Fourteen of the thirty two feedback tools priced here publish a free plan. Every one of them stops somewhere, and the useful question is not whether a tool is free but which wall you hit first and what it costs to get past it.
The walls are different in kind, which is the part that catches people out. Some cap the number of people who take part, so the plan ends when the board starts working. Some cap the number of boards or admins, so it ends when a second person joins. One caps the number of requests.
Which feedback tools have a free plan?
Fourteen, read on their own pricing pages on 14 September 2026.
| Tool | The free plan stops at | Paid starts at | Free board in Google |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fider | 250 feedback items, or nothing at all self hosted | $25/mo | Hidden from search |
| Convas | 25 people who post, vote or comment | $15/mo | Not established |
| Canny | 25 people who post, vote or comment | $79/mo billed yearly | Hidden from search |
| Featurebase | 1 seat | $29/seat/mo billed yearly | Hidden from search |
| Supahub | 1 board, 1 admin | $15/mo billed yearly | Hidden on 25 of 29 boards read |
| Sleekplan | 1 admin, forever | $13/mo billed yearly | A setting, on by default |
| WishKit | 1 project, 5 visible requests | $12.50/mo billed yearly | Not established |
| UserJot | 2 boards, 3 admin roles, forever | $29/mo | Indexable on all 60 boards read |
| Jira Product Discovery | 3 creators, 2GB, forever | $10/creator/mo | No public board |
| Productboard | 500 feedback notes, 1 portal | $19/maker/mo billed yearly | Hidden at a generated address |
| Beamer | 1,000 monthly active users, 1 teammate | $49/mo billed yearly | A setting, on by default |
| Trello | boards, not a feedback product | $5/user/mo billed yearly | Hidden on every plan |
| Headway | changelogs only, there is no board | $29/mo | Not established |
| Pendo | the Novus beta | Not published | Not established |
Can Google find a board on a free plan?
On five of the fourteen, a board on the free plan stays out of Google. Three keep it out in their own code: Canny marks a board noindex while its workspace is on the free plan or its subscription is not active, Featurebase marks it noindex until the workspace pays, and Fider creates every new site with indexing blocked, lifts the block when a Pro subscription starts and puts it back on cancelling. Read on 3 October 2026, 942 of 991 Featurebase boards that do not pay carried the tag, and so did all 523 free Canny boards. Trello marks every public board noindex on every plan. Jira Product Discovery's free plan cannot publish a view at all; published views start on Standard. Sleekplan and Beamer index a board by default and offer a switch to stop it. VoteFirst has no free plan, and its public boards carry no noindex on either paid plan.
The boards themselves were read on 3 October 2026. Supahub's board record carries one switch, seoIndex, and it was off on 25 of the 29 boards read; the record does not say whether the plan or the owner turned it off. Fider Cloud sent the block as a response header on 9 of 19 boards, and 58 of 60 Sleekplan boards could be indexed. Productboard sent the block in a header on all 31 live portals whose address is a generated 24 character string, and on none of the 27 named after their company. None of 60 UserJot boards carried the tag, nor did any of 36 on Features.Vote, 26 on Nolt or 13 on Noora. Every board read, from all seventeen tools, is in one open file.
Two tools with no free plan hide a board once nobody pays for it. Every Frill board left on an ended trial carried noindex, 56 of 56, and so did all 41 FeedBear boards that now read "This project is deactivated".
Which wall will you hit first?
The one that measures something you do not control.
Four of the fourteen cap people rather than things. Canny and Convas both stop at twenty five people who post, vote or comment, and Beamer stops at a thousand monthly active users. A board that nobody uses stays free forever. A board that works crosses the line, and it crosses it because it worked.
The rest cap something you decide. One board, one admin, two boards, three creators, five hundred notes. Those are walls you walk into on purpose, usually the week a second person joins or a second product ships, and you can see them coming.
If you are collecting feedback from more than twenty five customers, three of the fourteen free plans are already not free for you, and the first paid step on one of them is seventy nine dollars a month.
Is there a genuinely free feature request tool?
Yes, and it is open source, and it costs you a server.
Fider is AGPL-3.0 and has been pushed to this month. Hosted, it is free to a fair use limit of two hundred and fifty feedback items. On your own machine there is no limit at all, and the price is whatever you pay for the machine plus the hours you spend keeping it up.
Five other open source projects exist and three of them need a warning before you start. Astuto's repository is archived. LogChimp reports no license through the API because its license file opens with a company copyright line. Formbricks is a survey tool rather than a voting board, whatever a list told you. Quackback and ABC User Feedback are the two that need no warning: both were pushed to this month and both carry a standard license.
All six are checked in the repository rather than on the badge.
What is a free plan actually for?
A free plan is for deciding, in most cases, rather than running.
