Olvy’s founders announced a shutdown in late 2024, then an acquisition reversed it — and through all of it, Olvy stayed what it always was: a feedback platform with a changelog attached. If you came to Olvy for the changelog and want to know what to use next, here are the seven best Olvy alternatives in 2026, with pricing verified this month.
Olvy deserves a fair description before anyone replaces it. Its homepage leads with surveys, interviews, reviews, support tickets, and sales calls, with an AI layer that summarizes all of that feedback at scale. The changelog is a module next to that: in-app widgets (sidebar, modal, popup), custom CSS, a custom domain, SEO fields, an AI writer, and email announcements. For a product team whose real job is feedback, that’s a coherent product.
The reason “Olvy alternatives” became a search term is the company’s own timeline. On 16 November 2024 the founders posted a sunset letter naming 15 February 2025 as the final day, with paying accounts stopped, pro-rated refunds issued, and customer data deleted afterward. Then, on 2–3 February 2025, before that deadline arrived, they announced that Amoeboids had acquired Olvy, that it would continue as a standalone product, and that new users could still sign up. As of October 2026 the marketing site, pricing page, and sign-up are all live under an “Olvy by Amoeboids” footer, and Olvy’s own changelog was still publishing — Copilot in the editor, and a July 2026 entry on scheduled draft releases from Jira.
So Olvy is alive. But the search traffic didn’t go away, because the shutdown letter is still online, a lot of November 2024 roundups still say the product vanished, and — more to the point — many people who signed up for Olvy only ever wanted the changelog. If that’s you, it’s worth knowing two things about what you were actually buying.
The GitHub integration mirrors, it doesn’t draft. Olvy’s GitHub integration imports GitHub Releases you have already written and shows them on your Olvy page. The AI writer on the changelog page starts from notes you type or from linked issues. Nothing on either page describes reading your commits or pull requests and writing the entry for you.
The pricing is shaped like a feedback product. Here is what the live pricing cards show this month:
| Plan | Price | Changelog-relevant limits |
|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | 1 builder, unlimited release notes, up to 25 feedback items analyzed, announcement and feedback widgets, 1,000 unique visitors/month |
| Essentials | $60/month | Extra builders +$25/builder/month, integrations +$20/month each, up to 100 feedback items, 2 widgets, branding removed, release scheduling, unlimited visitors, custom domain |
| Business | $240/month | 5 builders, unlimited viewers, up to 10,000 feedback items, unlimited widgets and integrations, email subscriptions for the changelog, API keys and webhooks |
| Enterprise | Custom | SSO/SAML, audit logs, migration help, white-glove onboarding |
The page has a monthly/yearly toggle and a “20% Off” badge on Business, so confirm which billing period you’re reading. Note that changelog email lives on the $240 Business tier, not on Essentials, and that each builder and each integration is a line item. That structure makes sense if feedback analysis is the job. If the changelog was the job, you can buy a much smaller product.
What to Look for in an Olvy Alternative
Do you actually want the feedback suite? Olvy’s own footer splits its competitors into “feedback management” (Canny, Frill, Productboard, Dovetail) and “changelog management” (Beamer, AnnounceKit, Headway). That’s the right split. Decide which half you used before you shop — it cuts this list in two.
Where does the writing come from? Olvy, like most tools here, expects a person to write each entry, with AI help on the prose. A newer class of tool drafts release notes from your GitHub commits, or lets your own coding agent draft from tickets. If your team ships fast — especially with AI coding tools — this is the biggest workflow difference on the list.
Pricing shape. Olvy stacks per-builder and per-integration fees on top of a tier. Watch for the other meters that can surprise you on the way out: per-MAU pricing (grows with traffic), per-seat pricing (grows with your team), and features like email held back to a top tier.
Email and distribution. If you relied on Olvy’s changelog email subscriptions, check whether a replacement sends email at all, how many sends are included, and whether it’s an add-on. Several changelog-first tools don’t send email.
