Comparison Headway

ProductLog vs Headway —
a widget vs the whole loop.

Headway nails one thing: a polished in-app changelog widget. That's the entire product. ProductLog includes that same widget — plus the feedback board, public roadmap, NPS surveys, and email analytics that tell you which releases actually landed.

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Headway Changelog widget

A great changelog popup. Nothing outside that scope.

Headway is single-purpose: a floating "what's new" widget that embeds in your app, with a hosted page behind it. Feedback collection, roadmap, surveys, and analytics aren't part of the product.

Polished embeddable widget & hosted page
Trello import & clean editor
No feedback board or voting
No roadmap, surveys, or email digest

ProductLog Widget + the rest

The same widget — plus everything else the announcement loop needs.

Embed the changelog widget anywhere. Then go upstream: feedback boards that drove the release, roadmap items that linked to it, surveys that measure what landed — all under one login.

Embeddable changelog widget + hosted public page
Feedback boards, voting, similar-post detection
Public roadmap, NPS & CSAT surveys
Starter plan $15/mo · cheaper than Headway's paid tier

Feature by feature

A side-by-side look.

Where Headway stops is almost exactly where ProductLog starts.

Feature

ProductLog

Headway

Changelog

Embeddable "what's new" widget

Hosted public changelog page

Rich editor with slash commands

Scheduled publishing

Email digest to subscribers

Basic only

Segment broadcasts by tag or plan

Email open & click tracking

Reactions & comments on entries

Reactions only

RSS & JSON feeds

Trello import

Feedback & voting

Public feedback board with voting

Similar-post detection

Auto-notify voters on status change

Roadmap

Public kanban roadmap

Per-column visibility toggles

Link feedback → roadmap item

Surveys & analytics

NPS, CSAT & custom surveys

Per-entry view & CTR analytics

Views only

Cross-module dashboard

Platform & pricing

Custom domain

Starter+

Paid plan

Remove product branding

Starter+

Paid plan

Unlimited subscribers on paid tier

Starting paid price

$15/mo

~$29/mo

Pricing

Cheaper than Headway. Four modules instead of one.

Compared on the entry paid tier — where most teams actually start.

Headway Starter

~$29/mo

The changelog widget, a hosted page, Trello import.

Embeddable "what's new" widget
Hosted public changelog page
Trello import
No feedback board, voting, or comments
No roadmap, surveys, or analytics dashboard
Email digest is basic, no open/click tracking

ProductLog Starter

$15/mo (annual)

The widget plus feedback, roadmap, surveys, analytics.

Embeddable changelog widget + hosted page
Feedback boards with voting + similar-post detection
Public kanban roadmap
NPS, CSAT & custom surveys
Email digest with open & click tracking
Custom domain + remove branding

Save vs Headway Starter ~$168/yr

Coming from Headway? Bring the entries, keep the widget.

Export your Headway entries as CSV and our importer brings them across with categories and dates intact. Drop the new widget <script> tag in, and the popup your users already know keeps working.

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Why teams switch

Three reasons we hear most often.

The widget is only half the loop

Headway tells customers what you shipped — one direction, no way back. ProductLog closes the loop: customers vote on what to build next, get auto-notified when it ships, and respond to an NPS survey afterward.

You'll add three more tools otherwise

Running Headway means also running Canny (feedback), Notion (roadmap), and Typeform (NPS) — plus paying the stack tax. ProductLog rolls all four into one login at a lower total price.

Analytics beyond "people saw it"

Headway shows view counts. ProductLog shows per-entry CTR, per-broadcast open and click rates, vote velocity, and NPS trend over time — so you can tell which releases actually moved the needle.