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Cycle and Released Compared

Cycle was built as a standalone product discovery platform, focused on centralizing customer feedback and turning it into insights. It shines in collecting input from many sources and applies AI to cluster the feedback.

Released isn’t a one-for-one replacement for Cycle. Instead, it’s a lightweight layer that lives directly on top of Jira. With Released you can spin up a customer-facing feedback and idea portal straight from Jira, funnel customer feedback back into your Inbox, and connect it directly to Jira Product Discovery. That tight integration means customer feedback is front and center during planning and discovery.

Comparison

What can you expect when you make the move from Cycle to Released

Feature	Cycle.app	Released.so
Feedback & Discovery
Feedback Intake	✓	✓
End-User Feedback Portal	—	✓
Feedback Inbox / Triage	✓	✓
Respond to Feedback	—	✓
Idea Voting & Ranking	—	Coming soon
AI Summarization / Theming	✓	—
Feedback Visibility Options	—	✓
Roadmapping & Communication
Public Roadmap Sharing	—	✓
Now–Next–Later View	—	✓
Timeline View	—	✓
Audience-Specific Roadmaps	—	✓
Branding & Custom Domains	—	✓
Release Notes & Changelog
AI-Powered Release Note Generation	—	✓
Enriched Notes (Quotes, Media, Emojis)	✓	✓
Changelog Hosting	✓	✓
Integration & Workflow
Jira Integration	—	✓
GitHub / Linear Integration	✓	—
Slack / Email Notifications	✓	✓
Atlassian Access / SAML / SSO	—	✓
Security & Compliance
SOC 2 Certification	—	✓

What you’ll get with Released

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Idea Portal

Collect feedback easily through your feedback portal, forms, or directly on your roadmap. Set up in minutes and start turning insights into action.

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Free form

Let customers share their thoughts easily with a simple text field. Gather real feedback, not just feature requests.

Roadmap feedback

Get feedback right on your roadmap items and spark conversations around the best ideas.

Feedback Inbox

See all your feedback in one centralized inbox, prioritize what matters, and respond fast so nothing gets missed.

Lightning fast

Navigate your feedback with keyboard shortcuts and breeze through triage at lightning speed.

Stay organized

Know what needs your response, what’s waiting for the customer, and what’s done.

Auto-linked to Jira

Feedback is automatically linked to Jira work items, keeping your team in sync without lifting a finger.

Close the loop

Reply directly from the inbox to learn more and keep your customers informed and engaged.

Shared Roadmaps

Share customized roadmaps effortlessly with customers and stakeholders.

Board view

Track ideas as they move from concept to delivery. The board view gives you a clear, column based layout that’s perfect for showing status, stages, or priority.

Timeline view

Use the timeline view to map out what’s coming and when. Ideal for setting expectations, coordinating across teams, and giving stakeholders a clear, calendar-based view of your roadmap.

Tailored views for every audience

Choose which roadmap fields to show, filter by status or theme, and share only what’s relevant.

Public or private

Share with customers and stakeholders.

No Jira license required.

One portal. Multiple roadmaps.

Create audience-specific roadmaps for leadership, sales, marketing, and more, all within a single portal.

Free Guide: Mastering Roadmap Communication With Stakeholders

Shift the conversation from timelines to impact—learn how to tailor roadmaps for every stakeholder.

Product updates that write themselves

Engage customers and stakeholders with stunning product updates, effortlessly generated from your Jira tickets.

Publishing release notes just got a whole lot easier.

Focus on telling engaging stories for your headline features while the AI copywriter takes care of the rest. Helping you write your release notes 10x faster.

The perfect combination.

Released 🆇 Jira Product Discovery

Plan with Jira Product Discovery

Prioritize and plan your roadmap by capturing ideas and scoring them against key criteria.

Communicate with Released

Collect customer feedback, share your roadmap, and publish release notes seamlessly in one place.

Other things you get with Released

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Single app. Never leave Jira to update your roadmap or publish your release notes.

User management. No separate app means no separate accounts to maintain.

Roadmap widget. Embed your roadmap seamlessly in your website or app

Public tags. Show or hide any tags or fields to your stakeholders or customers.

Roadmap ordering. Communicate priorities by ordering your roadmap items.

Dark mode. Support for dark mode makes the roadmap look great on any website.

Full page changelog widget. Embed a full page changelog directly in your website or app.

Video support. Add a Loom, Youtube or your own hosted videos for more context.

Multiple changelogs. Create a separate changelog for each product or team

Loved by product teams

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!

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.

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.

Build what matters

With customer feedback in Jira