Frill vs Nolt 2026: Full Feedback Loop or Bare-Bones Board?

Frill and Nolt sit in the same corner of the feedback-tool market: flat pricing, no per-user fees, clean interfaces, and a deliberate distance from enterprise suites. If you’re choosing between them, you’ve already ruled out tracked-user billing (Canny) and per-seat billing (Featurebase). Good instinct — but these two tools are far less similar than their price tags suggest.

Frill is a complete feedback suite sold in pieces: boards, roadmap, announcements, surveys, and widgets, with privacy and white-labeling as paid add-ons. Nolt is a single, well-crafted voting board that deliberately leaves almost everything else out — including a changelog.

This guide compares them on scope, pricing, and long-term fit. Full disclosure: we built fdback, a flat-rate alternative to both. We’ll flag it where relevant, but the rest of this article is about choosing honestly between Frill and Nolt.

Quick Verdict

Pick Frill if: you want the whole feedback loop — boards, roadmap, changelog, surveys, widgets — in one tool, and you’re comfortable with add-on pricing as your needs grow.

Pick Nolt if: you want the simplest possible public voting board, need SSO on a small budget, and you announce releases somewhere else.

Pick neither if: a free plan matters to you. Neither tool has one — Frill offers a 14-day trial, Nolt a 10-day trial on Pro, and after that you’re paying.

The Real Difference: Scope, Not Price

At entry level the prices are nearly identical — Frill’s Startup plan is $25/month, Nolt’s Essential is $29/month billed annually ($39 month-to-month). What that money buys is where the comparison actually happens.

Frill’s $25 covers the full workflow: a feedback board, roadmap, announcements, widgets, one survey, unlimited teammates, and unlimited tracked users. The constraint is volume — you’re capped at 50 active ideas, and once your users get talkative you’re looking at the $49 Business plan.

Nolt’s $29 covers one board with voting, a roadmap, custom fields and statuses, private boards, a custom domain, and — unusually at this price — SSO. The constraint is scope: no changelog on any plan, no voter notifications, no AI, and a hard limit of one board until you pay $69 for Pro.

Put simply: Frill limits how much feedback you can hold. Nolt limits what you can do with it.

Feature Comparison

	Frill	Nolt
Feedback board + voting	✅	✅
Public roadmap	✅	✅
Changelog / announcements	✅	❌ (no plan)
Voter notifications	✅	❌
Surveys	1 on Startup, 3 on Business, more +$25/mo	❌
Idea/post limit	50 active ideas on Startup, unlimited from $49	Unlimited posts
Boards	Tiers gated by ideas and features, not boards	1 (Essential), 5 (Pro)
SSO	Not a published selling point	✅ from $29
Embedding	Native widgets	Iframe only
Team members	Unlimited	Unlimited

Changelog and closing the loop

This is the widest gap between the two. Frill includes announcements alongside boards and roadmap on every tier, so when you ship something users asked for, you can tell them inside the same tool. Nolt has no changelog on any plan — users have asked for one for years on Nolt’s own board — and no automatic “your feature is live” email to voters. With Nolt, you collect feedback and votes, but the last mile of the loop happens somewhere else or not at all.

Winner: Frill, decisively.

Integrations

Frill includes GitHub and Jira sync on its lower plans, which is genuinely rare at flat prices. Nolt’s Essential plan connects to Slack, Discord, GitHub, and Trello; the longer list — Zapier, Make, Pabbly, Intercom, Microsoft Teams, Linear, Monday, Asana, Jira, Google Sheets/Excel — only unlocks on the $69 Pro plan.

Winner: Frill for cheap GitHub/Jira access. Nolt Pro has the broader connector list, but you pay $69/month to reach it.

Moderation and AI

Nolt keeps everything manual on Essential — automated moderation only arrives on Pro, and there’s no AI-assisted duplicate detection or tagging on any plan. When your board hits a few hundred posts, you’re merging duplicates by hand. Frill’s AI capabilities exist but sit partly behind add-ons.

Winner: Frill, narrowly. Neither tool makes AI a headline strength.

Embedding in your app

Frill ships widgets on its plans, so feedback collection can live inside your product. Nolt relies on iframe embedding, which has documented compatibility issues in Safari and Firefox because of third-party cookie restrictions.

Winner: Frill.

Team access

A genuine shared strength: Frill gives you unlimited teammates and unlimited tracked users, and Nolt gives you unlimited users, posts, and admins on every plan. Neither tool punishes you for adding colleagues or for user growth.

Winner: Tie.

Pricing Comparison

Frill plans

Plan	Price	The catch
Startup	$25/month	50 active ideas, 1 survey
Business	$49/month	Unlimited ideas, but privacy/surveys/white-label still cost extra
Growth	$149/month	Everything included
Enterprise	From $349/month	Compliance and security needs

Add-ons: privacy +$25/month, surveys +$25/month, white-labeling +$100/month. A Business plan with privacy and white-labeling runs $174/month. Full breakdown in our Frill pricing guide.