A free plan with twenty five people on it is long enough to find out whether anybody uses a board at all, which is the real question and the one nobody can answer for you. That is worth doing, and it is worth doing before you compare anything.
What a free plan is not is a place to keep a board that matters. The ones that cap people get more expensive exactly as the board gets more useful, and moving a board full of requests and votes to another tool afterwards is an afternoon nobody enjoys.
Is there a feature voting tool that is genuinely free?
For a small board, yes. Four of the fourteen free plans above are shaped for a feature voting board rather than a bug tracker or a survey, and they hold up as free for as long as the number of people voting stays under the number printed on the plan.
Convas and Canny both stop at twenty five people who post, vote or comment, counted once no matter how many times they come back. Supahub's free plan is one board and one admin rather than a people count, so a small team stays free for longer than a popular board does.
WishKit's free plan holds one project and five visible requests, enough to see whether the format works and not enough to run a real backlog on. UserJot's free plan is two boards and three admin roles, with no time limit on any of it.
Whichever of these you pick, the free plan is the trial, not the destination, for anything that gets real traffic.
What is the best website feedback tool, and is any of them free?
"Website feedback tool" usually means a widget a visitor finds on the page itself, rather than a separate site they get sent to, and the best one depends on whether you want that widget attached to a voting board or standing alone.
Canny and Convas both work as an embedded widget on top of the same board that is in the table above, and both are free while the number of people taking part stays under twenty five. Supahub and Sleekplan are the plainer version of the same idea, a single board with one admin, free forever on Sleekplan's plan.
None of the four is best in every case. Canny's widget is the most built out, and its free plan is also the one that has to change soonest, at seventy nine dollars a month once you cross its own ceiling. Sleekplan and Supahub cost less to grow into and do less once you are there.
If what you actually want is feedback on one specific page rather than a running board, a simpler form or screenshot tool is usually the better fit.
Is there free suggestion box software, the old fashioned kind?
Yes, and it is the same category as everything above wearing an older name. A suggestion box is a feedback board with a simpler job, collecting what people want without ranking or replying to it, and most of the free plans in the table already do that whether or not the vendor calls it a box.
The genuinely free version, with no ceiling at all, is Fider self hosted. Hosted, Fider's free plan holds two hundred and fifty feedback items, enough for the suggestion box job on a small site and not enough once a board actually gets used. On your own server there is no limit, because the license is AGPL 3.0 and the software is the same either way.
If a literal box with no voting is what you want, most of these tools already do more than that, and turning voting off is usually a shorter path than hunting for a smaller one.
Is Feature Upvote the same thing as a generic feature voting tool?
Feature Upvote is a real product with that name, built for game developers to run a branded board where players submit requests and vote. It is not in the free plan table above because it does not have a free plan, it has a thirty day trial instead.
Its own pricing page is unusually direct about what is not limited. There is no cap on suggestions, comments, votes, contributors or admins per board, on either of its two published monthly tiers, and the meter is boards rather than people. The starting price is forty nine dollars a board a month.
For a single board that gets a lot of votes, that shape can end up cheaper than a per person tool once real traffic shows up, because the price does not move no matter how many people take part. For more than a handful of boards, a per board price adds up faster than a per person one would.
The product is a real match for the search term, which is not something every "feature upvote tool" result on the web can say.
What are some customer feedback tools, as actual examples rather than a category?
Not a single kind of software, which is the trap the phrase sets. A voting board, a chat widget and an in app survey all call themselves customer feedback tools, and they collect three different things.
Canny, Convas, Supahub, UserJot and WishKit are the voting board kind, a public list where a customer posts a request and others add their vote to it. Jira Product Discovery and Productboard's portal are the same idea wearing a heavier internal tool behind the public page.
Beamer and Headway are not that kind at all. Beamer announces what shipped inside your product to whoever is already using it, and Headway does the same job as a plain changelog with no board attached, so neither one collects a request in the first place.
If the example you actually need is a board customers can add to and vote on, the table above is that list already narrowed to the ones with a free plan, and the full set including tools with no free tier is one page.
Where does VoteFirst fit?
Nowhere on the list above, because there is no free plan here.
It is nine dollars a month for one project and thirty nine for everything, with a fourteen day trial that asks for a card. Nothing anywhere counts the people who vote, so the bill does not move when the board works.
That is a worse deal than free and a better one than seventy nine, and which of those matters depends entirely on how many people you expect to take part. Under twenty five people, Canny and Convas are free and this is not.
At a thousand, this is nine dollars and Canny is five hundred and twenty nine.
The arithmetic at your own number is on one page, and the demo board is open with no account and no email.
If a solo founder's own numbers matter more than the free ceiling, thirteen tools are priced at 50, 500 and 5,000 voters, not just at the line where free stops.