How do the Nolt alternatives compare?
| Tool | Entry paid | Per year | Renews | Boards |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docket | $49 once | $0 after | Never | Unlimited |
| Fider | Free, self-host | Your server | Never | Unlimited |
| Frill | $22/mo yearly | $264 | Yearly | 50 ideas cap |
| UserJot | $29/mo | $348 | Monthly | 5 |
| 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: frill.co, userjot.com, featurebase.app, canny.io and Fider's repository. Nolt is $29 a month billed yearly for one board, and $69 for five.
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
The obvious swap. The same money buys five boards instead of one, priced per workspace with unlimited end users, and a free tier with two boards exists so you can try it properly. AI duplicate detection and AI changelog drafting on top.
Best for: Leaving Nolt for more boards at the same $29 a month, with a free tier to test on first.
Not for: Anyone with more than five boards on the entry plan, or who wants a longer track record than a single person's tool can offer.
Canny, $79 a month billed yearly
Unlimited boards on every plan, including the free one, which is as far from Nolt's single board as this category goes. Priced by tracked user instead, so it starts higher and grows with use. Their free plan gives you unlimited boards and private boards inside a 25 tracked user cap.
Best for: A funded team that wants unlimited boards, and private boards even on the free plan, with Intercom, Zendesk and Jira integrations already built.
Not for: A growing customer base. The price follows tracked users and only goes up, and the free plan stops at 25 tracked users.
Featurebase, $29 per seat a month
Five boards at the entry tier and a free plan with one. Much broader than Nolt: a helpdesk, help centre and surveys as well. Watch two things, that it is priced per seat rather than flat, and that removing the branding is a $69 a month add-on.
Best for: Moving from Nolt to a wider product that adds a helpdesk, a help centre and surveys to the board.
Not for: A team of more than one or two on a budget. Seats cost $29 each a month, and removing the branding is $69 a month extra.
Frill, $22 a month billed yearly
Cheaper than Nolt and with surveys built in, which Nolt has no equivalent of. Frill is single-board by design (its pricing page FAQ says so, checked 2 October 2026), with unlimited Topics to organise ideas, so if more boards is your reason for leaving Nolt, Frill is not the answer. Fifty active ideas at the entry tier.
Best for: A team after surveys and scheduled announcements, which Nolt does not have, at a lower entry price.
Not for: Anyone moving to get more boards. Frill is single-board by design, and private boards and full white labelling sit behind higher tiers.
Fider, free
AGPL-3.0, actively maintained, and unlimited in every direction because there is no vendor to meter you. Docker, PostgreSQL, your own mail sender, roughly $6 to $12 a month of hosting. No changelog feature at all, and you own the security patching: three releases in three months to July 2026, one fixing a critical authentication flaw.
Best for: A developer who wants no meter on boards, users or ideas, at the price of a small VPS.
Not for: Anyone who needs a changelog, or who does not want to be the one applying security patches.
Docket, $49 once
Ours. Unlimited products on every tier including free, which is the direct answer to Nolt's single board. Your own domain, no seats, no meter, and a free edition that never expires where Nolt has only a ten-day trial. Feedback lands in it. You run it, and it assumes a coding agent.
Open it and compare.
Best for: Someone outgrowing Nolt's single board: unlimited products on every tier, one payment, and your own domain.
Not for: Anyone who wants the vendor to run it. There is no hosted version, you set it up in your own GitHub account, and it assumes a coding agent.
Which Nolt alternative should you choose?
Three questions, and they settle almost every case.
- How many products do you ship? This is why you are here. Nolt is $348 a year for one and $828 for five. UserJot is $348 for five. Canny, Fider and Docket do not count them at all.
- Do you need to try before you pay? Nolt gives you ten days. Canny, Featurebase, UserJot, Fider and Docket all have a free tier you can sit on indefinitely.
- What do you lose by leaving? Nolt's 22 interface languages, and its two-way integrations with Jira, Linear and Asana. If either matters to your customers, weigh it properly.
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