OneTimeA self-hosted feedback board and public roadmap on your own box.
Canny charges $50+ a month to host an upvote button and a board of your own users' ideas. Voicebox is that same board and public roadmap, running on your box, forever. $34, once. Your data is a SQLite file you own, not a plan-capped seat on someone else's cloud.
Voicebox in 60 seconds
Everything in the box
Public feedback board with upvotes, comments and an auto-populated kanban roadmap, self-hosted.
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.
Voicebox vs Canny
Canny charges $50+/mo. Here's what actually differs.
| Voicebox | Canny | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $34 once | $50+/mo |
| Cost after 1 year | $34 | $600+ |
| Ideas / voters | Unlimited | Plan-capped |
| Public roadmap | Yes | Yes |
| Merge duplicates | Yes | Yes |
| Official pinned replies | Yes | Yes |
| Anonymous voting | Yes | Limited |
| Self-hosted | Yes | No |
Voicebox costs less than one month of Canny once, and never asks for another dollar as your voter count grows.
Pick how you pay
Subscriptions if you want them — but the whole point is the lifetime tier.
Up and running in three steps
Buy once on Whop
One payment of $34 gets you the packaged Windows installer, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/feedback-roadmap-voting-mvp and run it free.
Run it locally or on a $5 VPS
Use desktop mode to try it, or deploy with docker compose up -d when you need the board public.
Share your board
Point users at the board homepage or drop the embeddable widget into your app, then set statuses to build the roadmap.
Fair 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.
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More about Voicebox
Every page we publish about this app — comparisons, personas, platforms and the problems it solves.
App profile
Stop renting. Own Voicebox.
Public feedback board with upvotes, comments and an auto-populated kanban roadmap, self-hosted.
Get Voicebox — $89 forever