The price anchor
| Voicebox | Canny | |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $0 — no subscription | $50+/mo |
| Annual | $0 after purchase | $600 |
| 5-year total | $34 | $3,000 |
| 10-year total | $34 | $6,000 |
Subscription figures from the vendor's published pricing ($50+/mo, ~$600/yr); the Voicebox column is the full price, paid once.
Break-even analysis
Voicebox costs less than one month of Canny once, and never asks for another dollar as your voter count grows.
- After 1 year: Voicebox has cost you $34 total — Canny has cost $600.
- After 3 years: Voicebox is still $34 — the subscription is at $1,800.
- After 5 years: Voicebox is still $34 — the subscription is at $3,000.
What you get for $34 once
- 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.
- No renewal, ever. The license does not expire and there is no per-seat meter — $34 is the whole price.
Pricing questions
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.
Voicebox — $34, one time
Or get Voicebox plus every other app in the suite: the OneTimeSuite bundle is currently $97, one time.