What is the best product roadmap and feedback software in 2026?
It depends on the job: hearing customers, deciding what to build, or getting leadership behind a plan. Those are three different tools at three very different prices.
"Product roadmap software" covers three kinds of tools. Feedback boards (Featurebase, Canny, Frill, Sleekplan) let customers post ideas, upvote, and follow a public roadmap. Delivery-side tools (Linear, Jira Product Discovery) tie ideas to engineering work. Product management suites (Productboard, Aha!, Tempo Roadmaps, Harvestr) handle scoring, goals and roadmaps you show to executives.
Short answer: Featurebase is the best starting point for most teams. It covers voting, a public roadmap and a changelog, with a usable free plan and per-seat pricing. Move to Productboard or Aha! once you run several products and need to defend priorities in a quarterly review. And if your engineers live in Jira or Linear, check what you already pay for before adding anything.
We compared 16 tools and ranked the 10 with public pricing.
The ranking is editorial: a sponsored placement is always labeled on its card, and no affiliate link changes a score.
The best roadmap tool for each situation
Voting, public roadmap and changelog, free plan then $29 per seat
Deepest integrationsThe most mature feedback board, billed by tracked users
Best for evidence-based prioritizationFeedback, scoring and roadmap linked, from $19 per maker
Most complete suiteStrategy, goals and roadmaps, from $59 per user
Best for Jira shopsFree for 3 creators, Jira users contribute at no cost
Cheapest with a free planUnlimited tracked users on free, then $13 a month billed yearly
The 10 product roadmap tools side by side
The cost column uses one common scenario: three product managers running the tool and roughly 1,000 customers voting or commenting. That scenario is where pricing models split. A tool billed by tracked users can cost ten times more than a per-seat tool for the exact same team.
| Best for | Monthly cost, 3 PMs and 1,000 voters | Free plan | Team size | Visit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Featurebase | Best overall | $87 on Growth (3 seats at $29) | 4.5/5 | Free (1 seat), Growth $29/seat/mo | ✓ | Any product team that wants to hear from customers | Visit → |
| 2 | Canny | Deepest integrations | Pro from $79 yearly, then tiered | 4.3/5 | Free (25 tracked users), Pro from $79/mo yearly | ✓ | Established SaaS wiring feedback to Jira, Linear or Salesforce | Visit → |
| 3 | Productboard | Best for evidence-based prioritization | $57 on Plus yearly (3 makers), no public voting board | 4.2/5 | Free (50 AI credits), Plus $19/maker/mo yearly | ✓ | Product orgs of 3 to 50 that must justify priorities | Visit → |
| 4 | Aha! | Most complete suite | $177 on Roadmaps (3 users), Ideas portal extra | 4.1/5 | Roadmaps from $59/user/mo | — | Product orgs of 20+, several products | Visit → |
| 5 | Linear | Best for Linear teams | $30 on Basic (3 users), no public voting board | 4.1/5 | Free (250 issues), Basic $10/user/mo | ✓ | Product and engineering teams on Linear | Visit → |
| 6 | Jira Product Discovery | Best for Jira shops | $0 on Free (3 creators), no public voting board | 4.0/5 | Free (3 creators), Standard $10.50/creator/mo | ✓ | Product teams inside a Jira company | Visit → |
| 7 | Frill | Polished board at a flat price | $49 on Business, unlimited admins | 3.9/5 | Startup $25/mo, Business $49/mo | — | Teams that want an on-brand customer portal | Visit → |
| 8 | Tempo Roadmaps | Best visual roadmaps for leadership | $147 on Business (3 editors), no public voting board | 3.9/5 | Starter $19/editor/mo yearly | — | PM teams that present roadmaps often | Visit → |
| 9 | Sleekplan | Cheapest with a free plan | From $13 on Starter yearly, unlimited voters | 3.9/5 | Free (1 admin), Starter $13/mo yearly | ✓ | Small, budget-conscious product teams | Visit → |
| 10 | Harvestr | Best for company-wide B2B feedback | $237 on Core monthly (3 editors) | 3.8/5 | Core $79/editor/mo monthly | — | B2B product teams with heavy sales feedback | Visit → |
Prices read on each vendor's own pricing page in 2026, in USD, before tax. Tools without a customer board are priced for the team only.
