Beamer and Relnotely both put product updates in front of users, and they are priced on different units: Beamer by how many people see them, Relnotely per changelog.
This page is written by Relnotely. Everything stated here about Beamer comes from Beamer's own pricing page, read on 20 September 2026. Prices and plans change; check theirs before deciding, and tell us if anything here is out of date.
What Beamer's pricing page listed on 20 September 2026
- Pricing is by monthly active users, with the option to add more.
- A free plan for fewer than 1,000 monthly active users.
- Starter: $59 a month, or $49 a month on annual billing, including 5,000 monthly active users.
- Pro: $119 a month, or $99 annually, including 10,000 monthly active users.
- Scale: $299 a month, or $249 annually, including 50,000 monthly active users, with a custom option above that.
- Features listed across those plans included an in-app and standalone changelog, appearance customisation, analytics, comments and reactions, segmentation, post scheduling, email notifications with a monthly allowance per plan, and feedback and NPS as add-ons.
That is what their pricing page states. We have not tried to summarise their whole product.
What Relnotely includes
One plan, $19 a month, whatever your traffic:
- Your changelog on your own domain, an in-app widget, and email to subscribers who confirm their address.
- A Feedback board where your users post ideas and vote on them, and a public Roadmap, on the same domain. Voters are never counted or capped.
- A page of its own for every entry, and an Atom feed.
- Import from a feed, a CSV or a
CHANGELOG.md. - No Relnotely badge, watermark or "powered by" link on your changelog, on any plan. By default our name is not on the page, in the feed or in the widget. Subscriber email goes out under your name, with your postal address and your privacy policy in the footer, from a sending address of ours, which is the one place in it our name appears. On the page, the one place it can appear is a line in the small print under the subscribe form, and only if you choose to say who delivers your emails.
- No third-party scripts on your changelog, and no measurement of your readers.
Writing is free and needs no card; publishing starts a 7-day trial.
Side by side, as each pricing page listed on 20 September 2026
| Relnotely | Beamer | |
|---|---|---|
| Priced by | One changelog | Monthly active users |
| Free plan | None — writing is free, publishing is paid | Listed, under 1,000 monthly active users |
| Entry paid price | $19/month | $59/month (Starter, monthly billing) |
| Price as the audience grows | Unchanged | Higher plans for more monthly active users |
| In-app widget | Included | Listed |
| Email to subscribers | Included, with double opt-in | Listed, with a monthly allowance per plan |
| Post analytics | Not offered — we do not measure your readers | Listed |
| Segmentation | Not offered | Listed from Pro |
| Comments and reactions | Not offered | Listed from Pro |
| Feedback and NPS | A feedback board with voting and a roadmap; no NPS | Listed as add-ons |
| Scheduled publishing | Not offered | Listed |
Rows are limited to what both pricing pages state.
Where Beamer may suit you better
- You want NPS, comments and reactions. Their pricing page lists them; Relnotely's feedback is a board with votes and one official reply per idea.
- You want to target who sees what. Segmentation is listed on their plans and is not something Relnotely does.
- You want analytics on posts. Listed on their plans. Relnotely runs no tracking on readers, so it cannot report on them.
- You want scheduled publishing. Listed on their plans; not offered by Relnotely.
Our view
Opinion, not a claim about Beamer: a price that follows your monthly active users means a successful month costs more, which is a reasonable trade when the extra buys engagement tooling you use — and a poor one when what you actually do is publish a weekly post. We built the flat price for the second case, and we would rather ship no analytics at all than put a tracker in front of your readers.
Moving from Beamer
Point Relnotely's importer at your changelog's feed, or upload a CSV export, read the preview, then import. Original dates are kept, duplicates are skipped, and nobody on your list is emailed about entries they have already seen. Previewing is free and needs no card.