The ProductLift alternative with a free plan and no seat fees.

UserJot is a ProductLift alternative with a public feedback board, roadmap, changelog, and live chat in one product. Flat pricing, unlimited users, free to start.

The UserJot inbox: a customer asks about a mobile app, and Juno answers and resolves it.

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.

FeatureProductLiftUserJot
Price$29, $79, or $199 a month; $19, $49, or $129 billed yearlyFree, $29, or $59 a month, flat
Free planNone; 14-day trial, then the portal is restricted until you subscribeYes, unlimited users and posts, two boards
Admins2, 5, or 25 included; $15 a month for each one after that3 on Free; no seat charge on paid plans
AICredits: 250 a month on Starter, 2,000 on Pro; one per reply, tag, or checkJuno included, with no meter
Live chat with customersNone listed; a knowledge-base chatbot answers from your docsBuilt in, with a shared inbox and Juno, an AI operator
API and MCP serverPro and up, from $79 a monthStarter and up, from $29

Top ProductLift alternatives

ProductLift starts at $29 a month with no free plan, and on that plan every admin past the second costs $15. These are the alternatives to ProductLift worth a look.

  1. Public feedback board, roadmap, changelog, and live chat in one product, on your own domain and inside your app, with Juno, an AI operator who answers customers and drafts your changelog, and an MCP server for your own agents. Flat pricing, unlimited users, a free plan that doesn't expire.

    Best for: SaaS teams that want the board and a support inbox in one modern tool, with no seat fees and no AI credits to watch.

  2. Feedback board, roadmap, and changelog with a long integration list, priced by tracked users.

    Best for: Teams that want requests pulled out of Intercom or Zendesk and into Jira or Linear.

  3. Nolt

    The simplest board on this list: voting, comments, a roadmap, and a changelog, and not much else.

    Best for: Teams that found ProductLift more product than they needed and want a clean board set up in an hour.

  4. A feedback board, roadmap, and changelog, plus NPS and CSAT surveys, all in one widget. Metered on announcement views, popup views, emails, and AI credits.

    Best for: Teams that want surveys in the same widget as feedback.

  5. Boards, a roadmap, and a changelog on flat monthly tiers. Less to configure than ProductLift and less to grow into.

    Best for: Small teams that have outgrown a spreadsheet and want something simpler than ProductLift.

  6. Open source and self-hostable, with posting and voting but no roadmap or changelog. You run the server and the backups.

    Best for: Teams whose feedback data has to stay on their own servers.

Where ProductLift falls short.

ProductLift is a founder-run tool from Utrecht that has sold feedback boards since 2017, with a roadmap, a changelog, a knowledge base, and a board in 28 languages. It also has a trial, and then a bill, a bill that grows with your team, AI that stops when the credits run out, and no way to talk to the customer behind the vote.

There is no free plan

14-day trial; $29 a month after, or $19 billed yearly

ProductLift has no free plan, and its pricing FAQ says so. The 14-day trial needs no card, and when it ends the portal is restricted until you subscribe. The $19 on the pricing page is the yearly price, paid as $228 up front. Month to month, Starter is $29 for two boards and two admins, with no integrations, no API, and no MCP server; those start at Pro, $79 a month or $49 billed yearly. The terms allow no refund on early termination.

What UserJot does instead.

UserJot has what ProductLift has: a public board on your own domain, a roadmap with votes, a changelog, and a widget that puts all three inside your app. It adds live chat and support email in one inbox, Juno, an AI operator who answers customers first and drafts your changelog without counting credits, and an MCP server for your own agents. It was designed as one product, so 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, and adding an admin on a paid plan doesn't change the bill. Paid plans start at $29 a month with a 14-day trial, and you're live in minutes.

  • Free

    Free, forever.

    $0/ month

    Get Free

    What's included

    • Unlimited posts
    • Unlimited users
    • 3 admin roles
    • 2 feedback boards
    • Public roadmap
    • Public changelog
  • Starter

    Staff pick. For small teams.

    $29/ month

    Get Starter

    Everything in Free, plus

    • Custom domain
    • Guest posting
    • Automatic login
    • 5 feedback boards
    • Private boards
    • One integration
  • Professional

    For growing teams.

