Fider vs StoriesOnBoard

Fider is an open source platform for collecting customer feedback and feature requests through a shared board. Customers can submit ideas, discuss suggestions, and vote on product direction. The free plan includes unlimited customers, members, feedback, discussion, and voting under a fair use policy of 250 feedback requests, plus customization, multiple languages, and integrations. Pro costs $25 a month, billed month-to-month, and adds content moderation and unlimited feedback items; the pricing FAQ also mentions SEO indexing. Fider runs on the web and supports API, Linux, and self-hosted deployments. Its API covers posts, votes, comments, users, tags, and invitations, with guides for webhooks and OAuth. Users can choose self-service cloud hosting or deploy on their own infrastructure, with Docker recommended and guides for Coolify, AWS, Azure, and Heroku. Fider describes audiences including product managers, customer success teams, startups, SaaS businesses, mobile app companies, and game developers. Support is by email, with replies potentially taking up to 48 hours.

StoriesOnBoard helps product teams organize user journeys, personas, stories, decisions, and release context for people and AI agents. Story maps lay out user steps, needs, and pain points to support backlog planning and stakeholder collaboration. Teams can build release, epic, and portfolio roadmaps, and share roadmaps with stakeholders for free. Prioritization options include Standard, MoSCoW, and Kano, alongside scoring and custom roadmap views. Its MCP server gives AI agents live read and write access to story maps. StoriesOnBoard AI can produce user stories, acceptance criteria, test cases, release summaries, and custom AI functions. Integrations include Jira, Azure DevOps and TFS, Trello, GitHub, Slack, Zapier, Confluence, Figma, and Google Chrome. The maker names business analysts, product owners, product managers, and collaborative product teams as its audience. Monthly plans include BASIC at $9.00 USD, STANDARD at $12.00 USD, and PRO at $15.00 USD; other listed plans are PERSONAL at $16.00 USD, PLUS at $29.00 USD, and PREMIUM at $55.00 USD. A 14-day trial is available, and there is no free plan.