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How we compared and scored
The articles ranking for this query tend to list 15 or 20 tools, often with prices that are a few years out of date (Productboard "Essentials at $20" still shows up). They put a $15 voting widget next to a $59-per-user suite as if they solved the same problem. And the top result is usually written by a vendor that ranks itself first.
We compared 16 tools. For each one we read the official pricing page, the billing docs and the trial terms, then feedback from product teams on forums, blogs and review sites. Every price is mapped to the same case: three PMs and 1,000 voters. Tools with no public price (airfocus, ProductPlan) are covered further down without a score.
The five criteria carry the same weights as our startup ranking, so each tool keeps one score across both pages.
- Ease of useSetup time, clarity for the product team and for the customers who vote.20 %
- Value for moneyFree plan, cost for three PMs and 1,000 voters, how the bill grows over time.30 %
- Features and depthFeedback capture, prioritization, public or internal roadmap, changelog.30 %
- Customer supportDocumentation, no-card trial, onboarding help.10 %
- IntegrationsJira, Linear, Azure DevOps, Slack, help desk and CRM.10 %
The ranking is editorial: a sponsored placement is always labeled on its card, and no affiliate link changes a score.
Featurebase
Featurebase, built in Estonia, is the most balanced tool in the category. Customers post ideas, upvote others, and follow progress on a public roadmap. When something ships, a changelog entry notifies the people who asked. A help center and in-app surveys round it out.
Pricing is per seat: you pay for the people on your team who manage feedback, never for the customers who vote. Three PMs on Growth come to $87 a month whether you have 200 voters or 20,000. Professional at $59 per seat adds ten boards and 20 free Lite seats, which is how you give sales and support read access without paying for them.
The pricing page lists SOC 2 Type II and GDPR compliance, which saves a round of security questionnaires with larger customers.
- Unlimited voters, per-seat billing
- Free Lite seats for read-only teammates
- SOC 2 Type II and GDPR listed
- ✓A free plan you can actually run on
- ✓Voting, roadmap, changelog and help center in one
- ✓Bill stays flat as your community grows
- ✗Prioritization is lighter than Productboard
- ✗One board on free
- ✗Support AI agent billed per resolution ($0.49)
The default pick when the job is hearing customers and showing them where the product is going. Upgrade to a suite only when goals and multiple product lines enter the picture.
Canny
Canny is still the reference feedback board. Posts are clean, importing requests from support works well, and the integrations go deep: Jira, Linear, GitHub, Intercom, Salesforce. A request can arrive with the customer's name and revenue attached, which is exactly what a PM needs in a prioritization meeting.
The catch is the tracked-user model. Anyone tied to a post, vote or comment counts, including people on ideas you closed months ago. Pro starts at $79 a month billed yearly for 100 tracked users, and the pricing page does not list the higher tiers: get the exact figure for your volume before you sign. One monitoring SaaS wrote publicly about going from free to $249 a month (yearly) with about 85 open suggestions, because closed posts kept inflating the count.
All data is stored in the United States on MongoDB Atlas (AWS). There is no EU hosting option.
- Jira, Linear, GitHub and CRM integrations
- Spend cap in billing settings
- Five admins on the free plan
- ✓The most mature voting board available
- ✓Feedback carries customer context
- ✓Free plan to get started
- ✗Bill grows with every voter
- ✗US-only data storage
- ✗Closed posts still count toward the total
Great when integrations matter more than budget. Set the spend cap on day one and price Featurebase at your voter count before you commit.
Productboard
Productboard starts from evidence rather than votes. Every note (a support ticket, a sales call, an interview) links to a feature, so you see how many customers, and which ones, want each idea. Scoring and value-versus-effort views help you decide, and the roadmap is built from those decisions.
After its rebuild around the Spark AI assistant, billing mixes makers and AI credits. Only makers pay: $19 a month billed yearly on Plus, with 250 credits each, pooled across the workspace. Contributors and viewers are free. Business jumps to $59, and the pricing page lists a five-maker minimum.
The downside is well documented. One detailed teardown called the setup "daunting" and the tool "probably overkill" for a product with little feedback.
