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- Unlimited posts
- Unlimited users
- 3 admin roles
- 2 feedback boards
- Public roadmap
- Public changelog
The Headway alternative with a board, a roadmap, and chat for the same $29.
UserJot is a Headway alternative with a changelog, public feedback board, roadmap, and live chat in one product. Flat pricing, unlimited users, free to start.
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At a glance.
| Feature | Headway | UserJot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free; Pro $29 a month | Free, $29, or $59 a month, flat |
| Free plan | Changelog page and widget, custom categories | Changelog, public feedback board, roadmap, and widget, unlimited users |
| What the $29 plan buys | Your domain, no Headway branding, Slack and X, team roles, scheduling | Your domain, guest posting, private boards, moderation, API and MCP, plus Free |
| Feedback board and roadmap | None documented | Every plan, with votes and comments |
| Live chat with customers | None listed | Built in, with a shared inbox and Juno, an AI operator |
| API for your tools and agents | A JavaScript API for the widget; no publishing API documented | REST API and MCP server from $29 |
Top Headway alternatives
Headway is a changelog and a widget, and Pro is $29 a month. If you want the announcement and the conversation around it for that price, these are the alternatives to Headway 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 users.
Best for: SaaS teams that want the changelog and the feedback behind it in one tool, for the price of Headway Pro.
In-app announcements with popups, banners, and segmentation, billed by monthly visitors. Feedback is a second product.
Best for: Marketing teams that want to target announcements and are fine paying by traffic.
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 Headway falls short.
Headway launched its changelog widget on Product Hunt in December 2015. It has a Markdown editor, a widget with an unread badge, custom categories, and a free plan with no card. It also has a changelog your customers can't answer, $29 a month for the changelog alone, a product changelog that last posted in 2023, and nothing for your tools or your agents.
The announcement goes one way
No feedback board, voting, or comments documented
Headway publishes your updates to a page and a widget, and that is where it ends. Its documentation describes no feedback board, no voting, no comments, and no roadmap. A 2017 release said a roadmap module was coming, and no later entry says it shipped; Headway's own roadmap at the time was a Trello board. Tyler King, on the Startup to Last podcast in August 2024, called Headway “a little too basic for what we need.”
Pro buys the changelog and nothing around it
Pro: whitelabel, custom domain, Slack and X, team roles, scheduling
Free covers the page, the widget, and custom categories. Pro adds whitelabel, a custom domain, the Slack and X integrations, team roles, and scheduling, at $29 a month with no annual price listed. Archived copies of the pricing section from January 2024 through August 2026 show the same two plans, the same price, and the same feature lists. A Reddit commenter in August 2024 asked why they would pay “$348 a year for a simple changelog.”
Its own changelog last posted in June 2023
60 entries since January 2016; 0 in the last 90 days
Headway's own changelog has 60 entries, the first from January 2016 and the last from June 14, 2023, about reconnecting Twitter accounts after the API changed. Before that: multiple categories per post in 2021, Markdown buttons in 2020, video embeds in 2019. The service is up, and its status page shows 100% for every month it displays. The dates count public announcements, not engineering work. A Hacker News commenter in January 2018, a former user, said Headway took “ages to implement what users ask for.”
No publishing API, webhooks, or AI documented
Integrations: Slack and X, on Pro
Headway's documented API initializes the widget, fires callbacks, and swaps its labels. Its docs describe no endpoint for publishing a post, no webhooks, no MCP server, and no AI feature. The integrations are Slack and X, both on Pro, and X has been Pro only since June 2023; Loom, YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia links embed as video. The private changelog is widget links carrying a token that expires after a day, not a login. No import from another tool is documented, and the only documented export is the RSS feed.
What UserJot does instead.
UserJot keeps the changelog and the widget. It adds a public feedback board and roadmap on every plan, live chat and support email in one inbox, Juno, an AI operator who drafts your changelog and answers customers, and an API and MCP server for your own tools. The board, the widget, the dashboard, and the emails share one look, and dark mode follows the reader's system.
Every plan has unlimited users, including Free. The $29 plan puts the changelog on your own domain, like Headway Pro does, and adds guest posting, private boards, moderation, and the API and MCP server. There's 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 comes with the rest of the product.
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, and the API publishes, schedules, and links changelog posts from markdown.
Claude Code · connected to userjot
The price is the plan.
$0, $29, or $59 a month, by the features you turn on. 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.
