ReleasePad and Relnotely are the two tools on this site's comparison list that both charge a flat price rather than by seat or active user. They differ in what that price includes, and in what each has chosen to leave out.
This page is written by Relnotely. Everything stated here about ReleasePad is taken from ReleasePad'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 Prices and plans change; check theirs before deciding, and tell us if anything here is out of date.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 ReleasePad's pricing page listed on 22 September 2026
- Free: a limited number of published posts, a public changelog page and a basic widget, with no credit card and no time limit.
- Pro: $35 a month per product, billed monthly, with unlimited posts and unlimited team members.
- Pro was listed with changelog analytics (per-post views and unique readers), an embeddable widget, a custom domain with free TLS, scheduled publishing, categories, RSS and JSON feeds, a REST API, webhooks, an MCP server, a GitHub integration that drafts entries from pull requests, and Markdown output for AI assistants.
- The page described the price as flat, with no per-seat fees and no usage tiers.
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 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.
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 | ReleasePad | |
|---|---|---|
| Paid price | $19/month | $35/month per product (Pro) |
| Free tier | None — writing is free, publishing is paid | Listed, with a limited number of published posts |
| Custom domain | Included in the $19 plan | Listed on Pro |
| Team members | One login per account | Unlimited, listed on Pro |
| Scheduled publishing | Not offered | Listed |
| Reader analytics | Not offered — we do not measure your readers | Listed: per-post views and unique readers |
| GitHub integration and AI drafts | Not offered | Listed |
| API, webhooks, MCP | Not offered | Listed |
| Feeds | Atom | RSS and JSON listed |
Rows are limited to what both pricing pages state.
Where ReleasePad may suit you better
- More than one person writes. Unlimited team members are listed on Pro; Relnotely is one login.
- You want entries drafted from your pull requests, or an API and webhooks to publish from a pipeline.
- You want to know which updates get read. Their page lists per-post analytics; Relnotely deliberately has none.
- You want to schedule posts, or to start on a free tier with no time limit.
Our view
Opinion, not a claim about ReleasePad: they have built more than we have, and for a team that wants automation and analytics the extra $16 a month is easy to justify. Our bet is narrower: a lower price, an email list with confirmed subscribers built in, your history imported on day one, and a page that loads nothing from anyone else and counts nobody who reads it. Which of those two shapes fits is a real choice, not a trick question.
Moving from ReleasePad
Their pricing page lists RSS and JSON feeds. Point Relnotely's importer at the RSS feed, read the preview, and import: original dates are kept, duplicates skipped, and nobody is emailed. Previewing is free and needs no card.