Docket vs WishKit: $49 once, or from $12.50 a month

How do Docket and WishKit compare?

WishKit's figures read from wishkit.io/pricing, its docs and its About page on 14 October 2026. Rows marked not published are absent from their pricing and feature list rather than confirmed missing. Seven tools here have closed or been sold since January 2025: the graveyard.

What three years costs

WishKit is cheap to start and cheap for one app, so the gap opens as you add products and as the years pass. Here are its two paid plans on yearly billing against ours. Premium covers two projects and Enterprise is the plan with no limit.

Docket's $49 covers every product you ship. WishKit Premium covers two projects, and it is $12.50 a month for as long as you use it.

Paying monthly, and owning a copy

WishKit prices on the plan, with no charge per voter or per seat, which is a fair way to bill and clearer than most of this category. What you pay for is a service somebody else runs, and the bill continues for as long as you want the board. Docket's one payment buys a copy of the software that sits in your own account, on hosting you chose.

That difference does not matter on a good day. It matters on the day a vendor is acquired, changes its pricing, or stops. We keep a dated list of the seven tools in this category that have closed, been sold or gone quiet since January 2025, and the pattern is why Docket is built the way it is. WishKit does offer an export of your data, and its Apple SDK is open source, which softens that risk. The dashboard and the service behind it stay theirs.

Docket

Docket arrives as your own copy, in your own GitHub account. It gives you a feedback board, a public roadmap, a changelog, an FAQ and a testimonials wall, on your own domain, for as many products as you ship. Everything a customer sends you is kept in your own copy, so there is no database behind it and nothing that can be billed by the row.

The part that is different is the agentic side: the first reply goes out in your voice, usually within half an hour, your agent writes the changelog from what you shipped, and everybody who asked to hear is emailed when it lands.

WishKit

WishKit is a feature request screen for apps, built by one developer. On Apple platforms it is a SwiftUI package under the MIT licence that draws the board as native interface inside iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS and tvOS apps. On the web it is an inline board you add with two lines of HTML. People vote and comment without leaving your product, and you triage in a web dashboard with statuses such as Planned, In Progress and Completed.

Its strongest claim is how little there is to set up: one configure call and one view in Swift, and the board is live inside the app. Its About page also describes a private chat with each user and an inbox for replying to App Store reviews, added in September 2026. For a developer who ships Apple apps and wants requests to arrive without sending anyone to a website, that is the whole pitch and it is a fair one.

Docket's advantages

• One payment, and cheaper from the first year. $49 once against $150 a year on WishKit's yearly Premium plan, which is $450 over three years.
• Every product, on every edition. WishKit's free plan covers one project and Premium covers two. Unlimited projects start on Enterprise at $32.50 a month billed yearly.
• No cap on requests in the free edition. WishKit's free plan shows the first five feature requests and holds the rest back until you upgrade. Docket's free edition shows all of them, and it never expires.
• More than a request list. A roadmap, changelog, FAQ and testimonials wall come with it, on your own domain.
• The agent does the work. A first reply in your voice, a changelog written from what shipped, and everyone who asked told when it lands.
• You hold the board. It is your copy on your hosting, so it survives anything that happens to the company that sold it to you.

Best for: One person or a small team shipping one or more products who wants the board, roadmap, changelog and FAQ on their own domain, paid once at $49.

Not for: Anyone who wants requests to appear as a native screen inside an Apple app. Docket is a board on the web, so an app links to it, and web products can carry the widget. There is no hosted version, and you set it up in your own GitHub account.

WishKit's advantages

• A native screen inside Apple apps. SwiftUI on iOS, macOS, visionOS, watchOS and tvOS, with nothing for the user to leave the app for. Docket has no screen of its own inside an app.
• Nothing to deploy. No host to choose, no domain to point and no updates to take. They keep it running.
• An open-source SDK. The Apple package is MIT licensed on GitHub, so you can read every line before it ships in your app.
• Chat and App Store reviews. A private chat with each user and an inbox for replying to App Store reviews sit in the same dashboard. Docket does neither.
• Cheap for one or two apps. Free to start, and $12.50 a month on yearly billing for two projects, with unlimited voters on every plan.
• Requests from X. On the paid plans, replying to a post with a mention adds it to your board.

Best for: An iOS or Mac developer who wants the request screen inside the app, and is happy with a small monthly price.

Not for: Anyone who wants the board on their own domain or infrastructure, a changelog and FAQ beside it, or a price that stops.

Is there a free version of WishKit?

Yes. It is free forever with no card, and covers one project, both SDKs and unlimited users who can submit and vote. It shows only the first five feature requests, and anything beyond that is stored and unlocks when you upgrade.

Docket's free edition never expires: a board for every product on your own domain, with unlimited users and posts, no card, and no automation.

The verdict

Pick Docket if you would rather own the thing. It is $49 once rather than a monthly bill, the free edition lets you run it indefinitely before deciding, and the board, the roadmap and every word a customer wrote sit on hosting you control. The agentic side then does the part nobody enjoys, which is the reply, the changelog and telling the people who asked.

Pick WishKit if the request screen belongs inside your Apple app and a small monthly price is a trade you are happy with. What it costs you is a bill that never ends, a board that lives on their service, and the changelog, FAQ and agentic side. With Docket the first reply goes out for you, your agent writes the changelog from what you shipped, everyone who asked to hear is told, and the whole board stays on hosting you control. That is $49 once, for everything you ship.

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