Canny alternative

Comparison

Released has everything you need, and nothing you don’t.

Templates allow you to create consistent product updates, with AI blocks that write the content for you.

Feature	Canny	Released
Feedback & Discovery
Feedback Intake	✓	✓
End-User Feedback Portal	✓	✓
Feedback Inbox / Triage	✓	✓
Respond to feedback	✓	✓
Idea Voting & Ranking	✓	—
AI Summarization / Theming	—	—
Feedback visibility options	—	✓
Roadmapping & Communication
Public Roadmap Sharing	✓	✓
Now–Next–Later View	✓	✓
Timeline View	—	✓
Audience-Specific Roadmaps	—	✓
Roadmap widget	—	✓
Full page changelog widget	—	✓
Multiple changelogs	—	✓
Collaboration & Delivery
In-App Commenting / Discussions	✓	✓
Internal Notes (private to team)	✓	✓
Email / Slack Notifications	✓	✓
Stakeholder Access Controls	✓	✓
Reporting / Analytics	—	✓
Jira Integrations
Jira (bi-directional)	—	✓
Show feedback on Work Items	—	✓
Custom Field Support	—	✓
Atlassian Teams Object Support	—	✓
Release Notes Generation From Work Items	—	✓
Atlassian User Management	—	✓
Strategy & Planning
Strategy & Goal Alignment	—	—
OKR / KPI Tracking	—	—
Business Model / Product Vision Mapping	—	—
Release & Initiative Planning	—	—
Prioritization & Decision Making
Custom Scoring Frameworks	✓	—
RICE / Value–Effort Models	✓	—
Impact / Effort Quadrants	—	—

Feedback, not feature requests.

Tools like Canny collect feature requests on a public board, creating noise, duplicates, and a backlog you can’t keep up with. Released captures feedback in a single inbox, so you can engage with customers and turn real insights into opportunities — not clutter.

Public boards fill with feature requests.

Anyone can add or upvote ideas, leading to duplicates and a backlog that’s hard to manage.

Every insight starts in the inbox.

Feedback goes to your team first — so you can follow up, group related feedback, and turn valuable insights into opportunities.

Share your roadmap, straight from Jira.

Canny is not where your team works, and your public roadmap quickly gets out of sync with what’s happening in Jira.

Manual rules to keep everything in sync.

Canny requires manual rules to sync your roadmaps between Canny and Jira. This means data gets duplicated and can easily fall out of sync with even the smallest change in Jira.

Nothing to keep in sync, it’s Jira.

With Released you can create your roadmap using Jira Epics or Ideas in Jira Product Discovery. Show only the issues you want using easy-to-use filters or the powerful Jira Query Language (JQL).

Create custom columns to tailor the board to your needs. Map issues via status, priority, team, version, quarter… and many other custom fields.

status != Done AND label = “public-roadmap”

I really like Released, not just because of AI, but the concept and the user experience directly in Jira is awesome.

Release notes that write themselves.

Product updates are an afterthought in Canny. They are very basic.

Released started with product updates as a major selling point, and it shows.

Basic release notes.

Release notes in Canny are written manually, in markdown. Basic formatting is supported, but writing product updates remains a chore.

AI powered release notes.

Released generates your product updates from your Jira tickets. Use templates, a rich text editor, image cropping and automatically created links to Jira tickets to keep stakeholders and customers in the loop.

Showcase your product’s momentum by embedding them directly on your website. Turn potential customers into buyers by showing off your latest updates and improvements.

Writing release notes was among the action items I would continuously de-prioritize. Released changed this for me by effortlessly generating release notes straight from Jira tickets.

Be different.

Don’t make your customer communication look like everyone else’s.

Few customization options.

A Canny roadmap or changelog always looks like a Canny roadmap or changelog. Canny provides few customization options. You can’t even adjust the locale if you want to cater for an international audience.

Seamless integration into your website or app.

Embed Released roadmaps and changelogs into your website or app and make it look and feel like your brand with various theming and customization options.

We’ve shared Released with our stakeholders today: They loved it. This is going to simplify their lives, specially when it comes to sales, so much. So again thank you! You’re already providing us with a lot of value.

Product Manager - Generative AI

The perfect combination.

Released 🆇 Jira Product Discovery

Plan with Jira Product Discovery

Capture insights, prioritize ideas, and build roadmaps - all in Jira

Communicate with Released

Create a unified hub for all your product updates and roadmaps. Whether it’s the sales, marketing, support, or your customers—everyone knows exactly where to find the latest roadmap and product updates.

Loved by builders.

Join the growing number of product teams who leverage Released to simplify communication with customers and stakeholders.

We struggled finding a solution that allows us to communicate product updates internally and externally. Released makes it so easy.

Being able to create something I actually dare put on my website, just out of my existing Jira issues and almost zero effort, is mind-blowing. Great job!

Love the product and found it useful as a tool to help us reduce time it takes to get our go to market plans published.

We canceled our expensive Productboard subscription the week we found Released. It gives us the beautiful public roadmaps and customer feedback loops we actually use, natively inside Jira, without paying for features we alrleady have in Jira.

Using this app, writing release notes has become much simpler! I can easily control it from my Jira project and synchronize all of the information on our website and documentation. With its neat UI and AI-powered capabilities, you won’t be disappointed. Give it a try!

Product Manager at Ricksoft

“We moved from sharing static roadmaps in PowerPoint to live updates with Released. Our stakeholders absolutely love the visibility.

Solution Architect Cloud

It takes less than 15 minutes from the moment you install the app to the moment you’re publishing your roadmap.

At a press of a button, with the help of AI powered notes, we can generate release notes and post them to all our channels easily.

It takes less than 15 minutes from the moment you install the app to the moment you’re publishing your first release note.

It’s a real time-saver, easily 10 times faster than starting from scratch and very easy to use. Give it a go. You won’t be disappointed.