The Canny alternative that lives inside your community
Canny is a capable, web-first feedback tool — but it makes your members leave chat and go to a separate website to vote, which is where community participation tends to drop off. It also bills per tracked user, so the price climbs as more of your community engages. Quillboard keeps the whole loop inside Telegram and Discord, adds free local AI and a moderation suite, and stays flat at $12/mo however big you get.
Where Canny leaves feedback on the table
Web-first: members must leave Discord/Telegram to submit and vote, and participation drops off at the door.
No native Telegram presence, and Discord is a notification integration rather than a place to vote.
Priced per tracked user — anyone who posts, votes, or comments counts, so the bill grows as your community engages.
Hosted-only: no self-hosting, so your feedback data lives on their servers.
| Capability | Quillboard | Canny |
|---|---|---|
| Native inside Telegram | Yes | No |
| Native inside Discord | Yes | Limited |
| Suggest & vote without leaving chat | Yes | No |
| Public roadmap & changelog | Yes | Yes |
| Free local AI (dedup & summaries) | Yes | No |
| Moderation suite | Yes | No |
| Self-hostable (full stack) | Yes | No |
| Free tier | Unlimited members, 200 ideas/mo | Up to 25 tracked users |
| Entry paid price | $12/mo flat | $99/mo (100 tracked users) |
| Price as your community grows | Stays $12/mo | Rises with tracked users |
Comparison reflects our best read of publicly available information and can change — check Canny’s site for their latest. See the full side-by-side comparison.
Switching from Canny
Is Quillboard really a drop-in Canny alternative?
For community-driven products, yes — you get feedback boards, upvoting, a public roadmap, and a changelog, plus the things Canny lacks: it lives inside chat, has free local AI, moderation, and self-hosting. Canny is the more mature web-first product, with a deeper integration catalogue and enterprise features like SSO.
How much cheaper is Quillboard than Canny?
It depends on your community size, because Canny bills per tracked user — anyone who posts, votes, or comments. Canny’s paid plans start at $99/mo for 100 tracked users and rise from there; Quillboard is a flat $12/mo per community however many people take part. Both have a free tier: Canny’s covers 25 tracked users, ours covers unlimited members and 200 ideas a month. (Canny pricing checked 2026-07-16.)
Can I self-host it?
Yes — Quillboard ships as Docker Compose; bring your own Postgres and Redis and run every feature at no cost. This option does not exist with the hosted-only tools.
Bring feedback back into your community
Free forever for one community — and your members never leave chat.