context. Its broader integrations can justify the higher subscription for that workflow.
- Stay with Canny if your board is working, the cost fits your budget, and the integration or migration work would outweigh the benefit of switching.
If you are also evaluating a support-and-product suite, see featurevote vs Featurebase.
Pricing: compare the unit, not just the starting price
| Plan | featurevote | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Permanent free plan. Your team manages 15 active requests; visitors keep submitting and voting. | 25 tracked users, unlimited feedback, and Autopilot feedback capture. |
| Entry paid plan | Growth: $9/month billed yearly, $108/year, or $12 billed monthly. Unlimited active requests. | Pro starts at $79/month billed yearly, or $948/year at that starting tier, with 100+ tracked users. |
| What scales | Plan choice and email recipient limits. No seat-based or tracked-user billing. | The number of tracked users, with additional tiers as that number grows. |
These are different products and limits. Fifteen active requests can collect votes from many people; 25 tracked users can contribute to many requests. Neither number is a count of everyone who visits your website.
Canny defines a tracked user as someone associated with feedback through posting, voting or commenting, including actions an admin or Autopilot takes on their behalf. Its pricing FAQ explains automatic tier upgrades and the optional spend cap: a cap pauses tracking feedback from new users once reached. That control matters when budgeting; Canny does offer a way to limit spend.
On featurevote Free, completed and declined requests stop counting toward the active-request limit. Once your board exceeds the Free plan’s limit, visitors can still submit and vote, while your team cannot add new requests or manage the newer ones beyond its limit until it closes some or upgrades. Nothing is deleted. Email notifications are capped at 50 recipients per send on Free, 500 on Growth and 1,000 on Pro. Completion emails have another current limit: requests with more than 1,000 individual votes cannot send them, even if fewer voters provided an email. Anonymous voters cannot receive completion emails.
featurevote branding remains on every plan. Custom domains are coming soon on Pro and are not available today. Read the full plan limits, or the guide to free feature voting tools, before choosing on price alone.
Capabilities: where they overlap and where Canny goes further
| Workflow | featurevote | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| Collect and organise requests | Board and embedded widget, no-account voting, comments, tags and assignment on Free. | Feedback portal, votes, comments, widgets, tags and owners; unlimited boards and feedback, with tracked-user limits. |
| Review duplicates | Similar-request suggestions and manual merging keep votes and comments together. | Autopilot discovers and deduplicates feedback from connected conversation sources. Included on all plans. |
| Roadmap and updates | Status-based roadmap; your team can email identifiable voters on completion and edit, publish and email changelog drafts. Send caps apply. | Public roadmap, status updates and changelog. Check its plan table for privacy and branding options. |
| Feedback from email | Forward conversations into Feedback Inbox, reply by email, and convert an item into a new request. | Autopilot captures feedback from support and sales sources such as Intercom, Zendesk and Gong. |
| Engineering workflow | No native Linear, Jira or GitHub sync. Slack, Discord and Patreon connections are included. | Project-management integrations on Pro, including Linear, Jira, GitHub and others. |
| Customer revenue context | No native company/ARR prioritisation. Votes, surveys and conversations inform your team’s judgement. | Customer analysis and segmentation, with HubSpot and Salesforce CRM integrations on Business. |
| AI client access | MCP on every plan, with read-only or write access per connection. Customer email sends and publishing stay human-controlled. | MCP connectors are also included on all plans. AI access is not unique to featurevote. |
Sources: Canny’s plan table, Autopilot, roadmap, integrations and MCP; featurevote features, Feedback Inbox guide and MCP guide.
Canny’s automatic capture is a real difference. If your product feedback mostly arrives inside support tickets or sales calls, that can be more useful than a lower-priced board. featurevote’s Inbox handles forwarded email and replies, but it is not a replacement for Canny’s capture integrations. Converting an Inbox conversation creates a new request; it does not automate later updates to all original conversations.
For custom workflows, featurevote has webhooks, but they currently make one delivery attempt without retries and do not emit events for changes made through MCP. Verify the events and failure handling you need before treating them as a substitute for a native integration.
Can you migrate a Canny board into featurevote?
featurevote has no dedicated Canny board importer today. Contact CSV import is available, but it does not import a board’s requests, comments, votes or voter-to-request associations. Do not assume a lossless move because you can export data from your old tool.
Use this checklist before changing the link in your app:
- Keep the source data. Save whatever your current tool lets you export: request text, statuses, comments, attachments and voter information. Check the export and keep an archive before closing the old account.
- Test a small sample. Recreate a few representative requests. Map statuses, check private feedback and duplicates, and inspect how attachments appear. Historical vote totals and each person’s associations need separate verification; they do not automatically move with the request text.
- Check who can hear back. Completion emails can go to voters identifiable on the new board, within its plan’s send cap and the 1,000-vote ceiling. Importing contacts does not reconnect historical votes. Agree how your team will handle existing conversations and subscribers, including their communication preferences.
- Choose the plan for your backlog. More than 15 active requests will exceed featurevote Free’s team-management limit. Decide what remains active and what stays only in your exported archive before recreating it. Archiving a request inside featurevote does not free a slot; completing or declining it does.
- Plan the cutover. Update embedded widgets and board links, explain where ongoing requests now live, and check which old URLs you can redirect. Keep the old board accessible until the new workflow has been verified.
Estimate migration effort from that sample. The volume of private feedback, attachments and customer history can change the work substantially, so there is no fixed one-day or two-day promise. If preserving all votes and their owners is essential, keep your existing board until you have a verified migration path. Contact us about your backlog before deciding.
Try the board-to-release workflow
See the featurevote demo board to browse requests and the roadmap. Then start for free with your own product; no credit card is required.
The useful test is whether your team can collect an idea, review it, show a decision and tell the people who asked when it ships. The feedback-to-action guide walks through that loop. If you also need a Help Center or AI support, compare the broader suite in featurevote vs Featurebase before choosing.