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Get FreeWhat's included
- Unlimited posts
- Unlimited users
- 3 admin roles
- 2 feedback boards
- Public roadmap
- Public changelog
The Beamer alternative that isn't billed by the visitor.
UserJot is a Beamer alternative with a changelog, public feedback board, roadmap, and live chat in one product. Flat pricing, unlimited visitors, free to start.
Every day, the teams behind Tally, OpenPanel, Drizzle, SuperWhisper, Scite, Throne, Nuelink, Ghostbase, and hundreds of others talk with their customers in UserJot.
At a glance.
| Feature | Beamer | UserJot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; Changelog from $49 a month billed yearly, up to $249 at 50,000 visitors | Free, $29, or $59 a month, flat |
| What the price depends on | Monthly visitors: anyone who loads a page with the script, whether or not they read | The features you turn on; visitors and users are unlimited |
| Free plan | 1,000 visitors a month, 1 teammate, 1 language, Beamer watermark | Unlimited visitors and users, 3 admins, changelog included |
| Feedback board | A second product; private ideas and moderation on Feedback Pro at $99 billed yearly | Included on every plan |
| Changelog on your domain | Changelog Pro, $99 a month billed yearly | From $29 |
| Live chat with customers | None listed; an Intercom integration pushes announcements into Intercom | Built in, with a shared inbox and Juno, an AI operator |
Top Beamer alternatives
Beamer bills by the visitor, and the feedback board is a second subscription. If you want a changelog and a board at one flat price, these are the alternatives to Beamer worth a look.
UserJot
Get started freeChangelog, public feedback board, roadmap, and live chat in one product, on your own domain and inside your app, with Juno, an AI operator who drafts your changelog from the requests you shipped and answers customers. Flat pricing, unlimited visitors.
Best for: SaaS teams that want announcements, feedback, and support in one tool, at a price that doesn't move with traffic.
A changelog page and widget for product updates, and only that.
Best for: Teams that want a changelog with nothing attached.
Release notes and announcements built for product marketing teams.
Best for: Product marketing teams that run releases as campaigns.
Ideas, a roadmap, and announcements in one widget, with paid add-ons for the extras.
Best for: Small teams that want ideas and announcements together and are fine with add-ons.
A feedback board with a changelog, a roadmap, and a long integration list, priced by tracked users.
Best for: Teams whose first need is the feedback board and who want Jira or Intercom on it.
A feedback board, roadmap, changelog, and NPS surveys in one widget, metered on pageviews and email credits.
Best for: Teams that want NPS in the same widget as the changelog.
Where Beamer falls short.
Beamer has sold in-app changelogs since 2017, with popups, banners, scheduled posts, and a feed in more than eighty languages. It also has a meter that counts people who never open the feed, a feedback board sold as a second product, an exit that can lock while you're over the limit, and nothing after the announcement.
You pay for visitors, not readers
5,000 visitors a month: $49. 10,000: $99. 50,000: $249, billed yearly
Beamer bills by monthly active users, and its help center defines one as anyone who loads a page carrying the Beamer script or visits the standalone page, whether or not they open an announcement. Free covers 1,000 a month. Starter is $49 a month billed yearly for 5,000, and the ladder climbs to $249 for 50,000. Go over and Beamer adds a 5,000-visitor bundle at $50 a month on its own and emails the owner. A G2 reviewer in May 2026 called it "weird pricing."
The feedback board is a separate bill
Feedback Pro: $119 a month, or $99 billed yearly
Beamer sells Changelog, Feedback, and NPS as three products with three prices. Feedback Free gives you public ideas and a roadmap. Private ideas, moderation, internal notes, and the emails that tell voters a request changed status are on Feedback Pro, at $119 a month or $99 billed yearly, on top of whatever you pay for the changelog. A changelog on your own domain and a feedback board you can moderate are two Pro subscriptions.