Who else reads your changelog? In 2026, AI assistants and coding agents read changelogs to answer questions about your product. Look for a machine-readable output — structured Markdown at a stable URL — not just a styled page.
1. ReleasePad
Best for: Teams that came to Olvy for the changelog and want the writing automated from GitHub.
ReleasePad is a changelog-native tool — not a feedback suite with a changelog bolted on. It connects to your GitHub repository, reads commits and pull requests, and uses AI to draft a customer-facing entry for you to review and edit. You then publish to a hosted public changelog page, a 4.3kb in-app widget, and a machine-readable Markdown feed (plus RSS, JSON, and llms.txt) so ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and other AI tools can answer “what changed” about your product accurately.
That drafting step is the gap Olvy’s GitHub integration doesn’t close. Olvy mirrors a GitHub Release you’ve already authored; ReleasePad writes the draft from the merged work. How that works in practice is covered on the GitHub integration page.
Key advantages over Olvy:
- AI drafts release notes from GitHub commits and PRs — Olvy’s AI writes from notes you provide or linked issues
- Flat $35/month per product with unlimited teammates — no per-builder or per-integration fees
- Machine-readable changelog feed for AI assistants, plus a REST API
- Genuine free tier; open-source projects and registered non-profits can ask for Pro at no charge
Where Olvy still wins: Everything on its other half. ReleasePad has no surveys, interview library, support inbox, feedback board, voter notifications, or email campaigns. If you used those, you need a feedback tool alongside it or instead of it.
Pricing: Free tier; Pro at a flat $35/month per product. No per-seat or per-MAU fees. Details on pricing.
Best for: Engineering-led SaaS teams shipping from GitHub who want the changelog habit without the writing chore.
2. Worknotes
Best for: Teams that want their own AI agent to draft from Linear or GitHub, with email included.
Worknotes is the other changelog-shaped product that shows up for this search, and it takes a different route to automation. Instead of connecting to your repository itself, Worknotes connects to Claude or Codex over MCP, and your agent — using whatever Linear, GitHub, or other integrations it already has — writes the entry and saves it as a private draft. Its features page is explicit that Worknotes never receives your source credentials or fetches source URLs; it’s a publishing backend in front of an agent you control.
On the output side you get a custom changelog page, in-app announcements (banners and modals), unlimited private drafts, and email — up to 3,000 sends a month — on a single plan.
Key advantages over Olvy:
- Agent-drafted entries from tickets or commits, via a Claude or Codex connection
- Email included at $29/month, versus Olvy’s $240 Business tier
- Simple single-plan pricing; 14-day trial with no credit card
Drawbacks:
- Not a GitHub app that reads your repo — the drafting depends on your agent’s own integrations
- No per-seat price is published, so confirm team limits before assuming “unlimited users”
- No feedback boards on the pricing or features pages
Pricing: Pro $29/month (custom page, 3,000 emails/month, in-app announcements, unlimited entries). 14-day free trial.
Best for: Small teams already working with Claude or Codex who want a changelog plus email without a suite.
3. AnnounceKit
Best for: Teams that want to buy just a changelog module, with many widget formats, and will write the posts themselves.
AnnounceKit has moved to modular pricing, which makes it a closer “just the changelog” buy than Olvy’s Essentials card. The Changelog product is $59/month (about $49/month on annual billing) and includes an editor with AI assist, a standalone page, multiple widget types, scheduling, comments, reactions, and analytics. Every product includes 3 team members, and every workspace includes 10,000 monthly active users, then $25 per extra 5,000. Feature requests and a roadmap are a separate $49 product; email is a $49 add-on (10,000 sends/month); unlimited teammates are a $39 add-on. There’s a 15-day trial with no card.
Two cautions. The AI here polishes text inside the editor — nothing on the pricing page describes drafting from commits. And if you’ve seen AnnounceKit’s older Essentials/Growth/Scale plans quoted elsewhere (including in our AnnounceKit alternatives post, which reflects the June 2026 packaging), those names no longer match the live page.