- Feedback linked to features and accounts
- Free contributors and viewers
- AI credits pooled across the workspace
- ✓Best traceability from feedback to decision
- ✓Far cheaper than Aha! for a small PM team
- ✓14-day trial with 500 credits
- ✗Long setup
- ✗Customer portal less clear than a voting board
- ✗Business requires 5 makers
The best tool for deciding, not for listening in public. If customers need to vote, pair it with a board or pick Featurebase instead.
Aha!
Aha! is a product family, not a single app. Roadmaps covers strategy, goals, initiatives and release plans. Ideas adds a portal where customers submit and vote. Discovery organizes customer interviews. Each module is priced separately per user, so the total is harder to predict than the headline suggests.
Three PMs on Roadmaps alone cost $177 a month. Add Ideas for customer voting and the bill climbs again. In return, nothing else on this list goes as far for executive-ready roadmaps: views by goal, team or quarter, connected to Jira or Azure DevOps.
User reviews line up: very complete, slow to configure, and overkill if all you need is a backlog and a voting board.
- Strategy, goals and roadmaps connected
- 30-day trial without a credit card
- Separate modules for ideas and discovery
- ✓Deepest feature set in the ranking
- ✓Roadmap presentations ready for leadership
- ✓Well-regarded support and training
- ✗No free plan
- ✗Each module billed separately, per user
- ✗Heavy configuration
Right for a structured product org with several products and OKRs to track. For a team of three, it costs too much and asks too much.
Linear
Linear is an issue tracker first, fast and loved by engineers. Its Customer Requests feature is included on all four plans: a request from support attaches to an issue or project, with the customer's name on it. Projects and milestones then act as your internal roadmap.
It does not replace a voting board. Customers can't see your roadmap or upvote. The Intercom, Zendesk and Front integrations need Business, Salesforce needs Enterprise.
- Customer requests on every plan
- Unlimited members on free
- Projects and milestones as the roadmap
- ✓No extra tool for engineering
- ✓Low per-seat price
- ✓Very fast interface
- ✗No voting board or public roadmap
- ✗Help desk integrations require Business
- ✗Few prioritization tools
If your team already runs on Linear, start here and add a voting board only when customers ask for one.
Jira Product Discovery
Jira Product Discovery is Atlassian's prioritization tool. You capture ideas, score them with custom value and effort fields, and push them into Jira delivery when they're ready. Roadmap views can be shared across the company.
The math is hard to beat for three PMs. The free plan covers three creators, and anyone with Jira access contributes by default at no extra cost. Add a fourth creator and the site moves to a Standard trial.
It is built for your team, not your customers. Users on the Atlassian Community ask for voting on published roadmaps, which stay read-only.
- Free for up to 3 creators
- Jira users contribute for free
- Ideas move straight into Jira
- ✓Cheapest option for a small PM team
- ✓No migration if you're on Jira
- ✓Custom prioritization fields
- ✗No native customer voting
- ✗Austere learning curve
- ✗Community support only on free
The obvious pick for a Jira shop prioritizing internally. Add a separate board if customers need a voice.
Frill
Frill is an Australian feedback board with a clean design, a public roadmap, announcements and surveys. The model is simple: a monthly flat fee based on active ideas, and unlimited admins on every paid tier. For 1,000 voters and three PMs, Business at $49 is enough.
White label (your domain, no Frill branding) requires Growth at $149. Enterprise adds SOC 2, audit logs and dedicated hosting.
- Unlimited admins on every paid tier
- Embeddable in-app widget
- White label from Growth
- ✓Flat, predictable price
- ✓Pleasant portal for customers
- ✓No-card trial
- ✗No free plan
- ✗Only 50 active ideas on Startup
- ✗Shallower integrations than Canny
A strong Canny alternative for a large community: at 1,000 voters, Frill costs about a tenth as much.
Tempo Roadmaps
Tempo Roadmaps is the new name of Roadmunk after Tempo acquired it, and the old pricing page now redirects to Tempo. Plenty of comparison posts still use the old name. The tool does one thing well: timeline and swimlane roadmaps you can cut by audience.
Billing is per editor, annual only. Each plan includes a few reviewers (3, 5 or 10), then $5 per extra reviewer. Jira and Azure DevOps sync is a paid add-on on Business.
