🗳️ Voicebox
A self-hosted feedback board and public roadmap on your own box.
Voicebox at a glance
| Price | $34, once — no renewal |
| Replaces | Canny at $50+/mo — roughly $600 a year, every year |
| Type | Self-hosted web app |
| Platforms | Your own server (VPS / Docker), any browser |
| Category | Utilities |
Voicebox features
📥 Public board
Anyone submits ideas and upvotes with one vote per visitor, plus comment threads on every idea.
🛡️ Spam defense built in
Per-IP rate limits on submissions, votes and comments, with vote dedupe enforced by a database UNIQUE constraint.
🚦 Status workflow
Open, planned, in progress, shipped and declined-with-reason, with illegal jumps rejected so the roadmap stays true.
📋 Public roadmap
Kanban columns for Planned, In progress and Shipped, auto-populated from idea statuses and sorted by votes.
🧹 Moderation
Merge duplicates so votes union and comments move, pin official replies, flag comments and delete.
🔌 Embeddable widget
A one-line script adds a floating Feedback launcher to your app, and /embed serves a compact server-rendered board.
💾 100% local
SQLite storage, no accounts required for voters, and no telemetry.
$34 once — that's the whole pricing page
Canny charges $50+/mo — roughly $600 a year, every year. Voicebox is a single payment, and it keeps working whether or not we ever sell another copy.
Or get Voicebox inside the full suite — every app in the catalog, currently $97 for the bundle. See the bundle →
Voicebox guides & pages
Honest answers
Is it really free on GitHub?
Yes — Voicebox is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/feedback-roadmap-voting-mvp. The $34 buys the packaged Windows installer with no Node and no terminal; running from source is free.
Where does my feedback data live?
In your own SQLite file on your box. There are no accounts required for voters and no telemetry — nothing goes to anyone else's cloud.
Does it do everything Canny does?
It covers the core: unlimited ideas and voters, public roadmap, merges, pinned replies and an embeddable widget. If that's what you need, it's $34 once instead of $50+ a month.