Relnotely vs Canny
Canny's pricing page lists a free plan with 25 tracked users and Pro from $79 a month billed yearly, for feedback management with a changelog included. Relnotely is a changelog only, at $19 a month.
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Canny and Relnotely overlap on one feature. Canny's pricing page describes a feedback product — capture, deduplication, boards, roadmaps — with a changelog in its feature table; Relnotely is only the changelog.
This page is written by Relnotely. Everything stated here about Canny is taken from Canny's own pricing page, read on 22 September 2026. Prices and plans change; check theirs before deciding, and tell us if anything here is out of date.
What Canny's pricing page listed on 22 September 2026
- Free: $0 a month, with 25 tracked users, automatic feedback capture and unlimited feedback.
- Pro: starts at $79 a month, billed yearly, with 100 or more tracked users, project-management integrations and advanced privacy. The page offers 20% off for yearly billing.
- Business: priced on request, with 5,000 or more tracked users, SSO and CRM integrations.
- Plans are sized by tracked users, which the page defines as any user associated with feedback.
- The feature table lists, among much else, a changelog, custom domains, "Remove branding", user segmentation, a feedback portal with unlimited boards, and integrations with Jira, Linear, Slack, Intercom and Zendesk. Which plan includes each is shown in their table; we have not reproduced it here.
What Relnotely includes
One plan, $19 a month:
- Your changelog on your own domain, an in-app widget, and email to subscribers who confirm their address.
- 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. Our name appears in one place: the small print under the subscribe form, which says who stores an address entered there, and the footer's links to our privacy policy and terms for the same reason.
- No third-party scripts on your changelog.
Writing is free and needs no card; publishing starts a 7-day trial. One login per account, and one changelog.
Side by side, as each pricing page listed on 22 September 2026
| Relnotely | Canny | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A changelog | Feedback management, with a changelog among its features |
| Priced by | One changelog | Tracked users |
| Free plan | None — writing is free, publishing is paid | Listed, with 25 tracked users |
| Entry paid price | $19/month | Pro from $79/month, billed yearly |
| Feedback boards, voting, roadmap | Not offered | Listed |
| User segmentation | Not offered | Listed |
| Integrations with issue trackers and support tools | Not offered | Listed |
| Managers (team members) | One login per account | 5 on Free, 10 on Pro |
Rows are limited to what both pricing pages state.
Where Canny may suit you better
- Feedback is the job. Capturing, deduplicating and prioritising requests is what their plans are built around, and Relnotely does none of it.
- You want the changelog tied to the requests it answers, so people who asked for something hear when it ships.
- You need integrations with Jira, Linear, Intercom, Zendesk or a CRM, all listed on their page.
- You can start on their free plan, which their page lists with 25 tracked users.
Our view
Opinion, not a claim about Canny: if you need feedback management, buy feedback management, and the changelog that comes with it may well be enough. If what you need is a changelog that looks like part of your own site, on your domain, read by people who never gave feedback, a tool that does only that is simpler and costs less than a suite's paid tier.
Moving from Canny
Relnotely imports a changelog from an RSS or Atom feed, a CSV export or a CHANGELOG.md, keeping original dates and skipping duplicates, and emails nobody about imported entries. Previewing is free and needs no card.
Questions
- What does Canny cost?
- As of 22 September 2026 Canny's pricing page listed a Free plan at $0 with 25 tracked users, Pro starting at $79 a month billed yearly with 100 or more tracked users, and a Business plan priced on request. Check canny.io/pricing for current figures.
- What is a tracked user in Canny's pricing?
- Their pricing page defines a tracked user as any user associated with feedback — someone who has posted, voted or commented, or had that done on their behalf. As of 22 September 2026, plans were sized by that number.
- Is Relnotely an alternative to Canny?
- Only for the changelog. Canny is a feedback management product with a changelog among its features; Relnotely publishes release notes to a page, a widget and an email list, and has no feedback boards, voting or roadmap.
- Can I use both?
- Yes. Nothing stops a team collecting feedback in one tool and publishing its changelog on its own domain with another. Relnotely needs no integration to run beside anything.
Your changelog, on your own domain
One plan at $19 a month: your domain, the widget, subscriber emails, no watermark and no trackers on your readers. Writing is free — a card starts the 7-day trial when you publish.
Free tools
- Changelog Grader Score any public changelog out of 100, with the reasons.
- Release Notes Generator Turn commit messages into release notes, in your browser.
- CHANGELOG.md Validator Check a CHANGELOG.md against Keep a Changelog, line by line.