This is a list of open source feedback tools you can host yourself, each one read in its own repository on 15 September 2026, and the product publishing it is not one of them.
That is the first thing to say and it is better said at the top. VoteFirst is hosted software with a price and a card at signup.
Our Swift package is public at github.com/votefirst-app and the product behind this site is not. If open source is the requirement rather than the preference, the honest answer is one of the projects below and not us.
Two of the five are not what their homepage badges suggest, which is the reason this page exists.
Is there an open source feature request tool?
Yes, and the one to start with is Fider.
| Project | Licence | Last push | Stars | State |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fider | AGPL-3.0 | 12 September 2026 | 4,522 | Alive |
| Formbricks | AGPL-3.0, in part | 14 September 2026 | 12,941 | Alive, surveys |
| Astuto | AGPL-3.0 | 9 January 2026 | 2,345 | Archived |
| LogChimp | Not detected | 15 September 2026 | 1,126 | Alive |
| ABC User Feedback | Apache-2.0 | 11 September 2026 | 378 | Alive |
Every figure in that table came from the GitHub API on 15 September 2026, which is why the last push dates are the day before and the day of the read rather than a rounded month.
Fider is the one most people mean. It collects feedback, it votes, it has a public board, and since April 2026 a self hosted instance sets its own Pro flag, so self hosting is not a stripped version of the hosted one. What it actually costs to run it yourself is a page of its own.
ABC User Feedback, at line/abc-user-feedback, is the quiet one. Apache-2.0 rather than AGPL, which matters if you intend to modify it inside a company that will not publish the changes, and it starts from Docker images through its own command line tool.
Formbricks is on this list to say that it belongs to a different category. Surveys and experience management, the largest project here by stars, and the wrong shape entirely if what you want is a place for customers to post and vote.
Which of these is free, and which is only open source?
Fider for the first and several hosted products for the second, and the two questions have different answers.
Open source feature request tracking means the code is yours to run. That is Fider, ABC User Feedback, or LogChimp if you are comfortable with a project whose own domain does not currently resolve.
A feature voting tool open source in that sense costs nothing in licence and something every month in operating it, which the section below works through.
A free feature request tool usually means somebody else runs it and does not charge you. Those are hosted free tiers, they have limits, and the limits are the whole of the deal.
Fider's hosted tier runs to two hundred and fifty feedback items, and four other vendors publish a free tier with a board, a seat or an admin cap, all read on their own pages on 14 September 2026.
The question worth asking before either is which cost you would rather carry, because one is an afternoon a month and the other is a ceiling you will eventually hit.
Is there a Usersnap open source alternative, and what happened to Astuto and LogChimp?
Not on this page, and the two projects that ended are the reason to check a repository rather than a list.
Usersnap is visual bug reporting. Somebody drags a box over a broken screen, the tool captures the screenshot and the browser details with it, and the report lands with the evidence attached. None of the projects on this page does that.
They are feedback boards, so a person types what they want and other people vote on it, which is a different job with a different screen. An open source board is not a replacement for a screenshot capture tool, and saying otherwise would send somebody to install the wrong thing.
The two endings below are about this page's own list.
Astuto is archived. The last push was 9 January 2026 and the repository is marked archived by its own owner, which is the clearest signal a project can send. Its old address answers with a Vietnamese football results site, read on 15 September 2026, so a list that still names it is sending readers to a domain that has changed hands.
LogChimp is the opposite shape of problem. Code was pushed on the day of this read and its own domain did not resolve, while its documentation site does load. The project is not dead and it does not have a working front door, and both halves of that are true at once.
Neither of those is visible from a roundup that copies names from another roundup. Both took one repository visit.
What does the licence column actually tell you?
Less than the badge does, and two of these five prove it.
Formbricks and LogChimp both report no licence through the API, for two different reasons. Formbricks carries an AGPL-3.0 file with a separate section covering enterprise code and the packaged SDKs, so the detector will not name one licence for a repository holding more than one.
LogChimp's licence file opens with a company copyright line rather than a standard preamble, and the detector reports nothing.
Neither is a reason to avoid either project. Both are a reason to open the file before building a company on it, because open source on a homepage and the terms in the repository are two different statements and only one of them is enforceable.
What does it cost to self host a feedback board?
Nothing in licence and something every month in everything else.
LogChimp's own compose file defines five services, being a cache, a database, a migrator, an API and a theme, on the postgres:12 image.
Fider needs PostgreSQL 12 or newer and its sample compose file runs Postgres 17 in a container on a host volume. ABC User Feedback ships Docker images and a command line tool to start them and names no database in its README.
None of that is hard for a team already running Docker and Postgres in production.
For a team that is not, the bill is a server, a database somebody operates, a mail path that reaches inboxes rather than spam folders, a backup regime nobody wrote for you, and the hour you lose the day an upgrade goes sideways.
This page does not print a dollar figure for that, because nobody here has run one of these on a rented server for a month. The shape of the bill is worked through on the Fider page without inventing the number.
Is there a free idea management tool?
Yes, and open source and free are not the same question.
Every project above is free to run. Separately from that, several hosted products have a free tier, read on their own pages on 14 September 2026. Fider's hosted tier runs to two hundred and fifty feedback items.
UserJot gives two boards and three admin roles. Supahub gives one board and one admin. Featurebase gives one seat. Sleekplan's Indie tier is a single admin workspace that does not expire.
The whole field's published prices sit in one directory if the free tier is the start of a longer comparison.
What does a self hosted board not do?
One thing, and it is the thing this product exists for.
None of the projects above weights a vote by what the customer casting it pays. That is not an oversight in them, it is a choice about what a board is for.
A board where every vote counts once answers how many people wanted a thing, which is the right question when your users are roughly equal.
It stops being the right question when one customer pays forty times what another does. Then the headcount and the money disagree, and a board that never recorded what anybody pays cannot tell you which is which.
That is what weighted voting is, and it is the reason this site exists rather than a page of ours on somebody else's list.
Which tool should you choose?
Whichever of the five is still being pushed to and answers at an address you can open.
| If you | Choose |
|---|---|
| Need the source and want the mature one | Fider |
| Need a permissive licence rather than a copyleft one | ABC User Feedback, which is Apache-2.0 |
| Are building surveys rather than a voting board | Formbricks, and not the rest of this list |
| Want somebody else to run the database | a hosted product, ours or another |
| Found Astuto on an older list | none of it, the repository is archived |
Who should not buy this product?
Anybody for whom open source is the requirement.
If your company will not run software it cannot read, or you need the data on hardware you own, or the budget for tooling is genuinely zero, take Fider.
It is the mature one, it is AGPL-3.0, it is being pushed to this month, and this page would be dishonest if it buried that under a comparison table.
Take us when your voters pay you very different amounts, when you would rather not operate a database, and when nine dollars a month is cheaper than the afternoon you would spend on a mail path. Those are the conditions, stated as conditions.
14 days, a card at signup, then $9 or $39 a month.