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title: "What is Canny.io used for?"
description: "Canny.io is used to collect, vote on, and prioritize feature requests. FeatureOS covers the same jobs plus changelog, docs, and surveys at flat pricing."
date: 2026-07-29T10:00:00.000Z
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markdown: https://featureos.com/dossier/what-is-canny-io-used-for.md
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Canny.io is used to collect customer feature requests, let people vote on them, and turn the winners into a public roadmap and changelog. It's a feedback-management tool for product teams who want one place to see what customers are asking for.

### What Canny is, and who uses it

Canny is a product-feedback platform. Product managers, founders, and customer-facing teams at SaaS companies use it to stop tracking feature requests in spreadsheets, Slack threads, and support inboxes. Instead, requests land on a shared board where customers and teammates can vote, comment, and follow along.

Pricing starts at $19/month on the Core plan, and the model is **per tracked user**: you pay based on how many customers interact with your board.

### What Canny is actually used for

Four jobs cover most of what teams do with Canny:

- **Feature-request boards.** A public or private board where customers post ideas and requests in their own words.
- **Voting.** Upvotes show demand, so you can see which requests matter most instead of guessing.
- **Roadmap.** Accepted requests move into a Now / Planned / Complete view customers can follow.
- **Changelog.** When something ships, you announce it and close the loop with the people who asked.

Around those, Canny adds a feature-request widget, a Slack integration, an API, data export, and prioritization scoring. It's focused, and it does feedback well.

### Where teams outgrow it

Two things push teams to look elsewhere. First, the **per-tracked-user pricing**: the more customers engage with your board, the more you pay, which taxes the exact growth you wanted. Second, the **scope**. Canny does feedback, roadmap, and changelog, but it doesn't include a knowledge base or surveys and forms. So you end up buying and stitching together separate tools for docs and structured input.

### How FeatureOS covers the same jobs, plus more

FeatureOS handles every job Canny does, feedback boards, voting, roadmaps, and changelog, then adds a **knowledge base**, **forms and surveys**, and **AI** for summaries and duplicate detection in the same platform.

The pricing model is the real difference. FeatureOS is **flat**, with **unlimited end users** and **no per-tracked-user fee**. Plans run Starter, Growth, Business, and Enterprise, with a 30-day trial. Your bill doesn't climb because more customers showed up to vote.

If Canny's four jobs are all you need, it's a solid tool. If you want those jobs plus docs and surveys without a growth tax, it's worth comparing.

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**Related reading:**

- [Best Canny alternative](/dossier/best-canny-alternative-featureos)
- [Is Canny expensive for startups?](/dossier/is-canny-expensive-for-startups)
- [Canny hidden costs](/dossier/canny-hidden-costs)
- [FeatureOS pricing](/pricing)

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Source: FeatureOS — https://featureos.com/dossier/what-is-canny-io-used-for
FeatureOS: product feedback, roadmaps & changelogs — https://featureos.com