Leaving takes planning
Cancel and downgrade controls can be disabled while visitors exceed the lower plan's limit
Beamer's billing guide, updated September 21, 2026, says the cancel and downgrade controls can be disabled while your visitor count is above the lower plan's limit; the documented routes are to reduce usage or contact support. Fees already paid aren't refunded, and the terms let Beamer change prices at any time without prior notice. There is no export button for posts. The documented way to get them out is the API, and the requests count against your plan's monthly quota.
It stops at the announcement
No live chat listed; AI writes posts from a brief, on Changelog Pro
Beamer lists no live chat among its features. Its Intercom integration sends announcements into Intercom, where you pay for the conversation separately. Its AI Content Generator, on Changelog Pro and up, writes a post from a brief you type, and AI Insights, in open beta on Feedback Pro, clusters ideas into themes. Nothing in Beamer answers a customer's question, and no MCP server is documented for your own agents.
What UserJot does instead.
UserJot keeps the changelog and the widget. It adds a public feedback board and roadmap on every plan, and live chat and support email in one inbox with Juno, an AI operator who drafts your changelog and answers customers. The board, the widget, the dashboard, and the emails share one look, and dark mode follows the reader's system.
Every plan has unlimited visitors and users, including Free. Paid plans start at $29 a month with a 14-day trial, and you're live in minutes.
Starter
Staff pick. For small teams.
$29/ month
Get StarterEverything in Free, plus
- Custom domain
- Guest posting
- Automatic login
- 5 feedback boards
- Private boards
- One integration
Professional
For growing teams.
$59/ month
Get ProEverything in Starter, plus
- Unlimited boards
- Advanced search
- Single sign-on
- Unlimited integrations
- Unlimited admin roles
- Public identity masking
A changelog that costs the same at any traffic.
Publish as many posts as you want, to as many readers as you have, on every plan. The changelog has its own page at /updates on your board, with search. On Starter and up it sits on your own domain, like feedback.yourcompany.com. Posts take a cover image, inline images, YouTube embeds, headings, code blocks, authors, and tags, and you can schedule them.
In your app, the widget's launcher shows an unread count when a new post goes up. Per install, it can also expand to show the post's title or open the post itself.
Planned
12Committed and queued
- Features
Mobile app
The whole web app on iPhone and Android, with push notifications when something needs you.
Alex Martin - Features
Export reports to CSV
Finance needs the monthly numbers in a spreadsheet. A one-click export from any report would save us an afternoon every month.
SRSofia Reyes - Integrations
Zapier integration
We’d love to send new tasks to the rest of our tools without writing a script. A trigger for new tasks would cover most of it.
TBTom Becker - Features
Custom fields on tasks
We track budget and client on every task. A couple of custom fields would replace the spreadsheet we keep next to Acme.
MLMia Laurent - Features
Two-factor sign-in
Our security review asks for it every year. An authenticator app option would be enough for us.
OHOmar Haddad
In Progress
4Actively being built
- Features
Dark mode
Late nights in Acme are hard on the eyes. A dark theme that follows the system setting would be perfect.
Marcus Chen - Features
Bulk edit tasks
Changing the assignee on twenty tasks one at a time takes forever. Let me edit a whole selection at once.
HSHana Sato - Features
Task templates
We set up the same onboarding checklist for every new client. Saving it once as a template would save us an hour each time.
NPNina Petrova - Features
Timeline view
Seeing tasks on a timeline would make it much easier to plan around deadlines and spot overlaps.
LPLeo Park
Done
9Recently shipped
- Integrations
Google Calendar sync
Due dates should show up on my calendar without copying them over one by one.
PNPriya Nair - Integrations
Slack alerts for due tasks
A message in our team channel the morning a task is due would stop things from slipping.
CDChloe Dubois - Bugs
Search freezes in big workspaces
With a few thousand tasks, typing in search locks the page for a second or two.