Headway vs UserJot, side by side.
| Feature | Headway | UserJot |
|---|---|---|
| Pricing | ||
| Pricing model | Free, or Pro at $29 a month; no annual price listed | Flat, by feature set |
| Free plan | Changelog page and widget, custom categories, Headway branding | Changelog, board, roadmap, widget; 2 boards, 3 admins |
| $29 a month | Pro: whitelabel, custom domain, Slack and X, team roles, scheduling | Starter: custom domain, guest posting, private boards, moderation, API and MCP |
| Trial | Not listed; Free needs no card | 14 days of Starter or Professional, from the dashboard |
| Changelog | ||
| Posts | “Unlimited changelogs” on Free; post cap not published | Unlimited, every plan |
| Editor | Markdown, images, Loom, YouTube, Vimeo, and Wistia embeds | Rich text, cover image, inline images, YouTube embeds, code blocks |
| Scheduled posts | Pro | Every plan |
| Changelog on your domain | Pro | From $29 |
| Categories and tags | Custom categories, several per post | Tags: 5 on Free, 10 on Starter, 50 on Professional |
| Email when a post goes up | Not documented | No; the email goes out when a request is marked Completed |
| In-app announcement | Badge and popover with an unread count | Unread count on the launcher; it can show the post title or open the post |
| RSS | Yes | No |
| Private changelog | Pro; widget links with a token that expires after a day | No; private feedback boards from $29, by login |
| AI writing | None documented | Juno, from the requests you completed, every plan |
| Feedback and roadmap | ||
| Public board and roadmap | None documented | Every plan |
| Voting and comments | None documented | Every plan |
| Status-change emails to voters | Not applicable | Every plan |
| Post without an account | Not applicable | From $29 |
| Duplicates | Not applicable | Detected as people type, on the board and in the widget |
| Widget, AI, and support | ||
| In-app widget | Changelog feed with a badge; labels you can replace | Changelog, board, roadmap, notifications, and chat in one widget |
| Live chat and support inbox | None listed; support is by email | 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 |
| Languages | Widget strings replaceable by the developer | Board in 12 languages |
| Branding and access | ||
| Remove vendor branding | Pro, $29 | $59 |
| Team seats | Team roles on Pro; seat cap not published | 3 on Free; no seat charge on paid plans |
| Team login | Google or email and password | Google or email and password |
| Customer identity | Not documented; the widget has no user parameters | Identify on every plan; automatic login from $29; board SSO (JWT) at $59 |
| Integrations and API | ||
| Slack, Discord | Slack on Pro; Discord not listed | Both; one integration on Starter, all on Professional |
| X | Pro | No |
| Zapier, Jira, Linear | Not listed | No |
| API | JavaScript API for the widget | REST API on Starter and Professional, including changelog publishing |
| Webhooks | Not documented | No |
| MCP server | None documented | Starter and Professional; Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT desktop, and other remote MCP clients |
| Leaving | ||
| Cancellation | Upgrades, under website settings, before the period ends | Any time, from settings |
| Refunds | Terms say Headway isn't obliged to refund prior payments | Cancel any time; the plan runs to the end of the period |
| Export | RSS feed with titles, dates, and HTML bodies; no admin export documented | Feedback requests as CSV on every plan; changelog through the API on paid plans |
Headway facts checked against headwayapp.co, its documentation, and its own changelog on . Headway's pricing is a section of its homepage; there is no separate pricing page. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.
Switching from Headway to UserJot.
Headway documents no export, so the posts come out of its RSS feed. Recreating them is the whole migration; there is no board or voter data to move.
If something doesn't come across, email support@userjot.com and we'll finish the migration with you.
Pull your posts from the feed.
Your Headway page serves/rss, with each post's title, date, and HTML body. 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 with the original date.Swap the script tag.
Replace Headway's embed with the UserJot widget, and on Starter or above, put the changelog on your own domain.Then cancel Headway.
Pro is cancelled in Upgrades under website settings, before the current period ends. Move your domain first; whether a Pro changelog stays up after a downgrade isn't published.
Headway alternative FAQ
$0 or $29 a month. Free covers the changelog page, the widget, and custom categories. Pro is $29 a month and adds whitelabel, a custom domain, the Slack and X integrations, team roles, search-engine privacy, a private changelog, and scheduled publishing. No annual price is listed, and archived copies of the pricing section from January 2024 on show the same price.
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