Key advantages over Olvy:
- A changelog-only product at $59 instead of a feedback tier at $60 plus per-builder and per-integration fees
- 3 team members included; many widget formats; mature, actively developed
Drawbacks:
- AI edits your text, it doesn’t draft from code
- MAU meter above 10,000; email and roadmap cost extra
- No permanent free tier
Pricing: Changelog $59/month (≈$49 annual); feature requests + roadmap $49; email add-on $49; unlimited teammates add-on $39. 15-day trial.
4. Beamer
Best for: Teams whose priority is in-app visibility — notification center, segmentation, engagement analytics.
Beamer is what Olvy’s widget grows up into: a notification-center UX with boosted announcements, segmentation on higher plans, and analytics on who actually saw each update. If the part of Olvy you used most was the in-app announcement widget, Beamer is the most complete option on this list for that job.
The trade-off is the pricing model. Beamer meters on monthly active users — Starter $49 (5,000 MAU), Pro $99 (10,000), Scale $249 (50,000) — with monthly and annual billing toggles, and feedback and NPS listed as add-ons. Model the numbers for your traffic before comparing it with a flat plan. Nothing on the pricing page says Beamer drafts from GitHub commits. The full engagement comparison, with reviews, is in ReleasePad vs Beamer.
Key advantages over Olvy:
- Richer in-app engagement layer: notification center, segmentation, push
- Free plan under 1,000 MAU
Drawbacks:
- Per-MAU pricing scales with your audience, not your usage
- Feedback and NPS are paid add-ons; no git integration or AI drafting
Pricing: Free under 1,000 MAU; Starter $49/mo; Pro $99/mo; Scale $249/mo (confirm the billing toggle). Add-ons extra.
5. LaunchNotes
Best for: Product-ops teams running a launch program — roadmap, feedback, email, and widget — with an enterprise budget.
LaunchNotes is the enterprise option. The Growth plan is $249/month billed annually and includes one page, two users, Smart Draft AI writing, an MCP server, the in-app widget, release notes, a roadmap, feedback, SSO and JWT, and 5,000 emails a month. Premium is custom (more pages, more users, SAML, white-label, a dedicated account manager). The 14-day trial is set up by their team after a demo rather than self-serve.
Coming from Olvy, this is the closest like-for-like on breadth — it covers the roadmap and feedback half as well as the changelog — but at a very different price point and seat count. The GitHub question, native repo drafting versus Smart Draft and an MCP skill, is covered in ReleasePad vs LaunchNotes.
Key advantages over Olvy:
- Roadmap, feedback, email, widget, and SSO in one plan
- Smart Draft and an MCP server for AI-assisted writing
Drawbacks:
- $249/month for two users; more users and SAML need a custom Premium quote
- Demo-led sales; no self-serve trial
Pricing: Growth $249/mo billed annually (1 page, 2 users, 5,000 emails/mo); Premium custom.
6. Canny
Best for: Teams that genuinely wanted Olvy’s feedback loop, with a changelog to close it.
If the part of Olvy you’ll miss is the feedback side — collecting requests, voting, prioritizing — don’t try to make a changelog tool fake it. Canny captures feedback from support tools and calls, dedupes and triages it with its Autopilot AI, organizes it into boards and a roadmap, and uses the changelog to tell requesters “you asked, we shipped.”
Its free plan covers 25 tracked users; paid starts at $79/month billed yearly, and the former $19 Core plan was retired in mid-2026, so the jump from free is steeper than it used to be. Pricing meters on tracked users, so it grows with feedback volume. Our Canny alternatives post is the changelog-first read of that market.
Key advantages over Olvy:
- The full feedback → roadmap → changelog loop, with AI triage and a stable owner
- Genuine free plan; MCP connectors for AI tools
Drawbacks:
- The changelog is the last step, not the core — fewer display options, no commit-to-changelog path
- Tracked-user pricing; $0 → $79 gap
Pricing: Free (25 tracked users); Pro from $79/mo billed yearly; Business custom (verified July 2026).
7. Featurebase
Best for: Teams that want a modern all-in-one suite — support inbox, feedback, roadmap, help center, and changelog.
