About Canny
Canny is a hosted product for collecting and managing customer feedback. Product teams use it to gather feature requests in one place, instead of tracking them across support chats, sales calls and spreadsheets, and to let customers vote on and follow ideas through feedback boards and public roadmaps.
The platform follows a workflow of capturing, enriching, organizing, prioritizing and closing the loop. It can pull in feedback automatically from sources such as Gong, Intercom and Slack as well as from a customer-facing portal, and it uses AI to read conversations and flag requests. Teams can weigh requests by the revenue attached to them rather than going with the loudest voice, then notify customers when something ships.
Canny is proprietary software. The homepage mentions a free way to get started without a credit card, along with demos for larger teams, and a Canny MCP server for working with feedback data from AI assistants. It suits product managers and customer success teams at software companies.
Key features
- Feedback boards where customers vote on ideas
- Public roadmaps and changelog updates
- Automatic capture from Intercom, Slack and Gong
- AI detection of feature requests in conversations
- Revenue-based prioritization of requests
- MCP access for AI assistants
Good fit for
- →Prioritizing product roadmap items
- →Closing the loop with customers after releases
- →Consolidating feedback from sales and support
- Tags
- customer-feedback
- feature-requests
- roadmap
- product-management
- voting-board
- changelog
- ai
Canny: questions and answers
- What is Canny used for?
- Canny is a customer feedback management tool with feedback boards, public roadmaps and AI to help product teams prioritize feature requests. It is a good fit for prioritizing product roadmap items, closing the loop with customers after releases, and consolidating feedback from sales and support.
- Is Canny free?
- Yes. Canny has a free plan, and paid plans start at $79 per month. A free trial is also available.
- Is Canny open source?
- No. Canny is proprietary (closed-source) software and can't be self-hosted. Open-source alternatives to Canny include Fider.
- What are some alternatives to Canny?
- Canny competes with Productboard, Aha! and Userpilot. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Canny alternatives.
Open-source alternatives to Canny
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Fider
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Open platform to collect and prioritize feedback
AGPL-3.0vs Canny★ 4.6k
Plane
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🔥🔥🔥 Open-source Jira, Linear, Monday, and ClickUp alternative. Plane is a modern projec
AGPL-3.0vs Jira★ 60k
Huly
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Huly, an open-source platform, serves as an all-in-one replacement of Linear, Jira, Slack,
EPL-2.0vs Jira★ 28k
WeKan
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The Open Source kanban, built with Meteor. GitHub issues/PRs are only for FLOSS Developers
MITvs Trello★ 21k
OpenProject
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OpenProject is the leading open source project management software for product, project an
GPL-3.0vs Jira★ 16k
Planka
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PLANKA is a self-hosted Kanban board for agile project management. Real-time collaboration
OSSvs Trello★ 13k
SaaS alternatives to Canny
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Productboard
Project Management
Product management platform for collecting feedback and building roadmaps
SaaS
Aha!
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Product roadmapping, idea management and strategy planning software
SaaS
Userpilot
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Product analytics and in-app onboarding flows for SaaS teams
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Sprig
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In-product surveys and user feedback tool for product teams
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Survicate
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On-site, in-product and email surveys with NPS and CSAT templates
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Frill
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Feedback board, public roadmap and changelog tool for product teams
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