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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.
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
- AI drafting + public pages auto-translated into every language
- Starter plan $15/mo · cheaper than Headway's paid tier
A side-by-side look.
Where Headway stops is almost exactly where ProductLog starts.
ProductLogHeadwayCheaper than Headway. Four modules instead of one.
Compared on the entry paid tier — where most teams actually start.
Headway StarterThe 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 StarterThe 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
Coming from Headway? Bring the entries, keep the widget.
Export your Headway entries as CSV — a changelog importer is on our roadmap, so get in touch and we'll help you bring your history across. Drop the new widget <script> tag in, and the popup your users already know keeps working.
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.
Same widget. Plus everything around it.
Set up your workspace in 2 minutes. No credit card. Free forever — paid plans start at $15/mo.