- One roadmap, several audience views
- Reviewers included in every plan
- Jira and Azure DevOps sync add-on
- ✓Roadmaps executives can read
- ✓Low entry price
- ✓14-day trial
- ✗No free or monthly plan
- ✗No customer voting
- ✗Jira sync costs extra
Pick it if your problem is presenting the roadmap, not feeding it. You'll need something else to collect feedback.
Sleekplan
Sleekplan is built by a German company. Its free Indie plan doesn't cap tracked users or feedback: the limits are one admin and just the feedback board and changelog modules. It's the mirror image of Canny's model.
Starter at $13 a month and Business at $38 (both billed yearly) add the roadmap and the remaining modules. Monthly pricing isn't shown, only "save 2 months" on annual. Reviews mostly flag slow updates and slow support.
- Unlimited tracked users on free
- Germany-based vendor
- 30-day trial on paid plans
- ✓Cheapest paid feedback board here
- ✓Generous free plan on voters
- ✓Quick setup
- ✗One admin on free
- ✗Monthly prices not shown
- ✗Support called slow in several reviews
Best price per voter if budget is tight. For a bigger PM team, Featurebase goes further.
Harvestr
Harvestr plays in Productboard's space: gather feedback from every channel, link it to customer needs, then prioritize. Contributors, meaning sales or support colleagues who log feedback, are free.
The entry price is high: $79 per editor per month on Core, $99 on Scale, billed monthly. Three PMs come to $237 a month, well above Productboard Plus.
- Free contributors
- Feedback tied to customer accounts
- 14-day trial, no card
- ✓Built for B2B feedback
- ✓Multichannel capture
- ✓Faster to set up than Productboard
- ✗Expensive per editor
- ✗No free plan
- ✗Smaller community and fewer resources
Worth a look if Productboard feels heavy and your feedback comes mostly from revenue teams. Run both trials side by side.
Three tool families, three different jobs
The most common mistake is comparing a $25 voting board with a $59-per-user suite. They answer different questions. Name yours first.
Hearing customers: the feedback board
Featurebase, Canny, Frill, Sleekplan. Customers submit, upvote and follow progress, and your team announces releases. Right for products with many vocal users, typically self-serve SaaS.
Deciding internally: the delivery-side roadmap
Linear, Jira Product Discovery. Ideas sit next to issues and the roadmap belongs to your team. Right when feedback mostly arrives through support and sales, and customers don't need to see the plan.
Aligning leadership: the product suite
Productboard, Aha!, Tempo Roadmaps, Harvestr. Scored prioritization, goals, audience-specific views. Right once you have several products or teams, and a leadership group asking why feature A beat feature B.
- Write one sentence on the problem the tool must solve.
- Estimate voters a year out, closed posts included.
- List where ideas must land: Jira, Linear, Azure DevOps.
- Check where customer data is stored and ask for the DPA.
- Import real ideas during the trial, not sample data.
- Keep the call with the team: votes are one signal.
What your tool will actually cost
The headline price says little. Three things drive the real bill: what the vendor counts, where your data lives, and which vendors changed their model recently.
Five ways to bill
Per tracked user (Canny: from $79 a month billed yearly at 100 tracked users, then tiered). Per seat or creator (Featurebase, Productboard, Linear, Jira Product Discovery). Per roadmap editor (Tempo Roadmaps, Harvestr). Per module (Aha!, which bills Roadmaps and Ideas separately). Flat fee (Frill, Sleekplan, Upvoty). The larger your community, the more per-seat and flat pricing win.
Security reviews and data location
A voting board stores customer names and emails. Canny keeps everything in the US. Featurebase lists SOC 2 Type II and GDPR, Frill puts SOC 2 on Enterprise, and Sleekplan is an EU vendor. If you sell to European customers, ask each vendor for its data processing agreement before the trial ends.
What we didn't rank, and why
airfocus and ProductPlan no longer publish prices: both route you to a demo, and airfocus has dropped its free trial. Nolt and Upvoty are simple voting boards covered on our startup ranking. Notion and Trello work as an internal roadmap for a small team, with no voting or customer notifications. ProdPad and Pendo show up in US roundups too; Pendo is mainly a product analytics platform.
- Model your bill at 1,000 and 5,000 voters.
