Burnside Steps as a BugHerd alternative
BugHerd is a good product with more features than this one. If you are looking at alternatives, it is usually for one of three reasons: you want to run the thing on your own infrastructure, you want to stop paying a subscription, or you want to read the code. Those are the three we can help with.
How they compare
| Burnside Steps | BugHerd | |
|---|---|---|
| Run it on your own infrastructure | Yes | No |
| Read and change the source | Yes, AGPL | No |
| Buy it once, keep it | $79 | Subscription only |
| Dashboard access | One admin password, shared | 5, 10 or 25 members by tier, extra members billed |
| People who can send feedback | Unlimited, no account needed | Unlimited client users, no account needed |
| Cheapest paid plan, per year | $99 | USD 504 |
| Free tier | Yes: three projects, badge on the widget, screenshots kept ninety days | Free trial, no free tier |
Checked against bugherd.com/pricing on 25 August 2026. Prices change, and this page will not notice when they do.
What BugHerd does better
- A kanban board built in, so feedback lands somewhere you can work it
- Feedback on Figma files, PDFs and images, not only websites
- Twenty one integrations, against our three
If any of those is the reason you are shopping, BugHerd is the better buy and you should take it.
What you get here instead
One Cloudflare Worker, or one Node process, that you can run yourself. Feedback goes from a visitor's browser to your Linear, GitHub or GitLab, and the destination token never leaves your relay. Self-host it and nobody but you ever stores a screenshot, because there is no middle. On hosted we are that middle: ninety days on the free tier, and on Pro until you delete the account; self-hosted, you decide.
The licence is AGPL, so you can read exactly what the widget captures rather than taking our word for it, and you can change it. The Pro key is $79 once and covers every version we ever ship.
If that is not what you are after, BugHerd is genuinely good and so are the others. Pick the one that fits.