    $59/ month

    Get Pro

    Everything in Starter, plus

    • Unlimited boards
    • Advanced search
    • Single sign-on
    • Unlimited integrations
    • Unlimited admin roles
    • Public identity masking

Your customers get the whole loop.

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. When you mark one Completed, the changelog post links back to it.

People can post, vote, and comment without creating an account, and new posts can wait for your approval. Any board can be made private: a customer sees only their own requests, and your team sees all of them. Both from Starter.

UserJot public roadmap with vote counts on each request.

Planned

12

Committed and queued

  1. Features

    Mobile app

    The whole web app on iPhone and Android, with push notifications when something needs you.

    Alex Martin
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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

4

Actively being built

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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
  4. Features

    Timeline view

    Seeing tasks on a timeline would make it much easier to plan around deadlines and spot overlaps.

    LPLeo Park

Done

9

Recently shipped

  1. Integrations

    Google Calendar sync

    Due dates should show up on my calendar without copying them over one by one.

    PNPriya Nair
  2. 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
  3. Bugs

    Search freezes in big workspaces

    With a few thousand tasks, typing in search locks the page for a second or two.

    BABen Adler
  4. Features

    Keyboard shortcuts

    Creating and moving tasks without the mouse would make Acme so much faster to use all day.

    RMRavi Menon

Chat, email, and feedback in one inbox.

Conversations adds a Messages page to the same widget that shows your board, roadmap, and changelog. Customers chat with 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, and the ask doesn't end in a transcript. Conversations is in beta and free on every plan while it is.

The UserJot inbox: a customer asks about a mobile app, and Juno finds the request on the board, adds the customer's vote, and resolves the conversation.

One AI, included, with no meter.

Juno is the AI operator built into UserJot. 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. She answers under her own name, and nothing she does draws down a balance.

In the changelog editor, Juno reads the requests you completed since the last post and writes the draft, with the title, tags, and linked requests filled in. She never publishes. The board itself checks for duplicates as people type, and five versions of the same request don't pile up.

The UserJot widget open on the right side of a customer's web app.
Demo of the UserJot widget Messages page: Juno hands a billing question to a human teammate, who resolves it in the same conversation.
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

An MCP server your agents can use today.

Your agent can read requests, file and vote on them, move them along the roadmap, draft changelog posts, and answer conversations. Ask your coding agent what customers have asked for in the area you're working on, or have it mark the request shipped and draft the changelog entry when the work merges.

It comes with the API on Starter and Professional, from $29 a month. ProductLift's API and MCP server start at Pro, $79.

Claude Code connected to UserJot: Close out the mobile app

Claude Code · connected to userjot

Free to start, and no seat fees.

The Free plan has unlimited users, unlimited posts, two boards, the roadmap, the changelog, and the widget, and it doesn't expire. Paid plans are $29 or $59 a month, and an admin is never a line item. Pay monthly or yearly, cancel from your settings, and export your posts as CSV any time.

ProductLift vs UserJot, side by side.

