How do the Frill alternatives compare?
| Tool | Entry paid | Per year | Renews | Boards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docket | $99 once | $0 after | Never | Unlimited |
| Fider | Free, self-host | Your server | Never | Unlimited |
| UserJot | $29/mo | $348 | Monthly | 5 |
| Nolt | $29/mo yearly | $348 | Yearly | 1 |
| Featurebase | $29/seat/mo yearly | $348 per seat | Yearly | 5 |
| Canny | $79/mo yearly | $948 | Yearly | Unlimited |
Every figure read on 23 August 2026 from each vendor's own pricing page: userjot.com, nolt.io, featurebase.app, canny.io and Fider's repository. Frill is $22 a month billed yearly, capped at 50 active ideas, with privacy and white labelling sold as add-ons.
What three years costs
Every hosted option here bills again next year. Docket does not.
Three years at each tool's entry price, one product. Fider is left out because its cost is your server, not a licence.
Going through the options
UserJot, $29 a month
No idea cap, five boards, unlimited users and posts, and private boards included at that tier rather than sold on top. Seven dollars a month more than Frill and it removes both of the limits people leave Frill over. AI duplicate detection and AI changelog drafting as well.
Best for: One product, or up to five boards, and a team that wants a hosted board today at a price that does not move as customers arrive.
Not for: Anyone running more than five boards on the entry plan, or a buyer who needs a longer track record than a tool built by one person can show.
Canny, $79 a month billed yearly
Private boards on every plan, including the free one, which is the sharpest contrast with Frill's add-on. Unlimited boards and unlimited feedback too. Priced by tracked user, so it costs more at the start and grows with use. Their Autopilot AI mines support conversations for feedback.
Best for: A funded team that wants the most mature board in the category, with Intercom, Zendesk and Jira integrations already built.
Not for: Anyone whose customer count is about to grow. The price is tied to tracked users, and that meter only moves one way.
Nolt, $29 a month billed yearly
Private boards and JWT single sign-on on the entry tier, unlimited ideas, unlimited users and admins, flat rate. Simpler than Frill and clearer about what you get. The trade is the board count: one at that price, five at $69 a month, and no free plan.
Best for: One board, run simply and beautifully, with unlimited users and 22 interface languages out of the box.
Not for: A studio shipping several products. The entry tier is one board, and five boards means Pro at $69 a month, $828 a year.
Featurebase, $29 per seat a month
Unlimited posts and comments even on the free tier. Board privacy is held back to their Professional plan, so on that particular point it is no better than Frill. Where it does win is breadth: a helpdesk, a help centre and surveys, which are the nearest thing to Frill's own survey feature.
Best for: A team that wants a helpdesk, a help centre and a feedback board from one vendor, with the best design in the category.
Not for: A team of more than one or two people on a budget. Seats compound at $29 each a month, and removing the badge is a further $69 a month on Professional or above.
Fider, free
AGPL-3.0 and actively maintained. Unlimited ideas, private boards and your own domain, for the cost of a small VPS and a mail sender, roughly $6 to $12 a month. No changelog feature at all, and the patching is yours: three releases in the three months to July 2026, the first fixing a critical authentication flaw.
Best for: A developer who is comfortable running Docker, PostgreSQL and a mail sender, and wants no licence cost at all.
Not for: Anyone who needs a changelog, which Fider does not have, or who would rather not be the one applying security patches.
Docket, $99 once
Ours. No idea cap, no board cap, and private by construction rather than as an add-on, because nothing is public until you publish it. A free edition that never expires where Frill gives you fourteen days. Feedback lands in it, and Docket drafts the replies and writes the changelog.
Open it and compare.
Best for: One person or a small team shipping software who wants the board, roadmap, changelog and FAQ on their own domain, paid for once.
Not for: Anyone who wants a vendor to run it for them. There is no hosted version, you set it up in your own GitHub account, and it is newer and smaller than Canny or Productboard.
Which Frill alternative should you choose?
Three questions, and they settle almost every case.
- How many ideas will you collect? Fifty is the Frill Startup cap and a working board passes it inside a year. Unlimited ideas means their Business plan at $528 a year.
- Does the board need to be private? At Frill that is a paid add-on until $136 a month, and the add-on price is not published. Everywhere else here it is included at or below the entry tier.
- Were you buying it for the surveys? If so, stay. Embedded NPS and CSAT alongside a feedback board is the thing Frill does that almost nobody else on this page does at all.
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