- Get airfocus or ProductPlan pricing in writing.
- Check the seat minimum on the plan you want.
- Confirm SOC 2 scope with the vendor.
Six ways to pay less and decide better
These come from vendor billing docs and from product teams who run these tools every day.
Clean up old posts before moving to Canny
PricingOn Canny, people tied to closed posts still count. Before importing history, delete or merge dead ideas. Then set the spend cap in billing: once hit, Canny stops tracking new users instead of bumping you to the next tier.
- Free plan
- 25 tracked users
Only pay for people who write the roadmap
PricingProductboard only bills makers. Jira Product Discovery lets any Jira user contribute. Featurebase gives 20 Lite seats on Professional. Tempo Roadmaps includes reviewers. List who writes and who reads before you sign: it can halve the bill.
- Featurebase Lite seats
- 20 on Professional
Start the trial when you have time
MethodTrials run from 10 days (Featurebase) to 30 days (Aha!, Sleekplan). Block two half-days in week one to import real ideas and invite two teammates. A trial started on a Friday night ends without a decision.
- Longest trial
- 30 days
Publish a roadmap without dates
MethodA Now, Next, Later public roadmap holds up. One with months on it creates promises your team will miss. Keep dates on the internal view, which Tempo Roadmaps and Aha! can separate from the public one.
- Recommended format
- Now, Next, Later
Weight votes by account value
DecisionA vote from a $20,000-a-year customer shouldn't count like one from a free account. Canny and Productboard pull revenue from your CRM. Otherwise, add a revenue field in Jira Product Discovery and sort by it.
- CRM-linked tools
- Canny, Productboard, Harvestr
Close the loop with every voter
AdoptionA board dies when nobody answers. Connect it to your issue tracker so statuses update on their own, and post a changelog entry at every release. Voters who get that email come back.
- Changelog included
- Featurebase, Canny, Frill, Sleekplan
Go further
These pages cover a narrower case.
Startup discounts and free plans.
Your Canny bill blew upCanny alternativesWhere to go and how to migrate.
You're leaving UserVoiceUserVoice alternativesReplacements and their prices.
Jira feels too heavyJira alternativesSimpler and cheaper.
Your roadmap lives in NotionOur Notion reviewWhat it does well, and its limits.
You need a tool to ship workBest project management softwareThe all-sizes ranking.
Product roadmap software · FAQ
What's the difference between roadmap software and a feedback tool?
A feedback tool captures what customers say; a roadmap shows what your team will build. Boards like Featurebase or Canny do both for a customer audience. Suites like Aha! split them into separately priced modules.Is there free product roadmap software?
Yes. Six tools in this ranking have a free plan with no time limit: Featurebase, Canny, Productboard, Linear, Jira Product Discovery and Sleekplan. Sleekplan is the most generous on voters, with no cap on tracked users, but it allows only one admin.Productboard or Aha!: which should you pick?
Productboard if you start from customer feedback, Aha! if you start from strategy and goals. For three PMs, Productboard Plus is $57 a month billed yearly and Aha! Roadmaps is $177, before the Ideas module.How much does a feedback tool cost for 1,000 users?
Anywhere from $0 to several hundred dollars a month depending on the model. Sleekplan Starter is $13 billed yearly, Frill Business $49, Featurebase $87 for three seats. Canny, billed by tracked users, starts at $79 a month yearly for 100 and climbs in tiers: at 1,000, ask for the quote.Which roadmap tools are SOC 2 compliant?
Featurebase lists SOC 2 Type II on its pricing page, and Frill includes SOC 2 on its Enterprise plan. For any other vendor, ask for the report before you sign; a plan comparison page is not proof of scope.What happened to Roadmunk?
Roadmunk is now Tempo Roadmaps, and its old pricing page redirects to Tempo. Plans run from $19 to $99 per editor per month, billed annually, with a 14-day trial.Why aren't airfocus and ProductPlan ranked?
They no longer publish prices, so you have to book a demo. The figures quoted elsewhere are old. Without a price we can verify, we can't compare them fairly with the rest.Should votes decide your roadmap?
No. Votes reflect your most active users, not your biggest accounts or the ones about to churn. Treat them as one signal, weighted by account value and this quarter's goal.