BABen Adler - Features
Keyboard shortcuts
Creating and moving tasks without the mouse would make Acme so much faster to use all day.
RMRavi Menon
The request, the roadmap, and the post.
Anyone can post a request and vote on the board. When you mark a request Planned or In Progress, it moves to that column on the public roadmap, votes attached. Every status change emails everyone who posted, voted, or commented, on every plan. When you mark one Completed, the changelog post links back to it, so the people who asked can see it shipped.
On Starter and up, people can post and vote without creating an account, and moderation holds new posts for your approval before they go public.
Juno writes the post from what you shipped.
In the changelog editor, Juno reads the requests you completed since the last post, along with their comments, and writes the draft, with the title, tags, and linked requests filled in. Ask her to rewrite it and she does it in place. This works on every plan, including Free.
In the inbox, she answers new conversations first, in the customer's language, from your docs and the sites you point her at, and hands the thread to your team when a person is needed.
Sara Meyer
Team support
We were charged twice this month, can you help?
4:07 PM
Sorry about that! Refunds need a teammate, so I'm bringing one in now.
4:07 PM
Juno handed this conversation to the team
Hi, Sara here. Just refunded the duplicate charge, you'll see it back in a few business days.
4:09 PM
Chat, email, and feedback in one inbox.
Turn on Conversations and the widget that shows your changelog gets a Messages page. Customers write to you from inside your product, and your team answers from the dashboard where it already triages requests. Forward your support address and email lands in the same inbox, with no DNS changes.
When a customer describes a feature in chat, Juno finds the matching request on your board and shows it to them. Once they confirm, she files it or adds their vote. Conversations is in beta and free on every plan while it is. Your own agents get an MCP server with the API on Starter and Professional.
Claude Code · connected to userjot
The price is the plan.
$0, $29, or $59 a month, by the features you turn on. Visitors, users, posts, and votes are unlimited on every plan, including Free. Pay monthly or yearly, cancel from your settings, and export your feedback requests as CSV any time.
Beamer vs UserJot, side by side.
| Feature | Beamer | UserJot |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | By monthly visitors, per product | Flat, by feature set |
| Free plan | 1,000 visitors, 1 teammate, 1 language, watermark; Feedback Free is public only | Unlimited visitors and users, 2 boards, 3 admins |
| At 2,500 visitors a month | Starter: $49 billed yearly, $59 month to month | $0, $29, or $59 a month |
| At 10,000 visitors a month | Starter plus a 5,000 bundle, $109 month to month; Pro, $99 billed yearly | $0, $29, or $59 a month |
| At 50,000 visitors a month | Scale: $249 billed yearly, $299 month to month | $0, $29, or $59 a month |
| Above 50,000 | Scale plus $50 per extra 5,000, or a Custom plan with no listed price | $0, $29, or $59 a month |
| Feedback board | Separate product; Pro features $99 billed yearly, $119 month to month | Included |
| Trial | 14 days | 14 days of Starter or Professional, from the dashboard |
| Changelog | ||
| Posts | Unlimited, every plan | Unlimited, every plan |
| Scheduled posts | Starter and up | Every plan |
| Changelog on your domain | Changelog Pro, $99 billed yearly | From $29 |
| Reactions and comments | Changelog Pro; comments are private to admins | None |
| Email when a post goes up | Changelog Pro, 5,000 a month; Scale, 20,000 | No; the email goes out when a request is marked Completed |
| In-app announcement | Feed on Free; popups, banners, snippets, and tooltips from Starter | Unread count on the launcher; it can show the post title or open the post |
| Languages | 1 on Free, unlimited from Starter, more than eighty available; AI translation in beta on Pro | Board in 12 languages |
| AI writing | From a brief you type, Changelog Pro and up | Juno, from the requests you completed, every plan |
| Feedback and roadmap | ||
| Public board and roadmap | Feedback Free | Every plan |
| Private boards and moderation | Feedback Pro | From $29 |