Featurebase is the most direct suite-for-suite swap on this list, and it goes further than Olvy on the support side: a unified inbox, an AI support agent (Fibi), feedback boards, a roadmap, a help center, and an updates (changelog) module. There’s a usable free plan for one seat.
The thing to understand is the pricing shape. Featurebase is per seat — Growth $29/seat/month billed yearly ($37 month-to-month), Professional $59/seat, Enterprise $99/seat — plus $0.49 per Fibi AI resolution on paid plans, and whitelabeling is a $69/month add-on. Lite seats can’t publish Updates, so everyone who publishes the changelog needs a full seat. Our Featurebase pricing teardown does the math for a team that only wanted the changelog module.
Key advantages over Olvy:
- Broader suite: helpdesk and AI support alongside feedback and changelog
- Free plan; modern UI; actively developed
Drawbacks:
- Per-seat pricing climbs with every publisher; AI resolutions metered separately
- Like Olvy, the changelog is one module of a larger product, with no commit-to-changelog automation
Pricing: Free (1 seat); Growth $29/seat/mo; Professional $59/seat/mo; Enterprise $99/seat/mo (billed yearly). Fibi $0.49/resolution; whitelabel $69/mo (verified August 2026).
Also Considered
Headway (headwayapp.co) is the older “a page and a widget, write it yourself” shape, and it’s in Olvy’s own list of changelog competitors. The homepage still describes a public changelog, an embeddable widget, Slack and Twitter, scheduling, and a Markdown editor — but the pricing page returned a 404 when we checked this month, and the product’s last new feature shipped in 2021. Whether it’s still moving is the subject of our Headway alternatives post. It does not draft from GitHub.
Frill (frill.co) bundles ideas, a roadmap, and announcements in one flat-priced product with unlimited teammates, starting at $25/month. It’s a natural fit if the feedback board was the job and you want it cheaper than Canny; it has no AI writing or git integration.
featureOS (featureos.app) sits in the same pile — its homepage is literally “Feedback in. Roadmap out.” — with a changelog that tells voters what shipped. A reasonable suite, but a different product from “turn the commits we already merged into something customers can read.”
Write your own. If your audience lives in your repo, a CHANGELOG.md in the Keep a Changelog format plus a static page costs nothing and is machine-readable by default. You give up the widget, email, and analytics. Start from one of our release notes templates.
Comparison Summary
| Feature | ReleasePad | Olvy | Worknotes | AnnounceKit | Beamer | LaunchNotes | Canny | Featurebase |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Core product | Changelog | Feedback | Changelog | Changelog module | Engagement | Launch program | Feedback | Suite |
| AI notes from GitHub commits | ✅ | ❌ | Via your agent | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ | ❌ |
| Email campaigns | ❌ | Business only | ✅ (3,000/mo) | $49 add-on | ✅ | ✅ (5,000/mo) | ✅ | ✅ |
| Feedback boards | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | Separate $49 product | Add-on | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
| Free plan | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ (trial) | ❌ (trial) | ✅ (<1k MAU) | ❌ (demo) | ✅ | ✅ (1 seat) |
| Pricing model | Flat per product | Tier + per builder/integration | Flat | Flat + MAU | Per MAU | Flat, 2 users | Tracked users | Per seat |
| Entry paid price | $35/mo | $60/mo | $29/mo | $59/mo | $49/mo | $249/mo | $79/mo | $29/seat |
Pricing reflects published rates verified October 2026 unless noted and may change; check each vendor for current numbers.
Which Olvy Alternative Is Right for You?
Choose ReleasePad if the changelog was the job: you merge to GitHub, you want the entry drafted from those commits, and you want a hosted page, a widget, and a feed AI tools can read — at a flat $35 with no seat or MAU meter.
Choose Worknotes if you’d rather have your own Claude or Codex agent draft from Linear or GitHub, and email needs to be included at a low price.
Choose AnnounceKit if you want to buy a changelog module on its own, with lots of widget formats, and a person will write the posts.
