FeedbackKit vs FeedBear: In-App SDKs or a Web Feedback Board

FeedBear and FeedbackKit both collect feature requests and let people vote on them. They start from different places. FeedBear is a hosted web board with a roadmap and a changelog, and it reaches mobile users through a link or a webview. FeedbackKit is built around SDKs that put the board inside your app in native screens. Which one suits you depends mostly on where your users are when they have an idea.

We make FeedbackKit, so read this with that in mind. Every FeedBear fact below comes from FeedBear's own website and help centre, checked on 17 October 2026, and is linked where it is used. For the side-by-side table, see FeedbackKit vs FeedBear.

The short version

• FeedBear is a web feedback board with a public roadmap, a changelog and a website widget. Its pricing page lists the roadmap, the changelog and custom statuses on its Lite plan. For mobile apps it suggests linking to the board in a webview or the browser.
• FeedbackKit has native SDKs for Swift and SwiftUI, Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, Flutter and React Native, so users vote and comment inside your app. Requests can be ranked by the MRR of the users behind them, on every plan.
• FeedBear connects to Jira, Trello, Slack, Intercom and Zapier from its Startup plan. FeedbackKit syncs status with nine issue trackers on Pro and up, but has no Jira or Zapier.
• FeedBear has no free plan. FeedbackKit has one.

Getting feedback in

FeedBear's homepage describes unlimited boards for feature requests and bug reports, where users upvote and comment. You can embed boards in your site or add a feedback widget to a web application. Its features page lists anonymous voting, and admins can add upvotes on behalf of users, which helps when a request arrives by email or a sales call. For mobile apps, the pricing page FAQ suggests linking to your board within a webview, or opening it in Safari or Chrome. FeedBear lists no native iOS or Android SDK.

FeedbackKit starts inside the app. The Swift SDK covers iOS, macOS and visionOS, and there are SDKs for Kotlin with Jetpack Compose on Android, Flutter and React Native. These four ship ready-made screens: a request list, a submit form, a detail view with comments, and vote buttons. The JavaScript SDK for the web is a headless client with no screens, and there is a Vapor SDK for server-side Swift and a REST API. SDK docs: Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, React Native.

An honest caveat from our side: the Swift SDK needs iOS 26, macOS 26 or visionOS 26 or later, and there is no watchOS or tvOS support. If your iOS app still supports older versions, FeedBear's webview route works there today and FeedbackKit's Swift SDK does not.

Here is how that looks in FeedbackKit, with sample data from a fictional hiking app:

Managing feedback

FeedBear's admin is on the web. Its features page lists filtering by status and tags, private ideas, user profiles that show what each person has posted, and sorting by popularity or trending. Its help centre explains how to merge ideas and how to change the lists in your roadmap, where admins rename statuses and change their colours. FeedBear does not describe ranking requests by revenue.

FeedbackKit has six built-in statuses on every plan: Pending, Approved, In Progress, TestFlight, Completed and Rejected. On Pro and up you choose which ones a project uses. You cannot rename them or add your own, so if your workflow needs custom status names, FeedBear fits better there. The TestFlight status lets an Apple app tell voters a feature is in beta.

On every FeedbackKit plan, your app passes each user's MRR through the SDK, and requests can be sorted by the total MRR of the users behind them. In Trailmate, our fictional hiking app, Offline maps leads on votes with 248, but if the people behind Elevation profile, at 87 votes, pay you more, sorting by MRR puts it higher. You can merge duplicate requests, and each voter is counted once. You manage all of this in the web dashboard or in the native admin apps for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

Here is how that looks in FeedbackKit, with sample data from a fictional hiking app:

Roadmap, changelog and closing the loop

This is where FeedBear has more for your users. Its pricing page lists a roadmap and a changelog on Lite, and the features page describes changelog labels, scheduled publishing and AI-drafted posts. FeedBear emails users about changes to ideas they submitted, voted on or commented on.

FeedbackKit's answer is partly. Roadmap and board embeds: FeedbackKit can show a project's roadmap and its board of requests on your own website through an iframe, and it has a feedback form page you can embed the same way. The roadmap lists the feature requests and improvements you mark for it, grouped by target month, with requests that have no date under "On our radar". The board shows open requests in status columns with their vote counts, and visitors can vote on it when you turn voting on. A visitor is counted by an anonymous ID kept in their browser, with no sign-in. The form takes a title, a category, a description and an optional name and email. You turn embedding on per project in the web dashboard, which gives you the iframe code and a direct link for each page. Embeds are on every plan, in light or dark. There is no changelog for your users, and no hosted roadmap site on your own domain.

Beyond the embeds, FeedbackKit closes the loop by email. A new project emails on Approved, In Progress, Completed and Rejected. The person who submitted the request gets that email on every plan. Choosing which statuses send it needs Pro, and emailing voters who opted in needs Team. A Rejected request can carry a reason that goes into the email. The details are in our post on status emails.

Integrations

The FeedBear column comes from its integrations page and its webhooks article.

If your team plans in Jira, or you lean on Zapier and webhooks to reach other tools, FeedBear covers that and FeedbackKit does not. If you plan in Linear, GitHub, Notion, ClickUp or Monday.com and want the status to flow back to your board, FeedbackKit covers that. The nine trackers do not all sync the same things: GitHub has no comment sync, and GitHub, Linear, Trello and Basecamp have no vote-count sync. The full matrix is on the integrations page.

Pricing

Both publish their prices. FeedBear's are from its pricing page, which shows a "$" sign and offers annual billing as "2 months free". FeedbackKit's are from our pricing page, in US dollars.

FeedBear prices by team members and boards, not by voters, and every plan includes unlimited ideas and users. Its FAQ says a project with completely different branding is billed separately. It has no free plan; the trial lasts 14 days with no card, and non-profits can ask for a discount. FeedbackKit's yearly prices save about 17%, and no plan limits how many of your users vote. On FeedbackKit Free, items past the cap of 10 are saved but hidden from the board, so plan to move to Pro once real feedback starts arriving. More detail is in our FeedBear pricing post.

So which one

Choose FeedBear if you want a public roadmap and a changelog on the web, with your own status names, from its smallest plan. Choose it if your team works in Jira or Trello cards, or relies on Zapier and webhooks. And choose it if your product is a website or web app, where an embedded board or widget is the natural fit.

Choose FeedbackKit if your users are in a native iOS, macOS, Android, Flutter or React Native app and you want voting in native screens rather than a webview. Choose it if you want requests ranked by the MRR of the users behind them on every plan, status sync with GitHub, Linear, Notion, ClickUp, Monday.com, Trello, Airtable, Asana or Basecamp, or a free plan to start with.

If you are still weighing options, our list of FeedBear alternatives covers more tools. Or put FeedbackKit into a test build and see how the board feels next to your own screens: Start free.