FeatureProductLiftUserJot
Pricing
Pricing modelPer portal, with 2, 5, or 25 admins included, $15 a month per extra admin, and AI creditsFlat, by feature set
Free planNone; 14-day trialUnlimited users and posts, 2 boards, 3 admins
$29 a monthStarter: 2 boards, 2 admins, 250 AI credits; no integrations, API, or MCPStarter: 5 boards, guest posting, private boards, moderation, custom domain, API and MCP
Six admins$89 on Starter or $94 on Pro$29 or $59
Twenty admins$199 on Business$29 or $59
Yearly discount34% to 38% by its listed prices, labeled 30%; the $19 headline price requires itMonthly or yearly
Trial14 days, full features, no card14 days of Starter or Professional, from the dashboard
LeavingNo refund on early termination, per its termsCancel any time from settings
Board, roadmap, and changelog
Post without an accountGuest posting and voting, configurable; guests can't commentGuest posting, voting, and commenting, from $29
Approval queueManual review, or AI moderation at one credit a checkFrom $29, with no credits
Public roadmapEvery plan, with votesEvery plan, with votes and comments
ChangelogEvery plan, with per-entry subscriber emailsEvery plan
Boards2 on Starter; unlimited on Pro2 on Free, 5 on Starter, unlimited on Professional
Board languages28; the admin dashboard is English only12, including Arabic
Knowledge baseYes, with AI drafting and a chatbotNo; Juno answers from the docs and sites you point her at
Prioritization frameworksRICE, ICE, and MoSCoW on ProNo
AI and support
AI pricingCredits: 250, 2,000, or 6,000 a month; top-up prices not publishedIncluded, with no meter
AI that answers customersA knowledge-base chatbot, one credit a question; auto-replies posted as an adminJuno, in chat and email, on every plan during beta
Live chat and support inboxNone listedBuilt in; chat and forwarded email in one inbox, free during beta
Feedback from conversationsChrome extension turns selected text into a post; needs an API key, so ProJuno, in your own chat, after the customer confirms
AI changelog draftingYes, one credit a generationJuno, in the editor, from the requests you completed
Branding and access
Custom domainEvery paid planFrom $29
Remove vendor brandingEvery paid plan$59
Customer identityJWT and JavaScript identification on BusinessIdentify on every plan; automatic login from $29; SSO (JWT) at $59
Team rolesAdmin and Member only; no moderator seat; each admin past the bundle is $15Owner and admin; 3 on Free, no seat charge on paid plans
Private boardsPrivate portal and restricted boards; plan not publishedFrom $29; a customer sees only their own requests, and your team sees all of them
Integrations and API
Slack, DiscordSlack; Discord through Pabbly or ViasocketBoth; one integration on Starter, all on Professional
Jira, Azure DevOpsTwo-way status sync, on ProNo
HubSpot, StripeProNo
ZapierNo; Pabbly and Viasocket insteadNo
API and webhooksPro and upAPI on Starter and Professional
MCP serverPro and upStarter and Professional; Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, ChatGPT desktop, and other remote MCP clients
Hosting and leaving
HostingGermany; AI processing may leave the EUUnited States
CancellationHelp center: from Settings, any time. Terms: one month's written noticeAny time, from settings
Data after cancellingPrivacy policy: content deleted within 28 days of termination. Help center: preservedCSV export any time
ImportCSV with AI mapping; migration guides for Canny, UserVoice, Nolt, and othersCSV with AI column mapping; built-in Canny and Nolt importers

ProductLift facts checked against its public site, help center, terms, and privacy policy on . Where two of its pages disagree, both are shown; where an older help article gives different credit counts or plan gates from the current pricing page and guides, the current pages are used. If something has changed, tell us and we will correct it.

Switching from ProductLift to UserJot.

ProductLift exports posts as CSV, and UserJot imports CSV with AI column mapping that you check before anything is written.

If your data doesn't fit the CSV path, email support@userjot.com and we'll migrate it with you.

  1. Export from ProductLift.

    In the admin, export your posts as CSV: titles, descriptions, votes, statuses, and categories. Export users separately if you want the names and emails. Do this before you cancel, since ProductLift's privacy policy says content is deleted within 28 days of termination.
  2. Import into UserJot.

    Upload the CSV. AI maps titles, descriptions, votes, authors, statuses, and dates to UserJot's fields; check the mapping, confirm, done.

    Import from CSV →

  3. Put the board where customers already are.

    Add the widget to your app, and put the board on your own domain, like feedback.yourcompany.com, on Starter and up.

    Custom domain →

  4. Then cancel ProductLift, both ways.

    Its help center says cancel from Settings, Account, and confirm in Stripe; its terms ask for a month's written notice, so send the email too. Deleting the portal does not cancel the subscription, so cancel first.

ProductLift alternative FAQ

$29 a month for Starter, $79 for Pro, and $199 for Business, or $19, $49, and $129 a month billed yearly. Starter includes two boards, two admins, and 250 AI credits a month; Pro adds unlimited boards, five admins, 2,000 credits, integrations, the API, and the MCP server; Business adds twenty-five admins, 6,000 credits, SSO, and an SLA. Every admin past the bundle is $15 a month. There is no free plan.


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