Choose Beamer if in-app visibility is the goal and per-MAU pricing fits your traffic.
Choose LaunchNotes if you’re running a launch program — roadmap, feedback, email, SSO — and $249/month for two users is an acceptable starting point.
Choose Canny or Featurebase if you wanted Olvy’s actual product: a place to collect, sort, and answer feedback. Canny for the feedback loop, Featurebase for a broader support-and-product suite.
Stick with Olvy if you use the feedback side daily, your workspace is healthy under Amoeboids, and the per-builder and per-integration math still works for you. The product is live and still shipping — that’s a real option, not a fallback.
The bigger picture: most “Olvy alternative” searches come from people who wanted the changelog without the suite. If that’s you, a changelog-first tool will be simpler and cheaper — especially one that can read your code instead of asking you to retype it, and that publishes something AI agents reading your changelog can actually use. Here’s a closer look at the changelog app behind ReleasePad, and at the 10 best changelog tools if you want the wider market.
Further Reading
Frequently Asked Questions
Did Olvy shut down?
Not in the end. Olvy's founders published a sunset letter in November 2024 naming 15 February 2025 as the final day, with data deleted afterward. In early February 2025, before that date arrived, they announced that Amoeboids had acquired Olvy and that it would continue as a standalone product with new sign-ups. As of October 2026 the site, pricing page, and sign-up are all live under an 'Olvy by Amoeboids' footer, and Olvy's own changelog was still publishing updates in 2026. If you have a workspace, check it before you migrate — many 'Olvy is gone' roundups were written between the letter and the acquisition.
Why do teams look for Olvy alternatives?
Three reasons come up most. First, uncertainty: the shutdown letter is still online, and a change of ownership makes teams nervous about the roadmap. Second, fit: Olvy is a feedback platform — surveys, interviews, support tickets, sales calls — with a changelog module attached, so changelog-only teams pay for a lot they don't use. Third, pricing shape: Essentials charges per builder and per integration, and changelog email subscriptions only appear on the $240/month Business plan.
What is the best Olvy alternative if I only need a changelog?
If your source of truth is GitHub, ReleasePad is the closest fit: it drafts release notes from your commits and pull requests, then publishes to a hosted changelog page, a lightweight in-app widget, and a machine-readable Markdown feed, at a flat $35/month per product with a free tier. If you'd rather have your own Claude or Codex agent draft from Linear and you need email included, Worknotes at $29/month is the other changelog-shaped option. If you actually wanted Olvy's feedback suite, look at Canny or Featurebase instead.
Does Olvy draft changelog entries from GitHub commits?
No. Olvy's GitHub integration imports GitHub Releases you have already written and mirrors them onto your Olvy changelog. Its AI writer starts from notes you type or from linked issues, and a July 2026 update added scheduled drafts from Jira versions. That's different from a tool that reads your commits and pull requests and drafts the customer-facing entry itself, which is what ReleasePad does.
How much does Olvy cost in 2026?
Olvy's pricing page in October 2026 lists a Free plan (1 builder, unlimited release notes, up to 25 feedback items analyzed, 1,000 unique visitors a month), Essentials at $60/month (extra builders $25 each, integrations $20/month each), Business at $240/month (which is where changelog email subscriptions appear), and a custom-priced Enterprise plan with SSO/SAML. There's a monthly/yearly toggle and a 20% discount badge on Business, so check which billing period you're reading. Older posts that put Olvy near $29/month no longer match the live page.
What's the difference between Olvy and ReleasePad?
Olvy is a customer-feedback platform where the changelog is one module; ReleasePad is a changelog-native tool. ReleasePad connects to GitHub, drafts release notes from your commits with AI, and publishes them to a hosted page, an in-app widget, and a machine-readable feed for AI assistants — with flat per-product pricing and unlimited teammates. It has no surveys, feedback boards, support inbox, or email campaigns. Choose Olvy (or another feedback suite) if collecting and analyzing feedback is the job; choose ReleasePad if publishing what shipped is.
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