A Canny alternative for the roadmap you publish
Canny is a feedback board with a public roadmap attached. Roadmark is only the roadmap — dated, synced from your tracker, and honest about what moved. If the voting board is what you need, keep Canny; if it is the roadmap that keeps going stale, read on.
What Canny is, in its own words
What their public pages say, each linked to the page it came from.
- Canny’s home page calls it an “AI-powered customer feedback platform”. Source on canny.io
- It is priced by tracked user, which their pricing page defines as “someone who has given feedback. This can be via creating a post or voting/commenting on a post.” Source on canny.io/pricing
- The Free plan covers 25 tracked users and, in their words, “has no time limit”. Source on help.canny.io/en/articles/9131812-canny-s-billing-plans
- Pro starts at $79 a month billed yearly, or $99 billed monthly, for 100 tracked users, and the price steps up as that count grows. Going over the limit moves you to the next tier automatically unless you set a monthly spend limit. Source on canny.io/pricing
- “Every plan includes a public roadmap and a changelog.” The Jira, Linear and GitHub integrations are listed on Pro and Business; on Free, “Only Feedback and Notification integrations can be connected”. Source on help.canny.io/en/articles/9131812-canny-s-billing-plans
- Their help centre describes exporting a board’s posts to CSV, including vote totals and status. Source on help.canny.io/en/articles/3889198-exporting-feedback
One price counts voters, the other counts nothing
Different tools for adjacent jobs, so this is about the shape of the bill: theirs grows with the people who give feedback, ours stays flat however many people read or react.
| What is being compared | Canny | Roadmark |
|---|---|---|
| What the price counts | Tracked users — anyone who posts, votes or comments | Nothing: one flat price per workspace |
| Free plan | 25 tracked users, no time limit | 1 roadmap, public links for anyone |
| Entry paid plan | From $79 / month billed yearly (Pro) — 100 tracked users | $15 / month (Pro) — 4 members, owner included |
| Jira, Linear and GitHub | Listed on Pro and Business | Every plan, Free included — import and daily sync |
| Visitors who signal interest | A vote makes the voter a tracked user | Anonymous “I’m waiting for this” reactions — no limit, never billed |
| Removing the vendor badge | A paid add-on on Business | Included from Pro |
Their Pro starts at $79 a month billed yearly and covers 100 people who post, vote or comment. Our Pro is $15 a month, and no visitor who reacts to a milestone is ever billed for — though a reaction is not the same job as a Canny vote, so read this as the shape of the bill, not a like-for-like price.
Prices exclude VAT and sales tax. Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record, adds it at checkout where your country requires it. Their figures are the published plan prices on their pricing page on canny.io/pricing, read on 5 October 2026. Prices move — check both before you decide.
What Roadmark is for
A roadmap, not a request queue — and the two things that follow from that.
The plan you set, not the requests you received
A Roadmark board is the dated plan you committed to. Visitors can react to a milestone with “I’m waiting for this” and ask to be emailed when it ships, but only you and your team add items to it — the roadmap stays yours.
When it changes, the change is kept
You fork the plan instead of editing over it, and every fork needs a written reason. The old timeline stays on the canvas, and the public Decision Feed shows customers why a date moved rather than quietly moving it.
It follows the tracker on every plan
Import from Linear, Jira, GitHub and the rest, keep the board in sync, and the published link reflects what shipped without anyone updating it by hand. That includes the Free plan.
When they are the better choice
Where we would not switch, and would rather say so here than after you have moved a roadmap across.
- You want customers to submit ideas, vote and comment. That is a feedback board, and Roadmark deliberately does not have one — we do not build that surface.
- You prioritise by weighing incoming requests — by votes, revenue or customer segment. Roadmark does not score requests; it records the decisions you made.
- Your public roadmap is a view of the request queue rather than a plan with dates. Roadmark is built around dates and the reasons they move, which is overhead if you do not want dates.
Moving from Canny
What the move actually involves, step by step.
Keep the feedback where it is
Nothing here needs you to move your feedback board. You can keep collecting requests where you already do and publish the dated plan from Roadmark — the two answer different questions.
Connect the tracker the work lives in
Import from 10 issue trackers and planning tools — Linear, Jira and GitHub among them — and keep the board in sync: it pulls the latest once a day on its own. The import only reads; nothing in your tracker changes.
Or bring a spreadsheet
Anything you can save as a CSV file can become a board: upload it, choose which columns hold the title, date, status and description, and check the preview before you import. Rows without a date come across undated rather than being dropped.
Send the read-only link
Turn on the public link in Share. Anyone with it can read the roadmap and its Decision Feed without an account, and none of them takes a seat. It can be embedded on your own site too.
Canny and Roadmark, answered
- Does Roadmark collect feature requests?
- No. Visitors to a public roadmap can react to a milestone you already planned and leave an email to hear when it ships, if you switch that on. Posting new ideas is not part of it, and there is no voting board.
- Can I bring my Canny posts across?
- Canny’s help centre describes a CSV export of posts (linked above), and Roadmark imports CSV: map the title, status and description columns and check the preview. Posts without a date come across undated. Importing from your tracker is usually the better route, since that is what keeps the board in sync.
- Can I use both?
- Yes: requests and votes in the feedback tool, the dated plan you are willing to stand behind in Roadmark, synced from the tracker the work happens in.
- Is Roadmark free?
- Yes. The Free plan keeps 1 roadmap, imports from any supported tool and shares public read-only links with as many people as you like. A new account also gets 7 days of Pro, no card asked; when that ends you stay on Free with everything kept.
See one before you decide
Our own roadmap is public, pivots and all — the abandoned branches are still on it, which is the whole point. Read it first; the sign-up can wait.