Nolt plans

Plan	Price (annual)	Price (monthly)	What you get
Essential	$29/month	$39/month	1 board, SSO, custom domain, Slack/Discord/GitHub/Trello
Pro	$69/month	$89/month	5 boards, moderation tools, PM integrations, password protection
Enterprise	Custom	Custom	6+ boards, custom branding requirements

No add-ons to stack, but also nothing extra to buy your way into — the changelog simply doesn’t exist at any price. Details in our Nolt pricing guide.

Real Cost Scenarios

Solo founder, one public board, light volume: Frill Startup at $25/month vs Nolt Essential at $29/month. Frill is slightly cheaper and includes announcements and a survey; Nolt gives you unlimited posts where Frill caps you at 50 ideas. If your feedback trickles in, Frill wins. If it pours, the cap forces an early upgrade to $49.

Growing product, feedback piling up: Nolt stays at $29 with unlimited posts — but still no changelog. Frill needs the $49 Business plan for unlimited ideas. You’re paying $20/month more for the ability to close the loop. Over a year that’s $588 vs $348.

Bugs and feature requests on separate boards: Nolt’s single-board Essential can’t do it — you’re on Pro at $69/month ($828/year), paying for five boards to use two. Frill’s tiers aren’t gated by board count, so this scenario doesn’t force an upgrade the same way.

Fully branded portal: Frill publishes the price: the $149/month Growth plan, or the +$100/month white-label add-on — up to $1,788/year. Nolt handles custom branding requirements through Enterprise with unpublished custom pricing.

Who Frill Is Built For

• Teams that want boards, roadmap, changelog, and surveys from one vendor at a flat rate

• Workflows that run through GitHub or Jira and need cheap sync

• Products whose feedback volume justifies the $49 Business plan

• Teams that value a polished, customer-facing portal and will eventually pay for white-labeling

Who Nolt Is Built For

• Teams that need SSO under $30/month — few budget tools offer it at all

• Products where “collect and vote” is genuinely the whole requirement

• People who announce releases via email, social, or docs and don’t miss a changelog

• Small boards where manual moderation isn’t yet a burden

Worth knowing: Nolt is run by a 2-person team, and reviews consistently note that requested features — the changelog above all — take a long time to ship. What Nolt is today is very likely what it will be next year.

The Honest Verdict

For most SaaS teams, Frill is the more complete tool at a comparable price. At $25–49/month you get the entire feedback loop; Nolt at $29–69/month gives you roughly half of it, executed cleanly. Nolt’s wins are real but narrow: SSO at $29, extreme simplicity, and truly unlimited posts on the cheapest plan.

• Need a changelog and voter notifications? Frill. It’s not close.

• Need SSO on a tight budget? Nolt. Almost nothing else offers it at $29/month.

• Under 50 active ideas and want everything? Frill Startup at $25 is the better deal.

• High feedback volume, zero interest in announcements? Nolt Essential holds unlimited posts at $29 while Frill would push you to $49.

The uncomfortable truth for both: neither has a free plan, and both get expensive at the exact moment you want the polished version — Frill through add-on stacking, Nolt through the $69 Pro jump for a second board.

A Simpler Alternative to Both

If the trade-off between Frill’s add-on math and Nolt’s missing features feels like choosing between two compromises, that’s the gap fdback was built for.

For $15/month flat — with a free plan to start — you get feedback boards, voting, public roadmap, changelog, automatic voter notifications, a native in-app widget, and AI moderation (duplicate detection, spam filtering, auto-tagging) on every plan. Unlimited ideas, unlimited boards, unlimited users and admins. No add-ons to stack, no per-board upgrade cliff.

What you give up: Frill’s GitHub/Jira sync and Nolt’s SSO. If either is a hard requirement, stick with the tool that has it. Otherwise, compare directly: fdback vs Frill and fdback vs Nolt.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Frill or Nolt?

At entry level, Frill — $25/month vs Nolt’s $29/month (annual billing). But Frill’s Startup plan caps you at 50 active ideas, so high-volume boards end up on the $49 Business plan, while Nolt stays at $29 with unlimited posts on one board.

Does Nolt include a changelog?

No, on no plan — despite years of requests on Nolt’s own feedback board. Frill includes announcements across its tiers, which is the single biggest functional difference between the two tools.

Do Frill or Nolt offer free plans?

Neither does. Frill gives you a 14-day trial and Nolt a 10-day trial of its Pro plan. If a permanent free tier matters, look at fdback or Sleekplan instead.

Can Nolt handle multiple products or separate bug/feature boards?

Only on the $69/month Pro plan, which includes 5 boards. The $29 Essential plan is strictly one board, and more than five boards means Enterprise with custom pricing.

What’s a cheaper option with both a changelog and unlimited boards?

fdback includes the changelog Nolt lacks and skips the add-on pricing Frill uses, at $15/month flat with unlimited boards, ideas, and users — plus a free plan neither Frill nor Nolt offers.

Still Deciding?

If Frill’s suite fits your workflow, its $49 Business plan is solid value. If Nolt’s minimalism matches your needs exactly, it will serve you reliably. But if you’re hesitating because one costs too much dressed up and the other does too little, fdback covers the complete loop for $15/month flat.

Try fdback for $15/mo →