| Status-change emails to voters | Feedback Pro | Every plan |
| Post without an account | Yes; name and email can be made optional | From $29 |
| Duplicates | Manual merge; the merged idea's description isn't carried over | Detected as people type, on the board and in the widget |
| Widget, AI, and support | ||
| In-app widget | Changelog feed; ideas and roadmap through the separate Feedback product | Changelog, board, roadmap, notifications, and chat in one widget |
| Live chat and support inbox | None listed; Intercom integration pushes announcements into Intercom | Built in; chat and forwarded email in one inbox, free during beta |
| AI that answers customers | None documented | Juno, in chat and email, on every plan during beta |
| AI on feedback | AI Insights clusters ideas into themes, open beta on Feedback Pro | Duplicate detection as people type; Juno files requests from chat |
| Branding and access | ||
| Remove vendor branding | Starter, $49 billed yearly | $59 |
| Team seats | 1 on Free; unlimited on paid plans | 3 on Free; no seat charge on paid plans |
| Single sign-on | Google login; SAML for the team as a Scale add-on, price not published | Automatic login from $29; board SSO (JWT) at $59 |
| Customer identity | User id and email passed in the embed config | Identify on every plan, signed tokens optional |
| Integrations and API | ||
| Slack, Discord | Slack in private beta for Scale and Custom; Discord not listed | Both; one integration on Starter, all on Professional |
| Zapier | Changelog Pro, Feedback Pro | No |
| Intercom, HubSpot | Intercom yes; HubSpot for selected Scale and Custom accounts, through support | No; UserJot has its own inbox |
| Jira, Linear | Jira through Zapier; Linear not listed | No |
| API | Starter, 2,000 requests a month; Pro 20,000; $49 for the first extra block | Starter and Professional |
| MCP server | None documented | Starter and Professional; Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT desktop, and other remote MCP clients |
| Leaving | ||
| Cancellation | Settings → Billing, at term end; controls can be disabled while visitors exceed the lower plan's limit | Any time, from settings |
| Export | No export button; posts, ideas, and voters as JSON through the API, counted against your quota | Feedback requests as CSV on every plan; changelog through the API on paid plans |
Beamer facts checked against its public site and help center on . Prices are the Changelog and Feedback matrices on Beamer's pricing page; the Custom plan has no listed price. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
Switching from Beamer to UserJot.
Beamer has no export button, so the posts come out through its API. Ideas and voters come in through a CSV import with AI column mapping that you check before anything is written.
If something doesn't come across, email support@userjot.com and we'll finish the migration with you.
Pull your posts out of Beamer.
The API lists posts as JSON, on Starter and up; Beamer's pricing page gives Free no API requests. Images are referenced by URL, so download the ones you want to keep.Recreate them in UserJot.
Paste each post into the editor and set its original date, or on Starter and up, send markdown to the changelog API.Bring the ideas.
Beamer's idea editor exports voter names and emails, and the API returns ideas with their comments. Upload the CSV and AI maps titles, descriptions, votes, authors, and statuses to UserJot's fields; check the mapping, confirm, done.Swap the script tag.
Replace Beamer's embed with the UserJot widget, and on Starter or above, put the board on your own domain.Then cancel Beamer.
Settings → Billing, effective at the end of your term. If your visitor count is above the next plan down, the cancel control can be disabled; remove the script first so the count falls, or ask Beamer's support.
Beamer alternative FAQ
From $0 to $299 a month for the changelog, before the Custom plan. Free covers 1,000 monthly visitors. Starter is $59 a month, or $49 billed yearly, for 5,000; Pro is $119 or $99 for 10,000; Scale is $299 or $249 for 50,000. Extra visitors are $50 a month per 5,000. The full ladder is in our Beamer pricing guide. Feedback is a separate product: free for public ideas, $119 a month or $99 billed yearly for Pro. NPS is a third: free to 500 surveys a month, $99 for 2,000.
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