Compare/Alternative to Userback

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Userback alternative.

Userback sells its Feature Portal, the voting board and public roadmap, as a $31/month add-on on top of a plan. In Sleekplan the feedback board and changelog are on the free plan, and the roadmap comes with Starter at $13/month.

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Overview

Userback Alternatives

Userback bills its Feature Portal, the voting board and public roadmap, as a $31/month add-on billed annually on top of a plan that starts at $29/month, and the portal is not available on its free plan at all. Sleekplan includes the feedback board and changelog on its free plan, and paid plans start at $13/month billed yearly with the roadmap, NPS and CSAT. Prices checked .

Userback is a visual feedback tool. Its core is bug reporting with context: annotated screenshots, video recordings, session replay, console logs and network requests, captured from a widget or a browser extension. The public feedback board, the roadmap and the release announcements sit outside that core, in an add-on called the Feature Portal. Teams that came for the bug reports and stayed for the feature requests are the ones who end up looking for a Userback alternative, because the part they now use most is the part they pay extra for.

Who should switch from Userback, and who should stay

Stay on Userback if your main job is catching bugs. Sleekplan has no session replay, no console-log or network-request capture, no screenshot annotation and no mobile SDK, and those are the reasons Userback is good at what it does. Look for a Userback alternative when the feedback loop has become the point: when the voting board, the public roadmap and the release notes are what your customers actually touch, and you would rather they came with the plan than as a line item on top of it. The same applies if you want NPS and CSAT without moving up to Userback's $79/month Business plan, or a REST API and webhooks without its $159/month Business Plus plan. The list further down covers the other tools teams compare with Userback, with the reason each one comes up.

Userback Pricing

Userback has four published plans and an Enterprise tier. Free Forever covers 2 seats and 2 projects, with unlimited feedback collection but only 7-day feedback availability, so anything older than a week leaves your account. Team is $29/month billed annually ($39 monthly) for 5 seats and lifts that time limit. Business is $79/month billed annually ($99 monthly) and is the first plan with user surveys, NPS and CSAT templates, session replay and AI insights. Business Plus is $159/month billed annually ($199 monthly) and is the first plan with a REST API, webhooks and the option to remove the Userback logo. The Feature Portal is separate from all of this: $31/month billed annually ($39 monthly) on top of whichever plan you are on, and it is not offered on the free plan. Checked 2026-09-21.

The verdict

Best-in-class Userback Alternative: Sleekplan!

Both tools give you a voting board, a public roadmap, an in-app widget and NPS and CSAT surveys. The difference is packaging. On Userback the board and roadmap are one add-on, the Feature Portal, at $31/month on top of a plan and not offered on the free plan, while surveys wait for the $79/month Business plan and the API for the $159/month Business Plus plan. Sleekplan puts the board and changelog on the free plan and the rest on a $13/month plan. Userback keeps what Sleekplan has no answer to: session replay, console logs and screenshot annotation. Prices checked 2026-09-21.

Sleekplan compared with Userback: features and pricing, checked 2026-09-21
Feature
Sleekplan
Userback
Feedback board with votingYesYes
Public roadmapYesYes
NPS and CSAT surveysYesYes
In-app widgetYesYes
Voting board included, not a paid add-onYesNo
Feedback board on the free planYesNo
No time limit on feedback historyYesNo
NPS and CSAT on the first paid planYesNo
REST API and webhooks below the top planYesNo
Documents for PRDs and specsYesNo
Pricing
Voting board on the free planIncludedNot offered
Voting board and roadmapIncluded+$31/month add-on
First paid plan, billed yearly$13/month$29/month
Plan that unlocks NPS and CSAT$13/month$79/month
Plan that unlocks REST API and webhooks$13/month$159/month
Free plan feedback historyUnlimited7 days
Why teams switch

That's just the tip of the iceberg.

Designed for product managers, Sleekplan is an all-in-one feedback platform, not a single-purpose voting board glued to a changelog.

No add-ons

The board is the product, not an extra.

Userback charges $31/month for the Feature Portal on top of your plan. In Sleekplan the feedback board and changelog are on the free plan and the roadmap is included from $13/month.

See pricing
Free plan

Feedback that does not expire in a week.

Userback's free plan keeps collected feedback for 7 days and does not offer the portal. Sleekplan's free plan keeps unlimited feedback with no time limit, on a public board with a changelog.

About the feedback board
CSAT & NPS

Scores without the Business plan.

Userback puts user surveys and its NPS and CSAT templates on the $79/month Business plan. Sleekplan includes both from $13/month, in the same workspace as the feedback that explains them.

About CSAT & NPS
Developers

An API on the entry plan.

Userback's REST API and webhooks are Business Plus only, at $159/month billed annually. Sleekplan ships the REST API, webhooks and the JavaScript SDK from $13/month.

See integrations
Sleek Intelligence

Duplicates matched on arrival.

Userback's AI insights start on its $79/month Business plan. Sleekplan tags, summarizes and matches new posts against existing ones from $13/month, so a public board stays readable as it fills.

How Intelligence works
Changelog

Shipped means announced.

Move a card to Shipped and the changelog entry drafts itself, then notifies everyone who voted. No add-on, and it is there on the free plan.

See the changelog
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Userback alternatives, compared

Sleekplan comes first, since you are on our site. The others are here because a fair comparison needs them.

  • 01Sleekplan

    Feedback board, roadmap, changelog, NPS and CSAT in one workspace. Unlimited tracked users on every plan, a free plan, and paid plans from $13 a month billed yearly.

