Comparison
Looking for a Frill alternative? Here is the honest version.
- Frill
- From around $25 to $50/mo flat
- UserWants
- One plan, flat, unlimited projects
What they are
Frill in one sentence
Straight answer
Where each one wins
Pick Frill for
A public board and roadmap
Users post, vote and follow what is planned. UserWants has neither.
Changelog and announcements
A surface for telling users what shipped. Here the only channel is an email on status change.
Cheaper than Canny at the same job
If a voting board is what you want, Frill and Nolt both do it for less.
Pick UserWants for
Bug reports with diagnostics attached
Up to 10 JavaScript errors with stack frames, the browser, viewport and locale, a screenshot, and the last 50 clicks and page changes.
One button for ideas and bugs
A board tool cannot take a useful bug report. This takes both and treats them differently.
MCP access from your editor
Your agent reads the whole report and moves the status when the fix ships.
Side by side
Feature comparison
| Feature | UserWants | Frill |
|---|---|---|
| Public board with voting | No | Yes |
| Roadmap | No | Yes |
| Changelog | No | Yes |
| Bug reports with diagnostics | Yes | No |
| JavaScript errors + stack traces | Up to 10, automatic | No |
| Screenshot with the report | Yes | No |
| Steps before the report | Last 50, automatic | No |
| MCP for coding agents | Yes, OAuth, 3 tools | No |
| Reporter needs an account | No | For voting |
| Pricing | Flat | Flat |
Verdict
Which one to pick
Frill and Nolt are the budget answer to Canny, and if a voting board is genuinely what you need then one of them is your tool — UserWants removed that feature and will not be a substitute. The reason to look here instead is that your real problem is bugs, not prioritisation: reports arriving with no browser, no error and no way to reproduce what someone saw.
UserWants is for
Teams whose bug reports are the bottleneck, not their roadmap
Frill is for
Teams who want a cheap public voting board
FAQ
Before you switch
- Is there a Frill or Nolt alternative with bug reporting?
- UserWants takes both through one button, but only bugs get the diagnostics: errors with stack frames, browser and viewport, a screenshot and the user’s last 50 actions. What it does not have is the public board and voting that Frill and Nolt are built around.
- Can I show users a roadmap?
- No. Requests are private to your team, with five statuses and an email to the requester when one moves. If customers need to see what is planned, Frill and Nolt both publish that and UserWants does not.
- How does the pricing compare?
- Both are flat rather than per seat. UserWants covers unlimited projects and widgets on one plan with nothing metered, so the comparison depends on how many products you run rather than how many people are on the team.
Try it beside Frill.
Paste the tag on the same site and run both for a sprint. The reports arrive in parallel and nothing about your current setup changes.