Upvoted

Sleekplan Alternative: Upvoted vs Sleekplan

One widget that does everything, against a board that does one thing.

Sleekplan's pitch is that a single snippet gives your app a feedback board, a public roadmap, a changelog, satisfaction surveys and a help centre. That breadth is real and this page is not going to talk you out of it. Upvoted does feature requests, the roadmap and the release notes that close them, and nothing else. If you want all of it from one vendor and one script tag, buy the breadth.

The structural difference underneath is which half is the product. Sleekplan is built widget first, with the hosted board alongside it. Upvoted is the other way round: the hosted board is the product and the widget is how you embed it. That widget does more than a launcher: it has a board mode, a changelog mode and a feedback mode, it can be opened from your own button, link or menu item instead of a floating bubble, and both the public board and the widget take your own CSS, with documented class hooks and a short set of theme variables rather than a colour picker.

The second difference is where capability lives. Sleekplan tiers across plans, with the seats included and the AI allowance both rising as you go up, so the version you evaluate is the version of that tier. Upvoted has two plans, Pro and Max, and the trial is Max: you see every feature before you choose, and the thing you are choosing between afterwards is boards, seats, integrations and the team-side features, not whether the product you tried still works.

Then there is scope, which is the honest part. Upvoted has no surveys and no help centre, and neither is planned. Indie Polls, from the same team, does surveys and comes with Upvoted in the Releasy Suite, but it is a separate product rather than a tab in this one. If CSAT scores next to the feature requests is the thing you want, that is Sleekplan's answer and it is a good one.

What is left, once breadth is off the table, is depth on the board itself: internal votes counted apart from public ones, impact and effort scoring with a priority matrix the public never sees, requests held for approval before they appear, stale-request and crowded-column warnings, and release notes that email exactly the people who asked for the thing.

Where they differ

Compared on the things that do not change every quarter. For current prices, check both pricing pages, they move.

Sleekplan Upvoted
Scope Board, roadmap, changelog, satisfaction surveys and a help centre Feature requests, roadmap and release notes
Shape of the product Widget first, with a hosted board alongside Hosted board first, with a widget that embeds it
Surveys CSAT and NPS built in None. Indie Polls, from the same team, is a separate product
Help centre Included Deliberately not built
Feature gating Tiered, with included seats and the AI allowance rising by plan Pro and Max, and the trial is Max
Internal vs public votes Standard voting Collaborator votes tracked separately from public ones
Prioritisation Ordered on the roadmap Votes, plus impact, effort and a priority matrix the public never sees
Widget trigger Its own launcher The default button, or your own button, link or menu item opens it
Theming Widget styling and themes Custom CSS on the public board and inside the widget, plus your logo, your favicon and no Upvoted branding

Choose Sleekplan if

Sleekplan is an all-in-one feedback suite you embed: board, roadmap, changelog, satisfaction surveys and a help centre, from one snippet.

  • You want satisfaction surveys in the same widget as the feedback board.
  • You want a help centre and a board from one vendor, which is genuinely not something we do.
  • You collect feedback in support conversations and on review sites and want the tool to read them for you.
  • The widget is where the work happens for you and a hosted board is a detail.

Choose Upvoted if

Feature voting, a public roadmap and a changelog, from one account.

  • Feature voting, the public roadmap and the changelog are the whole job.
  • You want internal votes and public votes counted separately, and a priority matrix your users never see.
  • You want the trial to show you every feature before you pick a plan.
  • You want the widget to look like your site: your own trigger element, your own CSS, your own logo.

Switching from Sleekplan

Posts, statuses, tags and vote counts come across through the CSV import: Canny's export and Upvoted's own are read as they are, and any other export works once its columns are renamed to match ours. Send us the file and we will map it. Your changelog becomes release notes, with the difference that a release note here stays attached to the request it closes and emails the people who voted for it.

What does not come across is the part Upvoted does not have. Survey responses and help-centre articles belong somewhere that understands them, and forcing them into a feedback board would be worse than exporting them to their own home. If those are load-bearing for you, this is not a migration, it is a downgrade, and you should stay where you are.

Common questions

Does Upvoted have surveys or a help centre?
No to both, and neither is planned. Indie Polls, from the same team, does surveys and comes with Upvoted in the Releasy Suite, but it is a separate product rather than a tab in this one.
Can the widget look like part of my app?
Yes. It can be opened from your own button, link or menu item instead of the default floating one, it wears your board's theme, and both the public board and the widget accept your own CSS through documented class hooks and theme variables.
What happens to my Sleekplan changelog?
It comes across as release notes. Each one can then be tied to the request it closes, so the people who voted are told rather than having to notice.
Which features sit behind the higher plan?
Pro covers one board and two seats with voting, the roadmap, release notes with scheduled publishing, imports, holding requests for approval, the widget and the API. Max adds unlimited boards and seats, chat and automation integrations, Linear and GitHub, single sign-on for your own users, private boards, merging, priority scoring, custom CSS and no Upvoted branding. The trial is Max.
Can I import my existing feedback?
A Canny post export and a CSV exported from another Upvoted board are both read directly, bringing requests, statuses, tags and vote counts across so you are not restarting from zero. Exports from other tools import once their columns are renamed to match; tell us which tool and we will map it for you. Canny gives us a vote count rather than the voters themselves, so counts survive the move but those people cannot be notified when the request ships.
Do my users need an account to vote?
No. Public boards accept votes from anyone, with email verification available if you want to keep the numbers honest.

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