  • 02Canny + alternativesfrom $79/month, billed yearly

    Canny is the straight answer to the add-on question: the voting board, roadmap and changelog that Userback sells as its $31/month Feature Portal are Canny's entire product, included in the plan. The trade is a different meter. Userback never charges for the people who submit feedback, while Canny counts every tracked user who posts, votes or comments, and its free plan stops at 25 of them.

  • 03Featurebase + alternativesfrom $29/seat/month, billed yearly

    Featurebase is the closest thing to both halves of Userback in one plan: board, roadmap and changelog, plus a real survey module whose own page names NPS and CSAT templates, so you are not choosing between the portal and the satisfaction scores the way Userback's tiers make you. It bills per seat rather than per add-on, and its free plan gives one seat the whole board against Userback's two seats without any portal.

  • 04Upvoty + alternativesfrom $15/month, billed monthly

    Upvoty is the cheapest like-for-like replacement for the Feature Portal on its own: $15/month for a board with unlimited tracked users, against $29 plus $31 to get a portal on Userback. It replaces only that half. Upvoty's own features and pricing pages list no NPS or CSAT, so the surveys you would get on Userback's Business plan are not there.

  • 05Hotjar

    Hotjar is the tool to look at if the part of Userback you would miss is the session replay rather than the portal. Since Contentsquare absorbed the brand, hotjar.com/pricing redirects to Contentsquare's plans, which list session replay, heatmaps and surveys, and no voting board, roadmap or changelog. It is the mirror image of this page: keep the recordings, lose the feedback loop.

  • 06Nolt + alternativesfrom $29/month, billed yearly

    Nolt is the opposite of Userback's packaging: a board and a roadmap are the whole product rather than an add-on to one. It charges per board, one board at $29/month billed yearly, and there is no free plan at all, where Userback's free plan exists but excludes the portal entirely. Neither its features nor its pricing page lists NPS or CSAT.

  • 07Beamer + alternativesfrom $49/month, billed yearly

    Beamer is built around the announcement widget, which is the piece of Userback's Feature Portal that most teams actually reach for after shipping. Its free plan includes NPS capped at 500 in-app surveys a month with 90-day history, a closer echo of Userback's 7-day free-plan retention than the others here, and email or link delivery needs a $99/month add-on.

  • 08UserEcho + alternativesfrom $19/month per agent, billed yearly

    UserEcho answers a different question than Userback does: it wraps the voting board in a help desk with tickets, live chat and a knowledge base, so inbound feedback becomes support conversations rather than annotated bug reports. It bills per support agent instead of per seat, which suits a team with many voters and few agents.

  • 09FeatureOS + alternativesfrom $60/month

    FeatureOS is the fuller board suite, adding a knowledge base, and it makes the portal the product instead of an add-on. What you give up is the free tier: there is none at any price, only a 30-day trial, where Userback's free plan runs indefinitely for bug capture. It also meters seats and boards separately, at $15/month for each extra one.

  • 10Mopinion from €279/month

    Mopinion covers Userback's survey side and not its portal: in-app forms, NPS-style questions and CX feedback across web, app and email, with no voting board, roadmap or changelog in its feature list. It is priced by a channel-and-volume calculator from €279/month, an order of magnitude above Userback's Business plan.

  • 11Pendo.io

    Pendo already ships roadmaps and NPS surveys under its own brand and adds the product analytics Userback does not have, so it is the step towards understanding behaviour rather than capturing reports. Only its free tier carries a number, 500 monthly active users; every paid tier is a custom quote, unlike Userback's four published prices.

  • 12UserVoice + alternatives

    UserVoice is where a larger B2B team goes when requests need to be ranked by CRM-connected revenue data rather than raw votes. It publishes no price and is sold through a demo scaled to your feedback volume, so it is the opposite end of the buying process from signing up for Userback and adding the portal in the billing screen.

  • 13Aha! + alternativesfrom $39/user/month, billed yearly, 3-user minimum

    Aha! Ideas is the enterprise step up, with proxy voting for teams collecting requests on customers' behalf. It prices per user with a three-seat minimum, so a small team pays more than Userback's Team plan and the Feature Portal add-on combined. Ideas Essentials starts at $39/user/month billed yearly, Advanced at $59.

  • 14Fider free, self-hosted

    Fider is the answer when the objection is paying an add-on fee for a voting board at all: it is open source and you host it yourself, so the board costs nothing beyond your own server. Its feature list covers requests, voting and discussion, with no roadmap, changelog or survey module, and the hosted free tier caps at 250 feedback items.

FAQ

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Because of how the feedback loop is packaged. Userback sells its Feature Portal, the voting board and public roadmap, as a $31/month add-on on top of a plan, and does not offer it on the free plan. Sleekplan includes the feedback board and changelog on its free plan, with the roadmap, NPS and CSAT from $13/month billed yearly.
Not entirely, and it is worth being clear about it. Sleekplan takes bug reports as a feedback type, but it has no session replay, no console-log or network-request capture, no screenshot annotation and no mobile SDK. If visual bug reporting is your main job, Userback is better at it. Sleekplan is the better tool when the public board, roadmap and changelog are what you use every day.
Yes. On Userback's own pricing table the Feature Portal row reads "+Add-on" on the Team, Business and Business Plus plans, and is not available on Free Forever. The listed price is $31/month billed annually, or $39 billed monthly, on top of your plan. Checked 2026-09-21.
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