The best Productboard alternative for Jira users

Product communication without all the bells and whistles.

Productboard was designed as a heavy, standalone tool for top-down planning, which often feels disconnected from a team’s actual workflow. It comes packed with strategic features, like OKR tracking and RICE scoring that add a layer of complexity that many teams find cumbersome and underutilized.

Released gives product teams a simpler, faster way to communicate with customers and stakeholders. It works right on top of Jira, breaks down knowledge silos, and brings all your feedback, roadmaps, and updates into one place.

Comparison

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

Feature	Productboard	Released
Feedback & Discovery
Feedback Intake	✓	✓
End-User Feedback Portal	✓	✓
Feedback Inbox / Triage	✓	✓
Respond to feedback	✓	✓
Feedback–to–Work Item Linking	✓	✓
Idea Voting & Ranking	✓	✓
AI Summarization / Theming	✓	—
Roadmapping & Communication
Timeline View	✓	✓
Swimlane View	✓	✓
Now–Next–Later View	—	—
Audience-Specific Roadmaps	✓	✓
Public Roadmap Sharing	✓	✓
Collaboration & Delivery
In-App Commenting / Discussions	✓	✓
Internal Notes (private to team)	✓	✓
Email / Slack Notifications	✓	✓
Stakeholder Access Controls	✓	✓
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	✓	Done in Jira
OKR / KPI Tracking	✓	Done in Jira
Business Model / Product Vision Mapping	—	Done in Jira
Release & Initiative Planning	✓	Done in Jira
Prioritization & Decision Making
Custom Scoring Frameworks	✓	Done in Jira
RICE / Value–Effort Models	✓	Done in Jira
Impact / Effort Quadrants	✓	Done in Jira

What people say about Productboard

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Too manual and process-heavy

“This basically became a trash can for ideas and feedback since processing everything was manual, clunky, and always fell by the wayside for the team.”

Heavyweight and hard to maintain.

Productboard is packed with features and configuration options, but for many teams, it’s simply too much. The tool often requires a dedicated product ops function to maintain, and smaller or fast-moving teams feel slowed down by the complexity.

Simple and easy to use.

Released brings customer feedback, roadmap sharing, and AI-written release notes into Jira. Your team stays focused on building, with no extra tools to manage or keep in sync.

Disconnected from Jira

“Jira integration is not visible from Jira. When I browse Jira project, I don’t know that a certain task was linked with Productboard.”

Manual rules to keep everything in sync.

Despite the Jira integration, Productboard often feels like a parallel system to Jira. Keeping it in sync with actual work requires manual effort, leading to misalignment between product and stakeholders.

Nothing to keep in sync, it’s Jira.

Released connects directly to your Jira work items or Product Discovery ideas. Include any fields in your shared roadmaps, without worrying about data getting out of sync.

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

Feedback is siloed

“Tools like Productboard and Aha! become silos. Most people don’t have access.”

Feedback gets stuck in a silo.

Customer insights live in a separate tool, with limited visibility and little connection to the roadmap.

Feedback right where work happens.

Every insight flows into a shared inbox and gets automatically linked to Jira work items. Your team can follow up, tag themes, and spot opportunities — all in one place.

Confusing UX

“Our team uses Productboard but it’s hard to use and slow. The interface is confusing, filters don’t work well and creating features is very complicated.”

Too complex for stakeholders.

Creating views for execs, GTM, or partners takes time. Most people give up and ask the PM instead.

Roadmaps anyone can understand.

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). If you know how to use Jira, you know how to use Released.

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

Expensive for what you use

“Far too expensive per seat.”

Expensive for what you use.

You’re paying for enterprise features most teams never need — and still managing the roadmap manually. Why pay again for OKRs and strategy features if you already have them in Jira?

Everything you need, nothing you don’t.

Released works alongside Jira instead of replicating it.

We focus on what Jira doesn’t do well: Feedback, roadmaps, and release notes. So you get the missing layer of product visibility without paying for another full-stack product management suite.

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.

The built for Jira advantage

Skip the separate logins, duplicate user management, and lengthy security reviews. Released inherits your existing Jira permissions and Atlassian security out of the box, so your team can start publishing on day one.

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

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.

Stop paying for a disconnected roadmap.

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